[00:00.00]Child Of The Streets (Man Child) (Album Version|Explicit) - Keith Murray
[00:02.75]Written by：Keith Murray/Erick Sermon/Sam Dees/David Camon
[00:05.51]Yo the fruit don't fall far from the tree
[00:10.91]Yeah uh
[00:14.91]My grandfather use to tell me
[00:16.42]This place ain't got nothing to offer you
[00:17.95]Don't you see all the changes everybody going through
[00:20.78]This family got problems and they do too
[00:23.18]But everybody wanna tell you what they think you should do
[00:26.23]He said watch them so called friends and them girls too
[00:28.69]Sonny do you like they did Jesus crucify you
[00:31.66]As he sat there in his chair looking out the window
[00:33.97]I'm thinking when you can't get away where you go
[00:36.76]Inside your mind man child never had a chance to be young
[00:39.79]Either you selling *** or out there on the binge strung for some
[00:42.28]There's only two places to go the morgue or the pen
[00:45.59]For some school is an option entertainment to alternate them
[00:48.03]Then they'll try to exploit you discriminate you
[00:50.43]Use you as a tool make money and live in luxury off you
[00:53.82]And we so confused we wanna believe in something
[00:56.30]So they promise us the world but give us nothing
[00:59.45]I say we can be all in this together
[01:03.32]Yeah will you end up like your family tree
[01:10.51]Tell me what you gonna do what you gonna do
[01:15.51]What you gonna do
[01:17.72]Your mind ain't too far from the sky
[01:20.94]The death of a loved one remind you of yourself don't it
[01:24.46]Knowing you could be next at any given moment
[01:26.91]Like twine I used to call him a brother of mine
[01:29.69]His pops was a drunk and his mother was blind
[01:32.16]He use to stay at my hose sometimes my mom's didn't mind
[01:34.80]We was just nickel and dime hustlers wasting time
[01:37.91]Living in the streets targeted and forced to kill
[01:40.83]Dualistically we learned how to lie and steal
[01:43.49]Gangsters of the future modern day's thugs
[01:46.12]Seem like me whole hood is covered in blood
[01:48.53]Traveling a ruff life in the eye of the storm
[01:51.40]Now I wear their life stories tattooed on my arm
[01:54.07]Psych's grandmother passed away on April fool's day
[01:57.23]Then her funeral was on her birthday sh*t is real
[02:00.33]My man had four baby moms and two on the way
[02:02.54]And trying to make a living for them passes away in vein
[02:05.25]God bless him ask skeet
[02:06.22]Child of the streets well well well well
[02:10.67]Will you end up like your family tree
[02:16.10]Tell me what you gonna do
[02:18.09]What you gonna do
[02:19.60]What you gonna do
[02:22.98]Understand the habits
[02:25.37]Behind the child of the streets
[02:27.38]They try to f**k my fame up tear my name up
[02:30.32]Turn around and sue me f**k my little bit of change up
[02:33.33]I knew it was going to be some sh*t to get me for some cream
[02:35.97]I saw it in my subconscious world like a vision
[02:38.80]At first it hurt me like a knife in the heart
[02:41.22]But by nature I continued to live out my part
[02:44.01]As art imitates life and life imitates art
[02:46.59]Don't respect the streets and they tear your a** apart
[02:49.56]It's important that my understanding understood
[02:52.27]But it's more important that it's understood in the hood
[02:54.93]And to all the females in the pen stay strong
[02:57.93]Any day in jail girl is a day too long
[03:00.56]And for those who had to do what they did to slide
[03:03.19]Now running like a fugitive to save the live you live
[03:06.03]Put in a box saw my step pops
[03:08.18]He said boy Keith what the blood clot how much time you got
[03:11.85]Child of the streets little sister
[03:16.61]Tell me where you will lay your head
[03:22.74]Child of the streets little brother
[03:28.15]Where will you make your bed
[03:32.96]Y'all tell me what y'all gonna do
[03:36.96]What y'all gonna do
[03:41.29]Tell me what y'all gonna do