The Streets Lyrics

The Streets lyrics

Dear God.. how can I explain myself?



 [J] Oh God bless me indeed



 When I'm so confused



 [J] Enlarge my territory



 [J] Place your love and protection over me at all times



 Help me!



 [J] Keep me away from evil



 Somebody answer me! [echoes]



 [J] Allow me not to cause pain



 



 [Jay-Z]



 Police in the background, screamin put the thing down



 That's how hard I was trying to put my thing down



 Si-rens ringin out, old ladies screamin out



 All this attention for me and I'm barely sixteen now



 .. it's feelin like a dream now



 Handcuffed, roughed up, I'm tossed in the bing now



 I'm lyin next to fiends now, that's the end of the story



 Let me bring y'all niggaz back to the very first scene now



 December 4th, a child is born



 Before I knew it, had my pops trousers on



 That's how we do it when the man of the house is gone



 You either, stand or fall, I chose to stand



 The hawk outside, so I blow my hand



 It's a cold cold world but I overstand



 Tryin to stay focused but I feel hopeless damn



 Can't cope with bein broke, I'm a man - c'mon



 



 [Chorus: R. Kelly]



 Son don't let these streets, get the best of you



 I will be right by your side, when you goin through



 Son just don't let it (just don't let it)



 Just don't let it (just don't let it)



 Just don't let it (just don't let it)



 .. get the best of you



 



 [R. Kelly]



 Late one night I was, rollin the streets



 Just, thinkin about what's goin on with me and



 trapped in this thug life, tryin to break free but



 this thug life just keeps callin me



 I'm livin life way too dangerously



 I'm drownin in my misery



 Looked in the mirror, there's my enemy



 Cause poppa never was a part of me



 Take one step at a time, mama said



 Sweet memories still remain in my head



 All of my life been lied to, misled



 Voices be like, "Don't you wish you was dead?"



 No ground to place my feet



 I feel the fire under me



 A way out is all I need



 Somebody, answer me!



 



 [Chorus + ad libs]



 



 [Jay-Z]



 Now the only thing left is more spirit to roam free



 .. cause ain't no goin home for me



 It's a cold cold world but I blew my hand



 A true first cause I knew that man



 I knew what he would do if I didn't draw first



 And I couldn't stand the thought of my momma steppin foot inside a church



 All I try to do is try to get up out the dirt



 Guess he's tryin to do the same, told me get up out his turf



 I wanted to talk to him, but that shit'd never work



 We was cut from the same cloth and what was under his shirt was his



 momma's rent, his young brother's clothes



 My nephew's food, and with that I suppose



 .. and with that I froze



 Now my life is frozen in time behind these iron folds



 And this story is told, for young soldiers



 who never choose the life we chose



 



 [Chorus + (ad libs)]



 



 [R. Kelly]



 Tears in my eyes as I look up, I'm tryin to



 hold back my pride but reality is screamin



 Gotta get a job cause mo-mma also screamin



 Streets are just like drugs, and it's like I'm out here fiendin



 Forget all the hits in the industry, cause



 ain't no exceptions in this game for me, look



 Neither God or my enemies, I



 choose God cause he understands, this



 young man with a thuggish heart



 Whole world in his hands but still torn apart



 Like I'm so close, but it's still so far



 Nightmares of me in a swervin car, ohhh



 No ground to place my feet (my feet)



 I feel the fire under me (heyyy)



 A way out is all I need (all I need)



 Somebody, answer me!



 



 [Chorus + ad libs]