Lazarus ft. Tragedy Khadafi Lyrics

Travel the hood that I'm walking you through Like Curtis Mayfield, I understand the makings of you

Nightmares and vision, heroin, injected in vain You embrace the street, hoping to escape your pain

Growing up praising the hustlers and smugglers But on the inside, like we hurt the real ones who truly love us

Watching the seeds grow, opposite side of the fences I lost my innocence on the block right by the benches

Blood in my eye, gun in my hand A mad child in a promised land, slaying, mothers for grams

From kings to queens to demons and fiends From pyramids to projects, destruction of minds with dead dreams

It seems, lost our culture, lost our gods Selling our soul, to transforms soft to hard

Let us say amen

The only president that matters is dead Black lives matter, let's not forget it

America suffers from amnesia Eats its baby's cabalistic creature

In the belly where we squirm, like tapeworm Through them revolving doors, then we take turns

Elders still poor, pray to way Jesus on their wall My expectations were slanging, or playing ball

Watched five cops beating my pops, blood covered his shirt I was crying at nine, we inherit the hurt

When your options this limited Get creative, can't afford to be ignorant

Lost souls in the wilderness Where little girls sacrifice their morals for dividends

And commit adultery with evil men and never repent Too many lose hope, the shoot dope

Plenty give up and end up stuck But not us, made it through awful predicaments

And series of unfortunate events A miracle, how we rise like Lazarus

A lot of people have said for many years that it was on the bottom

But I told them, did you know what it was on the bottom that's holding you up