Home Sweet Home (A Cappella) Lyrics

Na na

'Kechi

Chai

Tell you more about where I come from

Call it home sweet home

Look

'Round the corner off of 63rd & Cass

Wasn't much around

A couple stations for the gas

(A) couple fast food spots

Mickey D's on the half days

Remember grabbing BK on the

Last day of 8th grade

14 with the Airwalk kicks

The whole block became my home when I was six

Had a flock that was mixed

With Arab, Indian, mostly Chinese

I was still the token black that everybody was pleased with

Always managed to tease me

"Ike is happier than gay

Sweeter than an Oreo"

Not much else they would say

I'd be on Jameson Way

Down the street from the park

Playing Sandman and soccer

Couldn't stay long after dark

For the longest time, not much else that I knew of

Took me a while to grow up from where I grew up

I go back just for the few I love

Now it's part of my story 'fore I blew up

It's home sweet home

Home sweet home

I'll roam (roam on) my own

But I can get too far from where I've grown

Verse two, take it back when I was living in my mama's land

West coast, Imo state

It was in my mama's plan

But I done blocked out some chapters of the plot

Suppress all the bad memories, say "I forgot"

Niggas calling me a brother, then they stealing from the kid

Then they feed off my intelligence

It's just the way they live

"Life is great" I was saying

While I'm lying through my teeth

I would clean the gutters, read my books

And cry myself to sleep

But not a peep to my mama cuz my sisters doing fine

Plus I'm here with all my family

A place that's so divine

And I was lying to myself

Thinking there'll be better days

Til I caved and told my mama

"I don't think I wanna stay"

That was 14 months, boarding school in my parents village

I was 14, turned 15 with a different image

Of this world and the places where I grew up

Opened my eyes to a new view of

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

I'll roam (roam on) my own

But I can get too far from where I've grown

I've been searching for my freedom song in foreign land

It's getting harder to understand, no

The sweetest melody rings in my heart

I know that we can't be too far

Drifting in this world

Diving deeper into the unknown

Tryna land upon a place I call my own

Ain't hard being alone

When the phone don't be ringing

And nowadays I don't really be singing

Like the way I always did

But someday I'll be singing to my kid

Tell him bout all the things I did and let him know

"One day you gon grow to have your own

But you won't ever be alone

Cuz it's home sweet home"

Home sweet home

I'll roam (roam on) my own

But I can get too far from where I've grown