Streetlight Shadows ft. Knaladeus Lyrics

The train screeches looking out with the subway windows

Streetlights shadows someone else is widowed

The streets are cold and you memorize each crack

If the pavement could talk it would tell you about each that

Has walked and run from the hand of gun

Self defense or offense in the game of no fun

Trying to outrun your destiny and your memories

Friends and family that become history

No textbooks or rule books just shook

Cause ain't no such thing as halfway crooks

This ain't peer pressure just pressure

From collections and cops just to paint the picture

It's just eviction or addiction

This affliction isn't quitting

So I'm trying not to give in

This isn't what I plan on living

Death isn't scaring me

Lord, I pray are you really hearing me

Cause it's a cold world and you know it

Love is a rare thing and you show it

And it's too dark when the streetlights glowing

No hope shows always hopeless

But I see the streetlights shining bright, Yeah

But I see the streetlights shining out, Tonight, shining bright

We're on the corners where the bums ask for change

but it's way too hard to change

Trying not lose your mind trying to sustain

Mind set in stone that doesn't wash with rain

Mainstream rap makes us out all as clones

Glamorizing the lifestyle drowning in loans

Just trees no money it's a joke

Everyone at a breaking point

At this point were all broke

Trying to keep a job minimum wage

Steal or sell so we can grow just grow old

My days are numbered trying not think of numbers

I wonder in this universe of wonders

If God really cares

Is God really there

They say if you know Jesus you know peace

Where's Jesus when there's no peace

Feeling all alone in these cold streets

Cause it's a cold world and you know it

Love is a rare thing and you show it

And it's too dark when the streetlights glowing

No hope shows always hopeless

But I see the streetlights shining bright, Yeah

But I see the streetlights shining out, Tonight, shining bright

I'm in the alleys in the corners and the streetlights

When you struggling the find yourself I'm

With the beaten mother picking up the broken dishes

With the hardworking father working 3 jobs viscous

For three boys and two girls that complain

About the same food and clothes and maintain

A cold look at life it's hard to look alive

When marriages fall apart all the time

No child support and rape victims abortions

Legal extortion still they ask for my portion

I'm the light to the cheater

Murder and drug dealer

Rapist and robber and the absent father

I'm the rose that blooms through the concrete

Above the insecurities to endure the streets

Five percenters and religions

Man is selfish on his own

It's time for you to come home

Cause it's a cold world and you know it

Love is a rare thing and you show it

And it's too dark when the streetlights glowing

No hope shows always hopeless

But I see the streetlights shining bright, Yeah

But I see the streetlights shining out, Tonight, shining bright