Still Hear the Screams ft. DviousMindz Lyrics

I used to watch the fiends from the window

Stench in the air every single time the wind blow

Vials on the ground every color of the rainbow

Kids duckin' strays they shoot from every angle

Look out for the dealers and the addicts

Every 1st and 15th had to batten down the hatches

Put the locks on the doors and the hooks in the latches

Seen my brother load the pistol that he kept under the mattress

Our city was a war zone

America ain't hear us and rap was like our morse code

Generation full of lost souls

With torn clothes who met up at the crossroads

They bombed Hiroshima

Then put crack in the hood but nobody believed us

Left with nobody to save us

These the stories that nobody could make up

I can't sleep somethin' woke me out my dreams

Certain nights I can still hear the screams

Close my eyes I could still see the fiends

But I still find relief in these songs that we sing like

They raped a girl right in front of my crib

I dialed 9-1-1 cops didn't do shit

I was 10 years old when I witnessed that shit

When I first realized our hoods different and shit

I'm from Saint Paul and Crooke, see the irony man

That's the saint and the sinner, dichotomy man

Fuck these politicians and their policies man

They put crack in the hood with the poverty damn

Now we livin' with Js

Whole families tryna eat off of minimum wage

Shit trash, sanitation they ain't pick up for days

Things got even worse once they hit us with AIDS

Growing up was like living in hell

And every block in the city got a story to tell

Every corner in the town got a soldier who fell

And they love to hear the pain, shit we know it too well

I can't sleep somethin' woke me out my dreams

Certain nights I can still hear the screams

Close my eyes I could still see the fiends

But I still find relief in these songs that we sing like