Can't Say Goodbye (com Charlie Wilson)

I'm a man I gotta take care of my family

Fighting these pressures in my life

I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammy's

But these streets won't say goodbye

I can't say goodbye, to the blocks

Goodbye, to the hood

Goodbye, to the streets

I can't say goodbye, to the hood

Goodbye, to the blocks

Goodbye, to the streets

I can't say goodbye goodbye to the blocks

Goodbye to the streets

Goodbye to the hood

I can't say goodbye, to the hood

Goodbye, to the blocks

Goodbye, to the homies

I guess it's true, you can't take the hood out a homeboy

Plus my hood just lost another homeboy

Another one got life and we don't know, if he coming home boy

They in the street tell me, "Just leave it alone boy

Let them do them take care of your own boy"

But I said, "Back brake a bound, before I was drome boy

You had dreams of being a dope boy"

Yeah, I was runnin' from the po po

Banging for the turf, late night huntin'

Puttin' me in work, good day comin', airbrush, shirt

Pay day, get the spot, got my hair cut first

Made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church

Yeah I live in the burbs but I think 21st

I know since I left that it's gotten much worse

But I'd still be there, if I couldn't write a verse

I'm a man I gotta take care of my family

Fighting these pressures in my life

I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammy's

But these streets won't say a goodbye

I can't say goodbye

To the the blocks that raise me

The enemies and the homies that made

Me tough enough to hang on the corners that would mold me

Critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me

But if the thing the old me ever left

Then they don't really know me

And don't know, we don't change, we just become OG

You always addicted to the life, you just don't OD

I owe the streets before they owe me

Took me in when my momma didn't want me

To wild to be a child and cops not around now

All I got now is the homies

To teach me, how to be a man an' what not

How to brake ounces in the grams an' what not

The reason I'm so nice with my hands and what not

S***, you think I forgot, man

I'm a man I gotta take care of my family

Fighting these pressures in my life

I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammy's

But these streets won't say a goodbye

I can't say goodbye

Thank good every day that the boy could spit

And all around the world they enjoyin' my s***

I know I got plenty more wars to get

I got a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids

But it wouldn't be right if I ignore the s***

They made me how I am, the music in the man

Told me that I can for the world gave a damn

If it wasn't for my ****, they sayin' stick to the plan

Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand

Probably be doin' a dub [Incomprehensible] with my man

The say leaders streets but they don't really understand

All I had was the block, when I didn't have fans

Wrapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins

All I had was the homies when I didn't have kids

If it all come down and my career was to end

I'm sure my name would live in the streets

I'm a man I gotta take care of my family

Fighting these pressures in my life

I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammy's

But these streets won't say goodbye

I can't say goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye

I can't say goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye

I can't say goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye

I can't say goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye

You can take the man out the streets

But you can't take the streets out the man