Yeah

One day we gonna make it out


I was guided by the street lights growing up
Yeah the corner raised you
You rested with the core enough
And through the struggle you tried to pile at your dreams
But I knew the truth was subtle and not everything is what it seems
They feed you poison that’s covered in gold
But you fell in love with the pain from the stories they told
They didn’t tell you bout indictments and the nights in the cold
Now the dream that they sold you took a life of its own
Yours instead of aiming for better
Maybe a better man
I know it’s easier said and done when the medicine
Is the same thing that’s killing our neighbourhood
Selling mind games thinking I should stay for good


All of the dreams that they sell us
All of the things they don’t tell us
Why all of this time it was a setup
And you played a game they played better


Why they playing all of these mind games
Why they playing all of these mind games
Why they playing all of these mind games
Wait
Why they playing all of these mind games


I ain’t following that rhetoric
I got my own mind plugging into better shit
They tryna entice you making it look glamorous
It’s like they got an expiration date on melanin
But it’s better than where I am now
Gotta fight for it some of my brothers
They had to die for it
Uh this is the currency currently
You gonna pay for it in blood
They outline us in the street wait up
Look I just been praying I make it home to my family
All of these hardships and pain they came in handy
Gotta get it how you live
They don’t understand me
But when you birthed in the struggle
There ain’t no plan B


All of the dreams that they sell us
All of the things they don’t tell us
Why all of this time it was a setup
And you played a game they played better


Why they playing all of these mind games
Why they playing all of these mind games
Why they playing all of these mind games
Wait
Why they playing all of these mind games


But when you finally make it out
Just know there’s somebody waiting for you
Waiting for the handout what they’re taking from you
And they can’t wait for you to fall from your spot
And now the jealousy is kicking in
They want what you got
But it’s crazy exactly how these mind games work
That you were once on that corner
Now you finding your worth
And the ones that watch you make it out
They holding you back
That’s cos they want an ovation
But if you stand you get clapped
Now where you at
Uh feeling like anywhere you go
You won’t find change
Like when you’re stuck in a loop
Playing these mind games
Filling anywhere we go
No we won’t find change
Stuck in this loop
Yeah we playing in mind games