Streetlight
Tyler Brooks
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We've chased the story to Paterson, another teenager murdered What do you want to be when you grow up? A police officer Why do you want to be a police officer? Because I want to make people safe If you could change anything about the world, what would it be? Being yourself What is your wildest dream for the future? Umm... I want to be a queen in a castle by the ocean In times like this tend to feel alone Dreams falling down outside my home Don't have the answer when kids they asking why Asking will it get better I don't know I see your face every time I'm home Shameful how hard it is to look in your eye Oh every time It hurts because I know you won't be by that oceanside tonight When you cry I know it's 'cause you know you lost your chance to ever see the light They say the pain ain't worth the stories that it writes And I know a lot of kids' mothers that been sobbing every night But the status quo don't make it to the news It seems like when your skin black is when you're feeling all the blues Little black & brown kids been abandoned by high society But we made out to be super-predators that's the irony To hear them tell it's our fault we dying inciting riots They expect us to sit back and shut up and just take it quietly But tell me what you'd do with a record that keep you from a job Tell me what you'd say to an easy grand right out on the street If your next meal can't come from within the letters of law If your fridge empty your daughter ain't got nothing to eat 12 gunnin' for your life too It's Winter Bitter cold, but your crib ain't got no heat Is it really wrong then to bang for protection, run the streets Serve some bags of dope, end up pushing work just to make ends meet? You think we deserving of this life You think we're living in the dark & we can't see the light You think there's no ambition only scamming running game That we don't see no out that we don't see no other way But little Naz had dreams of the WNBA She was at the wrong place at the wrong time of day Them gunners passed by, pulled the trigger, retaliate If you could look her in the eyes tell me exactly what you would say I remember Sunday all her friends weeping down in the church A tragic story wish I could tell you it was the first Wish I could contribute more than recounting her in this verse Wish her dreams of Bentleys came true instead of riding a hearse But her name is still remembered in the streets Gunned down by school 28 right where my mother used to teach All that's left now is a shrine, roses, candles showing memories we can't touch And the goals that she'll never reach And what makes all of the difference in the nature of this sin is the bread her people missing, Is the color of her skin Tell her story wondering how we supposed to see life in a new light When all we're seeing in the streets is flashing red and blue lights In times like this tend to feel alone Dreams falling down outside my home Don't have the answer when kids they asking why Asking will it get better I don't know I see your face every time I'm home Shameful how hard it is to look in your eye Oh every time It hurts because I know you won't be by that oceanside tonight When you cry I know it's cause you know you lost your chance to ever see the light Oh help me find A way to shield my eyes cause I don't wanna see no bodies In the streetlight In the streetlight In the streetlight In the streetlight (Won't be by that oceanside tonight)
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Written by: Freddie Mercury, Tyler Brooks
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