Akua Naru, Drea D’Nur - Walking The Block lyrics

Walking the block, yeah i can see clearly
All who love oh Lord
Another body drop somebody just got shot
Oh Lord oh Lord
Tell me can you hear me?
I need to know,  can you hear me? Oh Lord
Oh Lord

Uh, another block caught, crooked cops
Gunshots 'Nother body dropped
Grandma waitin' at the bus stop
County jail letter in the
Mailbox, house shoes, sweat socks
Braided heads on the porch to
Get that extra guap
Eviction, facin' rock bottom
Pray she bounce back on top
American dream a nightmare, please
Make it stop
Neighbors watch, inhale, modern day dress
God slingin' rocks


Black boy, white tank top, baggy jeans
Dreadlocks dreaming of that drop top
Non-stop Chinese spot
And let me get a navigate liquor stores
Projects lords in vacant lots
We be the have nots
When we have, we become what we got
Another car ride by
System knock that new shit pedestrians jot
Hip hop corner stay a track in the flop
The pain immaculate
Watch single mothers hustle
To punch the time clock, crime a cash crop
Somebody runnin', the dime drops
Ice grills mask a kind heart
As time talks, fathers are holograms
Sons waitin' for the day to snuff Uncle Sam
Why not? No sympathy for that man
He get what he deserve, damn
I said he get what he deserve, y'all
Look, and he get what he deserve, y'all
They keep tellin' me

Walking the block, yeah (Uh, huh)
I can see clearly (Uh, I heard my sister say)
Through the sirens and screams, oh Lord
(Tell the world, y'all)
Can you hear me? Oh (Uh, huh, uh, uh)

Another woman raped, choked, battered
Body found in the attic
Contents of her purse scattered
Leftover re-shattered
Clothes tattered, lipstick smeared
Broken glass
No news reports on the matter, uh
Nobody gathered
Nothing change, ask around ‘bout her name
Some said Tamika, some claim Loraine
The tag on the foot said Jane
I wonder who she was
Did she give and receive love?
Did she fight back, or just gave up?
She laid dead, legs cold, hair gold
Framed in the child’s pose
Bruised nose, semen-stained pantyhose
Sade on the radio, singin' through the window
I wonder if pain has a tempo, I bet it's slow
Streets survive, never live, then we die
Dreams deferred, glass ceiling high, uh
Born on the wrong side
Is there a right side?
Classifies our labour
Sold for nickel and dime
And who decides our lives by
Signin' on the dotted line?
Next week, they gentrify
Push us outside the city lines
Sirens frame the evening
Profiled for being non-white, breathin'
Walkin' the streets
Bored cops, they fiendin', probable reason
No donut shops and roll up
On a couple cats, Spanish speakin'
Mexicans, what they screamin'? Puerto Ricans
They thinkin' they all the same, fuck 'em
Blow out their brains, killin' season
It's war hour
Wish they could take us all out
Let the dogs out
Niggas should be hangin' from trees
Auctioned off now
Load 'em up, blast until they all down
Fire shots at full force now, they
Never see the court house, y'all
Uh, they never see the court house, y'all
Uh, they never see the court house, uh
They never see the court house, uh, uh
They never see it, hey

Walking the block, yeah
(Uh, uh, and so they keep tellin' me)
I can see clearly
(Uh, I heard my brother say)
Through the sirens and screams, oh Lord
Can you hear me? Oh
(Uh, uh, tell the world, y'all)
Yeah, yeah, the block, yeah
I can see clearly
Through the sirens and screams, oh Lordy
Can you, can you, can you hear me? Tell me
Oh

Uh uh, another body drop today on the block
Somebody just got shot today on the block
(I can see, I can see)
Look, y'all watch today on the block
(I can see clearly now)
Today on the block, today on the block
(Clearly now)
Another body dropped (I can see, I can see)
Somebody just got shot today on the block
(I can see it clearly)
Look, y'all watch today on the block
(Clearly)
Today on the block, today, uh, uh (Clearly)
Another body drop (Oh Lord)
Somebody just got shot (O oh)
Look, y'all watch today on (O oh)
Uh, another body dropped (O oh)
Somebody just got shot
Look, y'all watch today on the block
Today on the block, today on the block (O oh)