Childish Gambino - Outside lyrics
Childish Gambino [Donald McKinley Glover Jr.] Edwards, CA, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Childish Gambino - Outside lyrics]
I used to dream every night
Now I never dream at all
I'm hopin' that it's cause I'm
Livin' everything I want
I used to wake up in a
Bed between my mom and aunt
Playing with this Land Before Time
Toy from Pizza Hut
My dad works nights, putting on a stone face
He's saving up so we can get our own place
In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me
They called me "fat nose" my mom say
"You handsome to me"
Mrs glover ma'am, your son is so advanced
But he's acting up in class and
Keeps peeing in his pants
And I just wanna fit in
But nobody was helping me out
They talking hood shit and I ain't
Know what that was about
Cause hood shit and black
Shit is super different
So I'm talking hood shit and cool
It now like New Edition
Mom and dad wouldn't listen
They left the Bronx so I wouldn't be that
All their friends in NY deal crack
It's weird
You think that they'd be proud of 'em
But when you leave the hood
They think that you look down on 'em
The truth is we still struggle
On a different plane
7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers
It's all the same
Facebook messaging hopin' that could
Patch up shit but all they get now is
"Can your son read this script?"
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
Yeah, Dad lost his job
Mama worked at Mrs winner's
Gun pulled in her face, she still made dinner
"Donald, watch the meter so they
Don’t turn the lights off"
Workin' two jobs so I can
Get into that white school
And I hate it there
They all make fun of my clothes
And wanna touch my hair
And my uncle on that stuff
That got my grandma shook
Drug dealers roughed him up and
Stole his address book
He’s supposed to pay ‘em back
He owe 'em money but his
Bank account is zero
So my mama made us sleep with Phillips heads
Under the pillow
Like that would do somethin'
But she’s got six kids
She’s gotta do somethin'
She don’t want me in a
Lifestyle like my cousin
And he mad cause his father ain’t around
He lookin' at me now, like
"Why you so fuckin' lucky? I
Had a father too but he ain’t around
So I'ma take it out on you"
We used to say "I love you"
Now we only think that shit
It feels weird that you’re the person
I took sink baths with
Street took you over, I want my cousin back
The world sayin' what you are
Because you’re young and black
Don't believe 'em
You're still that kid who
Kept the older boys
From teasin', for some reason
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
Can you hear me now can you hear me now
Oh, help us Lord
Oh, I'm screamin' baby, baby
Now I never dream at all
I'm hopin' that it's cause I'm
Livin' everything I want
I used to wake up in a
Bed between my mom and aunt
Playing with this Land Before Time
Toy from Pizza Hut
My dad works nights, putting on a stone face
He's saving up so we can get our own place
In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me
They called me "fat nose" my mom say
"You handsome to me"
Mrs glover ma'am, your son is so advanced
But he's acting up in class and
Keeps peeing in his pants
And I just wanna fit in
But nobody was helping me out
They talking hood shit and I ain't
Know what that was about
Cause hood shit and black
Shit is super different
So I'm talking hood shit and cool
It now like New Edition
Mom and dad wouldn't listen
They left the Bronx so I wouldn't be that
All their friends in NY deal crack
It's weird
You think that they'd be proud of 'em
But when you leave the hood
They think that you look down on 'em
The truth is we still struggle
On a different plane
7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers
It's all the same
Facebook messaging hopin' that could
Patch up shit but all they get now is
"Can your son read this script?"
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
Yeah, Dad lost his job
Mama worked at Mrs winner's
Gun pulled in her face, she still made dinner
"Donald, watch the meter so they
Don’t turn the lights off"
Workin' two jobs so I can
Get into that white school
And I hate it there
They all make fun of my clothes
And wanna touch my hair
And my uncle on that stuff
That got my grandma shook
Drug dealers roughed him up and
Stole his address book
He’s supposed to pay ‘em back
He owe 'em money but his
Bank account is zero
So my mama made us sleep with Phillips heads
Under the pillow
Like that would do somethin'
But she’s got six kids
She’s gotta do somethin'
She don’t want me in a
Lifestyle like my cousin
And he mad cause his father ain’t around
He lookin' at me now, like
"Why you so fuckin' lucky? I
Had a father too but he ain’t around
So I'ma take it out on you"
We used to say "I love you"
Now we only think that shit
It feels weird that you’re the person
I took sink baths with
Street took you over, I want my cousin back
The world sayin' what you are
Because you’re young and black
Don't believe 'em
You're still that kid who
Kept the older boys
From teasin', for some reason
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside we can follow the road
There's a world we can visit
If we go outside
Outside, outside no one knows
Can you hear me now can you hear me now
Oh, help us Lord
Oh, I'm screamin' baby, baby