Apollo Brown, Philmore Greene, Evidence - Paradise lyrics

It seems to me like ever since
I was a little child, i've been starving
(yo) i've never known anything but hunger
(Everybody gotta eat)

Look, the score for the
Night was pure silence
Off-key church bells, drug deals, and sirens
The city whistles every time the wind blows
Nymphos secure deals behind tinted windows
Sex advance for the cash at hand
The wrong worlds collide
Chi-town is Pakistan
It’s no return when the casket slammed
A nigga ‘gon dress you up, Dapper Dan
When the city sleeps run for cover
The night a’ take your
Mother, stray your sister
And leave a bastard brother
The stick swinging like pinatas for the candy
For the bread theya’ do you like
The robbers did the candy, family
The pastors say the church belong to God
Backsliding like mechanics under cars
For the worship jars
A thief in the night will stay at large
Never sleep but this is only your odds
Paradise

(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better search for a safe place
You could stay and just find your way
(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better take your black ass somewhere safe

What’s to this inner-city lifestyle?
The days of circus and every night wild
Bright child, stuck in the ghetto
Lets save em’ right now
The Bible say the kids ‘ill be smarter
But weaker
Social media turned the babies from
A guider to seeker subsidized housing, FEMA
The stress level is high
As an underpaid teacher
He started early so he’s used to imprison
He don't miss that of a pistol
He lost his life to recidivism
My man got 40 years for heron
But Jason did three for a body?
So why you wanna play with that block for?
Buy a truck to transport
Some goods and commodities
See the L's? The government to see me fail
Culturally biased learning the schools ain't
Never teach me well are you religious or
Superstitious? The devil, i'm out-wittin’
Tryna’ to dodge a bullet or a life sentence
Paradise

(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better search for a safe place
You could stay and just find your way
(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better search for a safe place
You could stay and just find your way

(Find a way) just waking up todays and anons
Flashing high beams at
Me in these streets will lead the drama
(yeah)
Bad karma if I'm doing dirt to add a comma
I'm from Los Angeles the city
Of the broken promise (One, two…)
You got six million stories, and
Six million ways to die, so choose for me
Get the money, don't confuse the glory
To all the crews before me
Four in the morning wore my
Jordan’s through the territory
I’m from the place that's most deceiving
It’s ghetto at the beach but won't be leaving
They kick my homies out so I
Be loyal to a region (no)
I guess I'm overdosing on the
Coast that set the evening (no)
Under stars a’ California dreaming
I call it last call to
Jet before the scheming
Another victim for the season
‘It Was Written’ we know how to read it
(easy)
It’s "To be or not to be defeated", paradise

(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better search for a safe place
You could stay and just find your way
(Paradise, paradise)
Cause when the night time cover the city
You better search for a safe place
You could stay and just find your way

Yeah, you hear that right?
Mr police banging on the door
Harassing, yeah
Kicking the motherfucking door down