(Verse 1)
Lately my city just been so dark that it's hard to see the brighter side/
Other than the fact I'm not a victim of homocide/
Amistad really I just want to see us all free/
Why we drawing guns instead of breathe why can't we all breathe/
I mean golly, with all these bullets in the air I know the cross hairs have probably crossed me/
Or my brother or my mother or my child/
Or my friends cause somebody's foe was shooting at the crowd/
know some homies In the dirt Know some homies on a trial/
I know summer 16 is about to be very foul/
Cause they looking for revenge but tell me when do they win/
Tell me when do they quit tell me when does it end/
There's a war going on outside/
The dispatchers got the boards lit up all bright/
The mortician got the mourge opened up all night/
The Paul bearer got the holes dug up all nice/
Pray you don't fill it/
Cause Lord willing don't want you to be a victim/
of the landlord calling to tell your soul it's evicted/
Lately I been hearing knocks up on my door/
I answer nobodies there the smell is rotten to the core/
Should I step on porch and possibly explore/
Or should I close it and lock it drop my knees to the floor Like/

(Chorus)
dear lord I don't want to die/
But as I look around my city it would seem everything is on fire/
We just trapped in the building debris is blocking all the doors/
Now It's swallowing the young and its swallowing the old/
It's swallowing the flesh and it's swallowing the soul/
and spitting out the bones this can't be home/

(Bridge)
This cant be home,
This cant be home,
nah i swear this cant be home,
All im seeing is the bones this cant be home

(Verse 2)
The nights are cold cases even colder/
Dead men are walking snatching lives out the strollers/
The shots ring out At the Top of every hour/
I guess death is the keeper of the bell tower/
Shadows of the ville the feeling so exhausting/
Looking over your shoulders every night noon and morning/
Red flags with every step are you seeing all the warnings/
but Don't let your Ego get you vetoed take caution/
its all just a bad joke but Be that as is it may though/
Forensics isnt called here to clean up no tomatoes/
Shots through the windows flying through the cradles/
Another life lost think I just seen another angel/
The plots getting thicker so cops are getting quicker/
To pull the guns out and get the drop on a nigga/
Adrenaline is rushing the logic's out the window/
Is anywhere safe they having shoot outs with they kinfolks/
That's just the intro to this place that I been for/
20 some odd years its odd I made it to this point/
because I was on the wrong path once/
I realized where that journey goes it don't last long/
and look for those like me that tend to stray away/
keep in mind there's a victim to the strays everyday Like/

(Chorus)
dear lord I don't want to die/
as I look around my city it would seem everything has caught fire/
We just trapped in the building debris is blocking all the doors/
Now It's swallowing the young and its swallowing the old/
It's swallowing the flesh and it's swallowing the soul/ spitting out the bones so this can't be home/