B***d on the Pavement

[Intro] [Hook] B***d on the pavement, tears in the rain, Streets keep callin’, it’s the sound of pain. Lost in the struggle, still I f***t to remain, A voice in the darkness, callin’ my name. [Verse 1] I seen a mother hold her son while the sirens cry, Dreams cut short, another angel in the sky. The block don’t forgive, it just swallows you whole, Another name on the wall, another story untold. Broken lights on the corner where we sold our sins, Every dollar was survival, every night was thin. But the system built cages, tryin’ to chain our breath, I spit truth to the b**t ‘cause it’s life or death. [Hook] B***d on the pavement, tears in the rain, Streets keep callin’, it’s the sound of pain. Lost in the struggle, still I f***t to remain, A voice in the darkness, callin’ my name. [Verse 2] My brother locked down, fifteen years on the books, He wrote letters from a cell while the world just looks. The streets don’t love nobody, only hunger and greed, I learned pain is the water, and the b***d is the seed. Every scar on my heart is a verse I recite, Every shadow that I walk through still owes me a f***t. They told me hope’s gone, but I carved it in stone, I was born in the fire, had to make it my own. [Spoken Word] Look around you… This ain’t a movie, this ain’t a dream. These streets raised us, broke us, and still we rise. For every name on the wall, every tear in the gutter, I speak. And if they silence me, the truth still bleeds through the cracks. [Hook] B***d on the pavement, tears in the rain, Streets keep callin’, it’s the sound of pain. Lost in the struggle, still I f***t to remain, A voice in the darkness, callin’ my name. [Verse 3] From the benches to the graveyard, stories repeat, Whole generation lost, buried under the street. But I ain’t here for the chains or the cars they flaunt, I’m the echo of the struggle, I’m the voice they want. If tomorrow never comes, then remember my lines, I ain’t spittin’ just for me, I’m speakin’ for the blind. So when the lights go dark and the sirens fade, Know the truth in my words is the mark I made. [Outro]