I never thought the streets that I loved would turn to hate me Same nights that gave me a life would try and take me Same streets I played on they'd have me lay on The next morn same spot kids play on Tomorrow never comes again One night remember it well I saw a war becoming fahrenheit, hotter than hell Blaze the street with potentials, no longer we speak The next 40 days ways we no longer stay weak Thinking of dark nights moonlight and games that we played 'Til the guns came, and then the nuns came And took my youth away Never been the same (since) that day But I always had to walk that way Nobody knows what I coulda been, or if they saw me again Just because of the violence of men It's like I'm living in the last days, pushing me in When I'm walking down the street's dead end
Blame it on the night time City streets I can't sleep Blame it on the concrete slabs my Tims eat The murderous glow Thoughts you never know when it could happen Hoping streets would blink and let go, but gun clapping Surround me like the stratus I fear from all the madness For now until my heart beats slow Another shadow lying another lost child crying Generations frozen in tears and half dying But all giving I thought I saw your light shine, was it the moonlight Felt you when I wrote the last line Give me the strength to show the next one, make 'em all yours Next time I wanna spark put the flame on pause Poverty you got me Unemployment, yo he shot me Stress, put me on ice and played hockey Like I'm living in the last days, pushing me in When I'm walking down the street's dead end
I dreamed of being the fastest Your favourite son, make you proud of me The streets so hard they won Used to leave the school books just to run with the crooks Was it the fancy cars that made me drive around with that look Every night like the 31st of October Couldn't stand to face reality and not be sober Had a child dream to one day take the world over Until I laid in the battle like a fallen soldier So many pitfalls, you never know what life might bring Have you trapped inside a world of material things Outta every corner, a light ready to strike I soared above the consciousness and landed in flight Thinking of dark nights moonlight and games that we played Like graffiti on society, mistakes that I made Like I'm living in the last days, pushing me in When I'm walking down the street's dead end