Downtown

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Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
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Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now

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Comin' from the way downtown
Do you see smiles? (no)
How about now?
Do you see trials? (yep)
That's a lot of style
10 million people in my city right now
Dealing with the struggle
Oh we got no [?Oprah?]
Just a man on a corner twisting bags of coke up
In a minute he 'gon sell em just to get his smoke up
Caught in a cycle he got no control of
Cops tell him hol' up
You gon' get hold up
[?] in the bang and gets let go of
That's the way we grow up
Never heard of rules
In my city if you make plans then you better show up
Hit the liquor
Po' up
Just to wash the pain out
Father kiss his son then proceeds to blow his brain out
Thinking it was wrong for so long that [?we needed on the day?] it was the only fucking option that came out
Used to be sane but everybody insane now
Mad at each other
Had the glare to tear your face out
Ain't no mistakes I'm just letting all the pain out
Ain't no sun-rays only storms and the rain clouds
Hanging with the dudes downtown got me thinking of the range now
Got me thinking of the range now
Got me thinking of the range now
But -

Uh
Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now

Uh
Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now

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Comin' from the way downtown
[?Where you either saw in your pool till you drown?]
Where you know the bullets always aimed for your crown
[?] pressed down
If you let 'em know then they'll prolly come for you
To get this shit that you got without doing all the work
When you grow up where I did you learn to make things work
'Cause at the [?] dirt lemme flirt with the first
Boys dying over ghosts
[?They the victims of the thirsts?]
When that pussy switch the automatic to a burst
Bullets fly
Book a hearse
It's a funeral
A birth
Then we cry next week
Throw that shit up in reverse
Every day see the same shit, nothin' new
Fuck the world up if that bitch fuckin' you
Learned quick all the shit I knew wasn't true
So I learned to adapt, to be comfortable
I seen thugs, seen guns seen robberies
Machine guns, ski masks on your property
Get your fucking [?] safe like a lottery
The price of life's cheap for the people trapped in poverty
But you do the same to survive

Damn it feel good being alive
Damn it feel good being alive
Damn it feel good being alive
But -

Uh
Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now

Uh
Comin' from the way downtown
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now
Ain't no way but up for us now

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