Stand Up

Why don't you come around my way
My way (x4)
Why don't you come around my way
My way (x4)
Why don't you come around, way

Walking down Williams through Mart and Blays (Mart and Blays)
On the big Steps where I used to play (Used to play)
The girls in the park gotta lot to say (Lot to say)
Them girls over there threw they life away (Life way)
Cause they got babies and they just now hear
They double numbers, they mothers promoting this here
The boys on the court playing basketball (Basketball)
They baby fathers, they rather be boys and that's all

H-Dub, stand up
BK, stand up
East Coast, stand up
You should
Come around my way [x2]

I'm from a place in Harlem
Where the streets they look like Africa
And the trees are in better condition than the homes, so abandoned
P.S. 197
Where I study my academics, there and
And the books so worn and torn I can't think
How they tried to cripple me
And the students lost sight of me
Thank god I had a good teacher on the side of me
Showed me the right thangs to do
Overcame these obstacles
H-Dub, stand up for the things that we've been through ooh

H-Dub, stand up
BK, stand up
East Coast, stand up
You should
Come around my way [x2]

Well, we got these buildings called projects
But it ain't three stories
They fill about ten on the block
April flow, go up by 20
Stories
I tell be true story: kids cut school and watch Maury
Like if they ain't intellect, then what's affecting my life
I can't respect 'em
But that's just they way of the ghetto
People who come from where I'm from get it
But we still gotta make a difference
Stand up tall so the world can get it
Teach kids proud to sit outside
Show another side and they sho' gon' rise
Stop letting responsibilty fall
I can tell you ain't been aroung my way at all

Why don't you come around (Way)
So you can see what my (Way)
Eyes been seeing, why (Way)
Why don't you come around
Where we need direction (Way)
Respect is never the lesson (Way)

Why don't you come around my way
My way (x4)
Why don't you come around my way
My way (x4)

H-Dub, stand up
BK, stand up
East Coast, stand up
You should (Come around my way) [x2]

Up, Up, Up
Up, Up, Up