West Side Story

[Intro]
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Tell me a story, Daddy, just one short story Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy

[Verse 1]
All right then, little girl: a long time ago in South Central LA
As we know, there was peace, there was no violence
In LA all you heard was silence
Till one day, some brothers formed a gang
To protect the neighborhood and thangs
Which was cool, cool for a while
Till some of the kids got wild

- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy

[Verse 2]
All right then: Crenshaw is where they play
That's a young hustler from LA
Fast women, fancy cars
Is what you see when you are
Rollin', you see gangsters strollin', that's their goal
And you can't take it away, at least not today
But anyway, I'm here to say

- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one sh–
"How could you gang-bang?"

[Verse 3]
All right then: Bobcat - that's my name
And a long time ago, yeah, I used to bang
Khakis saggin', and wearing my raggin'
Walking down the street with my feet draggin'
Pendletons buttoned to the top
But one day I said I had to stop
I got tired of watchin' my back
Everywhere I went, I had to carry a gat
Man, it's crazy, crazier than ever
I wouldn't join a gang again, never
Bullets flying over my back
It felt like Vietnam to be exact

- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Tell me a story, Daddy
Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy

[Verse 4]
All right then: we used to roll 24/7
Jackin' all suckas at 7-11
We was loc, that means no joke
Slingin' that water and sellin' that coke
Man, we had to quit 'cause it wasn't legit
We was selling our souls for bits
For nothin', we had nothin', huffin' and puffin'
Goin' through life bluffin', for what?
I feel like a slut, if Jesus was living
He woulda kick me in my butt
Can't you see our people are dying
We gotta stand together and start trying
Harder, to make the kids smarter
Or your daughter will be on that water
This is the fact, so if you slack
On your brother, man you ain't black

- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy
- Tell me a story, Daddy
- Oh, come on sweetheart
- Just one short story, Daddy

"Stop the violence!"
"We must stop destruction"
"Stop the violence!"
"We must stop destruction"
"Stop the violence!"
"We must stop destruction"
"Stop the violence!"
"And I shouldn't have to run from a black man"
STOP!

[Skit: "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY CREW?"]
"What have you done to my friends?"
"Yo Bob, what'd you do to my crew, man?"
"I've hidden at every one of them, them never get away"
[cuts into The Mob]