Beauty & The Beast

She a beauty, I’m a beast

From the west side to the east (yeah)

Two worlds

One street

Shorty from the Heights, bag matchin’ her eyeliner

Walk in, whole room leanin’ toward her like a highlighter

I’m from where they double lock the doors and keep the blinds tighter

Heart cold, hoodie up, mind on a time prior

She sip spritzers, I sip trouble

She speak soft, my words rumble (grr)

She post art, I post struggle

Still we locked in, puzzle

Beauty and the beast on the same block

Pretty little halo on a face that shock

I’m the one they warn you never bring back home

But you still slide through when you all alone

Beauty and the beast, this that wrong-right love

Red on your lips, mine from fight night blood

You see the good in the worst of me

You the only one touchin’ the hurt in me (yeah)

You pull up in cream, I’m in black all day

You talk dreams, I say "that don’t pay"

You light incense, I light my pain

Same city, two sides of the train

You like flowers in a thrift-store vase

I like cash in a pillowcase

But when your hand wrap ’round my scars

Every bad thing feel so far

Beauty and the beast on the same block

Pretty little halo on a face that shock

I’m the one they warn you never bring back home

But you still slide through when you all alone

Beauty and the beast, this that wrong-right love

Red on your lips, mine from fight night blood

You see the good in the worst of me

You the only one touchin’ the hurt in me (oh)

If I change, do I lose my edge?

If I stay the same, do I lose your head?

You say, "Boy, you more than the war you survived"

Kiss my knuckles, say, "You still alive"

Beauty and the beast on the same block

Pretty little halo on a face that shock

I’m the one they warn you never bring back home

But you still slide through when you all alone

Beauty and the beast, this that wrong-right love

Red on your lips, mine from fight night blood

You hold me tight when the streets won’t speak

You and me forever,

beauty and the beast (yeah)