Corner store

Posted by the corner store late night

Same old faces under flicker streetlight

Everybody talk but they don’t live right

One wrong move and it could end tonight

I learned quick what the silence really mean

Ain’t nobody clean in between the scenes

Where I’m from, you don’t chase no dreams

You just try make it out with your jeans still clean

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Verse 1

I was 16 tryna flip somethin’ fast

Older homies taught me how to move in the back

Not everything good, but I learned from that

How to read the room when it’s tension attached

Corner store open till the a.m. hit

Same dude outside tryna make that flip

I seen friendships break over lil’ bit chips

Seen grown men fall over pride and lip

My homie switched up over nothin’ at all

Now I don’t even answer when he hit my call

It be like that when you stuck in that wall

Everybody real till they start to fall

I don’t glorify it, I just tell what it is

Where loyalty thin and the money the bridge

Where the wrong turn put your name on a list

And the streets don’t care if you got a kid

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Hook

Posted by the corner store late night

Same old faces under flicker streetlight

Everybody talk but they don’t live right

One wrong move and it could end tonight

I learned quick what the silence really mean

Ain’t nobody clean in between the scenes

Where I’m from, you don’t chase no dreams

You just try make it out with your jeans still clean

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Verse 2

Now I’m older but the block still the same

New faces, same cycle, new name

Kids outside tryna earn some fame

Before they even understand the game

I don’t preach, I just watch and observe

Seen too many crash tryna act too stern

Seen too many burn from the bridges they burned

Every lesson in the street gotta hurt to learn

I keep my distance but I still know the code

Never too deep where you can’t let it go

Trust get expensive when the rent feel low

And everybody hungry when the lights start to slow

I seen loyalty fold under pressure before

Seen a man change for a little bit more

Seen fake love turn cold to a war

All for a block they don’t even own

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Bridge

Ain’t no heroes where I’m from, just survivors

Some stay solid, some turn to survivors

Either you learn or you end up behind us

That’s the truth they don’t tell when they find us

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Final Hook (Outro)

Posted by the corner store late night

Same old faces under flicker streetlight

Everybody talk but they don’t live right

One wrong move and it could end tonight

I learned quick what the silence really mean

Ain’t nobody clean in between the scenes

Where I’m from, you don’t chase no dreams

You just try make it out with your jeans still clean