Blood Block

Blood on the curb, I seen it spill

Block full of pain, they swallow pills

Hood got hunger in the window glass

Junkie eyes gone hollow fast

Mama keep praying for a clean out here

But the nights get loud when the fiends come near

Pocket full of bad news, rent late too

Every door in the hall got a secret clue

Can’t sleep right

Can’t breathe right

Everybody on the edge tonight

One more round

Then it all goes down

Blood block, blood block

Pain don’t stop

Pills in the palm

And the whole hood watch

Blood block, blood block

Hands too hot

We keep going hard

Till the streetlights drop

Corner store buzz with a shaky grin

Old heads lost, new kids pullin' in

White bag dreams in a foil fold

Trade one cold night for a colder hold

I seen love turn mean with a hungry stare

Seen brothers vanish in the stairwell air

Still I walk through, got my chin up high

Through the smoke and the hurt and the asking why

Can’t sleep right

Can’t breathe right

Everybody on the edge tonight

One more round

Then it all goes down

Blood block, blood block

Pain don’t stop

Pills in the palm

And the whole hood watch

Blood block, blood block

Hands too hot

We keep going hard

Till the streetlights drop

If the sirens call, we scatter fast

If the bottle breaks, the hurt don’t last

I want better days in a busted place

Need a little grace on this fractured face

Blood block, blood block

Pain don’t stop

Pills in the palm

And the whole hood watch

Blood block, blood block

Hands too hot

We keep going hard

Till the streetlights drop