I Wanna Stay Outside

Through the eyes of a homeboy dirt broke and starvin'

Fresh on parole and the system keeps carvin'

A chip on his shoulduh streets getting colduh

Down for the hood just another lonely soldier

Caught up in the mix with the drugs and the conflicts

Bangin' ghetto tricks makin' money with the convicts

No future in his front and his hope's in the far back

Robbin' mothafuckas bout to go and pull a car jack

To go and get a gee ride scoop up the homeboys

Shotguns and rifles pistol grips and chrome toys

Shoot um up bang bang that be his past time

Hobbies drink and gangbang might be his last time

Before he hits the walls again to do a long stretch

Smile now cry later on the tiempo he might catch

Even though the last time is when he said that he was through

With the pinta and the hood life that put um in the "S.H.U."

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy

Out once again from those walls don't wanna go back

Breathin' free air on the calle and he knows that

It might not last cuz it's hard to go the right way

Reaching for the past with homies and you might say

He's just reminscin' how they nevuh did listen

In and out reform schools and juvenile detention

Banging colors on the scene a skinny ass youngsta

Taggin' up the thirteen and crossin' out the other number

Deep in his heart he was destined for the lock up

Getting drunk as fuck and pulling cuetes spray the block up

From the county to the pinta and sometimes he's feeling trapped

But accepts that it's his vida writing verses on a rap

Bout how it all started drinkin' forties at the projects

Twelve years old and just another gang prospect

Never thinking twice about a consequence or reason

Now it's just his celly and the little box he sleeps in

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy

To hell with the P-O to hell with the judge

And fuck the D-A cuz you know there ain't no love

The path that I took and the way I chose to live

Is the same most of my homies went and took when we were kids

But what can I do but keep on rolling with the punches

Steady smashing through and always knowing that once this

Life comes to an end I tried my best to do a good thing

And not an early death with all the drama that the hood brings

Wish I could go back to when those times were brand new

But now they've gotten old skipping records playing "You"

I hold on to all these memories and always remembering

Sometimes I had everything at times didn't have anything

It just ain't the same teardrops in the rain

It might mask my sorrow but it can't mask my pain

"I'm never going back" be the words of a past thought

Tiempo is a fact pushing foward to the last stop

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy

I wanna stay outside I wanna stay outside

No more chains

Cuz life's so crazy I said this life's so crazy