Where I'm from they push a hundred keys and it sound like Tryna make a living Come to my hood Everybody get it And for that paper all the wrong things sound right Young niggas gettin' money, young niggas gettin' money Just a bittersweet symphony I'm from

Girl, why don't you I got it, babe Tell me what you want me to do to you? Say it, say it, say it Tell me what you want from me? Girl, won't you Say it, say it, say it? Tell me what you want Anything that you want, baby

And nothing else matters So close, no matter how far Couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know Life is ours, we live it our way All these words I don't just say Trust I

I lost myself on a cool damp night Gave myself in that misty light Was hypnotized by a strange delight Under a lilac tree I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its recipe It makes me see what I want to see And be what I want to be When I think

Baby, why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go I was counting on forever, now I'll never know It's like I'm looking from a distance, Standing in the background Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now, This can't be happening to me This is just a

Your songs remind me of swimming Which I forgot when I started to sink But somehow I forgot So I dive straight back in the ocean Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest Drank further away from the shore And deeper into the drink Sat on the bottom

Sometimes it feels like this world is spinning faster Than it did in the old days So naturally, we have more natural disasters From the strain of a fast pace Sunday was a day of rest Now, it's one more day for progress

With love, love One day we'll look at the past 'Cause one day we're gonna come back And laugh at it all One day we're gonna come back And relive those thoughts (Love, love) Like a scene from the past

I'm not ready to die You can't break me, crushed the Fears of yesterday While we damn the dead I'm I've stood in the dark, been Waiting all this time Trying to survive, I'm not ready to die You can't change me, barriers our trust will fade. Gone cast

(Open your eyes before you die) We're here because of you We're here because you were there We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation To seek the fulfillment of a promise of America We were promised a better life in our home