Artist: Bless 1 Album: Starving Artist Song: We Typed by: bless1music@gmail.com Chorus 2x: Yeah, this is how we live This how we survive And this is how we do This is how we do Verse 1: I call home where my living room window's facing the vandals Front row seat to the scandals I was never thrown a pitch I can't handle My boots is ragged, but I ain't reached the point to trade 'em for sandals Gazing at the mandarin skies, realized That my hearts still thumping for reasons beyond my eyes Composer of theses unflawed rhymes, it's a tall climb So like a hot headed killer, reaching at all times Keep pursuing, best to move or you'll get left around In the gutter where they slumber with their chest to ground Stalk the alleys where the junkies and the pest are found And shorties greet ya with the heater, pull ya necklace down So like Bump say, "Move Around" Or you can sink in the water if you choose to drown The streets is a trade, listen to that tool sound They working overtime hours like a fool now Chorus 2x Verse 2: I'm from the city where they filmed Cooley High L trains be screaming when they move through the sky Some wonder why it's hard to see the stars at night But it's easy to see former hoop stars kissing the pipe Former lives – they snatched quarters off backboards Now they're reduced to begging for quarters in front of stores Headed for Armageddon, thugs are semi-religious Crosses tatted on bodies while they hustle relentless My defense is the music, untainted in this septic tank My methods ain't the best for coping but I guess it ain't Worse than fiends paying twice to inject the pain Or pistols held to the temple to push death in the brain We got Arabs at the corner, Koreans at the strip malls Africans on the court playing basketball Indians that ain't native running the gas stations And Irish men with walkie talkies on the block hatin' Colorful portraits when I step on my doorstep Survival and poverty got me knowing why the Lord wept They say the ends is justified if it means eating We be repenting so long until our knees bleeding Chorus 2x