Back Home
Common

Back home
Everybody's searching for somethin'
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin'
Back home
Ain't nobody hoping and praying
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that
Life goes black when those lights go out
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own
'Cause ain't a damn thing free
Back home

Back home they holler disciple and blackstone
Some black they freebase yo we trapped on
Where our grandmothers marched the guns clap on
There's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs
I travel the world just to come back to it
The crib got a lot of soul like black music
I'm attached to it
In many ways this city raised me and gave me
The drama, honor, and bravery
The streets seem hollow when I go to Chicago
It's cheap wine and sorrow
Times hard to swallow
In search of God's tomorrow I borrow words from the
Bible and use them for survival gangs rival
Signs painted on the walls like hieroglyphics
I tell 'em that this is all tribal
Used to do dirt shorty's goin' through the same cycle
And trials like Michael tryin' not to stay idle

Back home it's not Compton but close
The same problems exist and the pain throbbin'
And folks are so common
It don't really bother us much we just swallow it uh
Crack the bottle and smoke hope tomorrow something
Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz
But the chances of it actually happening's kinda slim
Back home we get the good life at glimpse
In the form of a rap start, drug dealers, and pimps
I'm back home

Back home I try my best to keep it together it's cold
Like the Windy City streets of December
I pace back and forth looking for the courage to shine
But can't tap the source need something to nourish my mind
I know we all lose quite a bit in life
Only to gain some
Life or the dark winding roads we came from
But I move with the night so I'm used to the shade
And never lose sight bringing truth back to the game

Back home we've got a lot of shit on our minds
We're always behind on something 'cause there's not enough time
And we're non-stop bottom line doing what we gotta do
To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital
Back home there's people calling us hopeless
People trying to tell us all we need is some focus
But focus
Focus is overrated
Cause you see very blemish and mistake and can't change it
Back home is Alvarado K-Town and J-Town
Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know
Where figures shiver living right in the litter
Where kids write nigger right inside the L.A River
On the concrete a symbol of out everyday way
It's that color and concentration over heavy gray
And by the time the ink dries on this page
I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay


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Cee-Lo   Between Me, You & Liberation   Between Me, You and Liberation   Black America Again   Black America Again (Remix)   Black Maybe   Blak Majik   Blows To The Temple   Blue Skies   Blue Sky   Blue Sky (Single)   Book Of Life   Break My Heart   Breaker 1/9   Breaker 1\/9   Can-i-bust?   Car Horn   Celebrate   Changes   Charms Alarm   Chatper 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)   Chi City   Chi-city   Cloth   Cold Blooded   Coldblooded   Come Close   Come Close [Edited Album Version]   Come Close Remix   Come Close To Me   Come Close"(feat. Mary J. Blige   Common War Produced by No I.D   Communism   Corner   Corners   Crack Music   Diamonds   Don't Come My Way   Dooinit   Drivin' Me Wild   Driving Me Wild   E=MC2   Electric Wire Hustler Flower   Electric Wire Hustler Flower - Featuring Sonny Of ...   Electric Wire Hustler Flower"(feat. Sonny (P.O.D.)   Everywhere   Faithful   Faithful   Faithful   Ferris Wheel   Food For Funk   Food, The - (live)   Forever Begins   Forever Black America Again   Funky for You   G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)   Geto Heaven Part Two   Geto Heaven, Pt. 2   Gettin' Down At The Amphitheater   Ghetto Dreams   Ghetto Heaven Part Two   Ghetto Purgatory   Ghetto Show   Gladiator   Go!   Gold   Heat   Heaven Somewhere   Heidi Hoe   High Expectations   Home   Hungry   Hurricane   Hustle Harder   I Am Music   I Got Right Ta - Featuring Pharrell Williams   I Got a Right Ta   I Have A Dream   I Used to Love H. E. R.   I Used To Love H.E.R.   I Used To Love H.E.R. [Instrumental]   I Want You   I've Been Thinking   In My Own World   In My Own World (Check The Method)   Inhale   Inhale   Interlude   Introspective   Invocation   It's Your World   It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)   It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)   It's Your World (part 1&2)   Jesus Walks [Remix]   Jimi Was a Rock Star   Joy And Peace   Just in the Nick of Rhyme   Kingdom   Kingdom (feat. Vince Staples)   Kingdom Remix   Let's Move   Letter To The Free   Like They Used to Say   Love Is   Love Is...   Love Star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ)   Lovestar   Lovin' I Lost   Made In Black America   Maintaining   Make My Day   Making A Name For Ourselves   Misunderstood   My City   My Way Home   Nag Champa   Nag Champa (Afrodesiac For The World)   Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)   New Wave   New Wave"(feat. 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All My Children   Punch Drunk Love   Puppy Chow   Pyramids   Raw   Raw (How You Like It)   Real   Real Nigga Quotes   Real People   Red Wine   Remaning Me Of (Sef)   Reminding Me   Reminding Me (Of Sef)   Requiem For A Love   Resurrection   Resurrection '95   Resurrection [DVD]   Resurrection [Instrumental]   Resurrection [Large Professor Remix Instrumental] ...   Retrospect For Life   Retrospect for Life [Album Version]   Rewind That   Sex 4 Suga   Sex 4 Sugar   So Cool   So Far to Go   So Sweet   Soul By The Pound   Soul Power   Southside   Southside [Edited Album Version]   Speak My Piece   Star *69 (ps with Love)   Start The Show   Stay Good   Stay Schemin (Remix)   Stolen Moments Part I   Stolen Moments Pt. 1   Stolen Moments Pt. 2   Stolen Moments Pt. I   Stolen Moments Pt. II   Stolen Moments Pt. 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