Joe Metro
Blue Scholars

I reach beneath the skin and the street with each stepnWalkin' closer to my final destination of deathnWhen I'm layin' to rest, I'm only savin my breathnThe Northwest fills the lungs, kills the pain in my chestnnTake six quarters out of the pocket, and drop it in the boxnHop the 48, off to pay homagenIt stops off and I jot my observationsnWatchin' citizens walkin' off of the Joe Metro collegennProletariats and wayward sonsnWith old Filipino men speakin' in they native tonguenAnd the day has just begunnGreeted by the scent of a bum smellin' something like beer, barf, and dungnnA brother into cloves, in the back all alonenMarinating in a pair of half-broken headphonesnMumblin' rhymes, same time begin to pen minenAppreciating God's design, rewind sistannReminds me of a smile in the back of my memorynI wonder, if I see her again, will she remember me?nI'm not tryin' to holler, I swearnI'm just weary of the way we hop a ride and just sit there and starennPrepare for my 9 o'clock work meetingnA couple pale folks slide right by with no greetingnBut the people with my phenotype follow with a head nod upnCuz we acknowledge that the shit's fucked upnnNorth of Martin Luther King, a straight war zonenDetours through the concrete, cranes, and bulldozersnNo, the hill is not over stillnEvery block got a coffee shop, it's overkill, focus, know the dealnnDope to see Khalil back, the medicine is good againnThe feeling of leaving and coming back to your hood againnIs priceless, I write this, our lives are in crisisnMost talk but don't walk the path of the righteousnnDespite this, I measure each stepnWalkin' closer to my final destination of deathnWhen I'm layin' to rest, I'm only savin my breathnThe Northwest fills the lungs, kills the pain in my chestnnClutch the moment, a transfer in my hand, still listenin'nLookin' out the window to the gold and the greennAnd the sun might be shinin' but it's colder than it seemsn'Cause the weather's dialectical, there's no inbetweennnIn walks an old soulnA first nation native, cat chiseled like a totem polenNo words, as he stands and looks over usnHe gets off and says Have a good day, you foreignersnnI crack a smile one time for the acknowledgementnNorthbound, now we start to pick up more college kidsnThey try to study on the ridenTo make up for the fact they probably kicked it hard last nightnnAnd I ponder if it's time to save up and get a carnAnd pay for the gas that we're takin' from the warnI'd miss all the colorful faces, the places and spaces I've embracednWith the faith that I can rest and raise kids herennEven with these cats that trippin', to bringin' 95 back againnSame old conditionsnFrom Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush the secondnNo matter the neighborhood and the city you reppin'nnIt's gettin' serious y'all, you can even hear the rebel callnGettin' off, leavin' hella pieces on the wallsnSeen it all, sittin' sideways with my townmatesnOnly place left where majority is brown-facednnNow we headed downtown to trade our labor for cashnI thank the navigator once and walk fastnI walk past the next round of cats to jump on itnLocked in deep thought, we ride around in silencennAcross Rizal bridge, I watch each stepnWalkin' closer to my final destination of deathnWhen I'm layin' to rest, I'm only savin my breathnThe Northwest fills the lungs, kills the pain in my chestnnI remain blessed, steppin' on rain with each stepnEyes heavy from the lack of the cousin of deathnWhen I'm layin' to rest, I'm only savin' my breathnThe Northwest fills the lungs y'allnnYou know the restnnYou know the rest (you know the rest)nYou know the restnIt's like that y'all (that y'all)nIt's like that y'all (that y'all)nnAnd that's all

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