Come From The Bronx

Verse 1

Pops was a rumor we repeated

Mama held the rent and a habit she couldn't beat

Left alone with two boys and a locked door

She found her own company in a bottle on the third floor

I learned the block before I learned my letters

Corners taught me more than any teacher ever could

Chorus

So my lifestyle kinda sketchy

I come from the Bronx where they don't let you breathe

My brother's doing life upstate

And mama couldn't cope when she felt alone

Sketchy

I come from the Bronx and I still call it home

Verse 2

Big bro was the shield and the warning

Now he writes me letters that arrive without a stamp

Twenty-five to life for a night he can't rewind

Mama cried alone in a kitchen full of quiet

I watched her fade slow like a sidewalk chalk line

And I picked up his habits cause they're all I had left

Chorus

So my lifestyle kinda sketchy

I come from the Bronx where they don't let you breathe

My brother's doing life upstate

And mama couldn't cope when she felt alone

Sketchy

I come from the Bronx and I still call it home

Bridge

Couldn't cope

Couldn't cope

Nobody taught her how to carry that alone

Couldn't cope

Couldn't cope

And nobody came to carry us when she was gone

Chorus

So my lifestyle kinda sketchy

I come from the Bronx where they don't let you breathe

My brother's doing life upstate

And mama couldn't cope when she felt alone

Sketchy

I come from the Bronx and I still call it home