Can't Play on the Block

Intro

Mm

Cold nights wonderin' if I make it home

The block don't ever sleep so I stay wide awake alone

Chorus

You can't play on the block

Game don't let you out once you in

Sign your name with the blood on the wall

Then you run till the end

Block don't play no games

Keep your feelings in the drawer

Turn around once and it's over for sure

You can't play on the block

Verse 1

They pulled me in young when the lights went dim

Gave me a choice and I took the grin

Now every shadow got a face I know

Every sidewalk got a ghost I owe

Mama cryin' through the phone at night

I tell her I'm fine but I'm built for fight

Can't step soft when the hammers loud

You play for keeps or you bow out

Pre-Chorus

(Yeah) They don't let you leave

(Yeah) They don't let you breathe

On the block it's only you and the street

Chorus

You can't play on the block

Game don't let you out once you in

Sign your name with the blood on the wall

Then you run till the end

Block don't play no games

Keep your feelings in the drawer

Turn around once and it's over for sure

You can't play on the block

Verse 2

I taught myself to smile with a stone face

Counted every corner like a home base

Friendship costs more than the rent you pay

Loyalty gets buried where they lay

They say the game got rules but they shift in sand

One wrong move and the whole world stands

I got scars that don't show in the light

I got prayers that I whisper at night

Pre-Chorus

(Yeah) They don't let you out

(Yeah) They don't let you shout

On the block you learn to move without a doubt

Chorus

You can't play on the block

Game don't let you out once you in

Sign your name with the blood on the wall

Then you run till the end

Block don't play no games

Keep your feelings in the drawer

Turn around once and it's over for sure

You can't play on the block

Bridge

I was eight when they showed me the door

Now I'm twenty and I can't do no more

Wish I could fold but the streets don't fold

Cold game cold soul

Yeah the block never lets you go

Chorus

You can't play on the block

Game don't let you out once you in

Sign your name with the blood on the wall

Then you run till the end

Block don't play no games

Keep your feelings in the drawer

Turn around once and it's over for sure

You can't play on the block

(You can't play) You can't play on the block