SEHNTEEN
(verse 1)
I never felt like I fit in
But I had the car and let the gangbangers get in
Now we movin' round the city lookin for enemies
I only hung out with crips cause one was kin to me
They told me, you the driver you just sit in the car
We gon be right back, you just stay where you are
Now I don't know what went down in that backyard
I never asked it was clear I only had one job
So now we back travelin'
Thought I would look cooler if I drove a little faster then
There goes the boys in blue
I did my best to duck 'em but that shit didn't work
I hit a corna', one of the homies had to toss out his work
They pull us ova'
I put on my best innocent suburban voice
They put them on the curb and searched em
I wasn't nervous though
They let us go, I just took 'em back to the set
I didn't earn no street credit, I just made them upset
True story
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True story (repeats 3x)

[verse 2]

Our parents set us down at the dinner table
Dad said I've been cheating for some time now
I had to respect the brutal honesty
Right before my mind started shutting down
Mom said kids tell your father how you feel
She never asked us how we felt
Pops said they shouldn't be feeling anything
He never asked us how we felt
That summer he took a job out in Culver City
A second story addition, for an old friend
He dropped me off in the green mercedes
The same one that he rented to see his girlfriend
Me and my siblings never talk about it
It's just this thin line we keep walkin round it
And now that i've thought about it
I've only told one other person 'fore I wrote this song about it
True story

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[outro]

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