Lost to the Streets - Kofi Stone, Maverick Sabre

My days are numbered, my cramps are catching up to me

My son is turning one and I ain’t got no custody

And honestly, yesterday I had a prophecy

Things are getting hot, I can feel the feds are onto me

I’ve done some bad things, but I had some good intentions

I asked my lawyer «What you reckon?

What you think I’m gettin'?»

He told me «Twenty, probably ten with some good behaviour.»

Remember when we used to think that we would do it major?

Way back when we was kids, used to wish that I was you

I never knew my dad, I know that had a lot to do

With self esteem issues I was such a troubled youth

I chose the wrong path never shoulda followed through

I wrote this in my room

And I’m hoping when you find it and you read it you will feel it like the way I

do

I was unworthy till the streets adopted, I know my mother knew

But see she never had the need to stop it

'Cause everything was going great when we was seeing profit

When we was shot into the fins we thought nothin' of it

I saw some things that made me so desensitized

My moral compass broke and so I’m slinging till I die

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy

I wish I took the path that you did, you had it figured out

Even back when we were kids, you were the golden child

It’s like, everybody seemed to love you

I never wanted you around 'cause I was jealous of you

When we would rap you’d take the shine and that was hard to handle

But now I see things from a different angle, uh

I heard you graduated uni, bet your mom was proud

I loved the food she used to cook whenever I was 'round

Give your momma love, she was my second mom

I treasure those moments, felt like a second son

And how’s your sister doing?

I bet she’s growing up

Remember when we used to joke we’d beat her boyfriend up?

Those were the days, g, if I could go back

There’s so much that I’d change especially now I know my fate

Hate myself for my mistakes, wish I never would’ve strayed

Think I never would’ve strayed if my father would’ve stayed, who knows

I know you got that music thing you’re doing

And I hope it goes to plan, from myself, I’ll be rooting

Just do me proud, man, I know you got potential

I think about the times when we would rap on instrumentals

I still got all them tapes, g, for me you’re sentimental

Tell my story to the world, don’t you keep it confidential

Hopefully this speak to all them boys that’s on the road

That’s in the tug-of-war, I pray this story break the road

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy

I haven’t spoke to God in ages, but I did last night

I don’t know if he could hear me but I’m glad that I tried

It was my first night, locked up, shit was kinda weird

I saw some peaks that I won’t group with and that was what I feared

The morning I arrived someone was hangin' from the ceiling

That’s when I got the message that this place was filled with demons

The funny thing about the road is it might come to haunt you

You thought that you had turned your back but somehow they had caught you

'Cause when you’re out there making enemies, they won’t forget you

And if somehow you’re in the same prison they will address you

At any moment given these fuckers can’t wait to get you

Not to mention the big Igo Brothers, that one that tests you

And that’s exactly what happened, I met the opposition

And I don’t know how much longer I got a pot to piss in

This is my exhibition

My expedition only led me to my demolition

I’m living testament that we ain’t always got division

I wish my father was around, I know won’t would’ve listened

But he had drug addiction, that contributed to my inhibitions, uh

He left my mother runnin' own, that was a hard position

My only wish is that if I never make it out alive and somehow

The opposition gets the best of me

And I become a just a memory 'cause of my felonies

Right now it feels like half dependence got it in for me

If I fade into the dark, will you sing for me?

You’re my best friend, I need you just to do one thing for me

Please don’t let the cycle repeat

Don’t let my son just be another who was lost in the streets

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy

Young man on the (corner)

I know that you’d left drowned in the water, ayy

Another day getting (colder)

And now these street stripes down and forgotten, ayy