Jahlil Ford - Street Lights Lyrics

Aight mom, I'm out
I'll see you later
Yeah I know, be home before the street lights
14 years old, I live in Oakland
A nigga too cold, I hoop like Kobe
I said f*ck school and tried to focus
On nothing but my game to make the pro league
Me and my dawgs the streets we rollin'
That wasn't my life, and yes, I know this
Any other time I wasn't posin'
I'm ridin' my bike around the corner
And pull up to the park after dark cause my mom worked nights
She was tryna better our life
We was in the hood, it wasn't too good but the landlord gave a good price
Food stands for the eggs and the rice
It's the weekend, I'm back on my bike
I'm headed to the B&G club, I give mom's love I'll be home by nine
Everywhere I go I, look up at the street lights
Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the street lights
Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the street lights
Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the street lights
Look
I was a young mixed kid
Right in the middle of a warning and a ticket
There was times when I listened, there was times where I didn't wanna hear so I didn't
Then I moved some distance
Down to the south, I was a little different
Then my door got kicked in
And I knew right there, I didn't wanna live here
I wanna leave this hood shit
It was bad, but there was some goodness
All the friends that I had was good kids
Just trapped in the life of the crooked, but
I don't mean offense to them niggas
They get it how they can, and I get it
But I got other plans for my livin'
Street lights came on, gotta get in
Everywhere I go I, look up at the street lights
Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the street lights
Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the street lights
Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the street lights
Yeah
I post up in Emeryville
I'm a Bay kid as bad as a Navy SEAL
Out in Lakeview, my lil bro a baby still
Then we moved to the Kirk and I hate it here
Grandma in the city when we visit there
I love to ride the bus cause it made me chill
Lookin' out the window, couldn't believe it's real
Every time I'm there I just take it in
My first crush name, Janet
She would call me giggles from laughing
At everything even if it wasn't that funny cause if I didn't laugh, I would panic
I'm on the way home from the dances
Street lights came on, walk faster
If I'm out too late, my back gon' break cause my mom known for whoopin' our asses
Everywhere I go I, look up at the street lights
Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the street lights
Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the street lights
Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the street lights
Everybody had a house phone, in my days
Call up the bros, push the three-way
Talk about the hoes and how that one day
We gon' have them all cause we gon' get paid, fasho
We hit the arcade
We was just boys tryin' to get laid
Never knew the price that consequence pays
We all grew older, went our own ways but f*ck
One got caught by a bullet
Another one lives in a gulag
Another one had heart problems, down on his luck out of time and he knew it
I'm the only one left tryna do it
I fight hard not to say screw it
I need another outlet, street lights now lit
Heavy on the brain when I'm lookin
Everywhere I go I, look up at the street lights
Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the street lights
Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the street lights
Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the street lights
Street lights