Ghetto Mindstate (Can't Get Away) [feat. Lyfe Jennings]

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

At 15 I was making moves, drinkin' beer, shootin' dice at school

When most **** had a 9 to 5 shit

On the block we makin' 9 to 5 grand

Each day yeah, we got cheap ye, my **** on lock

They called me on 3 way, the hood hot like a crockpot

Dope fiends cuttin' yards for a 20 piece of crack rock

Around my way ain't nobody watchin' Matlock

We trynna hot-wire cars and break pad locks

Turn soft to hard, drop it in glad locks

And drive flashy cars and get mad props, and still I won't change

Last week they caught my partner with a block of 'caine

And can't no amount of money stop the pain

They gave him 35 years, his mama went insane

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

Coming up with no father figure, I guess that made me a harder ****

(Why?) 'Cause I don't like to ask for shit

When I came in the game with a half a brick

But I ain't tellin' lil' kids to go that route

But it's on TV everyday like they don't know that route

And lil girls bein' fast, being' grown, tryna flirt

Leavin' home wearin' pants, then change into a skirt

I live in the ghetto, I stay in the ghetto

Run up grown, I'm sprayin' that metal

'Cause ain't shit sweet around my way

All I know is one thing, how to get paid

With Lyfe on the hook, I know we got another hit

This motivational music, I know you feelin' this

And I was raised in a church but where I'm from, you gotta do that work

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

I just can't go, I just can't stay

I just can't, you just won't, I just can't get away

Why everybody tryna bring me down?

Because of me, they respect H-town

Look, I was here when y'all wouldn't around

The first week you did alright but then that shit went down

Why everybody tryna bring me down?

Because of me, they respect H-town

Look, I was here when y'all wasn't around

The first week you did alright but then that shit went down

They tell you you were born to die

Your mama she was born to cry, your woman she was born to lie

Hold you down so you can't rely, I tell you that it's all a lie

Young ****, you just gotta try, keep your eyes up on the sky

Don't let your dreams pass you by 'cause somebody said