Long Run - Smino/Via Rosa.mp3

[00:08.46][Verse 1: Smino]
[00:41.74]Where I was growing up
[00:43.45]They called coroner
[00:44.56]Around the corner
[00:45.86]Every morning
[00:47.00]Where the **** Tom Joyner?
[00:48.50]No fair, it ain't fair how
[00:50.40]The murder rate
[00:51.02]Fermanate Ferguson out to Fairground
[00:52.82]**** made me wanna
[00:54.09]Sell my soul through the music
[00:55.69]Put the streams on water
[00:56.49]Ancestors on my head
[00:57.95]My uncle my barber
[00:59.34]Blood suckas want my bread
[01:00.93]So I ordered the garlic
[01:01.97]Hustled too hard, these blessings ain't yours
[01:04.05]So when I
[01:04.42]Pull up and park it, my front seat a toilet
[01:06.76]**** of
[01:07.63]Course I'm a target, they hope I get martyred
[01:09.65]Lose ya
[01:10.54]Corpse in a corporation
[01:11.47]Ten years of cooperation
[01:12.25]Been wanting to throw bows at Becky
[01:13.65]Been wanting to throw jabs at Jason
[01:15.17]Gotdamn need a long vacation
[01:16.55]Bong rip and a bad bitch
[01:17.76]Thick fine with them dimples on it
[01:19.33]Love how it shake when it's that thick
[01:20.32]Lil' seminar on the simmer down
[01:21.64]Feel a lil' more ambitious now
[01:22.87]Never doubt what you dream about
[01:24.26]Never fear what you feelin' now
[01:26.66][Chorus: Via Rosa]
[01:27.29]Even when you knew my truths
[01:32.73]Even when you knew my mistakes
[01:36.67]Said you loved me anyway
[01:38.66]Said you loved me anyway
[01:44.53]Oh Lord, gimme a sign
[01:51.79]Show me a way
[01:54.16]I been alone
[01:56.53]I been afraid
[01:57.51]And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
[02:03.83]Long run
[02:05.28]What have you done?
[02:08.77][Verse 2: Smino]
[02:09.06]Where I was growing up
[02:09.78]Stanley and Marlon
[02:11.22]Did it big on the corner, every morning
[02:13.42]Had etc on 'em
[02:14.45]Encountered a jump out
[02:16.41]Them boys undercover
[02:17.64]To **** us it all made sense now
[02:19.10]**** made me wanna
[02:20.32]Tippy toe when I'm moving
[02:21.83]Pray I don't get bothered
[02:23.28]Cut my hair low for the gig
[02:24.62]Can't nap on the guala
[02:25.76]Only way they let me in
[02:27.05]Was speaking so very proper
[02:28.55]But **** that, no it don't stop here
[02:29.75]I knock the sign over speeding
[02:30.91]Traits of the greatest, I'm balling
[02:32.52]Tracy McGrady
[02:33.23]I swear I, hate police, hate them
[02:34.36]Nah nigga, they don't wanna see me shine
[02:35.28]Straight to the paper regardless
[02:37.93]***** we ballin'
[02:38.60]Not a slave to the fear
[02:39.95]Anymore, I won't allow it
[02:41.28]Watchin' tapes of these kids gettin' killed
[02:43.23]Lookin' like me
[02:43.90]Cut that **** off
[02:45.09]They can't desensitize me
[02:46.28]I realized that in clusters they can't touch us
[02:48.96]I've been tusslin' with my brothers and my sisters about lovin'
[02:51.69]'Cause this country don't love us
[02:53.15]It ain't for us, mane, **** 'em
[02:54.94][Chorus: Via Rosa]
[02:55.15]And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
[02:57.87]Long run
[03:01.40]What have you done?
[03:11.66][Outro: Via Rosa]
[03:14.32]Don't give me no
[03:16.17]Give me no reason to doubt you
[03:18.58]'Cause I was living just fine
[03:21.64]Living my life without you
[03:24.49]And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
[03:30.24]Long run
[03:31.62]What have you done?