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[Verse 1] Mama countin' change on the counter Rent due, fridge light, half-full shelf I learned fractions Dividin' hunger between everybody else Uncle on the couch, cough thick as the air Ash in a solo cup He say "Change gon' come" but his hands never quite pick it up Outside, chalk lines fade in the sun Same block, new candles, same song We pray over Styrofoam plates then argue what justice we on Teacher said "Write what you see" so I wrote cops at the corner store Wrote my homie pressed on the hood for a bag that the owner paid more for [Chorus] We growin' concrete roses Out the cracks they left for us Every siren sings a story Every mural bleeds in dust Still we stand, still we hope Even tired, even broke We growin' concrete roses Concrete roses turn to smoke [Verse 2] City council came for the photo Hard hats, brand new boots, clean vests Smilin' in front of the building they just priced our neighbors out next They talk "crime" while we talk cures They want wars, we want work They fund more cages and cages We patch bookbags, stained shirts I seen church kids flip to the hustle 'Cause the offering plate don't reach back Seen bright minds dim in a cell Learn law from a jailhouse rack So I march with my hoodie and heart out Face on a hand-drawn sign Yell "Hands up" till my throat burn til my anger and my love align [Chorus] [Bridge] [low vocal register] If I don't speak, who names the ghosts? If I don't write, who plants the seeds? If we don't link these lonely hands who gon' turn this pain to creed? [spoken, almost off-mic] Tell my niece this block ain't all she is Tell my bro his record ain't his skin Tell that kid with the flat ball dreamin' every crack's where the light gets in [Chorus]
