Those Flowers Don't Grow Here

These flowers don't grow here no more
Our climate changed it and our footprint drained it
You been gone for a hot minute
I know things look a little different But it's all the same the way it was when you left it

Cause we still get killed by the
Five O
Our due process still
Quite slow
Our price went up but we
Buy low
We stuff this junk in our
Eyeballs
We rise on top for a
High fall

But at least we get a Monday off work after your birthday
These new gadgets got our brain fried
And I apologize ahead of time
For the negative connotation associated with the boulevards that bare your name in their street signs ahhhh
Damn
If you live off MLK you familiar with Section 8 and SPAM
The first of the month the only time we check mail
Oh that's a gangbanger on corner next to that
Liquor store, gun store,
Liquor store, gun store, check chasing place
Right next door to that place right there where you can get a payday loan
That's just the way it go
Remember the smell of hope
Well that flower don't grow here no more
And that land once vacant
Corporations claimed it
And that huge building right there on the edge of the street that's called Walmart baby

Yeah, I know this ain't exactly what you dreamed
But at least address nowadays men of different colors address each other as king

But they address me different cause address we live in
But we came up in the same schools with chad, Parker and Dylan
Don't come back here it might hurt yo feelings
You didn't all that hard work and we still out here tripping
Different plate same chitlens
My city's a circus
It takes a village to raise the reproductive spillage
Those hit and quit its became children
More that 50 percent missing
That male role model gone so we turn to actors on television
Fiction
You wouldn't comprehend it
Cause your father was around to make sure you were reprimanded
When you failed to represent the image
Daddy wanted you presenting

Ahhhhhhh

Now those flowers don't grow here no mo
Those flowers don't grow here no mo
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more

I guess the sun gone
Those flowers can't grow in this weather it's cold
I guess the sun gone

Hopefully one of us can become a concert rose
Find a new way to grow
(New way to grow)
Find a new way to grow
(Find a new way to grow oh oh)
Hopefully one of us can become a concrete rose
Find a new way to grow
Cause those flowers don't grow here no more

I know this ain't exactly what you dreamed
But at least nowadays men of different colors address each other as king