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4th Avenue Jones - Do Re Mi
(from the album HipRockSoul)
© copyright 2004
TENA JONES:
In this world that we in / you can lose or you'll win / but
it's never a draw / and as quick as you can make it / it's a
hater tryna take it/ don't be thinkin' life is easy it's
hard / I got some girls that I know / who get with guys for
they doe / but they ain't happy what's the use of the
wealth? / Turnin' tricks like a Retriever / what's gon'
happen when he leave her? / See that's why you gotta do for
yourself / This world move so quick I hyperventilate
breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for
grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die /
hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS:
Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the whole day / Mi Fa / tryna
survive on street blocks / Music helpin' us stay sane so we
go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO / Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the
whole day / Mi Fa / tryna survive on street blocks / music
help us to maintain when we go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO
AHMAD JONES:
Became a sinner right before a winner / when I was born/ on
the 12th day of October / in uniform / was a soldier when I
came out / walked through the door/ see my whole block
banged out / we in a war/ killer street but I'll never let
it / take me alive / bought a heat cause I'm gettin' sweated
/ gotta survive / It ain't cool while my mom pray / for me
at home / I be sittin' hittin' bombay / I know it's wrong /
Momma tellin' me I need God / and I ain't well / but the
homie with the weed got / that clientele / gettin' money so
I want mine / I be like dang/ when it's sunny cause it don't
shine / on me it rain / I complain cause it ain't fair /
like dying over what you can and you can't wear / who cryin'
bout us / out of sight so we out of mind / they say a
soldier gotta fight so I got a Nine / that's bottom line /
ghetto move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin'
through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate
livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we
cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS
JABU:
I ain't dyin' until I share my diary with this globe / a
little mad man sippin' on a brew when it's hot / ghetto
taught me how to blaze for the days when it's cold and /
mama dead broke and had us thinkin' we not / eyes wide shut
stealin' with ridiculous speed / I was rippin' off the tag
if it was somethin' I need / somethin' I wanted / we was
buyin' chronic to blunt it / started servin' it / profit
margin moved to the hundreds / had to stop it though cause
Phyllis didn't raise no crooks / not to mention focus
shifted to the girls with doe / light-skinned to the mocha
it'd be on fa sho' / get the 20 dollar Remy pay a dub for
Mo' /
I started slippin' up I thank God I'm still alive / cause if
it wasn't for Him this verse'd never hit your soul / and I
hope you in control / I know it's hard gotta break free /
remember that you can't enjoy ya doe without the RE MI / we
move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through
the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin'
but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry /
ghetto lullabies
CHORUS