Street Lights Lyrics - Mobb Deep

[Chorus] 

A lot of money got made, drugs got sold 

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Every ghetto in America is all the same 

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Ah, I look back and reflect doing a hundred pass 

Thinking about it got me have me on the gas 

Vivid is the picture coded in my dna 

Mammy bless her heart, as we walked out the door she would pray for us 

Knew that Jake was on us, dex... against us 

Same shit to foretold it, 

Another life flushed down the canal 

Left the house without saying goodbye and didn't come home 

It's all too common, and prolly me if it wasn't for Rami 

I put that on my brother who was... with the iron 

The hood is full of life but inside niggers dying 

Instead of prosperity, only jealousy's thriving 

Street lights... makeshift memorials 

Know how the story goes, I ain't trying to bore you though 

I'm just trying to she'd a little light 

Job done, even if I save only one life, listen 

[Chorus] 

A lot of money got made, drugs got sold 

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Every ghetto in America is all the same 

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Missing dark tunnel vision, the light at the end damages anybody listening 

I'm talking to myself again, we so close but yet it seems so far 

It's like 10 steps back and just one step forward 

Just one more push and 60 more bars, 

Comes to the dreams we have, the life we want 

If these blood sweat and tears could talk, they'd be arguing, 

With the look in our eyes saying all... 

That bone in your head, get shattered like windshield 

Now how that shit field? 

Yeah you got a lot of nerve, you deserve 

Every drop of that pain, when you playing with the mob 

Can't you see we concentrating on this baking 

Lot of lives got taken, lot of time spent in the cages 

So we spend our days doing whatever must be done to become 

The ones that steady burn like the sun because 

[Chorus] 

A lot of money got made, drugs got sold 

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Every ghetto in America is all the same 

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

I can tell you about some shit you don't really wanna hear 

Some many disappear out here 

One time I saw a man with a gun 

Chasing another nigger trying to run 

And even know they grew up on the same block 

He ain't hesitate to gun him down in the same spot 

The nigger that you knew from elementary 

Will make your ass unsolved mystery 

[Chorus] 

A lot of money got made, drugs got sold 

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

Every ghetto in America is all the same 

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh 

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life 

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