How It Feels Lyrics - Singles - Pras

When I grow up, I'ma be a superstar 

Ah, ha, alright, baby 

They don't know how it feels 

(When you're out on your own, yeah) 

(And you're lookin' for that home) 

They don't know what it feels 

(When the world's on your shoulder) 

(And your baby, gotta be a soldier) 

Yo, I was born in the projects, with roaches and rats 

And our credentials were our, nines and gats 

Stay the hell out the hood read the welcomin' mats 

I remember them days, it was hard bein' black 

Welfare checks and government cheese 

Take your family in portrait, everybody smile say cheese 

And it's a wonder how I kept my head from goin' under 

Sun don't shine where there's, lightning and thunder 

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Some got ways, some got means 

But still, we all just got hopes and dreams 

The two blend together like dope and fiends 

Cope with teens, has that new gangster lean 

Everybody just wanna be a ghetto star 

Fly cribs and drivin' them big cars 

That's all Mr.President, hear the voice of the youth 

I don't lie, I speak the truth 

They don't know how it feels 

(When you a single mother) 

(And don't have that significant other) 

They don't know what it feels 

(To be in the ghetto) 

(And your life be in slow a mo') 

Been around the world a couple times with the refugees 

From the boot of Italy to the land of Pawnee 

Fell in love a couple times on the London Bridge 

Fast cars, fast life, that's how I wanted to live 

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What a crusade, one of my great escapades 

Cut many hearts, like the game of spades 

But nuttin' was as fatal when they blew the World Trade 

Now we at war momma, tradin' lives for grenades 

Send in the troops, here comes the brigades 

American resolve and our hearts'll never fade 

I know you somewhere out there chillin' in the shades 

But I hate to be the one to rain on your parade 

See, God is merciful and God bless his children 

That's how we gonna reconstruct them buildings 

So stop the killings, we runnin' out of graves 

In the land of the free and the home of the brave 

They don't know how it feels 

(To hear our babies cry) 

(And watch our mothers die) 

They don't know, what it feels 

(To see our brothers in prison) 

(While they losin' their religion) 

These, eyes of mines are like, camera lens 

Loved by many but stabbed by my friends 

Is this the end? Some may cry out loud 

But I won't worry, we gonna make it now 

The ghetto fed up but they won't break us down 

It's an eye for an eye, what goes around comes around 

Do dis for my peeps who couldn't speak 

Survival of the fittest, what happens to the weak? 

They either in between, above or beneath 

Tryin' to play me like a scrub in a passenger seat 

Racial profile to say the least 

There won't be no peace in the belly of the beast, c'mon 

But we gonna make it through baby 

Even though the world is so crazy 

And if they ask you, tell 'em it's pain times three 

'Cause it's a million of them kids stressin' just like me, baby 

They don't know how it feels 

(To see us go to war) 

(And see the people free for no more) 

They don't know what it feels 

(To be a black man in America) 

(And feel like they're comin' to get'cha) 

They don't know how it feels 

(To work for minimum wage) 

(As your life starts to fade) 

They don't know, what it feels 

(To be down to your last buck) 

(And no one really gives a mother, ha)