Dontae Winslow

Lyrics

They asked me how I did it
I woke up at 6 o'clock in the morning when I even want to go to school at Forced it

I knew the wack jeans holy shoes get laughed at, the girls wasn't checking for me got to get past that
lost Kings murderin' fools like every week man I had to learn to turn the other cheek what would you tell me to do if I was your son would you pick up this horn or would you burst guns
Now I got a walk down North Avenue that's where they killed Freddy Gray you do the math dude plus I got to be a teacher I taught myself to survive in the first place from God's reach
Out here with the killers and the murderers boy you know you heard of us We the kids with no lunch money standing on the corner selling dime bags and ain't nothing funny everybody's mother getting high almost lost my mind when my mother died
Single mothers trying to make away and I don't know if I'm a ever see the brighter days like us up and throw away the key

They don't wanna put no money in the inner city I got the free pass and the free bus pass, borrow money all day trying to make it less last, last

Trumpet and A mic Trumpet
Trumpet And A mic Trumpet
Trumpet and A mic Trumpet
Trumpet and A mic Trumpet
All I got is a Trumpet And A mic all I got is a Trumpet And A mic all I got is a Trumpet And A mic all I got is a Trumpet And A mic

They asked me how I did it
I'm taking lessons at the Peabody coming home to some Kings in a body bag that's sad when a kid got to see his mom trickin' sucking off dudes so y'all can start eating mama why they turn the lights off why none of me and my friends got fathers while we got to keep the door closed why the kitchen table pile of cocaine and the arsenal why the little girls get touched why the shirt come up why the family hush why why the light skin kids get treated better why we wearing tennis shoes in the cold weather why the landlord disrespect you talk crazy to your boyfriend you standing right next to yellow note on the door know that the rents due
Shit out on the porch neighbors know what we going through

and all I got is a Trumpet and a Mic,Trumpet and a Mic,Trumpet and a Mic,Trumpet and a Mic, all I got is a Trumpet and a mic, all I got is a Trumpet and a mic, all I got is a Trumpet and a mic,all I got is a Trumpet and a mic