I used to dream every night, now I never dream at all
Hopin' that it's cause I'm livin' everything I want
Used to wake up in a bed between my dad and mom
Playing with this Land Before Time toy from Pizza Hut
Mom works nights
Putting on a stone face
She's saving up so we can get our own place
In miami, man that sounds fancy to me
They called me fat head, my mom say you handsome to me
Mrs. Raimont ma'am, your son is so advanced
But he's acting up in class and keeps peeing in his pants
And I just wanna fit in, but nobody was helping me out
They talking "mexican" and I ain't know what that was about
Cause mexican and latin shit is super different
So I'm talking mexican and cool it now like New Edition
Mom and dad wouldn't listen
They left their homes so I wouldn't be that
All their friends in the south deal crack
It's weird, you think that they'd be proud of 'em
But when you leave the hood they think that you look down on 'em
The truth is we still struggle on a different plane
7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers, it's all the same
Facebook messaging hopin' that could patch up
But all they get now is, "Can your son read this script?"

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There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
We can follow the road
There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
No one knows
There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
We can follow the road
There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
No one knows

Yeah
Dad lost his job
Mama worked at Mrs. Winner's
Gun pulled in their face
They still made dinner
“Nico watch the meter
So they don't turn the lights off"
Workin' two jobs so I can get into that Nice school
And I hate it there
They all make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair
And my grandpa on that stuff that got my Grandma shook
Mob men roughed him up and stole his address book
He's supposed to pay ‘em back
He owe 'em money but his bank account is zero
So my momma made us sleep with Phillips heads under the pillow
Like that would do somethin'
But she's got kids, she's gotta do somethin'
She don't want me in a lifestyle like my cousin
And he mad cause his father isnt proud
He lookin' at me now, like
"Why you so fuckin' lucky?
my father loved me too
But he hates me now so I'mma take it out on you"
We used to say "I love you"
Now we only think that
It feels weird that you're the person I took sink baths with
Street took you over
I want my cousin back
The world sayin' what you are because you're young and latin
Don't believe ‘em
You're still that kid that kept the older boys from teasin'
For some reason

[Chorus]

Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Oh, help us Lord
Oh, baby baby baby