SPEAKS - Hometown

Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to stay away from
Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to stay away from

My homies were cooking up moonshine under the moonshine
Back in the day, we would walk to the lake or the river in June-time
Go get some crawdad and cook it up, hook it up
Spice and a few limes
Damn, I'm so glad that I headed out
I'm on a better route, who's lying?
I'm talking 'bout the A.C
Look what it made me
A psychoactive, schizophrenic who thinks that the whole world hates me
You can see the images on my body, the scars that it gave me
I would say that I wanna go back, but I'm hardly fugazi
My hometown is a beautiful bitch
I moved to LA and I started to rap
Showed 'em my flows and they started to dap
Kid from the sticks with a heart of a mac
Moved to the city to start up a dream
Heard this boy, Oki is startin' a team
Put in the hours, I don't smell the flowers
The harder you work, then the larger the green
Larger the green, the bigger the clout
The bigger the clout, the more that they want
The more that they want, the more that you make
The more that you make, the harder you stunt
Harder you stunt, the more that they crave
The more that they crave, the more that you front
Some of the lessons I learned in the town where I smoked my first blunt

Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to stay away from
Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to stay away from

Pine will last you half an hour, oak can last you half a night
Manzanita's guaranteed to start a fire, grab a light
Gaze into the mountain stars, a glimpse into the afterlife
We're miles deep and still we're going, hope to God we mapped it right
Damn, I've been missin' my homies
And I've been feelin' so lonely
Reminiscing about smoking inside that old tree fort up in the madrone tree
So someone tell me how I'm lyin'
Drivin' up to Mt. Zion
Lions, tigers, bears? Close...
Coyotes, grizzlies, mountain lions
I ain't never known too much about my past
Cuz they buried the data
All that I knew was I felt out of place and I had to get out, didn't care, didn't matter
Stuck in the gutter, I carried a ladder
Had to get out of Sierra Nevada
When I had left, I was barely a rapper
Now, I make hits like I'm Barry the batter
So don't step to me lyrical
The fact that I got out, to me's still a miracle
It's more than just music, I make this shit spiritual
I don't fake shit when I say this, it's empirical

Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to...
Only place I ever try to stay away from
Damn, this shit reminds me of my hometown
I wish I could forget about the place I came from
Please do not remind me of my hometown
The only place I ever try to stay away from

Written by:
Jacob Brewer

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