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The boys from home
[Intro]
Let’s take a walk
Around the block, around my place
Around the block, around your place
Come see what the boys from home are up to
[Verse 1]
Close your eyes slowly, lean your ear in slowly
Turn the volume up, I’m about to start
Let’s stroll easy down the streets from home
That kept you awake every night of summer
Picture the block, try to visualize it
Your boys are the first thing you’ll see
They’re the same ones you left when you went away:
One’s eating seeds, some are talking, another’s drunk
They haven’t changed, they’re still who you know
Same men’s bodies with children’s minds
Still thinking dumb stuff, always after schemes
Work’s not for them, bro — let others work!
Still the same little guys who’re satisfied with little
In the sun, under the clear sky, with a bottle of wine
Don’t give them advice about how to live — they won’t listen
Their dreams got fucked, though they had a lot of them
[Chorus]
The boys from home will stay at home
No matter if their life’s easy or hard
Whether they have work or nothing to do
The boys feel good at home and they don’t leave
Always with a smile on their faces, they don’t stress
They don’t really care what’s coming next
And the boys from home aren’t into hip-hop
But insult them in rhyme and they’ll break your head
[Verse 2]
For the boys from home all the days are the same
Doing nothing on the waterfront, with no money in their wallets
There’s not much fun in this shitty place
It’s written on your forehead here that you’ll become a loser
As hours and days pass, hopes pass too
They’ve resigned themselves and know their chances fell
If you talk to them about the good life, they’ll smile
For them it’s just a simple myth that they’ll ever know it
Sitting with a bottle in hand and chain-smoking cigarettes
Life doesn’t have a very rich palette of colors
When the road’s dark, you can’t see ahead
It’s total blackness even for those who study
I brought you home, I put the scene in front of you
It’s your business whether you got the message or not
If you’re away from home, please listen to me a bit
Come just to visit, nothing’s changed
[Chorus]
The boys from home will stay at home
No matter if their life’s easy or hard
Whether they have work or nothing to do
The boys feel good at home and they don’t leave
Always with a smile on their faces, they don’t stress
They don’t really care what’s coming next
And the boys from home aren’t into hip-hop
But insult them in rhyme and they’ll break your head
[Verse 3]
You know, I don’t want you to think we’ve got gangsters in the block
Nor mafiosi who’ll burn you for money
We’ve got those louts who just drift and mess around forever
Who count the days saying another one’s passed
It’s sad — you think they could’ve done much more
They chose to fall into a void instead of climbing a steep road
Instead of leaving in time, they chose to stay
Forever, bro, not for a week
I can almost hear them say: “I’m gonna get rich!”
Now even they aren’t happy with the way they live
They sit doing nothing, don’t work, quit college
And their poor mothers have a hell of a time carrying them on their backs
They want everything but it simply can’t be
They’ve got sick parents, worn down at knees and elbows
Small pensions, many debts, kids with problems
You only learned this today, but it’s been this way for a long time
[Chorus]
The boys from home will stay at home
No matter if their life’s easy or hard
Whether they have work or nothing to do
The boys feel good at home and they don’t leave
Always with a smile on their faces, they don’t stress
They don’t really care what’s coming next
And the boys from home aren’t into hip-hop
But insult them in rhyme and they’ll break your head
The boys from home will stay at home
No matter if their life’s easy or hard
Whether they have work or nothing to do
The boys feel good at home and they don’t leave
Always with a smile on their faces, they don’t stress
They don’t really care what’s coming next
And the boys from home aren’t into hip-hop
But insult them in rhyme and they’ll break your head
IffyMr✕
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