Brownsville Daydream

[Verse 1]

Steam on the window

Coffee in a paper cup

Late March rain

Grandma’s on the payphone

Arguing in patois

Calling out my name

Block full of basements

Cousin got a bracelet

Still beat the case

Blue and red chasings

Echo on the brick wall

Right across my face

[Chorus]

This that Brownsville daydream

Concrete lullaby

Laughing on the corner while the cop cars fly

Tired of the struggle but we still get fly

Turn the pain to a prayer

Let the prayers get high (oh yeah)

Brownsville daydream

Let the loop run back

Turn my little heartbreak to a platinum plaque

Every scar on my heart got a story attached

If I make it outta here

I’ma bring it all back

[Verse 2]

Auntie selling plates out the fourth-floor door

Rice on the stove

Pots scrape that floor

Little bro hooping with a net made rope

He don’t talk much

Just dribbles out hope

Mama got two jobs

Still late on the rent

Still laugh loud like the sky ain’t bent

I got lines in my phone that could change our fate

But I’m scared of the price

Scared it’s all too late

[Chorus]

This that Brownsville daydream

Concrete lullaby

Laughing on the corner while the cop cars fly

Tired of the struggle but we still get fly

Turn the pain to a prayer

Let the prayers get high (let it rise)

Brownsville daydream

Let the loop run back

Turn my little heartbreak to a platinum plaque

Every scar on my heart got a story attached

If I make it outta here

I’ma bring it all back