[Talkin':]   Now that I think about it   I was always takin away from my father   Or he was always takin away from me   It's probably why we so close now   Ya kno      [Chorus:]   We been starvin so long in these crazy ghetto streets   And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat   How long will he struggle   I gotta grind jus to eat now   I gotta eat jus a lil now   So I gotta live my life this way      [Verse 1:]   I stretched and yawned   4 years from a newborn   On a charter bus   Filled with stranged humans   Besides my mother nobody seems anxious   Though we on our way to visit a college campus   We roll up freshen up at a food concession   Can't talk to strangers   I wanna ask em questions   Saw a woman cryin   Boy face the fence   I don't wanna go to college   If it causes this   Back on the bus still analyzin vibes   Turned to my moms excel asked her   'why you cryin? '   She said because I'm happy   But I could tell she lyin   And since lyin was a curse   I sense storytellin   Her eyes focused on a object long enough they tingle   That's when she reached into her bag because her phone was ringin   She said 'I accept'   I'm still puzzle piecin   I knew my pops was on the other line   Lonely singin      [Chorus]      [Verse 2:]   Soon after we roll up to these gates   Barbed wired up   Men standin in the entrance armed up   With a close eye on us   We enter the buildin   Got checked by the women who starin   My mother   Pull out a card with a picture of her face on it   Two papers with our names on it   They identify her   They lookin at me   Me my confusion of the journey   Thorugh these walls we go   Before the next one opens   The past one must close   As they check for proper clothes   My mama so prepared   For this mini battle has chose   Finally we reach our final destination   My poppa placed in a seat   Facin me   No women in his class   Jus men who never laugh   And when they see they family   They sing      [Chorus]      [Verse 3:]   So I begin my investigation   My elbow on the round table   My palm at chin   I'm lookin at him   Ask questions like   'how you been? '   'when you graduatin? '   Time was up got pulled away   Kickin and screamin   Tears came to his eyes   But never fell in front me   Got old enough to realize   Must've fell up under me   Bein locked away in prison from your family   Tryin to find ways for us to eat   I see      [Chorus]