"The Story" lyrics
Bilal & Robert Glasper Lyrics
Like a child born into the world so cold
No one to hear him cry, momma's gone
He learns the evil ways of the street
Change to an animal kill or be killed
Typical scenario
You know the drill
It's an urban tragedy
I hope he lives to be a man
I hope he lives to see his babies grow
The story goes
And life unfolds
The answers told and everybody knows
Was made a fraud of love
Hopeless and shamed
A girl would learn to heal. She took a chance
She fell so deep in love. Home at last
'Til old jealous past showed up and crashed the party
Blood on the dance floor
Love got machine gun bloody
He said that he would always be the one
He said that he would never let her go
The story goes
And life unfolds the answers told
And everybody knows
No one to hear him cry, momma's gone
He learns the evil ways of the street
Change to an animal kill or be killed
Typical scenario
You know the drill
It's an urban tragedy
I hope he lives to be a man
I hope he lives to see his babies grow
The story goes
And life unfolds
The answers told and everybody knows
Was made a fraud of love
Hopeless and shamed
A girl would learn to heal. She took a chance
She fell so deep in love. Home at last
'Til old jealous past showed up and crashed the party
Blood on the dance floor
Love got machine gun bloody
He said that he would always be the one
He said that he would never let her go
The story goes
And life unfolds the answers told
And everybody knows
