"Yours Truly" lyrics
KXNG Crooked Lyrics
Please be there for me
Please be there for me
Dear California
Consider these songs a letter
A letter to express how important you are to me, you know
Sometimes, songs have to speak for us when we can't find the words
And that time is right now, you feel me?
Hey dear California, now that I'm older
I like to sit in my backyard and taste different expensive cigars
To find the one that suits me best
That's my smoke now, not the smoke in the streets
That's my smoke now
I like to, I like to listen to the birds chirp early in the morning, California
The Allen's Hummingbird is a California native too
She walk around my swimming pool, singing her song
I couldn't hear it back in the day over the sirens
Domestic violence, Glocks and AKs firing
But I hear it now, I hear it now
I guess you could say I came a long way, California
And I owe a lot of that to you
You taught me how to survive
And when I graduated out of survival mode
You taught me how to thrive
Once again, real shit
My brothers, my sisters, I ask you this:
What is our birthright in California?
Is it to be poor? Oppressed? Uneducated?
Is it to be killed in the streets by someone who looks just like us?
Or a police officer who does not? What is it?
I think it's to visualize
I think it's to visualize a better life and hold that picture of the better life in your mind
Until that small, small, small ghetto apartment
Transforms into a house on a hill
Where the golden flowers bloom, the California poppies, you know
That's what I think
So I'm putting this message in a bottle
And I'm casting it out into the Pacific Ocean
For Long Beach, Compton, Watts, South Central, Gardena, Hawthorne, Pasadena, Central Cali, the Valley
Of course, the Bay Area, you know
There's no place like home
Yours truly, California Crooked
Please be there for me
Dear California
Consider these songs a letter
A letter to express how important you are to me, you know
Sometimes, songs have to speak for us when we can't find the words
And that time is right now, you feel me?
Hey dear California, now that I'm older
I like to sit in my backyard and taste different expensive cigars
To find the one that suits me best
That's my smoke now, not the smoke in the streets
That's my smoke now
I like to, I like to listen to the birds chirp early in the morning, California
The Allen's Hummingbird is a California native too
She walk around my swimming pool, singing her song
I couldn't hear it back in the day over the sirens
Domestic violence, Glocks and AKs firing
But I hear it now, I hear it now
I guess you could say I came a long way, California
And I owe a lot of that to you
You taught me how to survive
And when I graduated out of survival mode
You taught me how to thrive
Once again, real shit
My brothers, my sisters, I ask you this:
What is our birthright in California?
Is it to be poor? Oppressed? Uneducated?
Is it to be killed in the streets by someone who looks just like us?
Or a police officer who does not? What is it?
I think it's to visualize
I think it's to visualize a better life and hold that picture of the better life in your mind
Until that small, small, small ghetto apartment
Transforms into a house on a hill
Where the golden flowers bloom, the California poppies, you know
That's what I think
So I'm putting this message in a bottle
And I'm casting it out into the Pacific Ocean
For Long Beach, Compton, Watts, South Central, Gardena, Hawthorne, Pasadena, Central Cali, the Valley
Of course, the Bay Area, you know
There's no place like home
Yours truly, California Crooked
