The dirt

[00:09.03] Back in the day they used to call me a criminal

[00:11.80] Running from the police

[00:13.79] Hanging with the homies

[00:17.79] Gun in my waist, getting high off them chemicals

[00:20.54] I was only sixteen

[00:22.54] Kicked out on the streets

[00:25.28] My mama told me

[00:27.55] If you wanna make it

[00:30.03] You better figure out your life before they take it

[00:34.04] Yeah my mama told me

[00:36.27] You gotta get smarter

[00:38.29] Or you gonna end up in a cell just like your father, mmh

[00:43.04] Ah ooh, Lord knows I try so hard

[00:47.28] Ah ooh, Lord knows I've come so far

[00:51.53] Ah ooh, each time I touch the stars

[00:56.06] Something always brings me back to earth

[00:59.04] And I'm back diggin in the dirt

[01:07.53] And I'm back diggin in the dirt

[01:18.29] I'm coming of age

[01:19.03] And they call it a miracle

[01:20.79] I'm alive and breathing

[01:23.03] There's gotta be a reason, I'm still here

[01:26.81] So I pick up the pace

[01:28.28] Tryna my make me some money, oh

[01:29.78] Come up with a scheme now

[01:31.81] A dirty or a clean now, yeah

[01:34.78] 'Cause my mama tells me

[01:36.78] You better make it

[01:39.03] If not for yourself then you should do it for your lady

[01:43.03] Yeah my mama tells me

[01:45.31] You gotta get smarter

[01:47.54] You got a son and in a month you'll have a daughter, mmh

[01:52.03] Ah ooh, Lord knows I try so hard

[01:56.53] Ah ooh (yeah), Lord knows I've come so far

[02:00.80] Ah ooh, each time I touch the stars

[02:05.27] Something always brings me back to earth

[02:17.04] And I'm back diggin in the dirt

[02:25.78] And I'm back diggin in the dirt