[ti:Back Home] [ar:Fort Minor] [al:The Rising Tied] [00:-0.50]Fort Minor - Back Home [00:04.64](feat. Common and Styles Of Beyond) [00:06.64] [00:10.64]Back home [00:12.17]Everybody's searching for somethin' [00:13.79]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [00:15.92]Back home [00:17.24]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [00:19.15]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [00:21.33]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [00:24.20]Life goes black when those lights go out [00:26.43]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [00:29.01]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [00:30.52]Back home [00:31.12] [00:32.11]Back home / they holler "disciple" and "blackstone" [00:34.61]Same block the freebase yo we trapped on [00:37.24]Where our grandmothers marched / The guns clap on [00:40.11]There's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs [00:42.84]I travel the world just to come back to it [00:45.47]The crib got a lot of soul like black music [00:47.93]I'm attached to it [00:49.13]In many ways this city raised me / and gave me [00:51.73]The drama, honor, and bravery [00:53.40]The streets seem hollow / when I go to Chicago [00:56.12]It's cheap wine and sorrow [00:57.27]Times is hard to swallow [00:58.74]In search of God's tomorrow / I borrow words from the [01:01.55]Bible / and use them for survival / gangs rival [01:04.59]Signs painted on walls like hiero / glyphics [01:07.68]I tell 'em that this is all tribal [01:09.27]Used to do dirt / Shorty's goin' through the same cycle [01:11.97]And trials like Michael / tryin' not to stay idle [01:14.43] [01:14.71]Back home [01:16.16]Everybody's searching for somethin' [01:17.72]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [01:19.85]Back home [01:21.28]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [01:23.10]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [01:25.10]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [01:28.20]Life goes black when those lights go out [01:30.52]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [01:32.98]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [01:34.48]Back home [01:35.17] [01:35.91]Back home it's not Compton but close [01:37.61]The same problems exist and the pain throbbin' [01:39.88]And folks are so common [01:41.23]It don't / really bother us much we just swallow it / uh [01:44.42]Crack the bottle and smoke / hope tomorrow something [01:46.90]Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz [01:49.22]But the chances of it acutally happening's kinda slim [01:51.81]Back home / we get the good life at a glimpse [01:54.37]In the form of a rap star, drug dealers, and pimps [01:57.06]I'm back home [01:57.82] [01:58.19]I try my best to keep it together it's cold [02:00.24]Like the Windy City streets of December [02:02.44]I pace back and forth / looking for the courage to shine [02:04.97]But can't lap the source / need something to nourish my mind [02:07.72]I know we all lose quite a bit in life [02:09.41]Only to gain some [02:11.01]Life or the dark winding roads we came from [02:13.37]But I move with the night / so I'm used to the shade [02:15.69]And never lose sight / bringing truth back to the game [02:18.16] [02:18.54]Back home / We've got a lot of shit on our minds [02:21.01]We're always behind on something cause there's not enough time [02:23.64]And we're non-stop / bottom line / doing what we gotta do [02:26.39]To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital [02:29.32]Back home there's people calling us hopeless [02:31.95]People trying to tell us all we need is some focus [02:34.44]But focus [02:35.94]Focus is overrated [02:37.30]Cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it [02:40.48]Back home is Alvarado / K-Town and J-Town [02:43.33]Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know [02:45.61]Where figures shiver / living right in the littler [02:47.76]Where kids write bigger / right inside the LA river [02:50.36]On the concrete / a symbol of our everyday way [02:53.04]Its that color and concentration over heavy and grey [02:55.98]And by the time the ink dries on this page [02:58.39]I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay [03:01.05]Back home [03:02.69]Everybody's searching for somethin' [03:04.31]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [03:06.51]Back home [03:07.97]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [03:09.78]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [03:11.85]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [03:14.98]Life goes black when those lights go out [03:17.07]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [03:19.69]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [03:21.12]Back home [03:22.60]k [03:27.51]a [03:32.98]re [03:36.98]e [03:43.66]v