Album Name

HERE

Artist

Alicia Keys

Genre

R&B/Soul

Release Date

2016.11.08

Release Agency

Sony Music

The Gospel - Alicia Keys
So we all got children
products of the ghetto
Momma cooked us soup
daddy did the yelling
Uncle was a drunk cousin was a felon
When he got pitched
he told them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook
her husband was a crook
Cause every job he had they be
payin' him off the books
Ghetto university
knowledge is all it took
In a tenement
I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come
the spirit of Sam Cook
When the feds comin'
everybody get shook
Now we doin' life
like Eddie Murphy and Martin
On the chain gang
I was singing into the coffin
The roaches and the rats
heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me
I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top the bottom
ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past
but you can never go back
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
Tellin' you like it is
how we ever gon' live
If we ain't gettin' money
how we feedin' the kids
It's a revolving door
where brothers be doin' bids
I know it sound wrong
but the door will be what it is
Survival of the fittest
this poor girl the illest
Broke parents and black cats
give me heebie-geebies
Life seems hard
but nothin' ever comes easy
Whatever's in the dark
can always become the light
If you ain't in a battle
how you gon' win the fight
Gotta speak the truth
when I'm up in the booth
The streets be flyin' birds
but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a pain
like you pullin' a tooth
Told the streets don't let me go
like I'm Bishop in Juice
The roaches and the rats
heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me
I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top the bottom
ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past
but you can never go back
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
You gotta sing
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
She's a king
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
And they sing New York City
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah