Bow Wow - Big Dreams

"It's not - It's not me exactly, who touches people

It's what I represent, the possibility that dreams long ago

May still come true, even if they - even-even-even if they look lost forever"

[Bow Wow]

I had a homey named Tony, sixteen, six two

Headed to the NBA straight from high school

My nigga had his ball game on lock

But at the same time, he was in love with the block

All the stuff that came wit it, the drugs and the guns

The gangs, the slang and all the funds

He just got a letter of contempt from the Cavaliers

Sayin' how they love him and they wish he was there

He had +it made+ like +Special Ed+, about to get the bread

But chose, to do, sumthin' dumb instead

Go to war with the crew on the other side of town

and was mo' ready, and Tony got laid down

He ain't even have a chance

Died before the ambulance, even got to him

So many went through him

I hate to tell the story, but that's how it is

Growin' up in the hood as a kid

[Chorus]

When you got big dreams, don't listen to what nobody say

and don't let nobody turn you away

When you got big dreams, keep your eyes on the prize

Don't fall to the waste side ("even-even if they look lost forever")

When you got big dreams

Don't listen to what nobody say and don't let nobody turn you away

When you got big dreams, keep your eyes on the prize

Don't fall to the waste side, reach for the sky ("even-even if they look lost forever")

I knew this girl named Gina that was a hell of a singer

and everybody fell in love with her when they seen her

Baby girl was on the verge of signing a big deal

Eighteen, and life looked so-so real

She was stuck wit a dude that was all bad news

and all he ever did was give baby the blues

But she was true to a nigga, do for a nigga

Pop you and ya whole crew for a nigga

One night he came, picked her up told her, "let's ride!"

That's the same night that he watched her die!

They was tryna hit a lick, but the lick hit back

Put a end to the deal, and all of that

She ain't even have to be there, he know it wha'nt right

Now he gotta deal with it for the rest of his life

and the part I don't like, he ain't even get graze

but homegirl, Gina, is layin' in the grave

[Chorus]

I got a few relatives given family drama

Always got they hands out when they see me and my momma

One coulda been a doctor, the other a chef

But when he got his own kitchen, he was cookin' sumthin' else

Now his life in the drain, a triflin' shame

He all washed up, wife took e'rything

No car, no mo', no HOUSE

and everywhere he go, he stole, so they throwed him out

I was growin' up, lookin' up to be like them

Now I'm throwin' up cash, rollin' up in the Bent

I was stuck wit a dream I had since a shorty

I be DAMNED if I let another man support me, now

Uncle Junebug's sick, skinny as hell

He got AIDS in his body from the needles he shared

E'rytime he get his welfare checks, he don't care

You wanna see him go to the crack house, he there

[Chorus]

When you got big dreams

When you got big dreams ("even-even if they look lost forever")

When you got big dreams

When you got big dreams, keep your eyes on the prize

Don't fall to the waste side, reach for the sky

("even-even-even if they look lost forever")