Coolio: Thru the window

f/ Billy Boy[Coolio]I take a look thru the window and all I see is painburnin on my brain like some weird type of acid rainor a virus, it's something that I can't explainI use to be different but now it seems that I'm the sameas the rest of these hard heads in my hoodI'm livin foul even though momma raised me goodEverywhere I turn it and everywhere I look everybody that I know is, livin like a crook, and theThe cops wanna throw the bookthe kitchen sink, a upper cut and a left hookHow can I explain this battering that we caught, itwasn't the way I was raised, it was the way I was taughtAnd the streets is a motherfucker (motherfucker)But I be growin up like another sucker ('nother sucker)I say the bomb be the last as I reflect on the pastwith my face, pressed against the glass"Goin down slowly, slowly, goin down" --> (sample) x4[Billy Boy]In nightfall thru the window, a silhouetteBeads of sweat and the palm of my hand is still wetSo put the safety on the Tek because this ??? ??? started yetSo many yesterdays I can't forgetAnd now it's nighttime but it seem like daytimeHelicopter lights makin the bud light like sunshine on my mindCrack addicts, kids with automaticsThugs who want static and those who already had itManifestations of a spirit, trapped in a flesh cageMind in fifth gear, imagination rampageMy brothers is walking thru night like a thief in the nightThree strikes you're out because the color's not rightAnd all I axe is "Why we jack and fight?" and try to save enough rightand I'm wrapped too tiiiight, uhhBlowin in the pistol, suckin on some indo, lookin thru the windowand that's all I see, uhh"Goin down slowly, slowly, goin down" --> (sample) x4[Coolio]I'm hittin corners on the boulevard, lookin hardRims are shinin, sound is bumpin, I'm a superstar, yeahRollin in the ride and it's not mine butthat's alright cos I still feel fine[Billy Boy]Now I'm strapped with nothin but my mind and a screwdriverGimme twenty seconds at your skills like MacGyver (who?)And I can take anything that I wanna takebut when you slip and push your fate, I'm parlayin off your paper like whenI'm[Coolio]Yankee Doodle came to Jersey rollin on some Dayton's (Dayton's)Kept an Uzi under his seat so fools wouldn't take him (take him)[Billy Boy]My homey had a cadillac sweeter than all the othersWent into the wrong hood, so they choked the motherfucker[Coolio]That's how it goes (yeah) and that's how it feels (right)New Jersey Drive is for realThat's how it goes and that's how it feelsNew Jersey Drive is for real (ugh)"Goin down slowly, slowly, goin down" --> (sample) x4