Outside (Explicit) - Childish Gambino

I used to dream every night

Now i don't dream at all

Hopin' that it's cause

I'm livin' everything i want

Used to wake up in a bed

Between my mom and aunt

Playing with this land

Before time toy from pizza hut

My dad works nights

Putting on a stone face

He's saving up so we can get our own place

In the projects man that sounds fancy to me

They called me fat nose

My mom say you handsome to me

Mrs glover ma'am your son is so advanced

But he's acting up in class

And keeps peeing in his pants

And i just wanna fit in

But nobody was helping me out

They talking hood sh*t

And i ain't know what that was about

Cause hood sh*t

And black sh*t is super different

So i'm talking hood sh*t and cool it

Now like new edition

Mom and dad wouldn't listen

They left the bronx so i wouldn't be that

All their friends in ny deal crack

It's weird you think

That they'd be proud of him

But when you leave the hood they think

That you look down on 'em

Truth is we still struggle

On a different plane

7 dollars an hour with vouchers

It's all the same

Facebook messaging hopin'

That could patch up sh*t

But all they get now is

"can your son read this script "

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

No one goes

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

No one knows

Yeah

Dad lost his job

Mama worked at mrs winner's

Gun pulled in her face

She still made dinner

"donald watch the meter

So they don't turn the lights off"

Workin' two jobs so i can get

Into that white school

And i hate it there

They all make fun of my clothes

And wanna touch my hair

And my uncle on that stuff

That got my grandma shook

Drug dealers roughed him up

And stole his address book

He's supposed to pay 'em back

He owe 'em money but his bank account is zero

So my momma made us sleep

With phillips heads under the pillow

Like that would do somethin'

But she's got six kids she's gotta do somethin'

She don't want me in a lifestyle like my cousin

And he mad cause his father ain't around

He lookin' at me now like

"why you so f**kin lucky

I had a father too

But he ain't around

So i'mma take it out on you"

We used to say "i love you"

Now we only think that sh*t

It feels weird that you're the person

I took sink baths with

Street took you over

I want my cousin back

The world sayin' what you are

Because you're young and black

Don't believe 'em

You're still that kid that kept

The older boys from teasin'

For some reason

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

No one goes

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside

Outside outside

No one knows

Can you hear me now

Can you hear me now

Oh help us lord

Oh baby baby baby