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Fairmount Park
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O'hene Savant
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I grew up everywhere, Lehigh Avenue, Newkirk Street, 24th & Nicholas, right over there by Ridge Ave, cats out of Philly know, but I can't forget about Fairmount Park As a kid, coming up in Philly's hard streets Smoke in the air from the gun or weed The marijuana master paranoia of living In a rigged system of capitalism Where the people at the bottom of the barrel Out of despair'll have you looking at the bottom of a [?] We from the bottom [?] is how you would press a girl The ghetto is a whole ‘nother world where you gotta be tough inside a prison yard I mean a school yard, that's where they school our kids on how to move hard My grandfather used to kick it with them pool sharks Telling tales of glory from the pool hall I used to idolize him like a god figure 'til the day he came home on some hard liquor Threatened to kill me if I didn't leave So I left, it was past midnight from my memory Of Fairmount Of Fairmount Park And even though my days were dark Somehow, you have stayed in my heart Fairmount Park Of Fairmount Of Fairmount Park And even though it was hard Somehow, you can never depart Fairmount Park I'm so afraid for my life, no more than eight or nine And it's so late in the night that everything is quiet No cars riding by, not that I should hitchhike I've seen America's Most, they taking kids' lives I'm terrified of my shadow because it's close to me I have no friends or family I can go to see Imagine walking an empty street With no lights or path, well that was me But I'm walking, taking every step with precaution I know little about God but it's time that I call him Heading under a bridge, that's a blanket of darkness That's where the bums live, hope I make it across then I hear a voice and it sounds familiar yes What little I can see I can see a silhouette That looks like a friend of me So I call out loud from my memory Of Fairmount Of Fairmount Park And even though my days were dark Somehow, you have stayed in my heart Fairmount Park Of Fairmount Of Fairmount Park Even though it was hard Somehow, you can never depart Fairmount Park The person replied, calling my name out That's when I run for it, this voice now I can make out It's the voice of my mother, there is no other But what are the odds I run into her as I hug her? I wanna say I suffered but I'm tryna be a man Even though I'm just a kid with no concept of a dad But more importantly, let's get out of this place And go somewhere far away so I can just lay But we were poor so we went door to door Who wants a bastard's son and everybody's whore? That's neighborhood talk, the kids call her piper But she's a queen to me if no one else likes her But now I'm falling asleep, my legs weak She's telling me her boyfriend's close so let's keep Walking, I smile as I see his apartment Complex and now we just gotta be knocking His lights were on, they went off and Now mom's angry, yelling and going off In the middle of the street while I'm feeling like an orphan I say, “I wanna sleep,” she says, “Ok I'm off him” We head across the street to the popular park And find ourselves at 9th Street and park it She sits down as I lay in her arms in Fairmount Park so that's where the story and the song ends
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