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and she walks ??things movingcause there's darkness in the cornersand the sound of shutting doorsyou chase the sunlight so you kick down the doorand the window holds no sight[grouch]I remember the rainy daysmama dropped me off at school in a bucketit was around the 3rd grademeltin' crayons on the furnace, playing heads up seven upboy I was learning and I felt greatI had an Incredible Hulk lunchboxa Michael Jackson jacket, three-stripe socksright before the first pair of Jordans came outevery year I had a Valentine, she would shoot my game outto work that pain out I'd eat a gang of candycherry clan, zots, lots you understand me?my teeth were rotten always at the dentistmy dad played the Police, I was his music apprenticehe drove a Cutlass, a 7-deuce droppeddidn't know what he had though, I'm tellin you popif I could take it back to 80-somethingI'd let some sun in, but you made us toughen[hook]Letras de cancionesyou chase the sunlight so you kick down the doorand the window holds no sight (x2)Mom said tough love, dad drink the bottle upsixth grade and candy's not enoughmom bought me a snare drumI beat it but I didn't get it yetwhen they split, I was preparedin school I failed mathematicsfriends made sense stillcouldn't get the girls but I had some status I'm a dork, computer literate a little bitmoved to the east to the 'O' now I can feel a little grid under my toesnone of my woes were too largebut through any bit of hardship, character growsHip Hop's staring me in the nosethis block's preparing me for what was chosea rose out of concrete's realI've seen it happen before: trade in my speech for a mealtraded in raindrops for sunraysturned in 'no ways' into 'some ways'[hook]you chase the sunlight so you kick down the doorand the window holds no sight (x2)[sunspot]Little Tommy, little Victor??? little sisterI used to be an only child, now you see me jealousI was one of the nappy headed, sports-playing fellascouldn't tell us nothin unless you was a coachI had approached? a few but my parents wasn't brokebut broken in the union so I guess I got some hopesso I guess I had support from that double incomemama went to school to be a nurse and bring fundsinto the household like pops didwhile she was taking classes at El Camino Collegewhile I was extra baggagethe extra mouth to manage in the Christmas gets the packagefor a latchkey kid who never thought he'd make it happenthe 80's started crackin, my neighborhoods was blastinso my folks moved us out of that zone to face the challenge of changewithout a damn, I doubt it'd be the samebut I'd probably stand the rain til the sun shined again[hook]you chase the sunlight so you kick down the doorand the window holds no sight (x2)So it's bye bye Inglewood, hello mid-city hoodthe colors done changed nowI really wanna spree how?? corduroy's, Fila's, & snakeskin belts, got bellbottom girls in the Sergio Takini'sI went to John Purvis first, girly was a meaniecheated on me with a dude that used to go to UNImy confidence was puny so I let this cutie do meruined me, trust in females & suchI never really bounced back from that so it's rough on any relationshop I've had since that dayor any hesitation of why not to playor reasons it's cold hearted deperate frays[hook]you chase the sunlight so you kick down the doorand the window holds no sight (x2) From Letras Mania