[Verse 1]
Black hoodie
Black gloves
Slide in a stolen ride
Name on a folded list
Circle it
Cross that line
Phone buzz
“we outside”
Mask down
Heartbeat climbs
Whole block holding breath
Streetlight reads the signs
Red rag on the left side
Blue flag on the right
Old beef that the kids
Grew up inheriting like a price
Mama pray in the kitchen
Window taped from the last strike
Bullets talk in the distance
Every sentence sounds like “die”
[Chorus]
Blood on both sides
We all lose
Different colors
Same black suits
You take one
Then I take two
This war don’t care about who is who
Blood on both sides
Stained concrete
Same pain under different tees
You want smoke? It comes in threes
This war eats every family
[Verse 2]
Cousin got dropped last June
Pic on a T-shirt
Block balloon
Candles melt in the afternoon
Then we plot by the vacant room
“Spin back
Spin back”
Voices echo in my head
But I see his little brother
Drawing tanks under the bed
They post up at the corner store
We pull up
Engine low
Finger sweating on the trigger
Hands shaking
But it don’t show
One shout
Then the thunder
Glass rain
Sirens scream
Hit a stranger on the sidewalk
Same school
Different team
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Look at this chalk
Man
Tell me who won that
Both sides carrying coffins
Same church
Same black
I see my face in the barrel
I see his in mine
We ain’t rivals
We mirrors
Both chained to the same crime
[Chorus]