Intro:
La la la la la la la la la la (*rep 3)
so why do you keep going back?
Verse:
I can’t take no more it’s killing me baby
The things you’re doing to me
Like you don’t recognize that you got a family
I know we had our ups and downs
So can we work this out too?
But you say that nothing will happen to you
John
Q was only fifteen (um um)
Suppose to enjoy his teens (hmmmmm)
Locked up doing twenty five
He’ll regret it for the rest of his life
(oh)
Set up
by his so called dogs
Blind sighted by the fog
He has chains on both his feet
Cause he couldn’t get himself out of the streets
Chorus:
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby (cause I really
want u to)
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby (oh baby, aw
baby)
If they did it to him babe, they can do it to you babe (*rep 1)
Verse:
Sometimes I can’t sleep
I’m tossing and turning how hard is it to call
And it hurts when by three I don’t here from you at all
You keep me worrying about you
Now its time for you to choose today
If it’s the streets then I got to leave cause I cant stay
Sarah
J hung with the wrong crew
And ended up with a code blue
Had to fight in the hospital bed
Before the doctor pronounced her dead
(oh oh oh)
Her family
dealing with the lost
A life taken at a cost
Mother’s heart is too weak stops to beat
Two lives destroyed because of the streets
Chorus:
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby (cause I really
want u to)
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby
Get out of the streets, Get out of the streets baby (oh baby, aw
baby)
If they did it to her babe, they can do it to you babe (*rep1)
Bridge:
I’m tired of waiting and begging for change
Same excuses you’ve given me day after day
You tell me you trusting’ they got your back
And you’re down forever
We constantly
argue about this one thing
It’s killing me to put it on everything
So tell me why do you keep going back in
Said you’re down forever
Outro:
Don’t tell me that you’re doing fine
The pain shows within your eyes
I know you want to “up and pack”
So why do you keep going back (*rep1)
La a la
la la la la la la la la (*rep 3)
so why do you keep going back?
