just like bums we used to stay in the slums of la by the way gang bangers killin each other for rep sellin rock cocaine on my doorstep had a ball to bounce plus a bike to ride but my mama never would let me play outside but when i got enrolled in elementary school started bangin like a fuckin fool so cool throwin up gang signs to the gangster beat shot an enemy from across the street mama came home said she got a good job daddy did too now they don t squab financially we improvin 2 months later son we movin no more duckin from shotgun shells bought a two story house in east palmdale palmdale come back to me i need you and i love you baby palmdale come back to me no more rats and no more roaches livin next door to football coaches now i got a new place to sell me crack now i got little white kids to jack i stopped wearin blue wasn t trippin on red too busy squabbin with the skinheads stupid questions distract the class rubbin little white girls on the ass i didn t really care if i passed or failed i knew i was headed for the nfl until the playoff game shoulder got hurt i thought about my future layin in the dirt i can t jump i can t flinch superstar player ridin the bench graduate from school don t make me laugh i got an f in basic math palmdale come back to me i gotta do one song for my neighborhood bucccoooc palmdale come back to me i knew i couldn t make it in the white man s world so i bought me some khakis and a geri curl i knew i couldn t make it to the nfl so i went to east palmdale and started slingin yayo for sure i was makin crazy dough should ve dropped outta school a long time ago bought a cell phone like a nut now i deliver like pizza hut i drunk whisky and bacardi i sold dope to anybody me and my homies sold dubs and dimes took turns bustin rhymes just to pass the time a white man drove up to my spot he said hey homeboy what you got i put a fat rock inside his hand about 25 sheriffs jumped out the van palmdale come back to me i need you and i love you baby palmdale come back to me can t get drunk can t get blunted la county 95 hundred crips wanna take my all stars bloods wanna eat my snicker bars them peckerwoods don t want none but the mexican s straight own one them ese s catorces treces always try to test me so i jumped off the bed cause i ain t no punk jammed his head up against the bunk socked that cholo in his chin black mother fuckers scared to jump in sheriff broke it up when we hit the floor i kept talkin shit cause i want some more back in town we get along with the brown now i m in jail they tryin to beat me down jail is hell but i ll adapt won t hesitate to get in a scrap cause i m down for mine and that s for certain sittin in the hole with my knuckles hurtin palmdale come back to me i need you and i love you baby palmdale come back to me now i got a fucked up life two bad kids and a naggin wife dead end job at the airport check too short to pay the house note turn on the tv then i see different homeboys that went to school with me playin in the nfl we used to kick back in east palmdale rodney williams lorenz tate zeno plays for colorado state i wish my homeboys much success but at the same time i still get depressed walkin through the wind with a cup full of gin thinkin bout things that could ve would ve should ve been i wipe my tears sip my beers wish good luck to my peers palmdale come back to me i need you and i love you baby palmdale come back to me cause that s where my heartache began heartache began palmdale come back to me i need you and i love you baby palmdale come back to me cause that s where my heartache began heartache began palmdale come back to me palmdale come back to me yo let me get a palm yo let me get a dale yo what do we sell yo where we fittin to go dale palmdale dale palmdale dale palmdale dale palmdale dale palmdale dale palmdale 5