MellowShade

I took a trip the other day

Had to get away from around the way

I saw a new thing I had not seen

Like the grass and the trees

In the burbs I saw a pretty girl

A pretty girl from another world

She was a afraid because she saw me on TV

I told her that what she saw was not the real me

She said that our worlds were too far apart

A child of the night like me would be wrong from the start

I told her of crazy ghetto love

And the fun that we would have hand in glove

She never met anyone like me

A brother from around the way and on TV

I am a child of the night but this is sunshine I see

I’ll do anything so that she is with me

Her family drew back afraid

When they met the brother that is me

A thug down low they thought that they would see

But once they saw me coming around

And heard the science that I threw down

Still they said the girl was not for me

She needs a brother with an advanced degree

I told them about my PhD

I smiled and held my head up high

Cause brothers from around the way don’t cry

She made up her mind my world to see

To discover the life outside her family

The one that they saw on TV

Later that night when my trip was through

They found their daughter was traveling free

Now she is rolling around the way with me

Hamzatu