[Lyric] Those Flowers Dont Grow Here (Norman Sann)

[Verse]
These flowers don't grow here no more
Our climate changed it and our footprint drained it
You've been gone for a hot minute
I know things look a little different but it's all the same
The way it was when you left it
Cause we still get killed by the five-o
Our due process still quite slow
Our price went up but we buy low
We stuff this junk in our eyeballs
We rise up top for a high fall
But at least we get a Monday off work after your birthday
These new gadgets got our brain fried
And I apologize ahead of time
For the negative connotation associated
With the boulevards that bare your name in their street signs
Ah damn
If you live off MLK, you're familiar with section 8 and SPAM
Was the first of the month the only time we checked the mail?
Oh that's a gangbanger on the corner next to that liquor store
Gun store, liquor store, gun store, check cashing place
Right next store to that place where you get a
Payday loan, that's just the way it go
Remember the smell of hope?
Well that flower don't grow here no more
And that land once vacant, corporations claimed it
And that huge building right there on the edge of the street?
That's called a Walmart, baby
Yeah I know this ain't exactly what you dreamed
But at least nowadays
Men of different colors address each other as king
But they address us different because of the address we live in
But we came up in the same schools as Chad, Parker, and Dylan
Don't come back here, it might hurt your feelings
You did all that hard work and we still out here trippin'
Different place, same chillings, uh
My city's a circus, it take a village
To raise the reproductive spillage
Those [?] became children
More than 50% missing
The male role model gone so we turn to actors on television
Fiction, you wouldn't comprehend it
Cause your father was around to make sure you we reprimanded
When you felt a represented image daddy wanted you presenting
AGH!
[Outro]
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
I guess the sun gone
Those flowers can't grow in this weather, it's cold
I guess the sun gone
Hopefully one of us can become a concrete road
Find a new way to grow
Find a new way to grow
Hopefully one of us can become a concrete road
And find a new way to grow
Cause those flowers don't grow here no more
Those flowers don't grow here no more
I know this ain't exactly what you dreamed but
At least nowadays men of different colors address each other as king