Long Beach, the city I love the most
The city I can live without, wanting to find another hostWith so much drama in the LBCIt ain't hard to why a brother wanna leaveHelicopters constantly fly around the city in search of a manPolice sirens flood the airwaves as they go down Atlantic or in the neighborhoods. DamnSomebody just got killed, another victim of senseless violence over colors People worried more about red and blue rather than the fact we share the same skin, some just tougher than the otherLong Beach, the city I love the mostThe city I can live without, wanting to find another hostThe same city I love don't love me backI been banged on, pulled a gun on. Everything except being shot atGang signs being thrown up as you walk to Louisiana fried chicken on 52nd and Atlantic Innocent bystanders, guilty by association, being shot atNot having any freedom. So say goodbye to your favorite baseball team hatAnd don't wear that one football teams jersey cause them s that wear opposite colors won't like thatCan't go to Houghton Park or Martin Luther Ling Park cause them s from that hood be over thereThey be ready for the set trip and all you gotta do is wear the wrong thing and they'll start to stareYou walk down the street and because you wear your clothes a certain way and see how you get treatedThe biggest gang will get you and take you away, yeah LBPDHarass you for things, embarrass you in publicAnd they wonder why we out in the streets with these guns in our belt like *** itSo Long Beach, I love you but I gotta go for meI refuse to let you deceive me with beautiful scenery and tall palm treesBeaches that expand for milesUnfortunately the water on the beach came from tears of the people and not the smilesLong Beach, the city I love but can live withoutI won't let these streets eats me up and chew me out