Slippin' Away

I arrived in Minnesota with handcuff bruises

Summer ninety deuce, prepared to cut loose shit

Mom wasn't havin that, fuck bein cool

With no discussion, stuck me in a suburb school

Now day and night I'm on a bus full of fools

Who parents didn't want us ended up in the news

You must be crazy, you think any of us appreciate it

How our parents wanna upgrade us

All day long we're in a fantasy land

Moms and dads, college plans and minivans

But when the sun set, you fled the success

To the slum where you rest, nothin more, nothin less

School they fantasize about gangsta rap records

But these are our lives, our families are connected

The Ice Cube summer vacation is takin place

Right around the way from where I stay

The mold from the gold and the 'rips from L.A.

Brought, snow to the cold for a new place to play

There's a war goin on outside, you ain't safe from

See if this education might save 'em

I've known you your whole life

You drawn to that street life

Slippin away, slippin away

Slippin away, slippin away