10 Toes Down

Yeah…

This for the city.

For the fathers, the sons.

Ten toes down.

Hook

Ten toes down, I’m standing on faith,

Came from the pressure, I ain’t fold to the weight.

From the block to the boardroom, same face, same name,

If it’s healing for the city, put me in the game.

Ten toes down, yeah I stand on truth,

Every scar on my back just proof.

They tried to break me, but I grew my roots

Ten toes down for the people, that’s proof.

Verse 1

Baltimore breath in my chest when I speak,

Public school lessons, world view unique.

Borders and languages opened my mind,

History taught me the future need time.

Music in my spirit, purpose in my pen,

Every loss flipped to a lesson to win.

Seen pain up close, I ain’t turn my back,

I stepped in the gap where the peace got cracked.

Sirens in the distance, tension in the room,

I talk men down ‘fore the night turn doom.

Boots on the pavement, heart in the fight,

Real change happens long before likes.