"7 Mile, Gratiot, 6 Mile, 5 Mile"

[Esham]
In Detroit, everybodys hungry, trying to hussle
In Detroit, nobodys got a deal with Russel
In Detroit, you'll be lucky if your not a victim of a shooting
In Detroit, crack-head zombies still prostituting
In Detroit, where the underground rap don't get played on the airwaves
Unless, pull or push, men got payed
In Detroit - bitch, you aint even from Detroit
Fuck your rap, 7 mile is where the hustlers at
In Detroit, ain't no fucking freestylin, ain't no time for that
Got twenty-fours on the eighty-four Regal and I'm grindin
Detroit, know my name
In Detroit, it's cocaine
In Detroit, don't play no hoe games they'll blow out your brains.

[TNT]
In Detroit, you can catch me on 7 mile
In Detroit, where the bitches and niggas, they live wild
In Detroit, where you find the dope game is shitty
In Detroit, where the bitches show assholes and titties
In Detroit, where the niggas and bitches, they build cars
In Detroit, we got hoodrats and ghetto stars
In Detroit, we ain't taking no shit from nobody
In Detroit, we got Sammy the Bulge and John Gotti
In Detroit, we got pimps and players, hoes and macks
In Detroit, we ride Regals, Chevys, and Cadillacs
Gettin money by the stack from the rap for the crack
In Detroit, its like that, liquor stores for the blunt and
In Detroit, we got arabs that look like Bin Ladin
In Detroit, we got bitches and niggas that stay plottin
In Detroit, we stay rottin, forgive but not forgotten
Potatoes stay au gratin, come close and catch a hot one

[Esham]
In Detroit, you can be a victim of the ghetto
In Detroit, got more rock than heavy metal
In Detroit, bitches slide down the pole butt-naked
In Detroit, some real and some fake it, some snake it
In Detroit, mu'fuckas just hope they make it
In Detroit, I can't take it, so I just wanna break shit
Detroit got some winners, Detroit got some losers
Detroit got the best dope-dealers and drug-abusers
And I be the rabbit-killer, the killer who kill rabbit
In Detroit they bust automatics at trailer park addicts
Across 8 mile in Detroit, you hate my style
Soopa Villain in Detroit, I'm at the top of the pile

[TNT]
In Detroit, got the fix for you niggas who broke
In Detroit, we got the weed, speed, raw, and coke
In Detroit, where the bums will rush your ass
Where the little old ladies do the hundred-yard dash
In Detroit, where the bitches look fine as Hell
But if you slap that bitch up, you gotta go to jail
In Detroit, we got the space-age futeristic
Nigga, check my statistics, my number is unlisted
In Detroit, where you got to be fly as Hell
With your attitude shitty like your shit don't smell
In Detroit, aim big ya got east to west
North end to the end, and down to southwest
And don't forget the HP and small ass hamtraning
I'm talking 'bout Detroit, understand it, God damn it
And if you dont know the places I called off
You probably a weak-ass nigga from the burbs, extra soft.

I didn't know what time it was until the sun went down
Detroit Michigan on the bus downtown
Last night I was fighting on the street
But tonight I have a girl next to me in this cold world
She brings me heat

I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
I gotta good feeling everything's gonna be alright
Some run some fight
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight

Detained in illegal custody spent the night in jail
With a drunken priest and a hooker $500 bail
Nobody knew who was who standing in the street like that
I hit the ground to make a sound

I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
I gotta good feeling everything's gonna be alright
Some run some fight
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight

Bus droped me off and I had to cough I couldn't breath
'cuz I got ripped off I couldn't realize by being satisfied 'cause it runs so thin
And thats why im pissed off we had no money we had time
She had the champagne I had the cisco wine
She said do you want to come you better hurry because
We'll have hell to pay

Woooohooh
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks

Woooohooh
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks

Let's walk everywhere we can tonight
It's dark but I tend to see more clearly in this light
Being too angry at the age of sixteen
Turns your early twenties to one of those dreams
Where you can't find what you're looking for

We were over thinking again
Bikes ride faster at 3am

Woooohooh
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks

Woooohooh
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks

It's still enough for me

Let's walk everywhere we can tonight
It's dark but I tend to see more clearly
It's still enough for me
I love this place unconditionally

We pray for the worst things,
Making presidential threats when the phone would ring
To prove no one in the sky or behind the lines
Cares we're alive

soft lies on your empty face
a life in you has gone away
sympathies go round and round
a handfull helps it all go down

day fades away
can't stay awake
alone in this empty place

there's no time
to shed your fear
but don't expect
that I'll be here

I wonder where you are
locked on the inside
I wonder where your thoughts are
out of the daylight
I wonder who you are
fallen so far to be nowhere
what ever made you think so
I wonder where you are

dark eyes make you snap up straight
red hands wash the sleep away
sifting through the white on white
underneath the failing light

they fade away
can't stay away
alone in this empty place

there's no time
to rest my eyes
cause you'll be gone
before I rise

It's hard to cope
please let me know
don't stop this rush overflow
the night has come
and now I'm home

I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend
All bright-eyed and happy in pain
I am dreaming of a Michigan girl
See her come around
Fall down, break & scatter everywhere
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting
I am pleading for a Michigan dream girl
I am pleading for a Michigan girl
See her come around
Big lie wrapped inside her little glove
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting patient for me
I cover my ears
I clear my mind
She starts to fade
I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend
She's starting to fade
I am dreaming of a Michigan girl
I close my eyes
I see her waiting oh so patient for me
I cover my ears
I close my mind
She's starting to fade