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Block Raised Me by Dead Air Syndicate

Block Raised Me

[Intro]
Yeah…
Concrete lessons, street confessions
Uh

[Hook]
Block raised me, yeah the streets my teacher
Gave me scars and a code to believe in
Love and pain in the same old features
Block raised me, I became a believer
Block raised me, couldn’t run if I tried
Heart stay hard but my soul still cry
Pride in my walk, pain in my eyes
Block raised me, yeah the block raised me

[Verse 1]
Learned how to read faces before books
Learned survival from the looks they took
Corner store dinners, dollar menu nights
Dreams got big under broken streetlights
Mama worked doubles, stress in her tone
I learned fast how to be grown
Sirens sang lullabies every night
Hope felt small but my will felt right
They told me “leave,” but they don’t know how
This concrete wrote my story down
Every crack got a memory
Every loss still live in me

[Verse 2]
Saw friends turn cold from a fast decision
Saw good kids lose all ambition
We ain’t have much but we shared what we had
Laughing through trauma, smiling through sad
Jealousy bred where the hunger live
Same place teach you how to take and give
Respect was currency, fear was law
Every day felt like a silent war
I stayed solid when the block got loud
Didn’t bow down, didn’t break, just proud
Taught me loyalty, taught me doubt
Taught me silence when the truth get out

[Bridge]
If I make it out, I’m taking you with me
Every lost soul that still believe
I carry the block like a tattoo deep
In my heartbeat, in my speech

[Verse 3]
I don’t glorify the nights I cried
Or the times I watched my people die
But I honor the strength it gave my frame
Pressure made diamonds out of pain
I move different, I think ahead
’Cause mistakes cost freedom where I was bred
Block raised me, but it won’t cage me
I love where I’m from, but I’m changing me
Still wave when I pass through home
Still feel ghosts when I walk alone
No matter how far my dreams may be
The block raised me — that’s a part of me