You Grew Up Oddisee

[Verse 1]
Let me take it back to my childhood
When Six Flags was still called Wild World
Where I had every race as a neighbor and
We was working class, trying to make it out of our hood
My best friend back then was a white kid
We was tight, he liked the same things I did
Despite us being different colors, man
We was tight as Elmer's, and we called each other brothers
While I was trying to keep my Nikes clean
He was trying to scuff his Chucks up
He was grunge, I was fresh, we were young
And we'd cuss along to rap and try to sneak up into punk clubs
But things changed when his pops got laid off
He blamed my father for the loss of his job
He said immigrants robbed citizens jobs
And I better never set foot again in his yard
As we became adults in a cult called America, he got himself a job as an officer of law
My thoughts got blacker and his views got cracker
There was no way backwards, to the roots at heart
Many years apart, I recognized him in the news
He shot a black man that was sitting in his car
Near the same park where we used to shoot hoops
And all I could blame was the cause

[Chorus]
You grew up
No, you didn't change
You were made the same
As those before you came
You grew up
All our growing pains
Were given like our names
You just bought the blame
You grew up