Charlie Wilson Can't Say Goodbye Lyrics

[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye

I can't say goodbye
(to the blocks)
goodbye
(to the hood)
goodbye
(to the streets)
I can't say goodbye
(to the hood)
goodbye
(to the blocks)
goodbye
(to the streets)
I can't say goodbye
(to the blocks)
goodbye
(to the streets)
goodbye
(to the hood)
I can't say goodbye
(to the hood)
goodbye
(to the blocks)
goodbye
(to the homies)

[Verse 1 - Snoop Dogg]:
I guess it's true, you can't take the hood out the homeboy
plus, my hood just lost another homeboy
another one got life, and we don't know, if he coming home boy
They in the street tell me "just leave it alone boy,
let them do them take care of your own boy"
But I said back break a bound, before I was grown boy
you had dreams of being a dope boy
yeah, I was runnin' from the po po,
Banging for the turf,
late night huntin', puttin' me in work
good day comin', airbrushed shirt,
pay day, got the spot, got my hair cut first
made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church
yeah I live in the burbs, but I think 21st
I know since I left that it's gotten much worse
but I'd still be there, if I couldn't write a verse

[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye

[Verse 2 - Snoop Dogg]:
To the blocks that raised me
the enemies and the homies that made me
tough enough to hang on the corners that would mould me
critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me,
but if they think the old me ever left, then they don't really know me,
and don't know, we don't change, we just become OG
you always addicted to the life, you just don't OD
s___ I owe the streets before they owe me
took me in when my momma didn't want me
to wild to be a child, and pops not around now
all I got now is the homies, to teach me
how to be a man and whatnot
how to break ounces into grams and whatnot
the reason I'm so nice with my hands and whatnot
s___ man you think I forgot?

[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye

[Verse 3 - Snoop Dogg]:
Thank god every day that the boy could spit
and all around the world they enjoyin' my s___
I know I got plenty more wars to get
I got a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids
but it wouldn't be right if I ignored the s___
that made me how I am, the music and the man
told me that I can before the world gave a d___
if it wasn't for my n____s sayin' stick to the plan
probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand
probably be doin' a dub and the pen with my man
they say leave the streets but don't really understand
all I had was the block, when I didn't have fans
rapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins
all I had was the homies when I didn't have kids
if it all come down and my career was to end, I'm sure my name
would live.. in these streets

[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye

I just can't say goodbye

I can't say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
I can't say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
I cant say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
I can't say goodbye

You can take the man out the streets,
but you can't take the streets out the man