Aloe Blacc - The Window lyrics

[Hook 1] What do you see when you look out your window? What do you see when you look out your window? What do you see when you look out your window? What do you see when you look out your window? [Verse 1] She lookin' out the window, she see the cause pa**in' She see the brothers on the stoop crackin' jokes, laughin' She see the little boys holdin' little girls hands And grown women gettin' kissed by their grown mans She see the corner market, some kids runnin' out and The owner with a broomstick chasin' them, shoutin' She watch the street lights flicker when the sun fall Every momma at the doorstep when they call Every child to shuffle up to a hot plate Lights out in the house when it got late She see the freaks comin', they out track runnin' She see they management smack 'em when they lack fundin' She watch the block lurkers supply the rock searchers Street geologist, never studied at colleges She see the bums gather 'round the oil drums And the same Chucks is still up on the wire where they hung She lookin' out the window into someone else home She see the silhouette of someone else gettin' smacked on [Hook 2] What do you see when you look out your window? Do you see d** and violence? Thugs and silence? What do you see when you look out your window? Or white picket fences, green gra** What do you see when you look out your window? Kids playin' or kids gettin' shot up? [Verse 2] He lookin' at his pops puttin' his hands on her He wish that he could do somethin' to protect his momma He think that someday he gonna get up out of there And take his momma from the drama and the constant fear He sit up in the next room, close to the wall and Drop tears with his momma when he hear her ballin' Fall asleep and have nightmares about the beatin's He not talkin' so nobody know his thoughts are keepin' He not speakin' but he learnin' from a bad example Watchin' the violence get repeated like a loop sample He watch his momma get cooked clean, work hard While his pops sit around till his head nod He knows it's wrong to hate, but he can't do nuttin else Plus he feel like he would have to protect himself He found the answer to his problems in a shoebox They heard the sound of his solution down two blocks Pow *gunshots* [Hook 3] What do you see? Yeah, what you see when you look out your window? What do you see? You seein' all blue skies? Birds flyin'? What do you see when you look out your window? Or is it a rainy day? Storm clouds You know [Verse 3] She lookin' out the window, she hear the gun blastin' Pretty soon she hearin' sirens and lights flashin' The whole block is up, people is comin' out She hears the broken hearted cries of a lady shout She see the white sheets and the red stain And the face of a child, full of hurt and pain She see the cuffs on him, and see his momma callin' For the law, but it seem like the law forgot him He in the backseat, lookin' up at her and That's when the father came into the room and closed the curtain She ain't lookin' out the window no more She ain't lookin' out the window no more She ain't lookin' out the window no more She can't look out the window no more Can't look out the window no more Can't explain half the things she saw no more [Hook 4] What do you see when you look out your window? Is it liquor stores? Crackheads and who*es? What do you see when you look out your window? Is it ex-cons who just came from behind bars? What do you see when you look out your window? Is it police chases? What do you see when you look out your window? Bums on the streets with they hungry faces?