[Verse 1: Crowded Places]
I can't find a home
I can't break the mold
Living a la mode
I can see the fold
My child ain't got that kinda life
Fancy cars wall to wall and flashing lights
And if odds are involved I ain't gon reach no heights
And my wallet dissolved so I fear for my wife
I don't wanna tell her that I can't provide
I don't wanna tell her we won't survive
This life is a waste of time
Battle a wall that I'm trying to climb
Only to find myself on the other side
Building this wall, raising that height
Figured it was wrong, just let the venom bite
Sitting in my heart, I knew it wasn't right
So I'm right back on this city street
Begging for things that I had with ease
Looking at my seed I can see her need
It's a silence plead begging me to please
I know that if I leave it bring upon some ease
But she's begging me please just be here for me
[Hook: Crowded Places]
Just be here for me
It's the only love that I need
Yeah she's begging me please
Just be here for me, for me
Just be here for me
It's the only love that I need
Yeah she's begging me please
Just be here for me, for me
It's for the love of my baby, baby
For the love of my lady, lady
It's for the love of my baby, baby
It's for the love of my baby
Sitting on nothing, I can go
We are nothing we just go
[Verse 2: Crowded Places]
And she's standing there buzzed with her mouth full of foam
Planning to lust every ounce of her low
This is how it goes she was raised by the centerfold
During the age when her folks turned to foes
Now she in a pose, froze, didn't even known she had overdosed
Cold, hold, her pulse was slowed
Her hope was nope she had none
Even thought about blasting with that gun
Blame it on her youth it was cruel
Only thing she knew was to glue
All the pain with the tools, all the booze
And the wounds, yeah she knew how to use
Now she out and down in abuse
Yeah she's drowning in the same street her father left her in
With the same sneaks her mother stepped up in
What intentions did they have for her
Was it kiss the dirt before her 21st birth
[Hook: Crowded Places]
[Verse 2: Crowded Places]
Help out that's what I need to do
Living strong to be living proof
My father always wanted the best for me is what she says
And he gave it even when we had nothing
It was motivation it was that something
Now I'm rushing my patient to urgent care
She just overdosed and her mental state is unclear
Rush of wind and the clash of soles against concrete
And a dark scream, alarming
Eyes wide again, bright lights descend
Pulse rising in, a higher bend
Don't you die on me today is what she says
To this drugedg up woman on her d**h bed
Trained by the best a new graduate
A motivating test she's a testament
Funny both women grew up the same
Came from nothing and see that changed
And here they are side by side
A shadow of different lives
As the doc looks in her eyes
She can see where it leads, the remedy
That the druggie needs
It's a silent plead
Please don't ever leave
Just be here for me
[Hook: Crowded Places]