Stand Up

Why don't you come around, my way (way) my way my way (way) my way (way) [x2]
 Why don't you come around?
 Uh, Uh, Uh, why don't you come around (way, way, way) why don't you come around
 Walking down Williams through Mart and Blays (mart and blays)
 on it Big Steps where I used to play (used to play)
 The girls in the park gotta lot to say (lot to say)
 Them girls over here threw they life away (life away)
 Cause they got babies and they just now hit (just now hit)
 They double numbers they mothers promoting this hit
 The boys on the court playing basketball (basketball)
 They baby fathers they rather be boys and that's all
 H dub Stand up! (uh)
 BK Stand Up! (uh)
 East Coast Stand Up! (uh)
 You should
 Come around my way [x2]
 I'm from a place in Harlem
 Where the streets they look like Africa
 And the trees are in better condition than the homes so abandoned
 P S 197
 Where I study my academic stare run
 And the books so worn and torn I can't thank
 How they tried to cripple me
 and the students along side of me
 Thank god I had a good teacher on the side of me
 Showed me the right thangs to do
 Overcame these obstacles
 H dub stand up for the things that we've been through ooh
 H dub Stand up! (uh)
 BK Stand Up! (uh)
 East Coast Stand Up! (uh)
 You should
 Come around my way [x2]
 Here we got these buildings called projects but they ain't three stories
 They fill about ten on the block 8 per floor go up by twenty
 Stories I tell be true story kids cut school and watch Maury
 Like if they ain't intellect in what's affecting my life I can't respect them
 But that's just they way of the ghetto
 People who come from where I'm from get it
 But we still gotta make a difference
 Stand up tall so the world can get it
 Teach kids pride nested of "Outside"
 Show another side and they show gon' rise
 Stop letting responsibility fall
 I can tell you ain't been around my way at all
 Why don't you come around (way)
 So you can see what my (way)
 Eyes been seeing why (way)
 Why don't you come around
 Where we need directions (way)
 Respect neva the lesson (way)
 Way, why don't you come around
 My way (way) my way my way (way) my way (way) why dont you come around [x2]
 H dub Stand up! (uh)
 BK Stand Up! (uh)
 East Coast Stand Up! (uh) [x2]
 You should come around my way
 You should come around
 Uh, Uh, Uh
 Uh, Uh, Uh