Just like bums, we used to stay in the slums of la by the way Gang-bangers killin each other for rep, sellin rock cocaine on my doorstep Had a ball to bounce plus a bike to ride, but my mamma never would let me play outside. But when I got enrolled in elementary school, started bangin like a fuckin fool. So cool, throwin up gang signs to the gangster （? ）, shot an enemy from across the street Mamma came home, said she got a good job. daddy did too. now they dont squab. Financially, we improvin. 2 months later, son, we movin. No more duckin from shotgun shells. bought a two-story house in east palmdale. （give it to me now.） Palmdale, come back to me. I need you and I love you, baby. Palmdale, come back to me. （check it out, check it out, check it out.） No more rats and no more roaches, livin next door ito football coaches. Now I got a new place to sell me crack. now I got little white kids to jack. I stopped wearin blue, wasnt trippin on red. too busy squabbin with the skinheads. Stupid questions, distract the class. rubbin little white girls on the ass. I didnt really care if I passed or failed, I knew I was headed for the nfl, Until the playoff game, shoulder got hurt. I thought about my future, layin in the dirt. I cant jump, I cant flinch. superstar player, ridin the bench. Graduate from school? dont make me laugh. I got an f+ in basic math. （give it to me now.） Palmdale, （hell, yeah.） come back to me. I gotta do one song for my neighborhood. bucccoooc! Palmdale, come back to me. （check it out.） I knew I couldnt make it in the white mans world, so I bought me some khakis and a geri curl. I knew I couldnt make it to the nfl, so I went to east palmdale and started slingin yell. Fo sho! I was makin crazy dough. shoulda dropped outta school a long time ago. Bought a cell phone, like a nut. now I deliver like pizza hut. I drunk whisky and bacardi. I sold dope to anybody. Me and my homies sold dubs and dimes, took turns bustin rhymes just to pass the time. A white man drove up to my spot. he said, hey, homeboy, what you got? I put a fat rock inside his hand. about 25 sheriffs jumped out the van. （get down, punk.） Palmdale, （hell, yeah） come back to me. I need you and I love you, baby. Palmdale, come back to me. （check it out, check it out, check it out.） Cant get drunk. cant get blunted. la county, 95 hundred. Crips wanna take my all-stars. bloods wanna eat my snicker bars. Them peckerwoods dont want none, but the mexicans straight own one. Them essays, （? ? ? ） that essays always try to test me, So I jumped off the bed, cause I aint no punk. jammed his head up against the bunk. Socked that cholo in his chin. black mutha-fuckas scared to jump in. Sheriff broke it up when we hit the floor. I kept talkin shit cause I want some more. Back in town, we get along with the brown. now Im in jail, they tryin to beat me down. Jail is hell, but Ill adapt. wont hesitate to get in a scrap. cause Im down for mine, and thats for certain, sittin in the hole with my knuckles hurtin. （palmdale） Palmdale, （hell, yeah.） come back to me. I need you and I love you, baby. Palmdale, come back to me. （check it out, homeboy.） Now I got a fucked up life. two bad kids and a naggin wife. Dead end job at the airport. check too short to pay the house note. Turn on the tv, then I see different homeboys that went to school with me Playin in the nfl. we used to kick back in east palmdale. Rodney williams. lorenz tate. zeno plays for colorado state. I wish my homeboys much success, but at the same time, I still get depressed. Walkin through the wind with a cup full of gin thinkin bout things that coulda, woulda, shoulda been. I wipe my tears, sip my beers, wish good luck to my peers. （palmdale.） Palmdale, come back to me. I need you and I love you, baby. Palmdale, come back to me. Cause thats where my heartache began, heartache began. Palmdale, come back to me. I need you and I love you, baby. Palmdale, come back to me. Cause thats where my heartache began, heartache began. Palmdale, come back to me. （hey, all the homeboys on the football team, where yall at? ） Palmdale, come back to me. （hey, wherever you at in the world, I dont care if you in japan, africa hey, you know how we used to do it, man. hey, hey, hey.） Yo, let me get a palm （palm!） Yo, let me get a dale （dale!） Yo, what do we sell? （yell!） Yo, where we fittin to go? （we fittin to go back to jail!） Dale. palmdale. （hey, everybody just clap your hands.） Dale. palmdale. （cmon, cmon, cmon. buci-buci-bucccoooc!） Dale. palmdale. Dale. （where them falcons at? ） palmdale. （it aint over til the fat man sings.） Dale. （little rock cant get none. what, what? ） palmdale.
