The Southside Lives

95 blocks south of downtown Chicago is the scene playin in my mind
My Mother and Father God Rest Their Souls raised me to be color blind
They did not discourage my music- they loved to hear my blues
But my whole world changed the day my family moved

I was jumped by circumstances and I’m still learning how to forgive
You can take the boy out of the southside but inside the southside lives

There’s some perfection in the connection I have with my old home
I’m fettered and tethered back in time before everything went wrong
They say you cant go home again-move forward and don’t look back
But the train don’t keep on rollin’ once it’s fallen off the track

I was jumped by circumstances and I’m still learning how to forgive
You can take the boy out of the southside but inside the southside lives

Midnight white flight too wrong to make right my friend
Cold cash bad move-this is how we lost our groove
But we’re getting it back again

I was jumped by circumstances and I’m still learning how to forgive
You can take the boy out of the southside but inside the southside lives