Outside Lyrics - Childish Gambino

1 I used to dream every night, now I never dream at all

2 I'm hopin' that it's cause I'm livin' everything I want

3 I used to wake up in a bed between my mom and aunt

4 Playing with this Land Before Time toy from Pizza Hut

5 My dad works nights, putting on a stone face

6 He's saving up so we can get our own place

7 In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me

8 They called me fat nose, my mom say you handsome to me

9 Mrs. Glover ma'am, your son is so advanced

10 But he's acting up in class and keeps peeing in his pants

11 And I just wanna fit in, but nobody was helping me out

12 They talking hood shit and I ain't know what that was about

13 Cause hood shit and black shit is super different

14 So I'm talking hood shit and cool it now like New Edition

15 Mom and dad wouldn't listen

16 They left the Bronx so I wouldn't be that

17 All their friends in NY deal crack

18 It's weird, you think that they'd be proud of 'em

19 But when you leave the hood they think that you look down on 'em

20 The truth is we still struggle on a different plane

21 7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers, it's all the same

22 Facebook messaging hopin' that could patch up shit

23 But all they get now is, "Can your son read this script?"

24 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

25 Outside, outside

26 We can follow the road

27 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

28 Outside, outside

29 No one knows

30 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

31 Outside, outside

32 We can follow the road

33 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

34 Outside, outside

35 No one knows

36 Yeah

37 Dad lost his job, mama worked at Mrs. Winner's

38 Gun pulled in her face, she still made dinner

39 "Donald watch the meter so they don't turn the lights off"

40 Workin' two jobs so I can get into that white school

41 And I hate it there

42 They all make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair

43 And my uncle on that stuff that got my grandma shook

44 Drug dealers roughed him up and stole his address book

45 He's supposed to pay 'em back

46 He owe 'em money but his bank account is zero

47 So my momma made us sleep with Phillips heads under the pillow

48 Like that would do somethin'

49 But she's got six kids, she's gotta do somethin'

50 She don't want me in a lifestyle like my cousin

51 And he mad cause his father ain't around

52 He lookin' at me now, like

53 "Why you so fuckin lucky? I had a father too

54 But he ain't around so I'mma take it out on you"

55 We used to say "I love you," now we only think that shit

56 It feels weird that you're the person I took sink baths with

57 Street took you over, I want my cousin back

58 The world sayin' what you are because you're young and black

59 Don't believe 'em

60 You're still that kid that kept the older boys from teasin'

61 For some reason

62 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

63 Outside, outside

64 We can follow the road

65 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

66 Outside, outside

67 No one knows

68 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

69 Outside, outside

70 We can follow the road

71 There's a world we can visit if we go outside

72 Outside, outside

73 No one knows

74 Can you hear me now?

75 Can you hear me now?

76 Oh, help us Lord

77 Oh, baby baby baby