Neighborhood Hero

Lyrics

I used to wonder why we had to go through everything we went through...

[Chorus]
We the neighborhood hero.
We the neighborhood hero.
They calling us the neighborhood hero.
Now we the neighborhood hero.

[Verse 1]
Who would’ve thought we would’ve made it?
They want us in prison or in the grave.
Look how the streets showed us no love.
Pop out, we pulling up, we leveled up.
We came from nothing, made it out the projects.
It get hard as it get — made it through them trenches.
It get hard as it get — now we the neighborhood hero.

I put a "B" on myself — I believe in myself.
But all glory to God, ‘cause I can't lean on myself.
Said a prayer through all the hard times,
Now we so far from the hard times.

It's been Your footprint since the start line.
Peep how God, He made me over —
It's still mountains, but they moving now.
Came a long way from the trailer park and juvenile.

They say when you going through hell,
Only the strong will prevail.
When it's all said and done,
You gon' quit or prevail?

[Verse 2]
I don't wanna be no trap star.
I wanna lift my city up.
They don't understand how far I came —
Boy, I'm really up.

I don't want no blood on my hands
With all this blood on my life — from Jesus.
Turn them all to believers.

Jesus beating on my soul — I done let Him in.
Had to wash that pain off my face to give them hope I couldn’t see.
Now I'm the light of the trenches;
He's the light that live in me.

[Chorus]
We the neighborhood hero.
We the neighborhood hero.
They calling us the neighborhood hero.
Now we the neighborhood hero.

[Verse 3]
Nothing left to give, yet we press on.
I don't need no strap or no vest on.
Make me a target, make me whatever,
Paint me whatever.

They ain’t been through what I been through.
They ain’t weathered what I weathered.
Ain’t faced what I done buried,
Ain’t carried what I carried.

It was God the whole time — you don’t understand the feeling.
They don’t understand the stakes.
They ain’t put in what it takes.
You got everything you need when you praying on your face.

[Chorus]
We the neighborhood heroes.
We the neighborhood heroes.
They calling us the neighborhood hero.
Now we the neighborhood hero.

[Outro]
We came from nothing — made it out the projects.
It get hard as it get.
Made it through them trenches — it get hard as it get.
Now we the neighborhood hero.
Trailer park project kids that did.
Amen.