Pavement Promise 2 (version 2)

Intro

Six years down the block

Last name on a list that never got crossed out

Verse

Tay said we gon' leave before I turned twenty-five

Marcus had a plan to get us all out alive

I kept count of every loan, every handout too

Every promise made when we was nothing but youth, boo

The block took our mothers and it took our time

But the same pavement that done us wrong did make us shine

Pre-Chorus

You still remember what I told you back then?

I'm gon' hold to my word till the very end

Six of us started with a promise in the dark

Now we making our own light, tearing down the spark

Chorus

Pavement promise, pavement promise, I ain't never forgot it

Pavement promise, pavement promise, this one gonna set me free

Verse

DeShawn took that hit for us when he was still in college

Said we gon' carry his name to the other side, college

Rosa built a business where every hand that lifted helped her keep hers

Little cousin growing up reading our old address on the street sign

Pre-Chorus

You still remember what I told you back then?

I'm gon' hold to my word till the very end

Six of us started with a promise in the dark

Now we making our own light, tearing down the spark

Chorus

Pavement promise, pavement promise, I ain't never forgot it

Pavement promise, pavement promise, this one gonna set me free

Bridge

It ain't just about the money that we been trying to find

This is 'bout a whole street of people finally getting on our grind

I said before we gon' leave before I was old

That's what kept us going through all them days when we felt cold