Block Ledger 2 2

Intro

Ledger with the pen

Sable on the mic

Verse 1 – male vocal

I learned to read in the alley behind the block

Scrawled my name on a brick when I was ten years old

The principal don't teach this curriculum no more

Only what's in the books, not what we had to endure

Marcus kept the count of how many nights it rained

Kept the same five numbers in his head like a refrain

Chorus

Block ledger, block ledger

Everything that happened on this street is written here

Block ledger, block ledger

I'm signing off every debt with a pen and a prayer

Verse 2 – male vocal

Fifteen years later, the bakery's open wide

Denny's in charge of dough, I'm running the front line

Sable's behind me on the mic spitting out bars that ring

Ledger on his side book-keepin', never let us lose what we scarred

Chorus

Block ledger, block ledger

Everything that happened on this street is written here

Block ledger, block ledger

I'm signing off every debt with a pen and a prayer

Verse 3 – male vocal

Some of them moved out to the suburbs

But they still pay their portion of the interest each month

Not in cash no more but a bank transfer clean

This ain't just about what we owed, this is about what we learned

We never let our numbers add up wrong

Bridge – layered ad-libs

Block ledger...

Concrete diploma...

Rode for each other...

Paid it back slowly...

Chorus

Block ledger, block ledger

Everything that happened on this street is written here

Block ledger, block ledger

I'm signing off every debt with a pen and a prayer