Keisha's Song (Her Pain)

English translation

Fancy girls on Long Beach Boulevard, flagging down all of these flashy cars.

Uh, and Lord knows she's beautiful. Lord knows the usuals leaving her body sore.

She take the little change she make to fix her nail cuticles.

Lipstick is suitable to make you fiend for more. She play Mr. Shakur, that's her favorite rapper.

Bumping Brenda's Got a Baby while a pervert yelling at her.

And she capture features of a woman, but only seventeen, the seven cars start honking.

She start running like Flo Jo.

Don't care if they Joe Blow, if they got money to blow, a blowjob is a sure go. And sure enough, don't see a dime of dirty dollars.

She's giving it all to her daddy, but she don't know her father. That's ironic.

See, a block away from Ludas Park, I seen the El Camino parked.

And in her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where nothing really matters, so she hit the backseat. Rosa Parks never a factor when she making ends meet.

Fancy girls on Long Beach Boulevard, -flagging down all of these flashy cars. -And

Lord knows she's beautiful. Lord knows the usuals leaving her body sore.

Her anatomy is God's temple, and it's quite simple, her castle is 'bout to be destroyed. She's always paranoid, watching the law inside the streets.

Undercovers and dummies that look like decoys.

Remember Sergeant Letterslide said if he seen what's between her thighs, he'll compromise.

To no surprise, she took the ultimatum 'round the alleyway and gave him a warm welcome, then felt him right below the navel.

Though he was wired up like a pair of jumping cables, his eyes was closed shut, prior charges, he had waived them. It was a block away from Ludas Park,

I seen a squad car parked.

And in her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where nothing really matters, so she hit the backseat.

'Cause Rosa Parks never a factor when she topping off police.

Fancy girls on Long Beach Boulevard, flagging down all of these flashy cars.

And Lord knows she's beautiful. Lord knows the usuals leaving her body sore.

As she bust down like a twelve bunk on tour, she suddenly realized she'll never escape the allure of the Black man, white man needing satisfaction.

At first it became a practice, but now she's numb to it.

Sometimes she wonder if she can do it like nuns do it. But she never heard of Catholic religion or sinner's redemption.

That sounds foolish, and you can blame it on her mother for letting her boyfriends slide handy under her cover.

Ten months before she was ten, he moved in and that's when he touched her.

This motherfucker is the fucking reason why Keisha rushing through. That block away from Ludas Park, I seen the El Camino parked.

And in her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where nothing really matters.

Still she hit the backseat, then caught a knife inside the bladder.

Left her there raped in the street, Keisha's song.

Mm.

My little sister, eleven, I looked her right in the face the day that I wrote -this song, sat her down and pressed play.

-Fancy girls on Long Beach Boulevard, flagging down all of these flashy cars.

Fancy girls on Long Beach Boulevard, oh, flagging down all of those flashy cars.