Guns & Roses - Vince Staples

Guns and roses, another young boy lost, another fallen soldier

Younger brother tears falling on his mother shoulder

She got some tears of her own, wished she had loved him stronger.

13 but he grown, you see the gun he holding

That was made for a man, the rush he get when he load it

Is one you won’t understand, unless you hold it and blow it

Granny moved from New Orleans searching for better life

Her troubled cardiac is all she got

Eating at McDonald’s by the laundomat

Daughter was 17, she just want to know where the party at

Met somebody that night, fucked him, he never called her back

Now her oldest bastard son sitting in that casket young

Guns and roses, another young girl lost, you see her heart was broken

She used to love so strong, until she got done wrong

Ain’t wanna feel no guilt, she blamed it all on home

But still it felt so real, and since she lied so well

Her parents never could tell where she was really at

Now is it really love, or is it just another lie to fuck inside his mama truck

Raw like the emotions of her crying that night

Her pillow soaked, she missed the hope she had as a kid

But he doing all the things that her dad never did

He’ll be the dad of the kid if she had it, but still he’d rather not

Steal her mother’s car, hit the bar just to grab a shot

From the guns and roses

Living young and hopeless

Guns and roses, I had it all in my home but mother never noticed

The neighborhood where I roamed was known for countless encounters of people

pressing they line

I try to stay in my boundary, when bounty’s placed on your head for shit you

never had did

You just conform to survive, not trying sit in no pit, I like me better alive

357's for 6, 11 fit in your 9

I take them both when I dip cause I ain’t dying today

The shit’s a game that we play what you bang where you stay

Before you answer just spray, they’ll never see it coming

Hit a man, woman, child or dog cause it’s mine before yours, its 2 weapons of

war

Its guns and roses

Young

Victim of the guns and roses