Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Can-O-Corn, artist - Coolio.
Date of issue: 18.07.1994
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Can-O-Corn |
Back in the days when I was a young buck |
Stuck like a truck gettin shit outta luck |
Times was rough and I didn’t have a plan |
I was barely on the edge of my life as a man |
It’s really fucked up when there’s dope in the crib |
No food in the kitchen for the motherfuckin kids |
That’s why a young nigga learned how to steal, see |
Shopliftin laid me a whole lotta meals |
But I remember days when the cupboard was bare and |
Life was unfair but who the fuck cares? |
I still hear Momma, what she used to tell me That you don’t get shit in this life for free |
And even if I never ever make it to the mountain top |
Fuck it! |
I fight for my hip-hop |
Not everybody can relate to what I been through |
Even though some front and they try to pretend to Know about the life of a kid and the strife |
Where he has to live in the shadow of a base-pipe |
Good goes to bad, bad goes to worse |
And pretty soon he’s stealin from his own Momma’s purse |
So clean out ya ears and open up your eyes |
I reach out to touch but somebody moved the sky |
My stomach is growlin, word is born |
Cos all I had for dinner was a can-o-corn |
BRIDGE |
A can-o-corn, a can-o-corn |
All I had for dinner was a can-o-corn |
A can-o-corn, a can-o-corn |
Before I went to school I had a can-o-corn |
A can-o-corn, a can-o-corn |
I tried to get full off a can-o-corn |
A can-o-corn, a can-o-corn |
That’s all the fuck that we had in the kitchen |
A few years later, I pledge a legions to the set |
I’m growin up but I ain’t grown yet |
It’s funny how the strain in a life filled with pain |
Can sometimes leave a bitch stained on the brain |
I’m sittin in the restaurant, guardin my food like a eagle |
Pickin up scraps like a seagull |
Waitin on the people at the next table to leave a tip |
So I can put it in my pocket |
Phoney Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the stork |
We was poor as fuck so we ate a lot of pork |
And it ain’t no motherfuckin way no how |
When it come up I let you bring me down |
So I stick to the boots and I’m down with a MAAD group |
Of gangstas and hoodlums, but you can call em 'scroops' |
Give me liberty or give me death |
Cos a man without pride ain’t got shit left, huh |
And now that I’m older with kids of my own |
I put me in the pot where it used to be a bone |
Get’cha self together, word is born |
Cos a man can’t live on a can-o-corn |