[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:   I'm a man I gotta take care of my family   fighting these pressures in my life   I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys   But these streets won't say goodbye      I can't say goodbye   (to the blocks)   goodbye   (to the hood)    goodbye   (to the streets)   I can't say goodbye   (to the hood)   goodbye   (to the blocks)   goodbye   (to the streets)   I can't say goodbye    (to the blocks)   goodbye   (to the streets)   goodbye   (to the hood)   I can't say goodbye   (to the hood)   goodbye   (to the blocks)   goodbye   (to the homies)      [Verse 1 - Snoop Dogg]:   I guess it's true, you can't take the hood out the homeboy   plus, my hood just lost another homeboy   another one got life, and we don't know, if he coming home boy   They in the street tell me "just leave it alone boy,   let them do them take care of your own boy"   But I said back break a bound, before I was grown boy   you had dreams of being a dope boy   yeah, I was runnin' from the po po,   Banging for the turf,   late night huntin', puttin' me in work    good day comin', airbrushed shirt,   pay day, got the spot, got my hair cut first   made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church   yeah I live in the burbs, but I think 21st   I know since I left that it's gotten much worse   but I'd still be there, if I couldn't write a verse      [Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:   I'm a man I gotta take care of my family   fighting these pressures in my life   I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys   But these streets won't say goodbye      [Verse 2 - Snoop Dogg]:   To the blocks that raised me   the enemies and the homies that made me   tough enough to hang on the corners that would mould me   critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me,    but if they think the old me ever left, then they don't really know me,   and don't know, we don't change, we just become OG   you always addicted to the life, you just don't OD   shit I owe the streets before they owe me   took me in when my momma didn't want me   to wild to be a child, and pops not around now   all I got now is the homies, to teach me   how to be a man and whatnot   how to break ounces into grams and whatnot   the reason I'm so nice with my hands and whatnot   shit man you think I forgot?      [Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:   I'm a man I gotta take care of my family   fighting these pressures in my life   I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys   But these streets won't say goodbye      [Verse 3 - Snoop Dogg]:   Thank god every day that the boy could spit   and all around the world they enjoyin' my shit   I know I got plenty more wars to get   I got a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids   but it wouldn't be right if I ignored the shit   that made me how I am, the music and the man   told me that I can before the world gave a damn   if it wasn't for my niggas sayin' stick to the plan   probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand   probably be doin' a dub and the pen with my man   they say leave the streets but don't really understand   all I had was the block, when I didn't have fans   rapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins    all I had was the homies when I didn't have kids   if it all come down and my career was to end, I'm sure my name   would live.. in these streets      [Chorus - Charlie Wilson]:   I'm a man I gotta take care of my family   fighting these pressures in my life   I know my mind should be on shining and getting Grammys   But these streets won't say goodbye      I just can't say goodbye      I can't say goodbye   goodbye   goodbye   goodbye   I can't say goodbye   goodbye   goodbye   I cant say goodbye   goodbye   goodbye   goodbye   I can't say goodbye      You can take the man out the streets,   but you can't take the streets out the man