Aloe Blacc - The window

What do you see when you look out your window?
What do you see when you look out your window?
What do you see when you look out your window?
What do you see when you look out your window?

She lookin' out the window, she see the cause passin'
She see the brothers on the stoop crackin' jokes, laughin'
She see the little boys holdin' little girls hands
And grown women gettin' kissed by their grown mans
She see the corner market, some kids runnin' out and
The owner with a broomstick chasin' them, shoutin'
She watch the street lights flicker
when the sun fall
Every momma at the doorstep when they call
Every child to shuffle up to a hot plate
Lights out in the house when it got late
She see the freaks comin', they out track runnin'
She see they management smack 'em when they lack fundin'
She watch the block lurkers
supply the rock searchers
Street geologist, never studied at colleges
She see the bums gather 'round the oil drums
And the same chucks is still up on the wire
where they hung
She lookin' out the window into someone else home
She see the silhouette of someone else gettin' smacked on

What do you see when you look out your window?
Do you see drugs and violence? Thugs and silence?
What do you see when you look out your window?
Or white picket fences, green grass
What do you see when you look out your window?
Kids playin' or kids gettin' shot up?

He lookin' at his pops puttin' his hands on her
He wish that he could do somethin' to protect his momma
He think that someday he gonna get up out of there
And take his momma from the drama and the constant fear
He sit up in the next room, close to the wall and
Drop tears with his momma when he hear her ballin'
Fall asleep and have nightmares about the beatin's
He not talkin' so nobody know
his thoughts are keepin'
He not speakin' but he learnin' from a bad example
Watchin' the violence get repeated like a loop sample
He watch his momma get cooked clean, work hard
While his pops sit around till his head nod
He knows it's wrong to hate,
but he can't do nuttin else
Plus he feel like he would have to protect himself
He found the answer to his problems in a shoebox
They heard the sound of his solution down two blocks
Pow *gunshots*

What do you see?
Yeah, what you see when you look out your window?
What do you see?
You seein' all blue skies? Birds flyin'?
What do you see when you look out your window?
Or is it a rainy day? Storm clouds
You know

She lookin' out the window, she hear the gun blastin'
Pretty soon she hearin' sirens and lights flashin'
The whole block is up, people is comin' out
She hears the broken hearted cries of a lady shout
She see the white sheets and the red stain
And the face of a child, full of hurt and pain
She see the cuffs on him, and see his momma callin'
For the law, but it seem like the law forgot him
He in the backseat, lookin' up at her and
That's when the father came into the room
and closed the curtain
She ain't lookin' out the window no more
She ain't lookin' out the window no more
She ain't lookin' out the window no more
She can't look out the window no more
Can't look out the window no more
Can't explain half the things she saw no more

What do you see when you look out your window?
Is it liquor stores? Crackheads and whores?
What do you see when you look out your window?
Is it ex-cons who just came
from behind bars?
What do you see when you look out your window?
Is it police chases?
What do you see when you look out your window?
Bums on the streets with they hungry faces?