[Verse 1]

If I knew it yesterday

Would have bid myself another prayer

Tell my baby to love the way

She remembered me, not me disappearing

What really made us separate, wasn't cause of failing our needs

But color and the time and place

Cost my life and killed the man of her dreams

[Chorus]

You could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy

And you could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy

[Verse 2]

Was just another summer day

Walking home and passing Time Square

Worked tonight the normal way

But it was different there was tension in the air

Just a couple blocks away

Were a dozen cops looking for thief

The type of man they had to prey

Fit the image they had of me

[Verse 3]

I came around the corner when

They were sticking out they told me I should freeze

I was scared, dropped my wallet by mistake

Tried to run under the gun, innocently

[Chorus]

But you could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy

And you could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus]

But you could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy

And you could shoot me down, in the streets

But in the music lives the spirit of my legacy