This Town Letra

this town has gone down hill fast it's all boarded windows and broken glass somebody let that big dog out and no-one gives a man the benefit of the doubt i'm parnell brown and i lived in this town when i was still in my teens i ran that levee when i was training heavily to get into the basket ball teams i've caught crawfish in the canal which ran where those buildings are stood they bit me hard and left me scarred but damn didn't the taste good this town... there was a time i could park in this hood and not even lock my car i had respect in the housing project 'cause i was the basket ball star i lived in that shot gun house the one by st claude bridge look hard and imagine that yard if it wasn't full of the neighbor's garbage this town has gone down hill fast it's all boarded windows and unmown grass there are things you don't know about so give a stranger the benefit of the doubt i moved to florida to play college ball I've been away twelve years only came back here last fall and i tell you this town has gone down hill fast its all boarded windows and broken glass the guns are all one talks about and no one gives a man the benefit of the doubt