Nellyville

Welcome to Nellyville

Where all newborns get a half a mil'

Sons get sedan DeVilles, soon as they can reach the wheel

And daughters get diamonds the size of their age

Help me out now, one year get one carat, two years get two carats

Three years get three carats, and so on into marriage

Nobody livin' average, everybody jang-a-lang

Nobody livin' savage, e'rybody got change

Even the paperboy deliver out the back of a Range

It's not a game, it's a beautiful thang

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gunplay

Ain't nobody shot, so ain't no news that day

Ain't nobody snitchin', they refuse to say

Every month we take a vote on what the weather should be

And if we vote it rains, know how wet we want it to be

And if we vote it snow, know how deep we want it to get

But the sun gon' shine 99 percent, in Nellyville

There's no way I could explain (I could explain, I could explain)

The way I feel right now

There's no way that I could explain (I could explain, I could explain)

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

I got that good at e'ry gas station, pull on up

Give me a half a ounce of that shit, fill it up

We got straws for the bottles, outlawed the cups

And we gon' make it happen, ain't no need for no luck

Ain't no lotteries, no pick 3's or pick 2's

Keep the money in your family, gamble amongst your crew

'Cause the dice gon' do what the dice gon' do

And if you take a life, you gon' lose yours too

Ain't no trials, it's automatic, you drop 'em right where it happen

You do unto others if you don't want it don't do the cappin'

Think that's cool? 40 Acres and a mule

Fuck that, Nellyville, 40 acres and a pool

Six bedrooms, four bath with a jacuzz'

Six-car garage, pavement smooth

Both front and back deck 'nough room to land a jet

And you ain't reached the city, that's just the projects

There's no way I could explain (I could explain, I could explain)

The way I feel right now

There's no way that I could explain (check it, check it)

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

Well, I wanna go

Please let me go, I need to go

Down to Nellyville

I need to see what I can see

Won't you and me go to Nellyville?

I wanna go so bad

I just wanna go and look

Won't you please take me on in?

I just know I gotta be there

No unexpectancy, like teenage pregnancy

And physical mental attraction your only ecstasy

Your own destiny, create your own recipe

If you ain't livin' accordin' to dirty then you stressin' me

"And who are you?" Who me? I'm the mayor

And any problems you got, I live up there (where's that?)

The house on the hill, welcome mat of fur

When you pass by that thang, be polite and don't stare

There's no way I could explain (I could explain, I could explain)

The way I feel right now

There's no way that I could explain

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

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