Lookin' for these better days
Better days hey
better days
Got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Better days
better days
better days
Hey
better days
got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Time to question our lifestyle
look how we live
Smokin' weed like it ain't no thang
so even kids wanna try now
They lie down and get ran through
Nobody watches 'em clockin' the evil man do
Faced with the demons
addicted to hearin' victims screamin'
Guess we was evil since birth
product of cursed semens
'Cause even our birthdays is cursed days
A born thug in the first place
the worst ways
I'd love to see the block in peace
With no more dealers and crooked cops
the only way to stop the beast
And only we can change
It's up to us to clean up the streets
it ain't the same
Too many murders
too many funerals and too many tears
Just seen another brother buried plus I knew him for years
Passed by his family but what could I say?
Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith and pray for better days
Better days
better days
hey
Better days
got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Better days
better days
better days
Hey
better days
got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Thinkin' back as an adolescent
who would've guessed
That in my future years
I'd be stressin'
Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted
Plus my P.O. won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with
Tryin' to keep my head up and stay strong
All my homies slangin' hello all day long but they wrong
So I'm solo and so broke
Savin' up for some Jordan's 'cause they dope
I got a girl and I love her but she broke too and so am I
I can't take her to the place she wanna go to
So we argue and play fight
all day and night
Makin' passionate love 'til the daylight
Plus we about to get evicted
can't pay the rent
Guess it's time to see who really is yo' friend
Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed
So many blessings while we stressin'
lookin' for them better days
Better days
better days
hey
Thinkin' 'bout better days
Better days
better days
better days
Hey
better days
got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Now me and you was real cool
hell on them square fools
Since back in high school
we was true
me and you
Hardly parted or separated
we stayed faded
Affiliated with gang bangers and still made it
Up in the gym
mess with me
gotta mess with him
Still dressin' like grown men when rollin'
I went to dark
smokin' Newports
gamin' marks
Got a place in my heart
homey stay smart
Locked you up in the pen and gave you three to ten
I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends
Hopin' you well
I know it's hell
Doin' time in the cells
you need mail
when you in jail
And me I'm doin' cool
I settled down
had a family
workin' in night school
Every once in a while
I reminisce
And wonder how we ever came to this
I miss the better days
Better days
better days
hey
I'm thinkin' bout better days
Better days
better days
better days
Hey
better days
got me thinkin' 'bout better days
I send this one out
to all the homeboys down in Clinton lock down
Rikers Island
all them dudes I was locked up with
E Block
F Block
lower H
N-I-C in Rikers Island
downstate
All the peoples I met along the way
Better days is comin' homeboy
keep your head up
Better days
better days
better days
Hey
better days
lookin' for the better days
Better days
better days
lookin' for the better days
hey