Better days

[00:01.56] Better days, better days

[00:05.54] Hey, better days

[00:08.46] Got me thinkin' about better days

[00:10.33] Better days, better days, better days

[00:10.59] Hey, better days

[00:11.12] Got me thinkin' about better days

[00:12.98] Thinkin' back as an adolescent, who would've guessed

[00:15.37] That in my future years I'd be stressin'?

[00:18.03] Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted

[00:20.71] Plus my P.O. won't let me hang

[00:22.82] With the brothers I grew up with

[00:26.81] Tryin' to keep my head up and stay strong

[00:28.15] All my homies slangin' yayo all day long

[00:29.48] But they wrong, so I'm solo and so broke

[00:32.67] Savin' up for some Jordan's, 'cause they dope

[00:35.59] I got a girl and I love her, but she broke too

[00:38.80] And so am I; I can't take her to the places she wanna go to

[00:41.98] So, we argue and play fight, all day and night

[00:46.50] Makin' passionate love 'til the daylight

[00:48.62] Plus we about to get evicted, can't pay the rent

[00:52.61] Guess it's time to see who really is your friend

[00:55.27] Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed

[00:58.20] So many blessings while we stressin'

[01:00.85] Lookin' for them better days

[01:02.18] Always talkin shit

[01:03.78] Took your advice

[01:05.10] And did the opposite

[01:07.76] Just being young and stupid

[01:10.42] Oh

[01:13.88] I haven't been all that you

[01:16.00] Could have hoped for

[01:17.06] But I you held on

[01:18.39] A little longer

[01:19.98] You'd have had more reasons

[01:22.37] To be proud

[01:24.23] Oh

[01:26.09] So many questions

[01:29.01] But I'm talking to myself

[01:31.94] I know that you can't hear me

[01:35.93] Anymore, not anymore

[01:38.33] So much to tell you

[01:41.25] And most of all goodbye

[01:44.46] But I know that you can't hear me

[01:47.42] Anymore

[01:50.61] So much to tell you

[01:53.01] And most of all goodbye

[01:53.84] But I know that you can't hear me

[01:54.90] Anymore

[01:55.96] Now, me and you was real cool, hell on them square fools

[01:56.76] Since back in high school, we was true, me and you

[01:58.63] Hardly parted or separated, we stayed faded

[02:00.75] Affiliated with gang-bangers and still made it

[02:02.87] Up in the gym, mess with me, gotta mess with him

[02:06.59] Still dressin' like grown men when rollin'

[02:09.25] Out in the dark, smokin' Newports, gamin' marks

[02:11.92] Got a place in my heart, homie, stay smart

[02:15.11] Locked you up in the pen, and gave you three to ten

[02:18.30] I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends

[02:21.23] Hopin' you well, I know it's hell

[02:24.14] Doin' time in the cells, you need mail when you in jail

[02:27.59] And me, I'm doin' cool

[02:29.75] I settled down, had a family, workin' a night school

[02:34.00] Every once in a while, I reminisce

[02:36.93] And I wonder how we ever came to this; I miss the better days

[02:40.39] Always talkin shit

[02:42.25] Took your advice

[02:44.10] And did the opposite

[02:45.97] Just being young and stupid

[02:48.89] Oh

[02:51.81] I haven't been all that you

[02:53.67] Could have hoped for

[02:55.27] But I you held on

[02:56.59] A little longer

[02:58.19] You'd have had more reasons

[02:59.78] To be proud

[03:02.17] Oh

[03:04.29] So many questions

[03:06.96] But I'm talking to myself

[03:10.42] I know that you can't hear me

[03:13.07] Anymore, not anymore

[03:16.53] So much to tell you

[03:19.72] And most of all goodbye

[03:22.90] But I know that you can't hear me

[03:25.56] Anymore

[03:28.75] Time to question our lifestyle, look how we live

[03:30.87] Smokin' weed like it ain't no thing, so even kids

[03:33.53] Wanna try now, then lie down and get ran through

[03:36.71] Nobody watches 'em, clockin' the evil man do

[03:40.70] Faced with the demons

[03:42.57] Addicted to hearin' victims screamin'

[03:43.90] Guess we was evil since birth, product of cursed semens

[03:46.83] 'Cause even our birthdays is cursed days

[03:50.01] A born thug in the first place, the worst ways

[03:52.93] I'd love to see the block in peace

[03:56.65] With no more dealers and crooked cops

[03:59.05] The only way to stop the beast

[04:00.64] And only we can change

[04:02.23] It's up to us to clean up the streets, it ain't the same

[04:04.64] Too many murders, too many funerals, and too many tears

[04:07.82] Just seen another brother buried

[04:09.42] Plus I knew him for years

[04:11.28] Passed by his family, but what could I say?

[04:13.94] Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith

[04:16.59] And pray for better days

[04:18.19] Always talkin shit

[04:20.31] Took your advice

[04:21.94] And did the opposite

[04:24.32] Just being young and stupid

[04:27.24] Oh

[04:30.17] I haven't been all that you

[04:31.76] Could have hoped for

[04:33.39] But I you held on

[04:35.51] A little longer

[04:36.58] You'd have had more reasons

[04:38.17] To be proud

[04:40.04] Oh

[04:42.70] So many questions

[04:45.63] But I'm talking to myself

[04:47.75] I know that you can't hear me

[04:51.47] Anymore, not anymore

[04:54.92] So much to tell you

[04:58.11] And most of all goodbye

[05:01.04] But I know that you can't hear me

[05:04.21] Anymore

[05:10.07] So much to tell you

[05:11.92] And most of all goodbye

[05:13.25] But I know that you can't hear me