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