[00:00.49]Lookin for these better days
[00:04.51]Better days  heyyy  Better days
[00:09.33]Got me thinkin bout better days
[00:12.32]Better days  Better days  better days
[00:16.58]Heyyy  Better days
[00:20.01]Got me thinkin bout better days
[00:22.51]Time to question our lifestyle  look how we live
[00:25.08]Smokin **** like it ain't no thang  so even kids
[00:27.83]Wanna try now  they lie down and get ran through
[00:30.89]Nobody watched 'em clockin the evil man do
[00:33.51]Faced with the demons  addicted to hearin victims screamin
[00:36.08]Guess we was evil since birth  product of cursed s***ns
[00:38.70]Cause even our birthdays is cursed days
[00:41.47]A born thug in the first place  the worst ways
[00:44.41]I'd love to see the block in peace
[00:46.41]With no more dealers and crooked cops  the only way to stop the beast
[00:49.84]And only we can change
[00:51.15]It's up to us to clean up the streets  it ain't the same
[00:54.41]Too many murders  too many funerals and too many tears
[00:56.59]Just seen another brother buried plus I knew him for years
[00:59.90]Passed by his family  but what could I say
[01:02.16]Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith
[01:04.47]And pray for better days
[01:06.54]Better days  better days  heyyy
[01:10.60]Better days   got me thinkin bout better days
[01:15.67]Better days  better days  better days
[01:19.98]Heyyy  Better days
[01:23.23]Got me thinkin bout better days
[01:25.98]Thinkin back as an adolescent  who would've guessed
[01:28.79]That in my future years  I'd be stressin
[01:30.92]Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted
[01:33.23]Plus my P O  won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with
[01:36.61]Tryin to keep my head up and stay strong
[01:38.61]All my homies slangin llello all day long  but they wrong
[01:41.80]So I'm solo and so broke
[01:43.80]Savin up for some Jordan's  cause they ****
[01:46.36]I got a girl and I love her but she broke too  and so am I
[01:49.98]I can't take her to the place she wanna go to
[01:52.61]So we argue and play fight  all day and night
[01:55.11]Makin passionate love 'til the daylight
[01:57.42]Plus we about to get evicted  can't pay the rent
[02:00.29]Guess it's time to see who really is yo' friend
[02:03.23]Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed
[02:05.49]So many blessings while we stressin
[02:07.18]Lookin for them better days
[02:08.36]For better days  better days  better days  heyyy
[02:14.34]Better days   got me thinkin bout better days
[02:19.21]Better days  better days  better days
[02:23.39]Heyyy  Better days   got me thinkin bout better days
[02:29.27]Now me and you was real cool  hell on them s****e fools
[02:32.59]Since back in high school  we was true  me and you
[02:35.39]Hardly parted or seperated  we stayed faded
[02:37.39]Affiliated with g******gers and still made it
[02:40.46]Up in the gym  mess with me  gotta mess with him
[02:43.28]Still dressin like grown men when rollin
[02:45.71]I went to dark  smokin Newports  gamin marks
[02:48.46]Got a place in my heart  homey stay smart
[02:51.15]Locked you up in the pen  and gave you three to ten
[02:53.96]I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends
[02:56.89]Hopin you well  I know it's hell
[02:58.90]Doin time in the cells  you need mail  when you in jail
[03:01.90]And me I'm doin cool
[03:03.65]I settled down  had a family  workin in night school
[03:06.96]Every once in a while  I reminisce
[03:09.21]And wonder how we ever came to this
[03:11.40]I miss the better days
[03:13.21]Better days  better days  heyyy
[03:17.71]Better days   I'm thinkin bout better days
[03:22.52]Better days  better days  better days
[03:26.83]Heyyy  Better days   got me thinkin bout better days
[03:33.71]I send this one out  to all the homeboys down in uh  Clinton lockdown
[03:38.21]Rikers Island  all them dudes I was uh locked up with  hehe
[03:43.15]E Block  F Block  lower H
[03:46.57]N-I-C in Rikers Island  downstate
[03:50.64]All the peoples I met along the way
[03:53.48]Better days is comin homeboy  keep your head up
[03:55.61]Better days  better days  better days
[03:57.73]Heyyy  Better days   uhh  lookin for the better days
[04:05.17]Better days  better days  lookin for the better days
[04:09.23]Heyyy  Hahaha