Looking for these better days

Better days, heyBetter days

Got me thinkin′ 'bout better days

Better days, better days, better days

Hey, better days

Got me thinking ′bout better days

Time to question our lifestyle, look how we live

Smoking weed like it ain't no thing, so even kids wanna try now

Then lie down and get ran through

Nobody watches 'em clocking, 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, are 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 your 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 have 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

Tryna keep my head up and stay strong

All my homies slangin′ yayo all day long

But they wrong, so I'm solo and so broke

Saving 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 playfight, 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 your friend

You tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed

So many blessings while we stressin′

Lookin' for them better days (For better days)

Better days, better days

Hey, better days

(Oh, better days)

Thinkin′ 'bout better days

(I'm looking for better)

Better days, better days, better days

Hey, better days (Oh, 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 stay 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′

Out in the dark, smokin' Newports, gamin′ marks

Gotta place in my heart, homie 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 cell you need mail, when you in jail

And me I'm doin′ cool

I settled down had a family, workin′ and 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, better days

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, uh, Clinton lockdown

Rikers Island, all them dudes I was, uh, 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

Lookin′ for the better days, hey

Better days, mhm (Better days)

Lookin' for the better days (And oh)

Better days, better days

Lookin' for the better days, hey (Haha)