[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