[00:00.21] Lookin' for these better days [00:02.11] Better days hey, better days [00:08.38] Got me thinkin' 'bout better days [00:11.10] Better days, better days, better days [00:16.25] Hey, better days, got me thinkin' 'bout better days [00:21.35] Time to question our lifestyle, look how we live [00:24.15] Smokin' weed like it ain't no thang, so even kids wanna try now [00:28.65] They lie down and get ran through [00:30.78] Nobody watches 'em clockin' the evil man do [00:33.12] Faced with the demons, addicted to hearin' victims screamin [00:35.83] Guess we was evil since birth, product of cursed semens [00:38.23] Cause even our birthdays is cursed days [00:40.98] A born thug in the first place, the worst ways [00:43.93] I'd love to see the block in peace [00:45.80] With no more dealers and crooked cops, the only way to stop the beast [00:48.22] And only we can change [00:51.03] It's up to us to clean up the streets, it ain't the same [00:53.38] Too many murders, too many funerals and too many tears [00:56.37] Just seen another brother buried plus I knew him for years [00:59.05] Passed by his family but what could I say? [01:01.69] Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith and pray for better days [01:06.23] Better days, better days, hey [01:10.47] Better days, got me thinkin' 'bout better days [01:14.26] Better days, better days, better days [01:18.55] Hey, better days, got me thinkin' 'bout better days [01:24.73] Thinkin' back as an adolescent, who would've guessed [01:28.35] That in my future years, I'd be stressin [01:30.24] Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted [01:32.10] Plus my P.O. won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with [01:35.16] Tryin' to keep my head up and stay strong [01:37.57] All my homies slangin' hello all day long but they wrong [01:40.71] So I'm solo and so broke [01:43.28] Savin' up for some Jordan's cause they dope [01:45.85] I got a girl and I love her but she broke too and so am I [01:49.21] I can't take her to the place she wanna go to [01:51.63] So we argue and play fight, all day and night [01:54.61] Makin' passionate love 'til the daylight [01:56.77] Plus we about to get evicted, can't pay the rent [01:59.99] Guess it's time to see who really is yo' friend [02:02.09] Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed [02:04.89] So many blessings while we stressin', lookin' for them better days [02:08.23] Better days, better days, hey [02:15.93] Thinkin' 'bout better days [02:17.58] Better days, better days, better days [02:21.55] Hey, better days, got me thinkin' 'bout better days [02:28.34] Now me and you was real cool, hell on them square fools [02:31.70] Since back in high school, we was true, me and you [02:34.59] Hardly parted or separated, we stayed faded [02:37.12] Affiliated with gang bangers and still made it [02:40.08] Up in the gym, mess with me, gotta mess with him [02:42.46] Still dressin' like grown men when rollin' [02:45.02] I went to dark, smokin' Newports, gamin' marks [02:47.71] Got a place in my heart, homey stay smart [02:50.52] Locked you up in the pen and gave you three to ten [02:52.99] I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends [02:55.67] Hopin' you well, I know it's hell [02:58.15] Doin' time in the cells, you need mail, when you in jail [03:00.74] And me I'm doin' cool [03:02.61] I settled down, had a family, workin' in night school [03:06.25] Every once in a while, I reminisce [03:08.60] And wonder how we ever came to this, I miss the better days [03:12.08] Better days, better days, hey [03:19.26] I'm thinkin' bout better days [03:21.68] Better days, better days, better days [03:25.74] Hey, better days, got me thinkin' 'bout better days [03:32.48] I send this one out, to all the homeboys down in Clinton lock down [03:37.22] Rikers Island, all them dudes I was locked up with [03:40.65] E block, F block, lower H, N-I-C in Rikers Island, downstate [03:49.76] All the peoples I met along the way [03:51.71] Better days is comin' homeboy, keep your head up [03:55.45] Better days, better days, better days [04:00.85] Hey, better days, lookin' for the better days [04:04.23] Better days, better days, lookin' for the better days, hey [04:12.18]