Now tell me where I gotta go from here
Do I change my life?
Left the alarm clock ringin, wearin that pillow like its part of my image
Let my dreams live about four or five minutes more
Hey send me an angel
Tell her to give me the strength that I need to go on
Commutin through this AM traffic
The road is unclear through the radio static
No manual for life, so I stay in automatic
Dead end job got me livin on front street
Day to day relying on the bread like lunch meat
Is this the life that I worked so hard for?
Now is this debt really worth this armoire
Or this plasma, or this foreign car?
I don’t know, it’s the game I play
Live day by day, let me say my grace
So please let me say my grace
We look for the American dream
They show us our lives on a 20 inch screen
Baby girl, life ain’t everything it seems
The heart is where the home is
And you wonder why we wander like the homeless?
Shit they say you should’ve been a lawyer
But eighty grand in school loans could’ve been avoided
If you’da told the universe what you really wanted, but…
Close your eyes for a moment, maybe you can see

(Hook)
They say that heaven is a place on earth
So please don’t cry, let’s try to wash the pain in those eyes
Baby look up, look up, up to the sky
(So when we gonn fly?)
I know it’s hard, we don’t know what tomorrow brings
Today is for us
So baby look up
Yeah, this is how we live when we don’t let nobody tell us how we live
And everything I am, no longer measured by the things I had
The things I had…So can I live my path?

This is the verse of a lifetime, the realest shit I ever wrote
This is what disturbs me at night time, no sleep bright and early when the light shines
Picture that like a Nikon, 4 minutes
Can I save the world with the right rhyme?
The story of a generation
Had goals for the finish line, but never made it, uh
Old dreams, the good die young
This hateful world never took my love away, away
I know its hard for ya, honey
Dropped out of school to work hard for the money
Daddy out of work, now you gotta pay the mortgage
Just a few months before the bank forecloses
Just the other day, you were thinking bout diplomas
You were thinking bout diplomas
Now I know you need a shoulder, funny how lack of time can make you feel older
But I guess that’s life, nuthin left but to make things right
I know the stars seem far from your window
But its only so far if you think so

(Hook)