[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Thinkin'✦ back as an adolescent
Who would've 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
Savin'✦ up for some Jordans ‘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 play fight, 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
Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed✦
So many✦ blessings while we stressin',✦ lookin'✦ for them better✦ days (For better✦ days)
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
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 stayed 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
Got a 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 cells, 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 I wonder✦ how we ever✦ came to this; I miss the better✦ days
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
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, hehe
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!