Knowmads - Better World lyrics

I never knew that life would be this way
For all my peoples in the struggle
Who got bills to pay
I heard another young kid
Done got killed today
And I can't understand the reason
God I feel your pain
While we sin and then we blame
It on the times we live
We shouldn't have to work this
Hard just to be positive
I don't wanna hear you tell me
That's the way it is
Cus don't we all know the world
Should be better than this

Aye yo it's more than just a story
That you watch on the news
If you think they're ain't a problem
Then I'm talkin' to you
Like just the other day another kid


Got shot for his shoes
They gettin picked up from prison
As they dropin from schools
Why they give us lack of
Options tax dollars for troops
Then got the nerve to turn around and
Ask whats wrong with the youth
Most of y'all stuck in the middle
Tryin to offer a truce
Watch as they put they hands
Up still the officer shoots
Im done fightin these laws
Done dealing with cops
I aint done doin dirt
I'm just done gettin caught
Couldn't do it for myself but I
Can do it for pops
Its twice as hard to ask for help
When you could use it a lot
But, I'm so glad I listened when
He said we needed to talk
Just a week after that my
Boy J-weezy got locked
And now he's lookin' at 10 but
Get out who knows when
So until that day imma sing
It again and again
I never knew that life would be this way
For all my peoples in the struggle
Who got bills to pay
I heard another young kid
Done got killed today
And I can't understand the reason
God I feel your pain
While we sin and then we blame
It on the times we live
We shouldn't have to work this
Hard just to be positive
I don't wanna hear you tell me
That's the way it is
Cus don't we all know the world
Should be better than this

Somebody tell me what's the meaning of life
When people sleeping on the streets
God this shit isn't right
You at the strip club throwing dollars
Making it rain right offa skid row kids be
Putting H in they veins
I know some people chasing money
And the corporate thing
But sorta lost their value to me
Cus their morals have changed
We on our cellphones scrolling for
The fortune and fame
Feels like the best that we could hope
For is more of the same
The way they misuse religion god
It hurts my soul
To shame a woman for abortion
Or her birth control
When she can't afford a mortgage
Or put food on the stove
And the housing scandal went and dug
Us deep in a hole
Now bury the truth beneath a pile of money
Another cop on paid leave without
A trial or nothing uh
Blame the victim it's time
To change the system
I keep on praying for the day
The world gon finally listen cmon
I never knew that life would be this way
For all my peoples in the struggle
Who got bills to pay
I heard another young kid
Done got killed today
And I can't understand the reason
God I feel your pain
While we sin and then we blame
It on the times we live
We shouldn't have to work this
Hard just to be positive
I don't wanna hear you tell me
That's the way it is
Cus don't we all know the world
Should be better than this

I wonder if the sunshine feel the rain
I wonder if the government feel ashamed
We gon sing until we see things change
Cus we don't believe it gotta be this way
I wonder if the sunshine feel the rain
I wonder if the government feel ashamed
We gon sing until we see things change
Cus we don't believe it gotta be this way