Better Days Lyrics

Everybody wants respect

But nobody wants to earn it

They put up with the hate

Cause they think that they be learning

My black skin alone

Is a crime cause they don't own it

They hating on my kind

Cause they think they'll get a bonus

I guess it's true

We livin' in a white man's world

It's sad that nothing's new

They killing all my brother's

Like they fresh up out the SHU

But they loving of my culture

Really what we gonna do

We goin' see better days

Days when ain't nobody

Tryna numb the pain

We goin' see better days

Days when corruption doesn't have a say

We goin' see better days

We goin' see better days

Days when everybody is seen equally

Days when God can smile cause we all in grace

Days where we can run a mile

And not be shot in place

We goin' see better days

For goodness sakes

They want us victim to the system

Where they beat us black and blue

Mentally and physically

They still oppressing you

There's a whole spectrum

To what it is they do

There's a bigger picture

Don't act like it ain't true

That's why they steady killing us

They fear what we can do

There ain't no type of bondage

We couldn't make it through

There ain't no type of bondage

We couldn't make it through (Yah)

That's why Rosa rode the bus

M.L.K he spoke for us

Ruby went to school even though they hated us

Viola seen a movie and they made a fuss

All Emmett did was whistle and they lynched him for what

Look, Imma say for the people in the back

Just because we black don't mean

We gon' accept the fact

You mistreating the people who made

Everything you lack

And don't take the credit

Cause you came up off our backs (Yah)

We goin' see better days

Days when ain't nobody

Tryna numb the pain

We goin' see better days

Days when corruption doesn't have a say

We goin' see better days

We goin' see better days

Days when everybody is seen equally

Days when God can smile cause we all in grace

Days where we can run a mile

And not be shot in place

We goin' see better days

For goodness sakes

My melanin is power

Its beauty's like a flower

My melanin is power

its beauty's like a flower

My melanin is power

Its beauty's like a flower

My melanin is power (Yah)

We goin' see better days

Days when ain't nobody

Tryna numb the pain

We goin' see better days

Days when corruption doesn't have a say

We goin' see better days

We goin' see better days

Days when everybody is seen equally

Days when God can smile cause we all in grace

Days where we can run a mile

And not be shot in place

We goin' see better days

For goodness sakes

(Dunna nuh mhmm)