Working Class

Yeah Tryna' catch the beat, I'm tryna' Tryna' catch the beat, I'm tryna' Tryna' stay on my feet, I'm tryna' Back on the grind, yeah Been on my mind, yeah Back on my rhymes, yeah Turn my headphones up Uh, yo Wake in the morning, before I brush my teeth Go to look into the fridge, but it's nothing good to eat Forgot I didn't go grocery shopping last week And I still need to call the landlord 'bout that leak in the sink And the vents not blowing out heat But next month, bet he try to go up on the lease And I still gotta hit the laundromat to wash the sheets But the bus be so crowded that I wouldn't find a seat So I'm standing, planning, thinking 'bout my next move How can I get the world to dance to my next groove? (How can I?) Tell me the things I gotta do to try and improve (Tell me) 'Cause lately, the only thing I found is an excuse ('Cause lately) It's telling everything that I can't do (That I can't do) Everything I'm not, and the stuff I can't prove (Stuff I can't prove) And part of me likes to think that it's right That's why the other half of me gotta gear up and fight, ya know Everybody wanna be something But everybody can't always be what they wanna be It was fun for us to dream back then Now we older, so it's back to they plans Everybody wanna be something But everybody can't always be what they wanna be It was fun for us to dream back then Now we older, so it's back to they plans Uh, yo, look And I think that's messed up It's kids that wanna grow to be doctors, lawyers, honest employers That don't implore ya, to work on a dime Fill yo' pockets with money but the crime is the time that we spent (That we spent) Working just to make it to the weekend (Weekend) Too bad, that you spent the whole time sleeping (Sleeping) Monday morning, so it's back to the grind That's the cycle that we in so the actions is blind ya know? Our community is far from unity (Community, unity) You say it's stupidly, I say it's humanly (Stupidly, humanly) Blame the system, it's only but a symptom They try to lock us in, like we living in a prison From a hood, to a country, it's war (It's war!) Little kid on the block only wanna explore (Wanna explore) Now his pastor at the funeral, reading out his eulogy All because the kid got caught wearing his jewelry Everybody wanna be something But everybody can't always be what they wanna be It was fun for us to dream back then Now we older, so it's back to they plans Everybody wanna be something But everybody can't always be what they wanna be It was fun for us to dream back then Now we older, so it's back to they plans Day by day it's getting harder to cope Like walking on a tightrope going farther from hope Because we got a lot of evil all across the globe It makes the pain run deep, so we turn to the dope, it's crazy We got babies without dads, without moms (Without dads, without moms) Going through a world of endless stress and hard times (Hard times) Who could think that a single parent would be apparent? It's like reality come and go I don't understand it But who am I to judge? Who am I to think? I'm just a nobody, nobody, nobody (Nobody, nobody, nobody) Who am I to judge? Who am I to blame? I'm just a nobody, nobody, nobody (Nobody, nobody, nobody) Don't mean to hurt, if I did offend Then I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry (So sorry, so sorry, so sorry) Didn't mean to hurt, if I did offend, I apologize