[Verse 1 - Blueprint]

Ten girls stabbed on a college campus

Twenty school-kids gunned down in Sandy Hook

A black teenager is murdered over skin color

It feel like the chaos is everywhere you look

Thirty Afghans killed at a family wedding

Sixty Iraqi killed trying to vote

A woman gets gang-raped down in India

Five kids' lives get ended by a drone

I don't care if you living in a high-rise

You're no different from a man in a hut

Every single life is sacred in God's eyes

You ain't worth more cause you got more stuff

I don't care what the color of your skin is

I don't care 'bout your fortune and fame

I just want for us to have more perspective

And understand that everybody's pain is the same

Perspective

Bird's eye view

It's beautiful up here

[Verse 2 - Blueprint]

Understanding and empathy for all others

Appreciation as a have for the have-not's

Recognizing people's worth is decided

By the content of character and not what they got

I get upset cause it seem so hard for us

When we lie to ourselves we sound so crazy

We tell ourselves that they don't work as hard as us

They could be like us if they just weren't lazy

I think it's just an excuse

That allow us to treat them as less human

Cause once we begin to take it as the truth

It justifies all the evil things that we do to them

Some people work hard and barely scrape by

Others work hard and end up rich

It doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate success

But understand the systematic hurdles that exist

Perspective

Bird's eye view

It's beautiful up here, might shed a tear

[Verse 3 - Blueprint]

A man with no shoes stands on a corner

Sad about his circumstance and being on the street

Then realized that it wasn’t that bad

When he was joined by another man that had no feet

A woman makes a post on facebook

About how she and her brother got beef

Unaware it was read by a friend of her’s

Whose own brother passed away just last week

Boston gets hit by a dirty bomb

A hundred people injured, three people died

Rare for us but for many that's the norm

The daily threat of an attack is part of their lives

I ain't sayin' what we feel ain't real

But understand just what it means to be privileged

That's when you ignore the circumstances of those

Less fortunate than you, that you don't have to live in

Perspective

Bird's eye view

It's beautiful up here, might shed a tear