[Intro: Blu]

Yeah...

Listen...

[Verse 1: Blu]

I'm trying to find a way up out of this; living at home

Trying to find out who my father is, sitting alone

Bumpin' Common Sense, blown

Not off the chronic, but off the knowledge in his dome

Still astonished, but I gotta move on

See, my mother thinks my problem is I really ain't accomplish shit

21 without a car, scarred, without a scholarship

And some days I don't eat, all I got is pocket lint

And I walk around with cold feet and I'm thinner than my wallet is

But she don't realize, her son is five times dominant

Than most niggas she's honorin'

But she don't see the prominence

Probably fuck around and change the world like Bob Marley did

My talent's apparent, but its fatherless –

So how she gon' acknowledge it?

I hate running away from my problems without solving it proper

I don't wanna be a doctor

I just wanna be the father that my father never bothered to be

My son ain't never have to follow the streets

His role model is me

[Hook: Miguel]

Life can get you down sometimes

We keep movin' on

Just keep your head up high

All things change with time

You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou...

You gon' be alright

Never give up your dreams

Maintain your fight

[Verse 2: Donel Smokes]

Up early in the morning, still yawnin', Mama wakin' me up

If not church it was school, which I didn't give a fuck about neither

A non-believer, you can call me whatever

Doin' dumb shit, like ditchin' class – I knew nothin' better

Instead of treatin' myself, I was cheatin' myself

Trying to be different, when I should have tried being myself

It would have helped if Gramps Sr. was around when I was younger

Left Mama trying to tell me that the gunshots was thunder

I was hearin', trying to sleep over Little Bo Peep

A strong woman, kept seein' fallen tears from her cheeks on my sheets

Was he strong? Was he weak? I don't know...

But it takes something great to leave a family of four

Sometimes it makes no sense at all

Even though we made it over where you fumbled

Mama picked up the ball and scored

Lord, help the man, wherever he is

And give me the strength, so I won't do the same to my kids

That's real

[Hook: Miguel]

Life can get you down sometimes

We keep movin' on

Just keep your head up high

All things change with time

You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou...

You gon' be alright

Never give up your dreams

Maintain your fight

[Verse 3: Co$$]

I gotta get up outta here, I'm a prisoner of pain

I'm a captive to a mind like it's driven insane

It's like I'm livin' for the minute that this livin's explained

I gotta know, if after living will our spirit remain?

Why we hug up on the block and raise our kids in a gang?

And why once we've lived once we never livin' again?

Why my pops shot up the juice and what it did to his veins?

Was them needles from a victim that was inflicted with A.I.D.S?

Is this the reason that he got it? You know why, I suppose

I don't know, and not knowin' is like a knife in my soul

It's real talk, I ain't sure about the life that's beyond

And I don't understand my people, why we fightin' amongst ourselves?

God help us, we ain't right in the head

And I be dreamin' 'bout my problems every night in the bed

I be thinkin' 'bout my path and shit, a nigga feelin' passionate

At the same time enraged 'bout the past, I can't get past the shit

And lookin' back on it, there ain't nothin' to say

I'm too wrapped up in the pain, I feel this numbin' embrace

I get a flash of them streets and what they done to my face

And when he beat me to my knees, he had a gun in his waist

But the beatin' that I took, it wasn't nothin' to take it

Trust me, he'd have killed me if he done it today

I ain't never been no coward, so fuck that runnin' away

You only catch a nigga runnin' if there's something to chase

It's young Co$$

[Hook: Miguel]

Life can get you down sometimes

We keep movin' on

Just keep your head up high

All things change with time

You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou...

You gon' be alright

Never give up your dreams

Maintain your fight

Life can get you down sometimes

We keep movin' on

Just keep your head up high

All things change with time

You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou...

You gon' be alright

Never give up your dreams

Maintain your fight