Story Behind The Song

My personal struggle in this world between living to conform for survival, and through conditioning, and living through what my heart tells me is right.

Song Description

Personal reflection and analysis on the way that I am living and the world and society which I adhere to. Questioning the need for change, even to the point of being revolutionary. Does a contradiction lie between how God wants us to live and how our parents, teachers and government have all told us.

Lyrics

A Better Day
Spoken:
Who?s going to lead this world? The hands of a corrupt government? Our superstar role models who are only concerned with pleasing themselves? Stand up if it?s gonna be you and rap this with me.
Verse 1:
Too many people die fast from the world around them/ The cost of working two jobs tossed in clouds/ But how can you strive any other way/ Society sighs as they drive for pay/ Realizing lives lost is a daily struggle/ So now we?re not even phased by this daily bubble/ Unless direct, then we get our glasses back/ Only to lose them again in this daily back-breaking/ Paths sway/ Mama shaking in bed/ Depending on her kids now to be fed/ Too old to be working, too young to die/ So her young try and help her with remorse inside/ The course is high on the weed on money/ Too weak to save lives, only buys us honey/ But that seems to be enough for the folks today/ A big race to the top of the U.S.A./
Chorus:
I don?t want to live like this forever
Deep inside I know there?s a better way
But I can?t see the sunshine through this weather
Being strong?s forgetting what people might say
The path to a better day.
Verse 2:
And so we make more, therefore we can take the trips/ Italy, France, anywhere to leave our ship/ Just a fool sitting back questioning this tray/ But daddy says since the dawn of time it had to be this way/ So we fight to stay on top/ The rich get stronger while the poor fall off/ It?s a crazy system but no one?s complaining/ Except the rest of the world because they want a plate of it too/ Yet they don?t push hard/ Only ridiculing us for our nonchalantness/ Want a fish dinner? Go and kill the beast/ Don?t count on me or you?ll never get the food you need/ Diminishing intellectual ability man/ Laziness traps you in a futility can/ Every man for themselves, see how far we go/ It?s the path to corruption, yet we walk that road everyday/.
Chorus
Verse 3:
Tears fill the floor around me when I go to church/ Self-examination?s easy but inside it hurts/ These lips have praised God for the things I have/Then cursed others, not the right way to last/ The seeds of watching television feed our lusts/ Every channel speaking loudly: in sex we trust/ So under, speaking God?s Word in school is forbidden/ No hope for kids balanced since the bible was driven out/ For public institutions to teach on life/
Evolution moved in as a learning device/ And a theory is ingrained in the kids as fact/ Brainwashing every aspect of how we act/ Most religions teaching us the same moral ways/ Yet we kill each other over it, immorals praised/ The game is played daily and so it goes/ Checkmate, fate taken to a place of woes/.
Chorus