Everyday (I Pray)

I'll pray, I'll pray (yeah)

I'll pray for a bright day, though it won't come my way

Lord, I pray, I'll pray

I'm prayin' for a bright day, though it don't come my way, everyday

Everyday there's a target to lock

Another day, another bomb to be dropped, now

Another man bein' shot with a Glock

Right in front of a tank bombarded with rocks

They say your home is a castle to men, but

Sometimes, the home is a battle to them

Another clip, hot still to the skin, and

Another fight for what's righteous to them, now (everyday)

Whose guns are those? Who gave? And

I thought we were all in debt, so who paid?

Them laced up, black suit, wearin' C.R.E.A.M.'n'oes

Got yo' dude's debts and yo' pricey ass medicals

I can't peep what the world's has up on us

Deep sleep, got my eyes and my ears under covers

Everyday, I try to run from my truths

But I still dream of these blood (listen) baths in these gutters

You see (everyday), 'cause everyday we lose our face

And everyday another brudda has to catch a case

And everyday, most people wake up in a rat race

They don't really know that they cap papes

And everyday it's just the same old problems

And everyday politicians go to work

And pretend that they tryna solve 'em, but they not really

Everyday, I feel close, but I'm not nearly close enough (I pray)

And everyday I hope for love, look, our bodies were designed

So, they fit together, we're supposed to hug

Everyday, I see drugs in the form of the food that we eat

And the caffeine that we put in our mugs

Everyday, we judge someone else

So, it could be our own gestures

And everyday I wake, find I feel over restless

But I don't need money and I don't need a Lexus, no, everyday

I'll pray, I'll pray

I'll pray for a bright day, though it won't come my way

Lord, I pray, I'll pray

I'm prayin' for a bright day, though it won't come my way

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, I'll pray

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, I'll pray

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, I'll pray

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, I'll pray

A bunch of old men gonna scream out, "Change"

But I'm still wakin' up to the same old things

The same rules and these played out games

Same fools in the court to the same old King

See, everyday it's the same old

The same kids that'll never do what they're told

How they gonna obey rules when the law's ain't fair?

Why do good, when the world don't care?

See, why'd they have to engineer how we live

Instead of givin' us the freedom just to live how it is?

And why we gotta sell ourselves to be here?

Which inner-city gang is it cool to be with?

Look, why does everybody want to be rich?

Now I ask what the pyramid and Nile represents?

I can't peep what the world has up on us, so

Everyday, I try to run (you see) from my troubles

'Cause there's a war goin' outside (everyday), nobody's safe from

We're all killin' each other with the same gun

I'm doin' this for everyone, the next generation

Forget where they came from

I rep for Irish people stuck in religious wars

Fightin' for a bigger cause

The government delivers more drugs

'Cause they wasn't fightin' over petty change

Remember all the rebels who died and don't let them die in vain

Give Teddy his hat back (everyday)

I rep for the Africans that don't care what it is that you give

'Cause they just grateful to have that

I rep for the slaves diggin' for diamonds, for no cashback

I rep for the minimum wage, yeah and look at it globally

Everyday the devil gets us back for all the good that we do

You see, wut I do should be you

Lord, I pray (I pray) and I'll pray (I'll pray, yuh)

I'm prayin' for a bright day, that'll come 'round my way (my way)

Lord, I pray (I'll pray, I pray, yuh) and I'll pray (I'll pray, I pray)

I'm prayin' for a bright day (oh, I'll pray), that'll come 'round my way

I'll pray