[00:17.698]Now tell me where I gotta go from here
[00:20.806]Do I change my life?
[00:22.583]Left the alarm clock ringin, wearin that pillow like its part of my image
[00:26.449]Let my dreams live about four or five minutes more
[00:29.296]Hey send me an angel
[00:31.412]Tell her to give me the strength that I need to go on
[00:34.364]Commutin' through this AM traffic
[00:36.193]The road is unclear through the radio static
[00:38.517]No manual for life, so I stay in automatic
[00:40.816]Dead end job got me livin on front street
[00:43.637]Day to day relying on the bread like lunch meat
[00:46.459]Is this the life that I worked so hard for?
[00:49.019]Now is this debt really worth this armoire
[00:51.317]Or this plasma, or this foreign car?
[00:53.564]I don’t know, it’s the game I play
[00:55.549]Live day by day, let me say my grace
[01:01.479]So please let me say my grace
[01:03.673]We look for the American dream
[01:04.953]They show us our lives on a 20 inch screen
[01:07.383]Baby girl, life ain’t everything it seems
[01:10.544]The heart is where the home is
[01:12.006]And you wonder why we wander like the homeless?
[01:15.037]Shit they say you should’ve been a lawyer
[01:17.153]But eighty grand in school loans could’ve been avoided
[01:19.373]If you’da told the universe what you really wanted, but…
[01:24.127]Close your eyes for a moment, maybe you can see
[01:30.893]They say that heaven is a place on earth
[01:37.345]So please don’t cry, let’s try to wash the pain in those eyes
[01:47.376]Baby look up, look up, up to the sky
[01:54.351](So when we gonn fly?)
[01:56.989]I know it’s hard, we don’t know what tomorrow brings
[02:01.378]Today is for us
[02:06.289]So baby look up
[02:08.117]Yeah, this is how we live when we don’t let nobody tell us how we live
[02:13.368]And everything I am, no longer measured by the things I had
[02:18.227]The things I had…So can I live my path?
[02:25.489]This is the verse of a lifetime, the realest shit I ever wrote
[02:30.295]This is what disturbs me at night time, no sleep bright and early when the light shines
[02:34.762]Picture that like a Nikon, 4 minutes
[02:37.401]Can I save the world with the right rhyme?
[02:39.726]The story of a generation
[02:41.319]Had goals for the finish line, but never made it, uh
[02:44.219]Old dreams, the good die young
[02:46.413]This hateful world never took my love away, away
[02:52.238]I know its hard for ya, honey
[02:53.597]Dropped out of school to work hard for the money
[02:55.869]Daddy out of work, now you gotta pay the mortgage
[02:58.508]Just a few months before the bank forecloses
[03:00.937]Now your money stuck like the change in the sofa
[03:03.236]Just the other day, you were thinking bout diplomas
[03:06.423]You were thinking bout diplomas
[03:09.113]Now I know you need a shoulder, funny how lack of time can make you feel older
[03:13.920]But I guess that’s life, nuthin left but to make things right
[03:17.682]I know the stars seem far from your window
[03:20.424]But its only so far if you think so
[03:24.343]They say that heaven is a place on earth
[03:30.691]So please don’t cry, let’s try to wash the pain in those eyes
[03:40.695]Baby look up, look up, up to the sky
[03:48.088](So when we gonn fly?)
[03:50.465]I know it’s hard, we don’t know what tomorrow brings
[03:54.906]Today is for us
[03:59.686]So baby look up
[04:01.515]Yeah, this is how we live when we don’t let nobody tell us how we live
[04:06.740]And everything I am, no longer measured by the things I had
[04:11.651]The things I had…So can I live my path?