Elijah Johnson - Could Be Worse

They try to tell me that it could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today
They try to tell me that it could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today
Yeah… look
Pick out my nappy hair
You call it nappy my definitions don’t matter here
I know its early but safe to say I been sad this year
Been fighting problems, my fury just getting wilder yea
Bring up the topic and all the sudden a pen drop
And I can hear it, you say you hear me, I think not
I give statistics and you deliver a deep shot
Been guarding flowers, my safest picture to hit crop
I go to sleep but I’m wondering when did hip hop
Get so polluted, and flint been saying its non-stop
You look at me and you asking me when do crime stop
We ask it too while you putting us in a pine box
They try to tell me that it could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today
They try to tell me that it could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today
Look,
A dope dealer could probably run him a business
But knowing you, you would run him right out of business
A hood nigga on the corner selling shirts
Got the mind to go and triple his worth
That one family that’s going through all they all mess
They got problems but money they biggest stress
They took a loan but getting killed by interest
Got two jobs, they really got nothing left
My daddy broke, my momma broke and so am I
So, they not home and fuck it neither am I
Because we got bills that don’t show up to the pity party
Don’t have credentials, don’t got degrees and don’t drive Ferrari
Just trying to get it, it's scaring you. I ain’t saying sorry
My momma aint had a pedicure since Bush inaugie
But still you treat me like you just don’t understand
But I know that that’s because they aint never forced your hand
You aint never been denied a good job for three years
Bills still coming through, cause they aint waiting for you here
If you was placed in my position tell me where would you steer
And if you was ever me that last thing you'd want to hear is that it
Could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today
They try to tell me that it could be worse
Or that’s just how the system works
You just try to appease my mind
But baby I got time today

Written by:
Ajamn Lee-Johnson, Angela Puig

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