[ti:It Only Gets Better (feat. Mar]
[ar:Talib Kweli]
[al:Prisoner of Conscious (Bonus T]
[by:]
[00:00.00]It Only Gets Better (Explicit) - Talib Kweli/Marsha Ambrosious
[00:14.78]Lord knows I had it hard today
[00:17.59]Had it hard today
[00:18.78]Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way
[00:25.35]Cause it only gets better better
[00:29.31]It only gets better from here
[00:31.69]It only gets better better
[00:35.44]It only gets better from here
[00:38.63]Every day I gotta wake up early
[00:40.50]Let it break thank the Lord at the take
[00:42.63]Get the troops hit the booth spiritual it's been great
[00:45.94]Practicing my gratitude life is so beautiful
[00:49.01]Working on that attitude just because
[00:51.75]It only gets better better
[00:55.44]It only gets better from here
[00:57.82]It only gets better better
[01:01.69]It only gets better from here
[01:04.32]Every day I gotta
[01:05.69]Trust the God and hustle hard
[01:07.07]My grind is real my hustle d**e
[01:08.51]I'm finding meals I'm signing deals
[01:10.32]I'm the Gladiator like Russell Crowe
[01:11.94]Yeah you know it's real but I'm focused still
[01:13.88]Why you focus shake it like gold field
[01:15.26]Cause you're not in tune no you're not immune
[01:16.75]No acclamation no golden seal
[01:17.69]You sick side gotta flush it down
[01:20.01]We talk to folks cover your mouth
[01:21.57]Ain't nobody gonna cover that shifts
[01:23.26]So you go to work you tuff it down
[01:25.00]You bust it out till you're out for work
[01:26.61]I know your boss a jerk you're gonna cuss a mouth
[01:28.11]Hit it with a bus driver upper-cut
[01:29.61]That cock only think you punch him out
[01:31.36]I relate to you you gotta pay your dues
[01:32.98]When the time is right you gotta make a move
[01:34.61]Your job is what you get paid to do
[01:36.17]Your call is what you're made to do
[01:37.79]I got faith in you you're gonna make it through
[01:39.48]Cause you don't chase money money chasing you
[01:41.17]Keep laboring like you got a thing to do
[01:42.80]Won't taste no foods like they put you
[01:44.73]No more wait for you you gonna take it now
[01:46.86]You gonna make a vault
[01:47.80]As long as you walk on the earth with that first got to make me proud
[01:51.04]Hey let me break it down oh bless your hearts
[01:54.36]Keep talking bout how stressed you are
[01:55.80]Better talk about how blessed you are
[01:59.17]Lord knows I had it hard today
[02:01.80]Had it hard today
[02:03.05]Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way
[02:09.80]Cause it only gets better better
[02:13.11]It only gets better from here
[02:15.92]It only gets better better
[02:19.55]It only gets better from here
[02:23.05]Every day I got to get up early wake the kids
[02:25.67]Get on running made again
[02:26.92]Go to work watching in
[02:28.55]Every day I'm hustling
[02:30.17]Fight the traffic lose my cool
[02:31.80]Get the kids right after school
[02:33.42]Think it's hard yeah that's true
[02:35.11]This is what I have to do
[02:36.49]Cause it only gets better better
[02:39.17]It only gets better from here
[02:42.18]It only gets better better
[02:45.49]It only gets better from here
[02:48.74]What we got is true they listen
[02:51.42]Try to talk to gal but is real what I'm spitting
[02:53.11]Call Christ by name but still ain't rising
[02:54.61]Set to my lane but still ain't listening
[02:56.24]Got ice in the vans we make so frigid
[02:57.92]Still in the kill brain self when you hit it
[02:59.61]Order pills when you pop that pop that pop that
[03:01.24]Don't stop get it get it
[03:02.93]Started we the fighters we survivors but we ain't living
[03:05.74]My soul is blacker than the Friday after Thanks Giving
[03:09.43]We love that color 25% more like we like to face prison
[03:12.68]But just because the president was black there's no racism
[03:15.61]Postracial More like most racial
[03:18.61]They hate for you disgraceful
[03:19.74]Don't let them take you off your base let them motivate you
[03:22.68]Don't let it overtake you so what another clause
[03:25.62]Survive the storm but riding on the beach in the southern wild
[03:29.80]Lord knows I had it hard today
[03:33.68]Had it hard today
[03:35.18]Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way
[03:41.30]Cause it only gets better better
[03:44.62]It only gets better from here
[03:47.43]It only gets better better
[03:51.05]It only gets better from here
[03:54.85]Every day I gotta every day I gotta
[03:58.35]Memories live man and my memories stay alive yeah
[04:03.79]Shoutout Assata Shakur Nehanda Abiodun yeah
[04:09.85]Rest in peace Troy Davis
[04:12.16]Rest in peace Geronimo Pratt yeah
[04:16.23]One love to Nasrin Sotoudeh
[04:19.16]One love to Leonard Peltier c'mon
[04:22.72]"Prisoner of Conscious" man
[04:25.10]Whenever life bring me down I think about those freedom fighters
[04:29.60]Those who put they life on the line
[04:30.91]Those who get jailed for they thoughts
[04:32.79]Like Tural Abbasli put in jail for organizin a protest on Facebook
[04:37.98]Like Mumia Abu-Jamal what up Mumia
[04:43.45]"Prisoner of Conscious" man
[04:47.14]Free P**sy Riot
[04:49.01]Lord knows I had it hard today
[04:51.83]Had it hard today
[04:52.95]Still I gotta keep my head up high
[04:56.40]Along the way along the way
[04:59.53]Cause it only gets better better
[05:03.03]It only gets better from here
[05:06.09]It only gets better better
[05:09.22]It only gets better from here