Block 24

You ever seen your best friend in a casket
Hard to sleep sometimes memories flashing
It's like that pain never stops it's everlasting
Make me think a lot redirect my passion
Hugging my brothers' mothers at wakes
It's nothing I can say to take the tears from her face
Lost something special can't be replaced
I admire your strength you didn't break
If you don't do it for nothing do it for the kids
Just like everybody else they just wanna live
Hard to see the bigger picture but it really is
Just gotta focus in let go of hopelessness

Let's make better days than the ones we seen before
One block at a time this block twenty four
Put the guns down let's start dreaming more
One block at a time this block twenty four

Let's make better days than the ones we seen before
One block at a time this block twenty four
Put the guns down let's start dreaming more
One block at a time this block twenty four

So much more to life so much we ain't seen
Another murder every night gotta be a dream
More like a nightmare that we trapped in
Got enough rappers rapping need more activists acting
Build something plant a seed let it grow
Stay rooted even in Chicago wind or the snow
This ain't the end it's still hope we all got a common goal
Stick together and it's easier to find that pot of gold
Man this cycle getting old let's try something different
We all need each other like Mike needed Pippen
Sometimes life gets sickening feel like you might need prescription
The ones you lost know you miss 'em look in the skit know they're glistening

Let's make better days than the ones we seen before
One block at a time this block twenty four
Put the guns down let's start dreaming more
One block at a time this block twenty four

Let's make better days than the ones we seen before
One block at a time this block twenty four
Put the guns down let's start dreaming more
One block at a time this block twenty four