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