Better Days

Joe

Ooh, child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh, child
Things it's get brighter
[Keep your head up]

Better days (yeah, uh, uh)
Better days (I just wanna say to y'all)
Better days (baby)
Better days
Keep your head up (keep your head up)
Better days (uh, keep your head up)
Better days (uh, uh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, yeah)
Better days (keep your head up)
Better days
Keep your head up

She grew up in Brooklyn the Eastside and Fulton Street
Never knew her father
He got shot hustling
She started acting much older
Her mother couldn't control her, uh
Losing direction
Started sex and no protection, mmm

Now she's expecting (expecting)
A life she wasn't ready for (whoa, ooh)
She's feeling (uh) rejected (whoa, whoa, oh, I)
And her futures unsure (whoo)

And if you want (mmm) run out there on your own
(Your own, your own, your own)
Don't give up sunshine (sunshine)
There will be better days (keep your head up, yeah)
[Keep your head up]
You gotta keep on to raise (yeah) a child alone
(Raise a child alone, mmm)
Don't give up sunshine (ooh, oh, ooh…)
There will be better days
[Keep your head up]

Are you down with full time on weekend
You're stripping, uh
So you met a baller, but you ain't down
But trickin, oh, mmm…

Gonna have to put your kid through school 
(Oh, yes, you will, uh)
Guess you hit with snotty love for you 
(Think about, uh, uh, uh)
You cannot, you're wrong, girl
You gotta believe…now

Now you're expecting (expecting)
A life you wasn't ready for (oh, no, no, uh)
You're feeling rejected (yeah, yeah)
And your futures unsure (keep your head up, yeah)
[Keep your head up]

And if you want run out there on your own
(Think about it now)
Don't give up sunshine (sunshine)
There will be better days (keep your head up, yeah)
[Keep your head up]
You gotta keep on to raise a child alone
(Raise a child alone, mmm)
Don't give up sunshine (ooh, oh, ooh…)
There will be better days
[Keep your head up] (yeah, oh, ooh, oh)

Better days (it's gonna be alright, uh)
Better days (you gotta take your head up) 
[There'll be better days]
Better days (think about it now, uh)
Better days
Keep your head up (too much young's stuttering)
Better days (it's gonna be alright)
Better days [there'll be better days] 
(You gotta keep your head up)
Better days (mmm…)
Better days
Keep your head up (oh, she's so young, gangsta in living)

And if you want run out there on your own (on our own)
Don't give up sunshine (don't give up)
There will be better days
[Keep your head up] (you gotta keep hoping on)
You gotta keep on to raise a child alone
(Are they messing now?)
Don't give up sunshine (don't give up)
There will be better days
[Keep your head up] (will I will go from here, yo)

And if you want run out there on your own
(Think about it now)
Don't give up sunshine (ooh, ooh, we gotta save our children)
There will be better days
[Keep your head up] (oh, think about it now, yeah)
You gotta keep on to raise a child alone
(Raise a child alone)
Don't give up sunshine (don't give up sunshine)
There will be better days [there'll be better days]
[Keep your head up] (bet-better days waiting for you, baby)

Better days (whoo, uh)
Better days (it's such a better days waiting for you, yeah, uh)
[There'll be better days]
Better days (you gotta be strong)
Better days [there'll be better days]
Keep your head up (keep hopin' on)
Better days (you gotta be strong)
Better days [there'll be better days] 
(Oh, ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah)
Better days
Better days [there'll be better days]
(Say you're control your life, yeah)

Better days
Better days [there'll be better days]
Better days
Better days [there'll be better days]
Better days
[There'll be better days]
[There'll be better days]