Easier (Ft. Shanell & Wyclef J)

[Chorus] Uuhh, things are gonna get easier, easier When you need to pay up on the rent And you ain't got nothing in the fridge Spread your wings and fly, all you gotta do is try To fly away, to fly away, It's a cold, cold morning and I knot today you feel lonely Takes all the strength that you have To get out the bed and try Don't give up today, help is on the way, whoa Made mistakes, but I've learned my lesson Now I know how to count my blessings Bad times come but soon they pass Now I know that I don't feel so bad Don't feel so bad I did my best, ain't worry bout the rest, whoa [Chorus] Uuhh, things are gonna get easier, easier When you need to pay up on the rent And you ain't got nothing in the fridge Spread your wings and fly, all you gotta do is try To fly away, to fly away, Raised in the ghetto, all I've seen was poverty Crack sales, dope fiends, a lot of tragedy No money, no cars, no tv So I stared thugging, hanging with the og's Get money on the block, had to keep it move Age 13 my ready did my first shoot Mama had to pay the bills, daddy ran the streets Mama shed so many tears, I couldn't barely see So I had to be a man at an early age Moving work, speeding in the fast lane Cops wanna knock me, send me upstate A prisoner to this life, gotta make a change Having suicidal thoughts with me if I'm dreaming Wanna leave the game alone, but they keep on fiending So I look up at the sky for guidance And remember what mama used to say to me [Chorus] Uuhh, things are gonna get easier, easier When you need to pay up on the rent And you ain't got nothing in the fridge Spread your wings and fly, all you gotta do is try To fly away, to fly away, No more excuses, we got a black president That doing that, doing us, the rest irrelevant We ain't example for our use so they be better then The way we were, the way we are, took in a struggle then They say true blessing come to those who going through the worse Smiling on the outside, so I don't feel the curse Who's to blame, we not perfect, we all make mistakes Keep the dream alive, remember we have all the greats Martin Luther King, Roser Park, Harry Tubman, Malcolm X, Elly Whit, Al Sharpton Obama hit a home run like Jackie Robinson Let's top, make peace and put down the guns We can relax so together we become on Stay strong, hold on, show em how it's done … number one, just keep your faith in god Better days will come, easy [Chorus] Uuhh, things are gonna get easier, easier When you need to pay up on the rent And you ain't got nothing in the fridge Spread your wings and fly, all you gotta do is try To fly away, to fly away, Dear god, one thing I do know is that you don't make mistakes I know you gave us a black president lord, we wanna thank you for that That don't mean you gotta stop working hard, stop having faith We gotta do better, it's gonna be easier, I promise you Everything is gonna get a lot easier for you, Just keep your faith in god, all you gotta do is try To fly away with it baby, you got your baby Bout know you in school, time seem kinda hard right now No money, the devil's on you Everybody try to get you do the wrong thing But you know what? It's gonna be easier It's gonna get better, it's got to God bless America, god bless my world [Chorus] Uuhh, things are gonna get easier, easier When you need to pay up on the rent And you ain't got nothing in the fridge Spread your wings and fly, all you gotta do is try To fly away, to fly away.