Sign of the times
Now listen up, 'cause I got a little somethin' to say
To educate you 'bout the life in the streets today
Now everybody's confused about what to do
And what this world is coming to
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Inflation rises every time the opportunity knocks
The rent's crazy for the house the size of a box
It's an arm and a leg to keep clothes on your back
The daily run, push and shove you just can't hack
When payday comes around you go to pick up your check
The money never sees your pocket, though out on debt
He'd be shot the President, he had nothing to lose
Wanted Jodie to see him on the Eyewitness News
Cops shoot up all of the citizens
And find out the next day the guy's innocent
Young girls being raped and taken by force
While all the people getting married just to get divorced
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Working for minimum wage, one foot in the grave
And all the rich folks screaming they're underpaid
Daddy's in jail doing twenty to life
He has a family back home with five kids and a wife
Girls run away from home with no way to survive
She had to sell her body to stay alive
Nowadays on the trains and the buses you see
People fighting for seats with the elderly
Mama down by the bedside on her knee
So much crime, it ain't safe for her to walk the street
Because times are hard, you either do it or die
You can run and ignore, but you can't hide
Man, when is there ever gonna be peace?
The only way there's gonna be peace, man
Is when God is seated at the conference table
I'm telling you, man
We can work it out, we need a little bit of peace, love and unity
I don't know about that, man
With all this time that's gone by
It just ain't never gonna end
That's why it's time for all love to come together
And I hope it's soon, or we'll all be lost
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Sign of the times
Politicians like to max and relax
Saying, "Vote for me and I'll lower the tax"
Sipping on martinis with a little Coke
And then the headline reads a drug overdose
Magazines expose our beauty queens
The American dream, what does it mean?
Boys, tears of being in our country
Don't take things as they appear to be
They say babies cry by their mother's side
Sweet land of liberty for spacious skies
We got actors running for President
So what the hell's going on with this government?
No hurt is worse than a mother's pain
When the love for her child goes down the drain
She's been used and abused, but would never expect that
The child she birthed would give her no respect
Car dealer wanted to make quick cash
Tried to buy the coke you don't drink out of a glass
Nowadays kids are growing up too fast
Learning more in the street than they do in class
Dealing drugs on the corner at the age of ten
Ma said, "If you go to jail, you got to stay in"
Speeding in the fast lane, going no place
And when it's over, you say that it was all a waste
Found with a letter by your bedside
You ended your life, committed suicide
Mama searching in the trash for bottles and cans
While her kids stood by with outstretched hands
While a man holds a dollar in so much praise
In this land of the free and home of the brave
The same people getting shot over nickels and dimes
Don't you know that it's all a sign of the times?
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
Sign of the times
Can really blow your mind
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