Breaking her body

Drunk at their party

Boys being rowdy

My head's really cloudy

It was like 100 years ago

Or more like a year or so

Really don’t remember though

Say we should just let it go

But they burned down our nations

Don’t feel the pain that we facing

Locked in their basement

Just trying to make it

So much better then

So much better when

We were alone and

We seeded our own

So much better then

So much better when

You sang with sages and

I, and I penned the pages

So much better then

So much better when

We mending the minds &

We bring back the shine

PHENOM:

That good ol' boy behavior 

Never thought we would make it 

even when putting blood on the wager

Heaven is a mile away

(Heaven is a mile away)

but a little too far to save yah

They said, prayed on the downfall 

(prayed on the downfall) 

 Even when they got the devil as a neighbor

(a neighbor, as a neighbor) 

Or maybe it was just a ghost 

Or maybe it was just a group of folks 

transforming people into ghosts 

History

Hey can a dream with a hole in it float

How much better would we really be 

if they never invented boats

Would we kill like we kill 

if they never showed us the ropes

Am I barking round the wrong tree

Saw them and saw the wrong me 

but I got the faith of a mustard seed

and I musta seen that I must succeed

and I must believe that we can achieve 

cause we the people 

who could be the people 

that could see the people 

that could free the people

But, where do I begin

(where do I begin)

Do I begin in the beginning 

or beginning of the end 

(or beginning of the end) 

Again, but can we fast forward to the part where we win

Prophet Muhammad he showed us the promise

and peace be on to him

(peace be on to him)

And, maybe we already won

(and maybe we already won)

Maybe it was better when

(when)

Maybe it was better when

(when)

We was all hope dealers

We was all healers

We was all realer 

Disseminating GOD's true medicine 

Disseminating GOD's medicine 

Maybe it was better when

We were so much better then

We are so much better than

We mending the minds yeah

We bring back the shine

Choir: 

So much better when

So much better when

So much better when

So much better when 

So much better than

So much better than

So much better than

So much better than

So much better than

So much better than

So much better than

Dr. Rev. Otis Moss III:

I must speak 

We are better when we come to the realization 

that there is a spirit in us

working through us that is older than Earth 

and greater than ever lasting

We are better when we find our rhythm

Our rhythm in jazz riffs and blue note chords

When you hear the poet spit 

and the artist working their magic

Whether they are tagging on a wall 

or placing it upon on a canvas 

You must understand that we must learn 

How to speak truth to power

Even when your voice shakes

The spirit is still working in you 

Because you must understand

that you are a child of GOD

You are a son of the sacred

You are a daughter of the divine

You are a nation of love

You come from a village of victory

We are better when we recognize this

and understand the power that is within us 

(so much better when) 

We are so much better then

(so much better when) 

We are so much better than

So much better when

So much better when