Show Me The Good Life

[Intro: Blu] Yeah, [laughs] this is the story Of wealth, cash, whips, chips, bitches and blunts Must be the good life right? Check this yo... [Verse 1: Blu] I got a call from my girl last week She telling me about that time of the month and how it may not come Dropped the phone right before she said I might have a son And I started asking God how come I got dreams I ain't reached yet – ends that ain't meet yet When it comes to being a man, shit I'm barely getting my feet wet Trying to hit reset knee deep in debt Trying to figure how to feed a mouth that ain't got teeth yet How the hell am I gonna show a child to be a man When I'm twenty-two without a clue on how to take a stand Against this system when it's just us, wanna show him justice But last year I was just in cuffs What the fuck am I supposed to do when he's telling me 'Dad I need some food?' I'm looking down at my stomach and mine is grumbling too What can I tell him when he's twenty-two And he's asking me what the fuck I was thinking when mommy's tummy grew? Was I scared, was I getting prepared? Or did I even think of leaving her without a father's care? Should I tell him that it's hell here and life ain't fair? Or should I try to make a change when he's pulling on my leg? (Show me) and he keeps on telling me to [Hook: Aloe Blacc & Joseph] Show me (Show me the good life) Show me (Show me the good) [Verse 2: Aloe Blacc] Won't somebody show me there's a few things my poppa never told me Maybe cause the stone still rolling, no moss yet It's a few things my momma never told me to mold me But her soul is so golden the way she floss it And I ain't mad at their secrets though It's a hard sell to tell a young child about your deepest low But I done seen through they weakness so I understand a little bit on how the defeat can slow You so, far down that you meekness grow And everyday gets colder when the breezes blow Grand momma sat me down and said, 'you need to know Boy you a little light in this world, let your heat just glow Have patience some things take time And ain't no limit to the goals that you could hold in your mind' Lift the soul when you crying 'till you reach the gates of heaven Like your chariot is carrying children who going blind And you going to get their sight back, when all they see is night black Believe in everything that you doing and just like that Things will happen for you, keep shining them rays It's bright enough to spread grace over a million graves Over a million slaves to bring honor to the elders Who held us away from danger when the danger would have killed us They never failed us but they souls have peace And follow in their steps, you got brothers to keep In this good life [Hook: Aloe Blacc & Joseph] [Verse 3: Blu] Check it out, it's so much I can show you Without rolling through Beverly Hills Without money, cars, clothes, or even ecstasy pills I don't need weed to ease me when I'm stressing for real I just close my eyes and try to think how heaven feels Just to feel good again, even though I know when I open them It's back to the hood again, where kids hold chrome with them Just to feel protected, cause the videos are showing them How to shoot fools and take their dough from them That's why I try to give my soul to them in lyrics I spit They rejected cause they stressing for material shit They're getting sick and tired of fighting over serial gifts Cause they notice bitches go head over heels for the whips And the chains, and the chips, and the range and the clips In the guns and the women and the fun living in cribs in the burbs Fuck the slums, they want funds and they heard flippin' birds is The ticket and they get it and run with it Some slip and fall, others pause see the outcome and crawl On the road for some change, cause the game is too hard To play straight by the rules I'm trying to stay out the news And make cake to buy food Fuck jewels I think my soul glows bright enough And fuck whips I learn more when I ride the bus And fuck gold it's bad enough that we fight for bucks And fuck hoes cause in the end I need a wife to love Plus heaven is the life for us so God... [Hook: Aloe Blacc & Joseph]