Dedicated to Jessie "Francois" Mathis- My Friend..... "I didn't give up on this song, brother."
What's up! welcome to my page! I hope you enjoy what you hear.
Story behind the song
I wrote this back in 1997. Jessie was the engineer who was so supportive and who encouraged me to do the music I felt and to believe in it like he did. The original had Sherry Lopes doing the lead rap with myself adding talking and backgroung vocals to it with Reggie and Loretta Kirkpatrick . This version has been updated and recorded solely on my Oasys, "Osiris". I did all vocals- don't laugh :-)
Lyrics
V1
Every I day I look up to see a brighter day, a better way you know, helps to make a getaway, free from confusion, delusion, occlusion, excuse me, freedom from all of this hate today.
All I'd like to do is be me, no color, no thoughts of who I should be, you see, I'd love to be seen as a person of substance-of flesh and blood all the time. But do you mind?
do you mind that I have to have my dreams?
do you mind that it's not all what it seems?
do you mind that I love my independence?
do you mind not to give me interference?
Do you think that I want to be a second class citizen created by your ignorance, your pittances- forever seen as a hinderance, a difference, a litigant in the world of businessmen? Wrong
Chorus
I want a better day, gotta have a better way of life
I want a better day (a better way of life) X2
V2
(I don't think you can)- oh yes I can
(I don't think you can)- oh yes I can
(Oh no you won't)- OH YES I WILL
(well why don't you show me then...)
Who are you to tell me how I'm s'posed to live, just how much I have to give, please let me have this chance to strive to live my own life (DAMN). I don't need your handouts cuz I can do without your help cuz all it does is hold me down.
the system's broke, that's all you have to tell us- well fix the machine and give us a chance for a better life (right)
don't tell me how to live
Chorus X2
Bridge
do you mind that I have to have my dreams?
do you mind that it's not all what it seems?
do you mind that I love my independence?
do you mind not to give me interference?
do you mind that I have to have my dreams?
do you mind that it's not all what it seems?
do you mind?
do you mind?
V3
(So what about the here and now?)
You profit from the sweat of my... pimpin' my service cuz my life is not my own. You can take, you can break me and discard me when my strength is gone, but am I wrong to say that my will is strong?
The hole is gettin' deeper, the prices gettin' steeper, my life's a struggle and the cost of living ain't no cheaper.
If the future holds a brighter day, you better say "I'll get away", freedom may be just another day away....
Chorus Vamp
Being that I am a EWF fan I can help but like this song. The lyrics are outstanding and the music is great. When I listen with my producer ear their are some suggestion I could make but you would have to let me know if I could.