Heard 'Em Say (feat. Adam Levine)

Mr. West!

Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah

And I heard 'em say, nothin's ever promised tommorow today

From the Chi, like Tim its a Hard-a-way

So this is in the name of love like Robert say

Before you ask me to go get a job today

Can I at least get a raise on the minimum wage?

And I know the government administered AIDS

So I guess we just pray like the minister say

Allah o Akbar, and throw 'em some hot cars

The things we see on the screen is not ours

But these niggas from the hood, so these dreams not far

Where I'm from, the dope boys is the rock stars

But they can't cop cars without seein' cop cars

I guess they want us all behind bars

I know it

And I heard 'em say

Nothin's ever promised tomorrow today

And I heard 'em say

(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today)

But we'll find a way

(And nothing lasts forever but be honest, babe

It hurts but it may be the only way)

They say people in your life are seasons

And anything that happen is for a reason

And niggas guns a-clappin and keep to squeezin'

And Gran keep prayin' and keep believin'

In Jesus, and one day that ya see him

'Till they walk in his footsteps and try to be him

The devil is alive, I feel him breathin'

Claimin' money is the key, so keep on dreamin'

And put them lottery tickets just to tease us

My aunt Pam can't put them cigarettes down

Now my 'lil cousin smokin them cigarettes now

His job trying to claim that he too niggerish now

Is it 'cause his skin blacker than licorice now?

I can't figure it out

I'm sick of it now

And I heard 'em say

Nothin's ever promised tomorrow today

And I heard 'em say

(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today)

But we'll find a way

(And nothing lasts forever but be honest, babe

It hurts but it may be the only way

With every worthless word we get more far away

And nothing's ever promised tomorrow today

And nothing lasts forever but be honest, babe

It hurts but it may be the only way)