we live in trailers and apartments too from california to kalamazoo grow up get married and when that one ends we hate sleepin alone so we get married again dont wanna be buried in debt or in sin so we pray to jesus and we play the lotto cause there aint but two ways we can change tomorrow and it aint no genie and it aint no bottle so we pray to jesus and we play the lotto we love to complain about what we cant fix mostly mothers in law traffic and politics we tell our kids how hard it was back when same way our parents did to us back then thought wed be different but were just like them yeah we pray to jesus and we play the lotto cause there aint but two ways we can change tomorrow and it aint no genie and it aint no bottle so we pray to jesus and we play the lotto we load our kids up in our new used car and after church we hit the mini mart behind the counter up there on the wall it reads 200 million on the powerball six little numbers that could change it all so we pray to jesus and we play the lotto cause there aint but two ways we can change tomorrow and it aint no genie and it aint no bottle so we pray to jesus and we play the lotto like a bumper sticker like a poor man s motto times are tough and our time is borrowed so let s pray to jesus and let s play the lotto