you know i love you mama but im glad i didnt listen you wasnt hatin you just couldnt see what i given tunnel vision when you got somethin you gotta do dont worry if others blind to what heaven revealed toyou see i ain t nothin special not claimin to be prophetic just faithful with what im given forever makin investments never burying treasure steady plantin the seed whats a trunk full of paper to a world full of trees never chasing the fame always chasing the dream if you dont believe in dreamin then homie you dont believe thy will be done on earth as it is in eternity we be dreamin the kingdom till ghettos got gold streets thy will be done on earth as it is in eternity we be livin the kingdom till ghettos got gold streets lets do the math 24 hours in a day 8 of which we spend working often more meaning we fork a third of our lives over to whatever we call a job dont get me wrong i ain t hatin on nobody wit a nine to five but thats too much time to spend doing something that means nothing to you if you love your grind then keep on grindin but im speakin to those who did everything right and still hate life im speaking to those who realized the american dream can be a nightmare im speaking to those with joyless success who didnt expect success to mean workin a job they hate for several decades one that pays enough to take care of the kids but takes so much time you dont know them who didnt know success meant spending the last twenty years of your life using up all the money you saved in the first fifty who didnt know success meant safety and comfort and convention taking no risks and doing what is accepted expected having theoretical faith but making no moves that might put it into practice if this is success then you can have it ill be free i still got some peter pan in me and thats what god intended cause christ said the kingdom belongs to those who become like children but were taught to grow up to stop dreaming stop believing that things can change the world has a way of eroding our faith our parents were hippies and black panthers musicians and painters dreamers and revolutionaries in their younger days and its scary to see how easy it is to become an atheist to call hope naivete faith ignorance miracles trickery deceit reality vanity of vanities what does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun who says whats real when were so superficial what is a real job in a fake world what is a real job in a fake world what is a real job in a fake world i dont know