Life and Times

Every night I watch the news
Random violence and abuse
It's these life and times (These life and times)
People living on a dare
So much hatred everywhere
Life and times

Don't you know

From the barrel of a gun
Brothers killing just for fun
These life and times (These life and times)
And compassion seems so rare
It's not personal, we don't care
In life and times

Life and times
Turn the page and times
Yes she is, oh so crazy
Always, always baby
I'm gonna lay straight this time

Knives and guns and gangs and war
Have we learned nothing from before?
Losing all
About me, myself and I
We gotta find a better way
Past futures on the way
To destruction
Some fools trying to make it in the place
Till they can't help but run free
These life and times (These life and times)

Brothers calling ladies hoes
Just to sell records, take the show
These life and times, oh

The real family's been replaced
Drugs and gangs taking their place
These life and times
There's an answer that is clear
But we must open our hearts to hear
It's these life and times
Say it with me, say

Life and times
Turn the page and times
Strange times
These life and times
What are we gonna do?
These life and times
Where are we gonna go?

How can we change it?
How can we arrange it?
Somebody tell me
The answer is yours and mine
Brothers calling ladies hoes

Yeah, yeah baby
Where are we gonna go?

We gotta make some changes
Strange times

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me, tell me
Right at the end of the tunnel
We find a way down deep inside
I love you my sister
Yeah, yeah
Oh life and times
So strange
We're strange