Traffik - The Modest Tomorrow lyrics

(Verse One) I was just a young child, wild, looking for glory With a pen and a pad, sending a sad story To the elders that would tell you their thoughts of tomorrow When they made history with these thoughts that they borrowed We don't need these thoughts of sorrow is what they said to me Kneeling upon the Earth trying to express my desires and feelings They said we're stealing from our own wellspring, and I felt it When I walked hand in hand with the hand I was dealt, kid The ceiling ain't the limit bro we twisted the lye Twisted up our fingers like we living to die That's why every time I rhyme I get a mist in my eye Just thinking about my people, those that live in the sky We live with broken wings like we're waiting to fly And even though they say we're all waiting to die If I was given life there's gotta be reason to try Gotta be reason to try, gotta be reason to try (Chorus) If it means the whole world to you, yo And every single day it stays burning you bro In every single way you gotta earn from it, yo Take a page outta my notebook, and learn from it yo If it means the whole world to you, yo And every single day it stays burning you bro In every single way you gotta earn from it, yo Take a page outta my notebook, and learn from it yo (Verse Two) Ever since you were barely walking, they started talking Telling you what you can and can't do, what are your options Saying this will make you paper, this will make you secure This will end your capers and religion will make you pure But religion it can obscure, when our dreams seem murky Institutions making it feel like you can't be worthy But it's scary trying to make it by yourself in this world Intimidating to make a new path and watch that unfurl Seeing the colours of your world turn vivid from the fire That lies inside your soul when you let go of the lies The pious and the peasants, the homeless learning lessons We're all searching for that thing that makes us click with the essence The lessons that they teach us they ain't gonna make our world We're the only ones with power to allow the boys and girls To chase their dreams instead of conforming upon the sorrow In search of better days, ways to the modest tomorrow (Chorus) If it means the whole world to you, yo And every single day it stays burning you bro In every single way you gotta earn from it, yo Take a page outta my notebook, and learn from it yo If it means the whole world to you, yo And every single day it stays burning you bro In every single way you gotta earn from it, yo Take a page outta my notebook, and learn from it yo (Outro) But I woke up, awoken from reality to dreams And I realized that I can do this because it makes me free X3 Because it makes me free