Someone right now is leaving their apartment Looking down at the street and wondering where their car went Someone in a car is sitting at a signal In front of a restaurant, staring through the window At someone right now with their finger in their teeth Who could use a little floss, right across the street There’s somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket Spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered Now he’s gotta walk fourteen blocks Just to work at a shop where he’s about to get fired Someone right now is lookin pretty tired Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired And somebody living right across the street Just wrote the best thing that she’s written all week But her best friend’s coughing up blood in the sink He can’t even think what happened, feeling so confused And he knows it looks bad but there’s nothing he can do I wonder what it’s like to be right there in his shoes but…
Yo, I’m just taking it in Out the window of a hotel bedroom again Tomorrow I’ll be gone, I don’t know when I’ll be back But in this world everything can change just like that…
Yo, somebody right now is dropping his vocal Inside a box and trying to knock this shit out his throat For the act of freedom right now somebody’s stuck in Iraq Hoping that he’ll get shipped back breathing In a war but he’s not really sure of the reasons So we show our support when the press mislead them Though we mourn, remain main proud, salute the troops Get some, I know you boys got some work to do
Meanwhile, right now someone’s 25-to-life And they’re standing on a corner with their thumb up hitch hiking Scratching off a Lotto ticket hoping for a real winner Sneaking through ??? just to work and eat a real dinner Right now someone wishes they were you and I Instead of second-guessing frequent thoughts of quite suicide Right now staring out window at a fiend With holes in his arms and holes in his jeans He pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light And walked right around a corner just out of my sight but…
Yo, I’m just taking it in On the second story hotel window again The TV’s on and my bags are packed But in this world everything can change just like that…
Yeah, right now somebody’s sitting in the darkness Tryna figure how to put some heat in their apartment But they got a little matress, no carpet And they appreciate it ’cause some people on a park bench You see them when you rushing to get to the office Wife ride by 'em when she comin' from the market Right now somebody comin out the pocket Tryin' to dump that rock, they running 'round the block Same time the cops is raisin' the glack With aim to fill your legs and your back with some bullshit Right now someone’s struggling to stop this man Who’s kicking and punching and cussin at the doctors Down the hall a child taking it’s first breath The doc hasn’t even passed him to the nurse yet Yo, I wonder if he understands what it’s worth yet Life, the time spend while we here on the Earth yet The answers to the questions we all seek Can be found, it depend on how free y’all think Right now there’s somebody who ain’t eat all week That would kill for this shit you throw away in the street I guess one man’s trash is the next man’s treasure One man’s pain is the next man’s pleasure One say infinity, the next say forever Right now everybody got to get it together man…
I’m just takin it in In another strange hotel lobby again With my luggage on my back, I don’t know where I’m at I’m in a world where it all change just like that…
Yeah, I’m just taking it in Out the window of a hotel bedroom again Tomorrow I’ll be gone, I don’t know when I’ll be back But in this world everything can change just like that…