Alright

Pressure's on, yeah, it's hot

Tell you the story of have not

Where you don't know what you don't got

Till you need it

Scrambling for that dough, boy

But everybody's alright

We're all alright

I need to catch a break now

I gotta make a way somehow

Oh, I, I gotta figure it out

Oh, help me, Lord

I'll take you to a city where the budget is tight

And you can pay your car note or you can keep on your lights

She chose the latter, gotta wake up early at five

Ride three buses for an hour to a job she don't like, and she's tired

This shit ain't right

This can't be life, but she's alright

Alright

I'll walk you through a neighborhood where children survive

Ain't got no daddy at home and mom be working at night

Look up to homie round the corner, he's living the life

You can be a baller too if you just slang a few dimes, so you try

That gangster life

Too young to die

But he's alright

Alright

We need to catch a break now

Gotta make a way somehow

Oh, I, I gotta figure it out

Oh, help me, Lord

Walk you through a neighborhood where teenagers die

Just walking home from the store, he gotta run for his life

Police department something like a lynch mob of lies

Where the murderers are freed after the innocent die, so we fight

5-0 at night

Tear gas in flight, but we're alright

Alright

Now I'm a young sister of color, in the prime of my life

Somehow I found my way home, the walls cave in late at night

Just wanna be alone so I can exhale and write

Finding solace on the balcony beneath the moonlight as I write

I'm free behind the margin line

So, I'm alright

Alright

I need to catch a break now

Gotta make a way somehow

Oh, I gotta figure it out

Oh, help me, Lord

When the world's a place where stars are far

The lights go off

Say it's gonna be alright (Alright)

Now when the world's a place where stars are far

The lights go off

Say it's gonna be alright (Alright)

The pressure's on, yeah, it's hot

Tell you the story of have not

Where you don't know what you don't got

Till you need it

Yeah, the pressure's on and it's hot

Tell you the story of have not

Where you don't know what you don't got

Till you need it