Look Up

Teacher, teacher, teacher What I need to learn from your books It's getting harder to believe you When everything I see outside ain't adding up How much blood, how many more tears? How much ground is left for graves we have to dig? How many roses can a mother accept? Could you teach about the pain that happens everyday? But it's either they don't know Or they don't show The world that's too far from home They gotta be blind to just don't care about us And if you ever stopped to wonder why (Just look up) Just raise your head and look up to the sky (Just look up) If somebody come and try to bring you down Just stay up in the clouds No one can stop you now When the world turns their back on you Never feel you're misunderstood Just look up, oh Preacher, preacher, preacher How you gon' dare to judge me? Oh no You see the world is short of leaders And the easy way out is just from following How much news can we ignore? We're feeding other countries while our neighbors starving next door Does my color speak louder than me? But I guess you can't change what they wanna see, so it's either they don't know Or they don't show The world that's too far from home They gotta be blind to just don't care about us And if you ever stopped to wonder why (Just look up) Just raise your head and look up to the sky (Just look up) If somebody come and try to bring you down Just stay up in the clouds No one can stop you now When the world turns their back on you Never feel you're misunderstood Just look up, oh Uh, ayy, tell me where we goin' They got us on a short leash and all my dogs is hungry A politician just phoned me, to prove to me he ain't phoney He talkin' 'bout what he'll do for me if I vote for him But I know he's slammin' that same man with the answers, prolly sellin' us cancer My neighbourhood is tryna kill itself, sellin' poison just to buy pampers Young dudes sellin' weight to get their weight up They casualties of war and I ain't talkin' Al-Qaeda Ask the government to throw us a line It feelin' like ain't no hope left And they threw us these lines 'Bout how they ain't got no rope left, huh You know it's funny, when it rains, it pours We say we got money for war but we ain't feedin' the poor You hear me, when shots go off, sirens from cops go off We lose a bunch of youth, the newspapers will not show off But, we were built to survive, inside this set up And even though you fed up, uh, keep your head up But it's either they don't know Or they don't show The world that's too far from home They gotta be blind to just don't care about us And if you ever stopped to wonder why (Just look up) Just raise your head and look up to the sky (Just look up) If somebody come and try to bring you down Just stay up in the clouds No one can stop you now When the world turns their back on you Never feel you're misunderstood Just look up, oh --- Look Up - Kevin Ross and Lecrae