People Like Me

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down

and open doors to hurting people like me

People like me

People like me

People like me

Yeah, people like me

Is it fair to say that I am stressing out

I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out

My homies said I was stupid for even joining

My consulate said my decision was disappointing

How she had good slate for good state colleges

and with my good grades it wouldn't've been a problem

But they don't understand just the power of significance

More than brilliance and certainly more than dividends

And if you ask me now

Would I repeat it

Would I fight in a war I don't believe in?

Well the answer is its not me here the cancer is

They've been doing this before Jesus of Nazareth

And after all this time its still deadly hazardous

And Bush isn't really being all that inaccurate

When he says we winning the war cus its staggering

But thats cus we killin' everybody that we see

And most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep

And time and time again I'm feeling incompetent

Cus my woman back home we constantly arguin'

And I must be crazy cus all I'm obsessin' with

Is her myspace and facebook and who's commentin'

I swear to God if she's cheating I'm doing her ass in

I can tell with one look

And it came to be something like a song hook

Saying

Heaven, is there a chance that you can come down

And open doors to hurting people like me

People like me

People like me

People like me

Yeah, people like me

Meet Sarah, the proud mother of young Sebastian

Suburban professional, went to college in Ashland

In self pity, she suddenly cried

Would my life be important if I suddenly died?

Neighbours sayin' what a nice woman she was

Keepin' mostly to herself ever since the divorce

And with the company downsizing in the fall, and all

She really shouldn't take it that personal at all

It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on his thighs

And got a rise from her risin' off the desk though

And despite remembering sayin' no plenty of times

It was still a damn surprise being let go

And now stuck with a mortgage she can't afford

And too educated to blame the corporate world

She got on welfare, then hated it

Case worker powertrippin' and generally being degrading

if nothing else she was treated sick, and ineffective

Which is the worse thing, that she'd been left with

Damn

No magic from David Blaine

No pain and her pain was plain

No Morgan Freeman to narrate the shame

So she took refuge in prayer

Kind of like finding God in the phonebook

and it came to her sounding something like a song hook.

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down

and open doors to hurting people like me

People like me

People like me

People like me

Yeah, people like me

I guess I told you about myself to a degree

Just by telling you about people like me

But people like me, they speak politely

They don't start no beef for a piece of white meat

Everybody gotta eat, but everybody doesn't

Which is why I wanna tell you about my favourite cousin

He and I grew up where the sun shines

And we both partook in the gun crimes

And we both liked American rap rhymes

Even though we didn't understand one line

If you remember my liner notes in my last album

I talked about a close call with a grenade

I think we both must've been seventh grade

But don't panic, we both survived without damage

But we developed a bond like we survived the Titanic

So when the country became frantic

My mother tried to get us out, planned it

to the last detail, except the plan got derailed

cus there wasn't enough money for the plane tickets

How bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her

So my cousin got left in the war

And that's just hard to record

But now I take refuge in prayer

Kind of like finding God in the phonebook

It came to me sounding something like a song hook

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down

and open doors to hurting people like me

People like me

People like me

People like me

Yeah, people like me

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down

and open doors to hurting people like me

People like me

People like me

People like me

Yeah, people like me