Right Now

(album: The Rising Tied - 2005)

Someone right now is leaving their apartment
Looking down at the street and wondering where their car went
Someone in the car 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 looking pretty tired
Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired
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 no 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
Like that

Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box
And trying not to get shot in his throat
For the act of freedom right now somebody stuck in Iraq
Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing

In a war, but he's not really sure of the reasons
So we show our support when the press mislead him
Though we mourn, remain proud and salute the troops
Get some I know you boys got some work to do

Meanwhile right now someone's 25 to life
And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchhiking
Scratching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner
Sneaking through the border just to work and eat a real dinner

Right now someone wishes they were you and I
Instead of second guessing fatal thoughts of quiet suicide
But right now staring out the window at a fiend
With holes in his arm and holes in his jeans

He pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light
And walked right around the corner just out of my sight

But yo I'm just taking it in
From a second-story hotel window again
The TV's on, and my bags are packed
But in this world everything can change just like that
Like that

Yo I'm just taking it in
From a second-story hotel window again
The TV's on, and my bags are packed
But in this world everything can change just like that
Like that

Yeah, right now somebody's sitting in the darkness
Trying to figure how to put some heat in their apartment
But they got a little mattress, a little carpet
And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench

You see them when you're rushing to get to the office
Wife fly by when she coming home from the market
Right now somebody coming out the pocket
Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with

Same time the cops is raising the Glock with aim
To fill your legs and your back with some hot shit

Right now somebody's struggling to stop this man
Who's kicking and punching and cussing at the doctors

Down the hall a child taking his first breath
The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo

I wonder if he understand what it's worth yet
Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet

The answer to the question we all seek
Can be found, it depend on how free y'all think

Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week
That would kill for the 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 taking it in
Another strange hotel lobby again
Put my luggage on my back
I don't know where I'm at
I'm in a world where we all change just like that
Like that, like that, just like that, like that, 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
Just like that, just like that