More Than This - Brother Ali

I know there’s got to be more than this

In these boxy apartments and offices

Scrambling to pay the bills and the mortgages

Doesn’t seem to be as deep as the story gets

Posing, posting up all our performances

Turn our loved ones into a audience

For our political cause and accomplishments

Whatever make 'em like, share, and applaud for us

That’s all we trust

But there’s more than this, little one-inch box

That we’re forced to fit to get a portrait

There’s got to be a lot more but I’m lazy sometimes

I don’t want to explore, if I’m feeling outta sorts

I shop some more, sometimes I forgot

What I bought before it even arrives at my door

They don’t knock no more, I mean my friends it’s just me

And this cardboard, I can’t see my garage floor

There’s gotta be more than this

Answering a call from inside my soul

This can’t be all there is

But right now this is all I know

There’s gotta be more than this

Answering a call from inside my soul

There’s gotta be more than this

There’s gotta be more than this

Prettiest people do the ugliest things

The type of jewel you spit before becoming a king

A lotta time the poor dream of getting rich

Imagining the joy of expensive shit, but it’s a trip

'Cause before we had togetherness

And we were just forced to make the best of it

But when we get more, we forget all this

And our hearts grow sore with the emptiness

We used to think we never had enough

Took a trip and got bitten by the travel bug

Dip our toes in the ocean, soak the magic up

Till finally got bored and strayed away

From the places that they make for the tourists to the villages

It’s like welcome to the world and how real it is

People given from their spirit what the feeling is

I see myself and remember just what living is, what a privilege

There’s gotta be more than this

Answering a call from inside my soul

This can’t be all there is

But right now this is all I know

There’s gotta be more than this

Answering a call from inside my soul

There’s gotta be more than this

There’s gotta be more than this