Description
The sand in the hourglass runs out too quickly, and every heartbeat reminds us that tomorrow may never come. Here, the street is a school, a church and a court all at once. It is filled with prayers under the streetlights, mixed with smoke and the short laughter of those who have survived today but are unsure of tomorrow.
The verses contain cold arithmetic: power is divided into money, money into fear, and fear into respect. Everything goes round in circles until it paradoxically becomes clear that the most precious thing in this ‘paradise’ is human life, and it is precisely this that is consumed the fastest.
And yet, the chorus sounds almost like a choir, as if the entire neighbourhood is admitting its weariness from the eternal race. This paradox is the strength of the track: it dances to the rhythm of danger, but looks up to the sky, asking why those closest to us are the ones who hurt us the most.
Producer: Doug Rashid
Composer and lyricist: Artis Ivy Jr.
Composer and lyricist: Doug Rashid
Composer and lyricist: Larry Sanders
Composer: Stevie Wonder
Lyrics and translation
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