Someone right now, leaving their apartment Looking down at the street and wondering where their car went Someone in a car, sitting at a signal In front of a restaurant, staring through the window It's 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, but spent half the rent At a bar, getting plastered, now he's gotta walk 14 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 There's 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 wanted 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 Just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, that, that, just like that Yo, somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box And trying to knock a d*** in his throat for the act of freedom Right now, somebody's stuck in Iraq Hoping that he gets *** back breathing In a war, but he's not really sure the reasons So we show our support when the press mislead him Though we mourn, remain proud, salute the troops Get some, I know you boys got some work to do Meanwhile, right now, someone's 25 to life And they're 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, acquiring suicide But right now, staring out the window at a fiend With holes in his arm and holes in his jeans He pulled out his cigarette and sparked the light And walked right around the corner just out of my sight But yo, I'm just taking it in On a second story hotel window again The T.V.'s on and my bags are pack But in this world everything can change Just Like that, like that, like that, like that Yo, I'm just taking it in On a second story hotel window again The T.V.'s on and my bags are pack But in this world everything can change Just Like that, like that, like that, like that Right now somebody's sitting in the darkness Trying to figure out 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 the park bench You seen when you rushing to get to the office Wife robbing when she coming from the market Right now somebody's coming out the pocket Trying to dump that s*** they run around the block with Same time the cops is raising the s*** With aim to fill your legs and your back with some hot s*** Right now somebody's struggling to stop this man He's kicking and punching and cussing at the doctors Down the hall a child taking his first breath The doctors ain't even pass 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 questions 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 will kill for the s*** 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 Look, I'm just taking it in In another strange hotel lobby again With my luggage on my back, I don't know where I'm at I'm in a world where we all change just like death Just like death Yeah, I'm just taking it in Out the window of a hotel, better begin tomorrow Gone, I don't know when I'll be back But in this world everything can change just like death Just like death Just like death Just like death Just like death