Hoping for a life more sweeter Instead, I'm just a story repeated Why do I feel, my skin dark as night Can't feel peace, with those judging eyes I thought we moved on from the dark of days Did the words, of the king disappear in the air Like a butterfly, somebody should hand you a felony Cause you stole from me, my chance to be Hoping for a life more sweeter Instead, I'm just a story repeated Why do I feel, my skin dark as night Can't feel peace, with those judging eyes The tears of my mother, rain, rain over me My sisters and my brothers, sang, sang over me And I wish I had, another day But it's just another day Hoping for a life more sweeter Instead, I'm just a story repeated Why do I feel, my skin dark as night Can't feel peace, with those judging eyes Hoping for a life more sweeter