From the recording Thieves In The Breadline
Drums/Percussion: Isaiah Griffin
Vocals/Keys/Organ/Bass: Steve Davis
Tenor Saxophone: Dalton Sharp
Trumpet: Paul Gaspar
Vocals/Guitar: David Michael Miller
Engineering, Mixing & Mastering: David Michael Miller at Food For The Soul Studios Clarence, NY
Choir Recording: Brian Moore at Tones Studio Rochester, NY
Consulting: Brian Moore & Nel Giraldo
Horn Arrangement: Paul Gaspar
Backup Vocals: Rena Williams, Jasmine Neeley, Ashley Nicole Brown, Cinnamon Jones, Steve Davis, David Michael Miller
Lyrics
Uneven
Words & Music: David Michael Miller
Open arms ain't always holding, Unlocked doors might not mean come in
Well marked paths of misdirection, With slight of hand and a devil's grin
Right of way don't mean you have it, And the dividend might not get paid
Because its yours won't let you grab it, And justice blind might just not find its way
CHORUS
Ain't that, the sour in the sweet, The kick in the teeth
The ground’s uneven
Ain't that, another dead end street, The rug from underneath
The ground’s uneven
At times climbing finds the bottom, You secure the line and the ends still fray
Noble friends don't mean you know them, Facebook faces just a masquerade
The poor get robbed to be the poorer, While the rich get paid just to play the game
Freedom might just jail it’s soldier, The more things change, the more things stay the same
CHORUS
They say uneven just for you (you), son I've got to break the news (news)
You thought you had a choice to choose (choose), it's their win win and your lose lose (lose)
Uneven’s a simple fact of life (life), struggle only pushes deep the knife (knife)
Better out of mind then out of sight (sight), put your hands up and quit the fight
Uneven gives the few control (control), cuz parts are weaker than the whole (whole)
Just your luck not what they stole (stole), justifies another toll
Uneven for the skin you’re in (in), what you believe and where you’ve been (been)
Uneven time and time again (again), history repeating in the spin
Uneven till someone tears it down (down), and makes the mountains level ground (ground)
Until a better path is found (found), until the common man’s unbound
I said the ground’s uneven (ground’s uneven), I said the ground’s uneven(ground’s uneven)
I said the ground’s uneven (ground’s uneven), I said the ground’s uneven(ground’s uneven)
I said the ground’s uneven (ground’s uneven), I said the ground’s uneven(ground’s uneven)
Oh you best believin’, the ground’s uneven.
The ground’s uneven, the ground’s uneven, the ground’s uneven, the ground’s uneven.