| We gon' do another off in right now
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| We gon' do another one in fifteen minutes
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| And we gon' do one mo', right after that
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| Yes, women you lookin' so very beautiful here today
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| Some of you with the same thang on from the club last night
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| The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
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| Oh Lord Jesus I wish you’d taketh away Sister Mary’s wig
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| Oh you disrespectin' the House of God with that thing
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| It don’t even look real; |
| aww, it’s testimony time
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| Oh who is that? |
| Young Chris Bridges
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| Boy I’m glad you finally grew into them ears
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| Go on and testify
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| Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes I’ve made
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| And thanks for keepin' my momma safe when she wrecked my Escalade
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| See I could replace a Cadillac but I can’t replace my momma
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| I’m sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama
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| But you gotta understand us rappers ain’t never had nothin
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| And one’s loss is another’s gain so we gotta grab somethin
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| Lord, got so many questions I need the answers to
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| And sorry for the thangs I put my baby’s mama through
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| I feel that women are really the strongest human beings
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| But why do you make 'em so emotional, and other minor things
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| I guess it’s your way of sayin' we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em
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| Cause without 'em we’d be nothin', plus our kids they gotta raise 'em
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| While we, out and about and seein' what life has to offer
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| But if you offer a new life then what we need is better fathers
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| Either I’m smarter cause of my daughter or I’m just too dense
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| I’m 28 years old, it just now started makin' sense
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| And I’ve been…
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| Searchin' so long, I was lost in the clouds
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| I’m tryna' stay strong, and make you proud
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| It took me some time, but now I see
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| That He resides, in me yeah, yeah
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| Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein' rude
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| I’m only human, I’m not always in the best of moods
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| But thanks for givin' the gift of rap to write my feelings down
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| And sorry for cursin' sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out
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| Forgive the people that wanna blame everything on rap music
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| If they didn’t live it they can’t relate or even adapt to it
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| Forgive those who don’t think I’m great and wanna see me go
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| Forgive Oprah for editin' most my comments off her show
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| Don’t get me wrong, I know some people got a image to hold
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| But those who criticize the youth might just be gettin' too old
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| We still travellin' through life, findin' what’s right or wrong
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| I know some folks may not agree or even like this song
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| But I’m just speakin' MY truth, cause I heard it sets you free
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| And my conversation’s with God, even though he speaks through me
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| I’m smarter cause of my daughter, and I’m NOT too dense
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| I’m 28 years old, it just now started makin' sense
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| And I’ve been…
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| I’ve been searchin' so long
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| I admit that I’ve been lost in them clouds
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| I’m just tryna' stay strong baby
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| You know I’mma make you proud
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| I know life is full of contradictions
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| I’m tryna' become a better man
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| Prayin' for redemption, each and every day
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| (Hallelujah, as the choir sings)
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| Searchin' so long (so long) lost in the clouds (in the clouds)
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| Tryin' to stay strong, and make you proud — make you proud!
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| Took me some time (took me some time) now I see (oh now I see)
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| He resides, in me (yeah)
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| (Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house tonight,
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| came with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
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| — repeat 2X, minus ad libs
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| What you just heard is real life
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| It’s real life for you, it’s real life for many
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| It’s about where you been, yet at the same time you
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| Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of conflict and turmoil
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| Yes I’m talkin' to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil
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| Cause you realize HEY — it’s, time to change right now
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| And in the middle of that I wanna say this
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| The Bible says that when I was a child, I spoke as a child
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| I understood as a child, I fought as a child
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| Hey, but when I became a man
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| I put away those, childish things
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| Did you not know that your environment has shaped you?
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| Where you were born, in the projects, in the ghettoes
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| In the upper downtown, wherever it was
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| The people around you, the things around you
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| Cause you to do strange things because, you were seeking to learn |
| But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book
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| God called you a prophet
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| When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out
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| And it commands attention, it commands change
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| I’m talking about the power, that’s inside of you
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| And in the midst when you’re, starting to understand
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| That I caught the wrong message, and now it’s time
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| I’m hearing from God, what amazing experience, as you hear from God
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| He said, «Is there forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation»
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| Old things are passed away, somebody needs to hear that and behold
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| Everything becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you
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| It’s time to stop the killing
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| I said it’s time to stop the stealing
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| It’s time to stop disrespecting our women
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| It’s time for us to come home and raise our children
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| It’s time for us, to really mould our communities
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| It’s time for us, not to get hooked up in religion
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| But to get hooked up in relationship, with God
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| And the amazing thing about it
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| Is wherever you find yourself right now, you can confess
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| And you can tell God «I'm sorry;
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| I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thing
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| I was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn’t right
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| And now that I’m getting it right, I’m asking you to forgive me
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| And I may have done the things, that they said I did
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| But I’m not, who they say I am; |
| I am who you made me to be
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| And I’m changing in that, and it takes a few moments
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| But every time I fall down, I’ll get right back up
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| And every time I make a wrong turn, I’ll get myself back in line
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| Because I recognize, I have been called, for such a time as this!»
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| You can’t resist the change
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| And you’re not condemned by your yesterday
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| If you can grab hold of your now, and move in your destiny
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| Move, change, and be, now!
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| Searchin' so long, lost in the clouds
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| Tryin' to stay strong, and make you proud — make you proud!
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| Took me some time (took me some time) now I see
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| He resides (He resides) in me (in me yeah) |