Can the church say (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more right now We gon' do one in fifteen minutes And we gon' do one mo', right that Yes, women you so very beautiful here today of you with the same thang on from the club last night(oh) The Lord giveth and the taketh away Please Lord Jesus I wish you'd away Sister Mary's wig Oh you disrespectin the House of God with thing on It don't even real; aww, it's testimony time Oh who is that? Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew them ears Go on and
Lord, please me for the mistakes I've made And thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my See I could replace a Cadillac but I can't my momma I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we for the drama But you gotta understand us ain't never had nothin And one's loss is another's gain so we gotta grab Lord, got so questions I need the answers to And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's through I feel that women are the strongest human beings but why do you make 'em so emotional, and other minor I guess your way of sayin we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em cause 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise 'em while we, out and and seein what life has to offer But if you offer a new life what we need is better fathers Either I'm cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now makin sense And been...
[Chorus so looooong, I was lost in the clouds I'm tryna stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud It me some tiiiiime, but now I see Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah
Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein I'm human, I'm not always in the best of moods But thanks for givin the gift of rap to write my down And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings me shout 'em out Forgive the that wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't it they can't relate or even adapt to it Forgive those who don't think I'm great and see me go Oprah for editin most my comments off her show Don't get me wrong, I know some people got a to hold But those who criticize the might just be gettin too old We still travellin life, findin what's right or wrong I some folks may not agree or even like this song But I'm speakin MY truth, cause I heard it sets you free And my conversation's with God, though he speaks through me I'm smarter of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense I'm 28 years old, it now started makin sense And been...
[Chorus
- over Chorus One] I've been searchin so I admit that been lost in them clouds I'm tryna stay strong baby You know I'ma make you I life is full of contradictions I'm tryna become a man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: sung by Searchin so (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud - make you proud! Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I (oh now I see) resiiiides, in me (yeah)
(Ladies and gentlemen, we a special guest in the house tonight with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, minus ad
[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee What you just heard is life It's real life for you, it's real for many It's about where you been, yet at the time you Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of and turmoil Yes I'm talkin to you, in the of conflict and turmoil you realize HEY - it's, time to change right now And in the middle of that I say this The Bible that when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I as a child Hey, but when I a man I put away those, things Did you not know that environment has shaped you? Where you born, in the projects, in the ghettoes In the downtown, wherever it was The people you, the things around you cause you to do things because, you were seeking to learn But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the God you a prophet you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out And it commands attention, it commands I'm about the power, that's inside of you And in the when you're, starting to understand that I the wrong message, and now it's time I'm hearing from God, what experience, as you hear from God He said, "Is forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are passed away, somebody needs to hear that and Everything becomes new, and when everything new in you It's time to the killing I said it's time to stop the It's time to stop our women time for us to come home and raise our children It's time for us, to really our communities It's time for us, not to get up in religion But to get up in relationship, with God And the amazing thing it is wherever you find yourself right now, you can and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong I was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't And now I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to forgive me And I may done the things, that they said I did But I'm not, who say I am; I am who you made me to be and I'm changing in that, and it a few moments But time I fall down, I'll get right back up And every I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in line I recognize, I have been called, for such a time as this!" You resist the change And not condemned by your yesterday If you can hold of your now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus Three: by choir] so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make you proud! Took me some (took me some time) now I seeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)