Can the church say (Amen reverend) We gon' do one offerin right now We gon' do another one in minutes And we gon' do one mo', after that Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful here Some of you with the same on from the club last night(oh) The giveth and the Lord taketh away Please Lord Jesus I wish you'd taketh Sister Mary's wig Oh you the House of God with that thing on It don't even look real; aww, testimony time Oh who is Young Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you grew into them ears Go on and
Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes I've 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 for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama But you gotta understand us rappers ain't never had And one's loss is another's gain so we grab somethin Lord, got so questions I need the answers to And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's mama I feel women are really the strongest human beings but why do you make 'em so emotional, and minor things I guess it's 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 about and seein what has to offer But if you offer a new life then what we is better fathers I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin And been...
[Chorus so looooong, I was lost in the clouds I'm tryna stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud It took me tiiiiime, but now I see That Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeah
Lord, forgive me for a fan said I was bein rude I'm human, I'm not always in the best of moods But thanks for givin the gift of rap to my feelings down And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me 'em out Forgive the people that blame everything on rap music If they live it they can't relate or even adapt to it Forgive those who don't think I'm and wanna see me go Forgive Oprah for most my comments off her show Don't get me wrong, I know some people got a to hold But who criticize the youth might just be gettin too old We still travellin through life, findin what's or wrong I know some may not agree or even like this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, cause I heard it you free And my conversation's with God, even though he through me I'm smarter of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin And been...
[Chorus
- over Chorus One] I've been searchin so I admit that I've been lost in clouds I'm just tryna stay strong You know I'ma you proud I know life is full of I'm tryna become a man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: sung by so looooong (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to strooooong, and make 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 have a guest in the house tonight with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, ad libs]
[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee What you heard is real life It's real life for you, it's real life for It's about you been, yet at the same time you Ay, you find yourself, in the of conflict and turmoil Yes I'm talkin to you, in the midst of and turmoil Cause you HEY - it's, time to change right now And in the middle of that I wanna say The Bible says that I was a child, I spoke as a child I as a child, I fought as a child Hey, but I became a man I put away those, childish Did you not that your environment has shaped you? Where you were born, in the projects, in the In the upper downtown, it was The people around you, the around you cause you to do strange things because, you were to learn But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the God called you a When you open up mouth, everything of God comes out And it commands attention, it commands I'm talking about the power, that's of you And in the midst when you're, starting to that I caught the wrong message, and now 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, needs to hear that and behold becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you It's time to the killing I it's time to stop the stealing It's to stop disrespecting our women It's time for us to home and raise our children It's for us, to really mold our communities It's for us, not to get hooked up in religion But to get up in relationship, with God And the thing about it is wherever you find yourself right now, you can and you can tell God "I'm I had the wrong cue, I was doing the thing I was going after things that I were right, but it wasn't right And now that I'm getting it right, I'm you to forgive me And I may done the things, that they said I did But I'm not, who they say I am; I am who you me to be and I'm changing in that, and it takes a few But every time I fall down, get right back up And time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in line Because I recognize, I 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!
Three: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, lost in the Tryin to strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)