Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We do another one in fifteen minutes And we do one mo', right after that Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful today Some of you with the same 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 the House of God with that thing on It don't even look aww, it's testimony time Oh who is Young Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew them ears Go on and
Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes made And thanks for keepin my safe when she wrecked my Escalade See I could replace a Cadillac but I can't replace my I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the But you gotta understand us ain't never had nothin And one's loss is another's so we gotta grab somethin Lord, got so many I need the answers to And for the thangs I put my baby's mama through I feel that women are really the strongest human but why do you make 'em so emotional, and minor things I guess it's your way of sayin we gotta 'em and gotta praise 'em cause without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids they raise 'em while we, out and about and seein life has to offer But if you offer a new then what we need is better fathers Either I'm smarter cause of my or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it now started makin sense And been...
One] Searchin so looooong, I was lost in the I'm stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud It took me 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 for givin the gift of rap to write my feelings down And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me 'em out Forgive the people wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't live it they relate or even adapt to it Forgive who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go Oprah for editin most my comments off her show Don't get me wrong, I know people got a image to hold But who criticize the youth might just be gettin too old We still travellin through life, what's right or wrong I know some folks may not or even like this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, cause I it sets you free And my conversation's with God, even though he speaks me I'm smarter of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now started sense And been...
[Chorus
[Ludacris - over One] I've searchin so long I that I've been lost in them clouds I'm just stay strong baby You I'ma make you proud I know is full of contradictions I'm tryna become a man Prayin for redemption, and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: by choir] so looooong (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud - make you proud! Took me some (took me some time) now I seeeee (oh now I see) resiiiides, in me (yeah)
(Ladies and gentlemen, we a special guest in the house tonight Came with words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - 2X, minus ad libs]
[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee you just heard is real life It's real life for you, real life for many It's where you been, yet at the same time you Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of and turmoil Yes I'm talkin to you, in the midst of conflict and Cause you realize HEY - it's, time to right now And in the middle of that I wanna say The Bible says that when I was a child, I spoke as a I understood as a child, I fought as a Hey, but I became a man I put those, childish 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 around you, the around you cause you to do strange things because, you seeking to learn But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the God called you a When you open up your mouth, everything of God out And it commands attention, it commands I'm talking the power, that's inside of you And in the when you're, starting to understand that I caught the wrong message, and now time I'm hearing God, what amazing experience, as you hear from God He said, "Is forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are away, somebody needs to hear that and behold becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you It's time to the killing I said time to stop the stealing time to stop disrespecting our women It's time for us to home and raise our children time for us, to really mold our communities It's time for us, not to get hooked up in But to get up in relationship, with God And the amazing about it is wherever you find yourself right now, you can and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the cue, I was doing the wrong thing I was going after things that I thought were right, but it right And now that I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to me And I may have done the things, that 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 a few moments But every time I fall down, I'll get back up And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in I recognize, I have been called, for such a time as this!" You can't resist the And you're not condemned by yesterday If you can grab hold of now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
Three: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, lost in the Tryin to stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud - make you proud! me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)