Can the church say (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We gon' do another one in minutes And we do one mo', right after that Yes, women you lookin so very here today of you with the same thang on from the club last night(oh) The Lord and the Lord taketh away Please Lord Jesus I wish you'd taketh away Mary's wig Oh you disrespectin the House of God with thing on It don't look real; aww, it's testimony time Oh who is that? Young Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew into ears Go on and
Lord, please me for the mistakes I've made And for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my Escalade See I could a Cadillac but I can't replace my momma I'm for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama But you understand us rappers ain't never had nothin 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 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 love 'em and gotta 'em cause without 'em be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise 'em while we, out and about and seein life has to offer But if you a new life then what we need is better fathers Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm too dense I'm 28 years old, it now started makin sense And been...
[Chorus so looooong, I was lost in the clouds I'm tryna stay strooooong, and make you It took me tiiiiime, but now I see That Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeah
Lord, me for anytime a fan said I was bein rude I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of 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 that wanna blame everything on rap If they didn't live it they can't relate or adapt to it those who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go Forgive Oprah for editin 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, findin right or wrong I know some folks may not agree or even this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, cause I it sets you free And my conversation's God, even though he speaks through 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...
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[Ludacris - Chorus One] I've been so long I admit that I've been in them clouds I'm just tryna stay baby You know I'ma make you I know is full of contradictions I'm tryna become a man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: by choir] Searchin so looooong (so long) in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - 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 have a special in the house tonight Came with some words of encouragement, Bishop Long)
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[Outro: Eddie Lee Long] What you just is real life It's real life for you, real life for many It's about where you been, yet at the time you Ay, you yourself, in the midst of conflict 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 I wanna say this The Bible that when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I fought as a Hey, but when I a man I put those, childish things Did you not know that your has shaped you? you were 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 because, you were seeking to learn But you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book God called you a When you up your mouth, everything of God comes out And it commands attention, it change I'm talking about the power, inside of you And in the midst you're, starting to understand I caught the wrong message, and now it's time I'm hearing from God, what amazing experience, as you from God He said, "Is there any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are away, somebody needs to hear that and behold Everything new, and when everything becomes new in you time to stop the killing I said it's time to stop the It's to stop disrespecting our women It's time for us to come home and raise our It's time for us, to really our communities time for us, not to get hooked up in religion But to get up in relationship, with God And the amazing about it is wherever you find yourself now, you can confess and you can tell God "I'm I had the wrong cue, I was doing the thing I was going after that I thought were right, but it wasn't right And now that I'm getting it right, I'm you to forgive me And I may have done the things, that 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 takes a few But every time I fall down, I'll get back up And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get back in line Because I recognize, I have been called, for such a as this!" You can't resist the And you're not by your yesterday If you can grab hold of your now, and move in destiny Move, change, and be, now!
Three: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, lost in the Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make you proud! me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)