Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We do one more offerin right now We gon' do another one in fifteen And we gon' do one mo', right after Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful today Some of you with the same thang on the club last night(oh) The Lord giveth and the Lord away Please Lord Jesus I wish taketh away Sister Mary's wig Oh you disrespectin the House of God that thing on It don't even look real; aww, testimony time Oh who is that? Young Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew them ears Go on and
Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes I've And thanks for keepin my safe when she wrecked my Escalade See I replace a Cadillac but I can't replace 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 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 love 'em and praise 'em cause without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids gotta raise 'em while we, out and about and what life has to offer But if you offer a new then what we need is better fathers Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin And been...
One] Searchin so looooong, I was in the clouds I'm stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud It me some tiiiiime, but now I see That resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah
Lord, forgive me for a fan said I was bein rude I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of But thanks for givin the gift of rap to write my down And for cursin sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out Forgive the people that wanna blame on rap music If they didn't live it they can't relate or even to it Forgive who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go Forgive for editin most my comments off her show Don't get me wrong, I know some people got a image to But those who criticize the youth might just be 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 heard it sets you And my conversation's God, even though he speaks through me I'm smarter cause of my daughter, and I'm NOT too I'm 28 old, it just now started makin sense And been...
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[Ludacris - over Chorus I've been so long I admit that I've been in them clouds I'm just tryna stay baby You I'ma make you proud I life is full of contradictions I'm become a better man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: by choir] Searchin so looooong (so long) lost in the (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 a special guest in the house tonight Came with some of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, ad libs]
Bishop Eddie Lee Long] What you just heard is life It's real life for you, real life for many It's about where you been, yet at the same you Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of and turmoil Yes I'm to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil Cause you HEY - it's, time to change right now And in the of that I wanna say this The Bible says that when I was a child, I spoke as a I understood as a child, I fought as a 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 strange things because, you were seeking to But you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book God you a prophet When you open up your mouth, everything of God out And it attention, it commands change I'm talking about the power, inside of you And in the when you're, starting to understand that I caught the message, and now it's time I'm hearing from God, what amazing experience, as you from God He said, "Is forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old are passed away, somebody needs to hear that and behold becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you It's to stop the killing I said time to stop the stealing It's to stop disrespecting our women It's for us to come home and raise our children It's for us, to really mold our communities It's time for us, not to get hooked up in But to get hooked up in relationship, God And the thing about it is wherever you find yourself now, you can confess and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong I was after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't right 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 time I make a turn, I'll get myself back in line Because I recognize, I been called, for such a time as this!" You can't resist the And you're not condemned by your If you can grab hold of your now, and in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, in the clouuuuuds to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! Took me tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)