Can the church say (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more right now We do another one in fifteen minutes And we gon' do one mo', after that Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful today 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 disrespectin the House of God with that 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 me for the mistakes I've made And thanks for keepin my momma safe when she my Escalade See I could replace a Cadillac but I replace my momma I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we for the drama But you gotta understand us rappers ain't never had And one's loss is another's so we gotta grab somethin Lord, got so many I need the answers to And sorry for the I put my baby's mama through I feel that are really the strongest human beings 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 they gotta raise 'em while we, out and about and what life has to offer But if you offer a new life then what we 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 sense And been...
One] Searchin so looooong, I was in the clouds I'm tryna strooooong, and make you prouuuuud It me some tiiiiime, but now I see That resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah
Lord, me for anytime a fan said I was bein rude I'm human, I'm not always in the best of moods But thanks for givin the of rap to write my feelings down And for cursin sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out Forgive the that wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't live it they can't relate or adapt to it Forgive those who don't think I'm 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 those who criticize the youth might be gettin too old We still through life, findin what's right or wrong I know some folks may not agree or like this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, I heard 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 old, it just now started makin sense And been...
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[Ludacris - Chorus One] I've searchin so long I admit that I've been in them clouds I'm just tryna strong baby You know I'ma make you I know is full of contradictions I'm become a better man Prayin for redemption, and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: by choir] Searchin so (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to strooooong, and make 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 have a guest in the house tonight Came with some words of encouragement, Bishop Long)
[Chorus Two - 2X, minus ad libs]
[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee What you just heard is life It's life for you, it's real life for many It's where 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 you realize HEY - it's, time to change 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 as a child, I fought as a child 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 things you cause you to do strange things because, you were seeking to But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the God called you a When you open up your mouth, of God comes out And it commands attention, it commands I'm talking the power, that's inside of you And in the midst you're, starting to understand that I caught the wrong message, and now time I'm hearing from God, what amazing experience, as you hear God He said, "Is forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are passed away, somebody needs to hear and behold Everything becomes new, and everything becomes new in you It's to stop the killing I said it's time to stop the time to stop disrespecting our women It's time for us to come home and our children It's time for us, to really our communities It's time for us, not to get hooked up in But to get hooked up in relationship, God And the amazing about it is you find yourself right now, you can confess and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the wrong cue, I was the wrong thing I was going after things that I thought were right, but it right And now I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to forgive me And I may have done the things, that they I did But I'm not, who they say I am; I am who you me to be and I'm in that, and it takes a few moments But time I fall down, I'll get right back up And time 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 can't the change And you're not by your yesterday If you can hold of your now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus Three: by choir] Searchin so looooong, lost in the Tryin to strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! Took me some (took me some time) now I seeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)