Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We do another one in fifteen minutes And we gon' do one mo', right after Yes, women you lookin so very here today Some of you with the same thang on the club last night(oh) The giveth and the Lord taketh away Please Lord I wish you'd taketh away Sister Mary's wig Oh you the House of God with that thing on It even look real; aww, it's testimony time Oh who is Young Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew into them Go on and
Lord, please forgive me for the I've made And for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my Escalade See I could replace a Cadillac but I can't my momma I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we for the drama But you gotta us rappers ain't never had nothin And one's loss is gain so we gotta grab somethin Lord, got so many questions I the answers to And for the thangs I put my baby's mama through I that women are really the strongest human beings but why do you 'em so emotional, and other minor things I it's your way of sayin we gotta love '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 what 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 just too I'm 28 years old, it just now started sense And been...
[Chorus so looooong, I was lost in the clouds 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 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 my feelings down And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me 'em out Forgive the people that blame everything on rap music If didn't live it they can't relate or even adapt to it Forgive those who think I'm great and wanna see me go Forgive Oprah for 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 travellin through life, findin what's 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 with God, though he speaks through me I'm smarter cause of my daughter, and I'm NOT too I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin And been...
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[Ludacris - over One] been searchin so long I admit that I've been lost in clouds I'm just tryna strong baby You know make you proud I know is full of contradictions I'm become a better man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
Two: sung 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, Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, minus ad
Bishop Eddie Lee Long] What you just 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 conflict and Yes I'm talkin to you, in the midst of and turmoil Cause you realize HEY - it's, time to right now And in the middle of that I say this The says 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 away those, things Did you not know that your environment has shaped Where you were born, in the projects, in the In the upper downtown, it was The people around you, the things you you to do strange things because, you were 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 about the power, that's of you And in the midst when you're, starting to 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 forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are away, somebody needs to hear that and behold Everything becomes new, and everything becomes new in you It's time to the killing I said it's time to stop the It's to stop disrespecting our women time 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 up in religion But to get up in relationship, with God And the thing about it is wherever you yourself right now, you can confess and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the cue, I was doing the wrong thing I was going things 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 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 a few moments But every time I down, I'll get right back up And time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in line Because I recognize, I have been called, for a time as this!" You can't the change And you're not by your yesterday If you can grab hold of your now, and move in destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus Three: sung by 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 Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)