Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We gon' do another one in minutes And we gon' do one mo', right that Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful here Some of you with the same thang on from the club night(oh) The Lord giveth and the Lord away Please Jesus I wish you'd taketh away Sister 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 Chris Boy I'm glad you finally grew them ears Go on and
Lord, please me for the mistakes I've made And thanks for my momma safe when she wrecked 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 understand us rappers ain't never had nothin And loss is another's gain 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 women are really the human beings but why do you 'em so emotional, and other minor things I guess 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 life has to offer But if you offer a new life then what we need is better 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 lost in the I'm tryna stay strooooong, and you prouuuuud It me some tiiiiime, but now I see That Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeah
Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was rude I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of But thanks for the gift of rap to write my feelings down And sorry for cursin sometimes but make me shout 'em out Forgive the people that blame everything on rap music If they didn't live it they relate or even adapt to it those who don't 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 some got a image to hold But those who criticize the youth might just be too old We still through life, findin what's right or wrong I know some folks may not or even like this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, I heard it sets you free And my conversation's with God, even though he through me I'm smarter cause of my daughter, and I'm NOT too I'm 28 years old, it now started makin sense And been...
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[Ludacris - over Chorus been searchin so long I admit that I've been lost in them I'm just tryna strong baby You I'ma make you proud I know life is full of I'm tryna a better man Prayin for redemption, and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
Two: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong (so long) lost in the (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - you proud! me some tiiiiime (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 words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
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[Outro: Eddie Lee Long] What you just heard is real It's real life for you, it's real for many about where you been, yet at the same time you Ay, you find yourself, in the of conflict and turmoil Yes I'm to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil you realize HEY - it's, time to change right now And in the of that I wanna say this The Bible says when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I as a child Hey, but when I a man I put those, childish things Did you not know that your environment has shaped you were born, in the projects, in the ghettoes In the downtown, wherever it was The people you, the things around you cause you to do things because, you were seeking to learn But you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book God you a prophet you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out And it attention, it commands change I'm about the power, that's inside of you And in the midst when you're, to understand I caught the wrong message, and now it's time I'm from 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 passed away, somebody needs to hear that and Everything becomes new, and when everything new in you time to stop the killing I it's time to stop the stealing It's time to disrespecting our women It's for us to come home and raise our children It's for us, to really mold our communities time for us, not to get hooked up in religion But to get hooked up in relationship, God And the amazing about it is wherever you yourself right now, you can confess and you can God "I'm sorry; I had the wrong cue, I was doing the thing I was after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't right And now that I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to me And I may have 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 I fall down, I'll get right back up And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in Because I recognize, I have been called, for such a as this!" You resist the change And you're not condemned by yesterday If you can hold of your now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
Three: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, lost in the to stay 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)