Can the say Amen? (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 here today Some of you the same thang on from the club last night(oh) The giveth 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 even look real; aww, testimony time Oh who is that? Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you finally grew them ears Go on and
Lord, forgive me for the mistakes I've made And thanks for keepin my momma when she wrecked my Escalade See I could replace a but I can't replace my momma I'm for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama But you gotta us rappers ain't never had nothin And one's loss is another's gain so we gotta 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 make 'em so emotional, and other things I it's your way of sayin we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise 'em while we, out and about and seein what has to offer But if you offer a new life then we need is better fathers Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too I'm 28 old, it just now started makin 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 Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh
Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of But thanks for givin the gift of rap to write my feelings And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings me shout 'em out Forgive the people wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't live it they can't or even adapt to it Forgive who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go Oprah 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 travellin through life, findin what's right or wrong I some folks may not agree or even like this song But I'm just speakin MY truth, cause I heard it you free And my conversation's with God, even though he through me I'm smarter of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin And been...
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[Ludacris - over Chorus I've searchin so long I admit that been lost in them clouds I'm tryna stay strong baby You know I'ma you proud I know life is 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 tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee (oh now I see) resiiiides, in me (yeah)
(Ladies and gentlemen, we a special guest in the house tonight Came with some words of encouragement, Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - 2X, minus ad libs]
[Outro: Bishop 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 same you Ay, you yourself, in the midst of conflict and turmoil Yes I'm talkin to you, in the of conflict and turmoil you realize HEY - it's, time to change right now And in the middle of that I wanna say The says that when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I as a child Hey, but I became a man I put away those, things Did you not know your environment has shaped you? Where you born, in the projects, in the ghettoes In the upper downtown, it was The people you, the things around you cause you to do strange things because, you were to learn But you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book God you a prophet When you up your mouth, everything of God comes out And it attention, it commands change I'm talking about the power, that's 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 hear God He said, "Is forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old things are passed away, somebody needs to that and behold becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you It's time to the killing I said it's to stop the stealing It's time to stop disrespecting our time for us to come home and raise our children It's time for us, to mold our communities It's time for us, not to get 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 things that I were right, but it wasn't right And now that I'm 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 say I am; I am who you made me to be and I'm changing in that, and it takes a few But every I fall down, I'll get right back up And every time I make a wrong turn, get myself back in line Because I recognize, I have 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] so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make you proud! Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)