Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more right now We gon' do another one in fifteen And we gon' do one mo', after that Yes, women you lookin so very here today of you with the same thang on from the club last night(oh) The Lord and the Lord taketh away Please Lord I wish you'd taketh away Sister Mary's wig Oh you disrespectin the House of God with thing on It don't even look real; aww, it's time Oh who is that? Young Chris Boy I'm glad you finally grew into them Go on and
Lord, please forgive me for the I've made And thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my See I could a Cadillac but I can't replace my momma I'm sorry for the beefs, we sorry for the drama But you gotta understand us rappers ain't never had And one's loss is gain so we gotta grab somethin Lord, got so many questions I the answers to And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's through I feel that 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 gotta 'em while we, out and about and what life has to offer But if you offer a new life then we need is better fathers Either I'm smarter of my daughter or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now makin sense And been...
One] Searchin so looooong, I was lost in the I'm stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud It me some 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 write my down And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me 'em out Forgive the that wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't it they can't relate or even adapt to it Forgive those who don't 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 might just be gettin too old We still travellin through life, findin what's right or I know some folks may not agree or even like this But I'm just MY truth, cause I heard it sets you free And my conversation's with God, even though he speaks me I'm cause of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense I'm 28 years old, it now started makin sense And been...
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[Ludacris - over Chorus I've been searchin so I admit that I've been lost in them I'm just tryna strong baby You know I'ma make you I know life is full of I'm tryna become a man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: sung by Searchin so (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! Took me some tiiiiime (took me time) now I seeeee (oh now I see) resiiiides, in me (yeah)
(Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house Came with some words of encouragement, Bishop Long)
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[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee What you just heard is real It's life for you, it's 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 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 I was a child, I spoke as a child I as a child, I fought as a child Hey, but I became a man I put those, childish 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 you to do strange things because, you were seeking to learn But you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book God called you a When you open up mouth, everything of God comes out And it commands attention, it change I'm talking about the power, inside of you And in the when you're, starting to understand I caught the wrong message, and now it's time I'm hearing from God, what experience, as you hear from God He said, "Is there 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 when becomes new in you It's time to the killing I it's time to stop the stealing It's time to stop disrespecting our It's time for us to come and raise 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 up in relationship, with God And the thing 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 things that I thought 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 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 every time I fall down, get right back up And every 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 of your now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, in the clouuuuuds Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make you proud! Took me tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)