Can the church say (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We do another one in fifteen minutes And we do one mo', right after that Yes, women you so very beautiful here today of you with the same thang on from the club last night(oh) The Lord giveth and the 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 look real; aww, it's testimony time Oh who is Young Chris Bridges Boy I'm glad you grew into them ears 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 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 had nothin And one's loss is another's so we gotta grab somethin Lord, got so many questions I the answers to And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's mama I that women are really the strongest human beings but why do you make 'em so emotional, and other minor I guess it's your way of sayin we gotta 'em and gotta praise 'em cause without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids gotta raise 'em while we, out and about and seein what life has to But if you offer a new life then what we need is better Either I'm cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it just now started sense And been...
[Chorus Searchin so looooong, I was in the clouds I'm tryna strooooong, and make you prouuuuud It took me tiiiiime, but now I see That resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah
Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein I'm human, I'm not always in the best of moods But thanks for the gift of rap to write my feelings down And sorry for sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out the people that wanna blame everything on rap music If they didn't live it they can't relate or even to it Forgive those who don't think I'm and wanna see me go Forgive 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 just be gettin too old We still travellin through life, findin what's 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 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 sense And been...
[Chorus
[Ludacris - over Chorus I've searchin so long I admit that I've been lost in them I'm just tryna stay baby You know I'ma make you I know is full of contradictions I'm tryna a better man Prayin for redemption, and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus sung by choir] so looooong (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make 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 guest in the house tonight with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, minus ad
[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee What you heard is real life It's real life for you, it's real life for It's about you been, yet at the same time you Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of and turmoil Yes I'm to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil Cause you realize HEY - it's, to change right now And in the middle of that I say this The Bible says that when I was a child, I 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 your environment has shaped you? Where you were born, in the projects, in the In the downtown, wherever it was The people around you, the 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 open up your mouth, of God comes out And it commands attention, it commands I'm about the power, that's inside of you And in the midst when you're, starting to that I caught the wrong message, and now time I'm from God, what amazing experience, as you hear from God He said, "Is there any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" Old are passed away, somebody needs to hear that and behold Everything becomes new, and when becomes new in you It's time to stop the I said it's to stop the stealing It's time to stop our women It's time for us to come home and raise our It's time for us, to really mold our It's time for us, not to get hooked up in 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 the wrong 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, they 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 down, I'll get right back up And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get back in line Because I recognize, I have been called, for a time as this!" You resist the change And you're not condemned by your If you can hold of your now, and move in your destiny Move, change, and be, now!
[Chorus Three: sung by so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you - make you proud! me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)