Can the say Amen? (Amen reverend) We gon' do one more offerin now We gon' do another one in fifteen And we gon' do one mo', right that Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful here Some of you with the same thang on the club last night(oh) The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh Please Lord Jesus I wish you'd taketh Sister Mary's wig Oh you the House of God with that thing on It don't even 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 mistakes I've And thanks for keepin my momma safe she wrecked my Escalade See I could a Cadillac but I can't replace my momma I'm for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama But you gotta understand us rappers ain't had nothin And one's loss is another's gain so we gotta grab Lord, got so many questions I need the to And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's through I that women are really the strongest human beings but why do you make 'em so emotional, and other minor I guess it's way of sayin we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em cause '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 a new life then what we need is better fathers I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense I'm 28 years old, it now started 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 That Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeah
Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan I was bein rude I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of But thanks for givin the of rap to write my feelings down And sorry for cursin sometimes but make me shout 'em out Forgive the people that wanna blame everything on rap If they didn't live it they can't or even adapt to it Forgive those who don't I'm great and wanna see me go Forgive Oprah for editin my comments off her show Don't get me wrong, I some people got a image to hold But those who criticize the might just be gettin too old We still travellin through life, 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 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 searchin so long I that I've been lost in them clouds I'm tryna stay strong baby You I'ma make you proud I life is full of contradictions I'm become a better man for redemption, each and every day
(Hallelujah, as the sings)
[Chorus Two: sung by Searchin so looooong (so long) in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - 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 of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)
[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, ad libs]
[Outro: Eddie Lee Long] What you just is real life It's real for you, it's real life for many about where you been, yet at the same time you Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of and turmoil Yes I'm talkin to you, in the midst of conflict and Cause you realize HEY - it's, time to 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 fought as a Hey, but I became a man I put away those, things Did you not know that environment has shaped you? 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 strange because, you were seeking 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 commands attention, it change I'm talking about the power, inside of you And in the midst you're, starting to understand I caught the wrong message, and now it's time I'm hearing God, what amazing 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 to hear that and behold Everything becomes new, and when becomes new in you It's time to stop the I it's time to stop the stealing It's time to disrespecting our women It's time for us to home and raise our children It's time for us, to really mold our time for us, not to get hooked up in religion But to get up in relationship, with 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 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 have done the things, that they 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 takes a few But every time I fall down, get right back up And every time I make a wrong turn, get myself back in line Because I recognize, I been called, for such a time as this!" You can't the change And you're not condemned by your If you can grab hold of your now, and move in your Move, change, and be, now!
Three: sung by choir] Searchin so looooong, in the clouuuuuds Tryin to strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee Heeeee (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh)