Joe Budden - Pray for me
Niggas pray for me...
Niggas use to pray for me...
Need ya'll to pray for me...
Need niggas just to pray for me...
Need ya'll to pray for me...
Need niggas just to pray for me...
Need ya'll to pray for me...
Need niggas just to pray for me...
I want somebody to pray for me...
Somebody pray for me...
Please ya'll pray for me...
Please niggas just pray for me...
Look... I woke up without a heartbeat. But I remember we was just in the car deep. Was at a light, and got approached by a car thief. He pulled out, but didn't ask for no car keys...
A loud noise without a voice, and I'm tryin' to scream out, "Shit is not fair!" I can't tell you where I'm at, or how I got here. Surrounded by all white, maybe it's just cloudy. Escorted by two men who knew everything about me...
Both of them so strong, kept sayin' "Hold on" Feels like my souls gone, naked no clothes on. I know this can't be my fate. I scream "Wait!",
As they drop me in front of a gate...
They left no trace... I can see my every breath like a cold day, stood before a man with no face...
He said to me...
You're real close to heaven...
Few get to step in...
Now tell me what you've done to deserve to be let in"
"Look, I'm far from a christian, not big on religion. But ain't done too much wrong my entire time of living. Never killed, never tried to. Though I've been lied to. Was once suicidal, never read the bible. I've always been a caretaker, tried to nurse people. At times it backfired, hurt people... hurt people...
Plus I never use your name in vain. But you should know everything I'm being asked to explain..."
Sold drugs to parents, none of that was needed...
Abandoned your child on every girl you cheated...
Done wrong to people that only want the best for you.
Anytime you thought you were alone, I was right next to you"
Held on to resentments. Even in doing business.
I lead by example, I teach forgiveness.
Your entry, can not be guaranteed...
Not when you live with Anger
Envy
Greed
Pride
Sloth
Lust
even Gluttony...
Everything you shouldn't, if you would of joined my company"
And when you do...
You never talk about what you can do for me,
It's what I can do for you.
I blessed you with...
Health... Family... and Wealth...
With all the blessings you've received, you still always want help"
"Yea there's been times in my life I needed help to make money. But why everything I love, you manage take from me? Yet you stand there and to question a nigga that tries hard, And finds a way when you keep dealing him fucked up cards!. You make mistakes like me, far as I can see. I think its a mockery, whenever rich niggas win the lottery. Gave us Bush twice... God I hate to be rude, But you let skinny niggas starve, give obese niggas food! The nerve when you telling me, I don't deserve to stay here, When you gave us drugs, and guns, YOU PUT AIDS HERE!
Take a look at you. Your actions are cold-hearted. The hard shit is you bring babies in the world retarded. I know most my actions put me in a cell. But how you mad at me, when you put me in the hell?
I never give a person anything they can't handle.
Don't tell me about everything you've had to go through.
There's reasons for my actions, even if I never showed you.
Keep trying with you, all you did was hurt me.
Still gave you chances to prove that you were worthy...
And so I sat with you on a train... I asked you for change... You kept callin' me names...
Probably didn't notice, I was the store clerk.
You put the gun to me, get money for more work.
My child, I know you have it in you to indeed stop.
This is not your final callin', just brief stop.
Hope you heed my words and understand.
So when I see you back, you should be a better man,
Look at life different, the next time we see each other,
There'll be no need to talk, whenever we meet each other"
For some, just music. Others, loud noise. For me? A message in a bottle I found in the ocean that I read every night before I go to sleep...