Ghetto Prayers

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Laying in the bed, I've been looking at the ceiling

If my whole life stopped, everybody's still living

I'm just trying to take the time to write that letter to my children

I done took a lot of losses on that road to the millions

Ah

Sticks and stones, they may break my bones

And sometimes blessings, they just take too long

my ghetto prayer for the children

And I ain't never seen no hate this strong

Sometimes I question, is my faith just gone

This is my prayer for the children

My heart keep yelling to me, bread, stay strong

And rainy days, they don't last too long

My ghetto prayer for the children

When everything that you had is gone

And all that money just like ash from stones

This is my prayer for the children

Laying in the bed, I've been looking at the ceiling

If my whole life stopped, everybody's still living

I'm just trying to take the time to write that letter to my children

I done took a lot of losses on that road to the millions

Ah

In case I die up in the streets, I'mma write this

In case I die up in my sleep, my pistol tight gripped

Cause tomorrow just ain't promised, that's how life twists

Will I make it through them heaven gates?

On Christ list

If only God can judge then why the roccs thrown

Why the good die young? I think the clock's wrong

We protecting the struggle until the blocc strong

We the last to do it, let's prove the cops wrong

Ain't no pigs allowed around here

Man, it's hard to see the sun shining down here

Man, it's hard for me to smile, just to frown here

What's a king without a kingdom? No crown here,

A glass mirror

Sticks and stones, they may break my bones

And sometimes blessings, they just take too long

my ghetto prayer for the children

And I ain't never seen no hate this strong

Sometimes I question, is my faith just gone

This is my prayer for the children

My heart keep yelling to me, bread, stay strong

And rainy days, they don't last too long

My ghetto prayer for the children

When everything that you had is gone

And all that money just like ash from stones

This is my prayer for the children

I hit the ground, that rose, they grew up out the concrete

God with me, I'm just waiting for my time beep

Lift my soul, up out my body where the skies meet

All that hell that I endured, Don't surprise me

I was born with that noose around my necc

It was 1993, when I start to bang the set

Had to cross a lot of roads, a lot of risks I don't regret

Got the gun loaded, hammer to my head it won't eject

If I take my own life, will I make it through the gates

I know heaven really real, this is hell, we ain't safe

I'm just tired of being broke, hit a lick, cracc a safe

I don't know where to go, what's the odds, what's the stakes

I done tried to serve God, I done served the devil too

Got rejected out of hell, hoping heaven let me through

I've been praying, reading Bibles, trying to set my mind loose

Spirit fighting with my flesh, they ain't trying to make a truce, duece

Sticks and stones, they may break my bones

And sometimes blessings, they just take too long

my ghetto prayer for the children

And I ain't never seen no hate this strong

Sometimes I question, is my faith just gone

This is my prayer for the children

My heart keep yelling to me, bread, stay strong

And rainy days, they don't last too long

My ghetto prayer for the children

When everything that you had is gone

And all that money just like ash from stones

This is my prayer for the children