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when I was coming up… for a brighter day I use to pray… went to church 4 days a week… and I still came home to pray… step dad beat my momma… for him to stop I use to pray… but he still kept beating her… no matter how many times I pray…

my parents were together… for them to stay I use to pray… reality was a divorce… get back together I use to pray… as a kid coming up… I had a different way to pray… for me it’s lyrically… and this is how I pray…

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everyday I wake up with a smile… and I pray… for the blessing I received… another day to get down and pray… when I was young I didn’t do it… didn’t understand why to pray… living life taught me… I understand why to pray…

me I grew up In a hood… where people parents use to pray… that they kids make it from school… never heard my parents pray… that right there taught me the difference… listen to how the people pray… priority not the same… listen to how the people pray…

understanding everythang… listen to how the people pray… at first i didn’t get it… but now i know how people pray… if they want something good… positive is how they pray… but I was surrounded by negative… I understood how they pray…

had to walk away from people… didn’t understand how I pray… focused on the what and why… both of those how I pray… what I do not understand… see for clarity I pray… and it all come to me… worth it everytime I pray…

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when I was coming up… for a brighter day I use to pray… went to church 4 days a week… and I still came home to pray… step dad beat my momma… for him to stop I use to pray… but he still kept beating her… no matter how many times I pray…

my parents were together… for them to stay I use to pray… reality was a divorce… get back together I use to pray… as a kid coming up… I had a different way to pray… for me it’s lyrically… and this is how I pray…

[Verse 2]

people use to cross my path… and I told them people to pray… knew the life they living wouldn’t last… a whole reason to pray… me I saw they whole future… act like I am them and pray… I cause I don’t even want to see… it don’t happen to me is what I pray…

I be with my other whole… for another day is what I pray… we been together for a while… another while is how I pray… we both want the same thang… so together how we pray… focus on our unity… bless the covenant we pray…

Went through some hard times… honestly forgot to pray… proud the lord brought us through em… now we don’t forget to pray… honestly that elevated… our whole definition of pray… we both feel the same way… In unity is how we pray…

whether our eyes open or closed… they aware when we pray… sight for one is sight for all… we together when we pray… heart beat full of emotion… cause we feeling what we pray… tears we shed be turning red… cause we feeling what we pray…

[Chorus]

when I was coming up… for a brighter day I use to pray… went to church 4 days a week… and I still came home to pray… step dad beat my momma… for him to stop I use to pray… but he still kept beating her… no matter how many times I pray…

my parents were together… for them to stay I use to pray… reality was a divorce… get back together I use to pray… as a kid coming up… I had a different way to pray… for me it’s lyrically… and this is how I pray…