[00:17.59]Father, forgive me
[00:20.62]I'm staring at this Bible as I keep glancing
[00:22.87]Dear Lord, I got questions and I need answers
[00:25.40]Tryna understand your vision, all I see is damage
[00:27.83]Just a bunch of dead bodies in the street camping
[00:30.26]A bunch of lost souls on their feet standing
[00:32.87]We supposed to be your children, I thought we family
[00:35.37]You're supposed to be my Father, bruh, I need answers
[00:37.82]We don't need to die young, we just need chances
[00:40.22]Tired of living on the edge so we keep scrambling
[00:42.71]Tryna talk to these strippers but they keep dancing
[00:45.19]We just wanna be number one like Steve Francis
[00:47.69]Bow our heads, say a prayer, now the seed's planted
[00:50.33]Everywhere I turn, I'm seeing emcees vanish
[00:52.72]Lot of good *****s gone, I don't understand it
[00:55.20]Lot of families lost and they seem stranded
[00:57.78]I ain't tryna disrespect you, I just need answers
[01:00.32]I know you're watching us from heaven thinking,
[01:02.05]"Who to save?"
[01:02.77]Cherry pickin' who should go next and who should stay
[01:05.21]I'd be on my way to heaven if I knew the way
[01:07.45]And bring back every good ***** you choose to take
[01:10.09]They say you never wrong, but you done made a few mistakes
[01:12.58]'Cause you taking the wrong *****s, maybe you should trade
[01:15.19]Trade us back all the real ones, remove the fakes
[01:17.70]I think you should trade
[01:18.94]Give us 2Pac back, and take that ***** Suge (Ooh!)
[01:21.50]Let the legend resurrect and he gon' live for good (Ooh!)
[01:23.81]I been screaming "Thug life "
[01:25.17]in every different hood (Thug life, thug life)
[01:26.51]If only you could bring him back, Lord I wish you would
[01:28.74]Give us Biggie, give us Pun, give us triple X
[01:31.23]Take that ***** Trump with you, that's a bigger threat
[01:33.75]There's too much power for a coward with no intellect
[01:36.22]That's a bigot with a collar, there's a disconnect
[01:38.69]*****s dying, Mama crying, Grandma need a tissue
[01:41.25]*****s shootin' up a church, now I need a pistol
[01:43.74]All them *****s still livin', you don't see the issue
[01:46.24]But how you take Selena and then you take Aaliyah with you?
[01:48.84]I ain't tryna disrespect,
[01:50.14]Just need to meet up with you (Lord)
[01:51.42]I ain't tryna overstep,
[01:52.48]Just want to reason with you (Lord)
[01:53.89]Give us back our loved ones
[01:55.02]And take the evil with you (Lord)
[01:56.38]Send them suckers straight to hell,
[01:57.67]They don't need a vigil (Woo!)
[01:58.92]I need you to give us back Martin Luther,
[02:01.14]Take Martin Shkreli (Take!)
[02:02.46]Give us back Malcolm, take R. Kelly
[02:04.72]R.I.P. Lil Snupe, give that boy his life back
[02:07.48]Take Eric Holder, give us Eric Wright back
[02:09.94]I'm sending you this message,
[02:11.06]Lord, I hope you hit me right back
[02:12.39]They say I'm on the wrong train,
[02:13.79]I know I'm on the right track (Yeah)
[02:15.02]'Cause Trayvon gone, and all he did was tryna fight back
[02:17.33]Zimmerman walk around free,
[02:18.82]We don't like that (We don't like that)
[02:20.25]Why you take our mothers from us?
[02:21.40]Our fathers and our sisters and our cousins from us?
[02:23.86]Got these children
[02:24.66]Getting murdered while they double dutchin'
[02:26.38]Wonder why the **** you take Nipsey Hussle from us?
[02:28.79]Damn, you took a true king, a true brother from us
[02:31.40]This a ******' marathon, but they runnin' from us
[02:33.81]Now everybody got guns, *****'s up to something
[02:36.33]And every gangsta wanna prove that they tough or something
[02:38.83]You know it's not fair, tell the truth,
[02:40.66]I've been in my feelings too
[02:41.89]But if you took Emmett Till, at least take Dylann Roof
[02:44.50]At least take James Holmes,
[02:45.79]I ain't even mad at that
[02:46.98]Just bring back Whitney,
[02:48.18]And give us Michael Jackson back
[02:49.54]Feds want me in the slammer, damn
[02:51.48]Ain't no justice for Sandra Bland,
[02:53.87]We up like the ceiling fan
[02:55.05]Lord, if you listenin',
[02:56.17]I'm just lookin' for a hand to hand
[02:57.64]Take out the **** *****s and give us back our fam again
[03:00.15]Drownin' in my tears, tryna pray for something (Woo!)
[03:02.95]Wonder why you give us life
[03:03.96]For you to take it from us (Woo!)
[03:05.29]Wonder why you give us family
[03:06.39]Then erase them from us (Woo!)
[03:07.75]Maybe hopefully you can have a conversation with us (Yeah)
[03:10.13]Maybe I'm just probably tripping
[03:11.67]'Cause I need a hug (I need a hug)
[03:12.86]The hood can't find jobs,
[03:13.99]Now we need a plug (We need a plug)
[03:15.37]Everybody and their mama tryna be a thug
[03:17.46]I don't go to church 'cause I'm afraid of being judged
[03:20.14]I've been starin' at the ceiling as I lie in bed
[03:22.65]Watchin' *****s follow trends like Simon Says (Yeah)
[03:25.32]I pray you give us back the real ones and try again
[03:27.69]Or maybe take them *****s that deserve to die instead
[03:30.26]Tomi Lahren run her mouth and then she get defensive
[03:32.68]Laura Ingraham laughin' at death and disrespectin'
[03:35.27]I really feel like you should
[03:36.52]Teach them stupid hoes a lesson
[03:37.78]Either that or give us back
[03:38.86]Somebody who deserve the blessings
[03:40.22]I left out a bunch of names that I forgot to mention
[03:42.71]Cost too much to pay attention, then it got expensive
[03:45.24]Father forgive me, for I know not what I do
[03:47.25]And now I'm reachin' out to you,
[03:48.48]Hopin' you hear me and return the message
[03:50.31]I know that you got our back
[03:51.54]And that you're not against us
[03:52.90]Or maybe you just love us so you doin' **** to test us
[03:55.21]I just kinda thought that you would do more to protect us
[03:57.72]They say that the good die young
[03:59.06]And I ain't on the guest list
[04:00.38]I've been drinkin', Lord forgive me,
[04:01.74]It's my blood racin'
[04:02.83]I don't know what I'm thinking, I'm just frustrated
[04:05.42]I don't mean to question you,
[04:06.56]I'm just confused
[04:07.59]I don't know what else to do,
[04:08.73]I've been patient and it sucks waiting
[04:10.34]Took my mans from me, that forever hurts
[04:12.78]But puttin' the blame on you, that'd never work
[04:15.24]I know this ain't your fault, it's the devil's work
[04:19.01]Devil's work
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