Pray For Me (The Ball Street Journal 2008)

Текст песни E-40 feat Bosko, Suga-T and B-Legit - Pray For Me (The Ball Street Journal 2008)

Pray For Me Lyrics[Chorus: Bosko]
I've seen a lot of pain since I was a child, so pray for me
I’ve done a few things that just ain't right, so pray for me
What I’ve been through will make you cry, so pray for me (Pray for me)
Oh, I'm trying to change my life, so pray for me

[Verse 1: E-40]
OOOUH! Ain't got no dope on the streets, man, I'm behind on my rent
I ain't got nothin' to show for all the fetti that I done spent
I told my mama to cash out my life insurance policy
The money that she was planning on using to bury me
Mayne, my ribs touching, my papers strugglin', mayne
All my life I've been hustlin', runnin' in place
But can't seem to finish the race
Seen dudes get whopped in the face, plucked like a bass
Flew into space for senselessness
That's why I stay prayed up and say my grace even when I'm blended
Never know when your life is suspended
God can take his arms from around you and easily end it
At any time, any place, anywhere, I know that my life done been spared
On several occasions, suckas hatin', I’m still here
How come loved ones fall out and never talk again to each other?
Why does it take a funeral to bring family together?
Bad weather always looks worse through a window
Stressin' and rubbin' my temples
I make it look easy but it's really not all that simple, OOOUH!
[Chorus: Bosko]
I've seen a lot of pain since I was a child, so pray for me
I’ve done a few things that just ain't right, so pray for me
What I’ve been through will make you cry, so pray for me (Pray for me)
Oh, I'm trying to change my life, so pray for me

[Verse 2: B-Legit]
Young dude full of soul food, mama cooking pork chops
Uncle slapping dominoes, sister playing hopscotch
And this before the block got hot and infected
And everybody knew my granddaddy well respected, check it
Time went on and the game kicked in
I was losing comrades, either death or the pen
I was losing comrades but I'm stackin' them ends
Whoever go to 600 how we losin' our friends
When grandmama passed, that's when it all went bad
Aunties don't talk, my cousin fightin' his dad
And there's no Thanksgivings like the ones we had
And it's sad, so I express through a pen and a pad
I'm on my third wind, pimpin', knowin' Jesus is with me
Ain't no weapon formed against me that could come and defeat me
I be post in the cuts when them angels come get me
Until that day, homie, just pray for me

[Chorus: Bosko]
I've seen a lot of pain since I was a child, so pray for me
I’ve done a few things that just ain't right, so pray for me
What I’ve been through will make you cry, so pray for me (Pray for me)
Oh, I'm trying to change my life, so pray for me
[Verse 3: E-40]
My kinfolk baby mama on welfare, they house is bigger than ours
'Cause they got Section 8 vouchers, WIC and benefit cards
My homegirl daughter diabetic, she like to eat a whole lot
She only nine-and-a-half and taking insulin shots
My dude got a heart condition, his ankle be swollen
'Cause he got high blood pressure and he refuse to quit smoking
But I'm no better than y'all, I like to drink alcohol
Break out the pen and start writing about the things that I saw
Like kilograms of that raw and uncut Peruvian flake
Wrapped in aluminum foil and duct tape
Bust open and throwed in a pot, foamy and mushy
Melted and locked in a shape of a gigantic sized white cookie
Put on the towel and dried and broken down into zips
Quarters and halfs and sixteenths of yola get flipped
I maintain my faith in G.O.D 'cause it's just a test
Repent and confess, extra grateful, man, yes, I'm blessed, OOOUH!

[Chorus: Bosko]
I've seen a lot of pain since I was a child, so pray for me
I’ve done a few things that just ain't right, so pray for me
What I’ve been through will make you cry, so pray for me (Pray for me)
Oh, I'm trying to change my life, so pray for me

[Outro: Suga-T]
Oh (Pray for me), I'm here right now
I need y'all to take this (Pray for me)
I need you to take this pain away
I'm trying (Pray for me)
Feels like I'm dying (Pray for me)
I need y'all to pray for me
Oh Lord, (Pray for me) every time I look around
Somebody got something to say (Pray for me)
Ooh ooh, I need y'all to pray for me (Pray for me)
I'm trying to do the right thing (Pray for me)
Pray for me