Apollo Brown, Joell Ortiz, DJ Los - Grace of God lyrics

Just put the headphones on
This sounds so nice by the grace of God

We all crabs in a barrel
Just chose to do my climbin'
In barbed wire ankles
I was winnin’ half the battle
I'm from where the worst thing you
Could ever do is tattle
They'll zip your mouth shut
Then zip you up and skidaddle
I used to walk through the P’s
And jump from my own shadow
The mountain bike niggas'll clap you
You try to haggle for that
Chain or that bracelet
Or that watch or that ring
It's off the chain
Brace yourself and watch out when it ring
Gum wrappers in my mouth
Folded up like fronts
I even took them shit's out when
I rolled up my blunts
I wanted to be like the dealers
Feared like the killers
Fresh like the booster's attitude
With the dealers
Niggas ask me where I'm from
And I'd say Brooklyn, proud
Wore my Timbs all year round
And my kush was loud and the police
They did the same shit y'all seein' now
Except camera phones wasn’t out

By the grace of god by the grace of god
By the grace of god

I’m just a product of where
The young'ens move product
We all believe in God
But we look up to the shottas
Iron in my Goose, test my pride
I let it loose
There’s Boyz In Tha Hood that watch
Menace I I Society and Juice
I never wanted to go that route
I felt like Cuba in the car without the heart
To tell Dough to let me out
Hope God don't judge me when he judge me
The Devil work pretty damn hard
To make it ugly
Know every thing that glitter ain't gold but
Man that ice made all that glitter look cold
Thought I was playin' without that flicker
That glow now that I’m wise I realize that
All I did was hide
Long as they starin' at that chain
They gon' look inside my eyes
And see the pain
See the hurt, see the person I disguise
Can't write about it all if there's
No words that could describe
The images in my head that visit me in my bed
If I don't talk to the Lord, man
Spiritually I be dead

By the grace of god by the grace of god
By the grace of god

By the grace of God
I escaped that place by the skin of my teeth
I'm here though still here though