Joe Budden - Pray for Me lyrics
[Joe Budden - Pray for Me lyrics]
Niggas pray for me
I need niggas just to pray for me, uhh, me
I need y'all to pray for me
I need niggas just to pray for me, me, uhh
I need y'all to pray for me
I need niggas just to pray for me, uhh
Niggas pray for me (uhh)
I need niggas just to pray for me, me, me
Won't somebody pray for me, uhh
Somebody pray for me, me, uhh
Need you to pray for me
Need niggas just to pray for me, me, me
Look, I woke up without a heart beat
But, I remember we was just in the car deep
Was at a light and got
Approached by a car thief
He pulled out but didn't ask for no car keys
A loud noise without a voice but I'm
Tryna scream out shit is not fair
I can't tell you where I'm at
Or how I got here surrounded by all white
Maybe it's just cloudy
Escorted by two men who
Knew everything about me
Both of them so strong, kept saying "hold on"
Feel like my soul's gone, naked
No clothes on i know this can't be my fate
I scream "Wait!"
As they drop me in front of a gate
They left no trace, I can see my every breath
Like a cold day
Stood before a man with no face
He said to me
("Please don't make this any harder")
"Who the fuck is you?"
("My child I'm your father")
"I only got one dad!"
("Is that a fact to you?
He left you when you was young
I brought him back to you
You're real close to heaven
Few get to step in
Now tell me what you've done to
Deserve to be let in?")
"Look I'm far from a Christian
Not big on religion
But ain't done too much wrong
My entire time living
Never killed, never tried too
Though I been lied to
Was once suicidal, never read the Bible
I always been a care taker
Tried to nurse people
At times it back fired, hurt people
Hurt people
Plus I never use your name in vain
But, you should know everything I'm
Being asked to explain"
("I know you stole from your mothers
Purse") "You can't count that
That was way back when!"
("It's still a sin") "But, I was ten!"
("You robbed people
Stole") "yeah and you made me see jail!"
("But, I also seen you lay
Your hands on a female
Sold drugs to parents none of that was needed
Abandoned your child
On every girl you cheated
Done wrong to people that only
Want the best for you
Any time you thought you were alone
I was next to you")
"When it came to baby moms God
You gave me the worse one!"
("But that was your second child Joe
You shouldn't have killed the first one")
"I ain't have a job
Ain't have a pot to piss in"
("Look I gave you a gift and
You made the wrong decision
Held onto resentments even in doing business
I lead by example, I teach forgiveness
Your entry can not be guar-an-teed
Not when you live with anger, envy, greed
Pride, sloth, lust even gluttony
Everything you shouldn't if you
Woulda joined my covenant")
"Look I'm only human, I ain't perfect"
("That I understand
When I take you out a jam
You don't even think to worship
And when you do
You never talk about what you can do for me
It's what I can do for you
I blessed you with health, family and wealth
With all the blessings you received
You still always want help")
"yeah, there's been times in my life
I needed help to make money
But why everything I love you
Manage to take from me?
Yet you stand there an question
A nigga that tries hard
And finds a way when you keep
Dealing them fucked up cards
You make mistakes like me far as I can see
I think it's a mockery whenever
Rich niggas win the lottery
Gave us Bush twice, God, I hate to be rude
But, you let skinny niggas starve
Give obese niggas food
The nerve of you telling me I
Don't deserve to stay here
When you gave us drugs and guns
You put AIDS here! Take a look at you
Your actions are cold hearted
The harsh shit is you bring
Babies in the world retarded
I know most my actions put me in a cell
But how you mad at me when
You put me into hell"
("See my child, you need gratitude
Maybe just a sample i never give a person
Anything they can't handle
Don't tell me about everything you
Had to go through
There's reasons for my actions even
If I never showed you
Kept trying with you, all you did was hurt me
Still gave you chances to prove
That you was worthy
And so I sat with you on a train
I asked you for change
You kept calling me names
Prolly didn't notice I was the store clerk
You put the gun to me
Get money for more work my child
I know you have it in you to indeed stop
This is not your final calling
Just a brief stop hope you heed my words and
UnderstandSo when I send
You back you should be a better man
Look at life different the next
Time we see each other
There'll be no need for talk
Whenever we meet each other")
I need niggas just to pray for me, uhh, me
I need y'all to pray for me
I need niggas just to pray for me, me, uhh
I need y'all to pray for me
I need niggas just to pray for me, uhh
Niggas pray for me (uhh)
I need niggas just to pray for me, me, me
Won't somebody pray for me, uhh
Somebody pray for me, me, uhh
Need you to pray for me
Need niggas just to pray for me, me, me
Look, I woke up without a heart beat
But, I remember we was just in the car deep
Was at a light and got
Approached by a car thief
He pulled out but didn't ask for no car keys
A loud noise without a voice but I'm
Tryna scream out shit is not fair
I can't tell you where I'm at
Or how I got here surrounded by all white
Maybe it's just cloudy
Escorted by two men who
Knew everything about me
Both of them so strong, kept saying "hold on"
Feel like my soul's gone, naked
No clothes on i know this can't be my fate
I scream "Wait!"
As they drop me in front of a gate
They left no trace, I can see my every breath
Like a cold day
Stood before a man with no face
He said to me
("Please don't make this any harder")
"Who the fuck is you?"
("My child I'm your father")
"I only got one dad!"
("Is that a fact to you?
He left you when you was young
I brought him back to you
You're real close to heaven
Few get to step in
Now tell me what you've done to
Deserve to be let in?")
"Look I'm far from a Christian
Not big on religion
But ain't done too much wrong
My entire time living
Never killed, never tried too
Though I been lied to
Was once suicidal, never read the Bible
I always been a care taker
Tried to nurse people
At times it back fired, hurt people
Hurt people
Plus I never use your name in vain
But, you should know everything I'm
Being asked to explain"
("I know you stole from your mothers
Purse") "You can't count that
That was way back when!"
("It's still a sin") "But, I was ten!"
("You robbed people
Stole") "yeah and you made me see jail!"
("But, I also seen you lay
Your hands on a female
Sold drugs to parents none of that was needed
Abandoned your child
On every girl you cheated
Done wrong to people that only
Want the best for you
Any time you thought you were alone
I was next to you")
"When it came to baby moms God
You gave me the worse one!"
("But that was your second child Joe
You shouldn't have killed the first one")
"I ain't have a job
Ain't have a pot to piss in"
("Look I gave you a gift and
You made the wrong decision
Held onto resentments even in doing business
I lead by example, I teach forgiveness
Your entry can not be guar-an-teed
Not when you live with anger, envy, greed
Pride, sloth, lust even gluttony
Everything you shouldn't if you
Woulda joined my covenant")
"Look I'm only human, I ain't perfect"
("That I understand
When I take you out a jam
You don't even think to worship
And when you do
You never talk about what you can do for me
It's what I can do for you
I blessed you with health, family and wealth
With all the blessings you received
You still always want help")
"yeah, there's been times in my life
I needed help to make money
But why everything I love you
Manage to take from me?
Yet you stand there an question
A nigga that tries hard
And finds a way when you keep
Dealing them fucked up cards
You make mistakes like me far as I can see
I think it's a mockery whenever
Rich niggas win the lottery
Gave us Bush twice, God, I hate to be rude
But, you let skinny niggas starve
Give obese niggas food
The nerve of you telling me I
Don't deserve to stay here
When you gave us drugs and guns
You put AIDS here! Take a look at you
Your actions are cold hearted
The harsh shit is you bring
Babies in the world retarded
I know most my actions put me in a cell
But how you mad at me when
You put me into hell"
("See my child, you need gratitude
Maybe just a sample i never give a person
Anything they can't handle
Don't tell me about everything you
Had to go through
There's reasons for my actions even
If I never showed you
Kept trying with you, all you did was hurt me
Still gave you chances to prove
That you was worthy
And so I sat with you on a train
I asked you for change
You kept calling me names
Prolly didn't notice I was the store clerk
You put the gun to me
Get money for more work my child
I know you have it in you to indeed stop
This is not your final calling
Just a brief stop hope you heed my words and
UnderstandSo when I send
You back you should be a better man
Look at life different the next
Time we see each other
There'll be no need for talk
Whenever we meet each other")