Ludacris, Bishop Eddie Lee Long - Freedom of Preach lyrics

Can the church say Amen? (Amen reverend)
We gon' do another off in right now
We gon' do another one in fifteen minutes
And we gon' do one mo', right after that
Yes, women you lookin' so
Very beautiful here today
Some of you with the same thang
On from the club last night
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
Oh Lord Jesus I wish you'd
Taketh away Sister Mary's wig
Oh you disrespectin' the House of
God with that thing
It don't even look real aww
It's testimony time
Oh who is that? Young Chris Bridges
Boy I'm glad you finally grew into them ears
Go on and testify

Lord, please forgive me for
The mistakes I've made


And thanks for keepin' my momma safe
When she wrecked my Escalade
See I could replace a Cadillac but
I can't replace my momma
I'm sorry for the Hip-Hop beefs
We sorry for the drama
But you gotta understand us rappers
Ain't never had nothin
And one's loss is another's gain
So we gotta grab somethin
Lord, got so many questions I
Need the answers to
And sorry for the thangs I
Put my baby's mama through
I feel that women are really
The strongest human beings
But why do you make 'em so emotional
And other minor things
I guess it's your way of sayin' we
Gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em
Cause without 'em we'd be nothin'
Plus our kids they gotta raise 'em while we
Out and about and seein' what
Life has to offer
But if you offer a new life then
What we need is better fathers
Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter
Or I'm just too dense i'm 28 years old
It just now started makin' sense
And I've been

Searchin' so long, I was lost in the clouds
I'm tryna' stay strong, and make you proud
It took me some time, but now I see
That He resides, in me yeah, yeah

Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan
Said I was bein' rude i'm only human
I'm not always in the best of moods
But thanks for givin' the gift of
Rap to write my feelings down
And sorry for cursin' sometimes but feelings
Make me shout 'em out
Forgive the people that wanna blame
Everything on rap music
If they didn't live it they can't
Relate or even adapt to it
Forgive those who don't think I'm great
And wanna see me go
Forgive Oprah for editin' most my
Comments off her show don't get me wrong
I know some people got a image to hold
But those who criticize the youth might
Just be gettin' too old
We still travellin' through life
Findin' what's right or wrong
I know some folks may not agree
Or even like this song
But I'm just speakin' MY truth
Cause I heard it sets you free
And my conversation's with God
Even though he speaks through me
I'm smarter cause of my daughter
And I'm NOT too dense i'm 28 years old
It just now started makin' sense
And I've been

I've been searchin' so long
I admit that I've been lost in them clouds
I'm just tryna' stay strong baby
You know I'mma make you proud
I know life is full of contradictions
I'm tryna' become a better man
Prayin' for redemption, each and every day

(Hallelujah, as the choir sings)

Searchin' so long
(so long) lost in the clouds (in the clouds)
Tryin' to stay strong
And make you proud - make you proud!
Took me some time
(took me some time) now I see (oh now I see)
He resides, in me (yeah)

(Ladies and gentlemen
We have a special guest in the
House tonight, came with some
Words of encouragement, bishop Eddie Long)

What you just heard is real life
It's real life for you
It's real life for many
It's about where you been
Yet at the same time you
Ay, you find yourself
In the midst of conflict and turmoil
Yes I'm talkin' to you
In the midst of conflict and turmoil
Cause you realize HEY - it's
Time to change right now
And in the middle of that I wanna say this
The Bible says that when I was a child
I spoke as a child
I understood as a child, I fought as a child
Hey, but when I became a man
I put away those, childish things
Did you not know that your
Environment has shaped you?
Where you were born, in the projects
In the ghettoes
In the upper downtown, wherever it was
The people around you, the things around you
Cause you to do strange things because
You were seeking to learn
But what you learned, was on the streets
And not in the book god called you a prophet
When you open up your mouth
Everything of God comes out
And it commands attention, it commands change
I'm talking about the power
That's inside of you
And in the midst when you're
Starting to understand
That I caught the wrong message
And now it's time i'm hearing from God
What amazing experience
As you hear from God
He said, "Is there forth any
Man be in Christ, he is a new creation"
Old things are passed away
Somebody needs to hear that and behold
Everything becomes new
And when everything becomes new in you
It's time to stop the killing
I said it's time to stop the stealing
It's time to stop disrespecting our women
It's time for us to come
Home and raise our children
It's time for us
To really mould our communities
It's time for us
Not to get hooked up in religion
But to get hooked up in relationship
With God and the amazing thing about it
Is wherever you find yourself right now
You can confess
And you can tell God "I'm sorry
I had the wrong cue
I was doing the wrong thing
I was going after things that
I thought were right, but it wasn't right
And now that I'm getting it right
I'm asking you to forgive me
And I may have done the things
That they said I did but I'm not
Who they say I am I am who you made me to be
And I'm changing in that
And it takes a few moments
But every time I fall down
I'll get right back up
And every time I make a wrong turn
I'll get myself back in line
Because I recognize, I have been called
For such a time as this!"
You can't resist the change
And you're not condemned by your yesterday
If you can grab hold of your now
And move in your destiny
Move, change, and be, now!

Searchin' so long, lost in the clouds
Tryin' to stay strong
And make you proud - make you proud!
Took me some time
(took me some time) now I see
He resides (He resides) in me (in me yeah)