| Started off in the streets
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| We would take collection from the fiends
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| People dyin’all around me So I gave you my testimony
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| We were down from the beginnin'
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| When the world wasn’t listenin'
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| Now that I got your attention
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| Let us end with the benediction
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| We are gathered here today
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| Paying our respects to bein’broke, hope he’s in a better place
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| Cause life out here ain’t sweet, oh no
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| I would close my eyes to sleep but didn’t dream no more
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| So I had to make a way for my home, you know
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| Now I’m in a place where I ain’t gotta scheme no more
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| The good life, I’m done with the hood life
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| I did what I could didn’t always do what I should and I was misunderstood
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| So many nights I tried
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| To hide how I felt, I would cry inside
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| And I ran through the streets till my feet got tired
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| Cause I ain’t wanna have my shoes on them power lines
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| But I made it, and it made me I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me Cause I made it, it didn't kill me So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you |
| feel me…
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| Our father who art in heaven
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| I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level
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| I know you kept my out of prison where I was headin'
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| When I heard someone killed my brother, one-eighty-seven
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| I hope he made it to your presence, for me he was a blessin'
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| At least I know he’s restin’and he ain’t out here stressin'
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| Tryna get to the good life, and out of this hood life
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| I pray that my step-pops lay off that crack pipe
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| So mama could sleep at night, I know it’s been hard on her
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| I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her
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| Now I’m up in hotels on the ocean shore
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| When I was sleepin’on the floor at the corner store
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| Bottle after bottle, snatching Belaire out the bucket
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| Rightin’all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin'
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| Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise
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| Condo out in Cabo, screaming «GABOS"to my nemesis
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| Gold around my neck I’m ballin’for these final minutes
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| Nothing lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance
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| Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man’s pain
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| Daddy sat me down and said: «that came with the game»
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| Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin’up the music
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| So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin'
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| A mastermind is one who’s feedin’others off his talent
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| I owe it to my city but it’s time I pay my balance
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| I’m in Holyfield’s estate, I started with a pallet
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| I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled
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| Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us Grateful for every lesson these by any streets taught us |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Benediction , by - August Alsina. Song from the album Testimony, in the genre R&B