Prayed For Me

I know my mama prayed for Cause I shoulda been dead and gone I know God made a way for me Cause he wouldn't leave me on my own But this is the life I chose to live So I gotta give it everything till my last days And I know imma fall but imma live Got so much to give And I'm so glad that my mom prayed I been stuck in my head Constantly think about people and all that they said to me They scared of me Scared that a young black man might get the best of me Cool Your opinions your own Your actions I do not condone If you gotta shoot Please remember the people that you gonna leave all alone But you did this yourself You can't expect to get no help From the dad, you disappointed And the prayers your mama kept Now you scared to go to sleep In a bed you made yourself Maybe now you'll get the picture Since you starting to accept That life what you make of it Gotta earn it no cheating your way to the top We all gotta stop For the nuggets of knowledge the elderly drop I pray you do better than you think you'll ever do But you gotta realize your biggest enemy is you Not the supremacists Yeah they all gon get what's coming too If you live by the lies then you'll die by the truth This is not me being righteous I just hope I'm getting through Only reason you alive is cause she prayed for you I know my mama prayed for Cause I shoulda been dead and gone I know God made a way for me Cause he wouldn't leave me on my own But this is the life I chose to live So I gotta give it everything till my last days And I know imma fall but imma live Got so much to give And I'm so glad that my mom prayed Let me do some sweeping round my porch I don't need remorse I been thinking bout decisions, that's correcting course Never been the one for problems Flow but never force The hand that feeds Still sin but he meets my needs If God didn't love his children Then why would he plant these seeds For life to expand horizons But limit it by our greed as humans I feel that prayers been falling on deaf ears I feel success is limited by my fears For years I hid behind mentoring all my peers My tears coulda made an ocean My goals been crystal clear My vision muddied by people, not in my Oval Office My path anointed, they couldn't if they wanted to stop it Don't speak often but I know my dad been praying too In his defense, the type of bond I need ain't make it through Know you won't be here forever So I hope you see The results of every time that you prayed for me I know my mama prayed for Cause I shoulda been dead and gone I know God made a way for me Cause he wouldn't leave me on my own But this is the life I chose to live So I gotta give it everything till my last days And I know imma fall but imma live Got so much to give And I'm so glad that my mom prayed I know my mama prayed for Cause I shoulda been dead and gone I know God made a way for me Cause he wouldn't leave me on my own But this is the life I chose to live So I gotta give it everything till my last days And I know imma fall but imma live Got so much to give And I'm so glad that my mom prayed