[ti:Praying For Help]
[ar:T.I.]
[al:]
[00:00.34]Our Father
[00:02.51]Who are in heaven
[00:03.40]Prayin for Help
[00:03.72]Hollowed be thy name
[00:05.67]Thy kingdom come
[00:07.28]Thy will be done
[00:09.03]On earth as it is in Heaven
[00:11.85]Give us this day our daily bread
[00:14.82]And forgive us for our trespasses
[00:17.17]As we forgive those who trespass against us
[00:19.83]Lead us not into temptation
[00:21.78]But deliver us from evil
[00:23.85]For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory
[00:28.62]For ever, and ever
[00:31.70]Amen
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[00:32.80]Man I’m prayin for help
[00:33.97]While I’m lookin at the life I left
[00:35.76]It’s kinda hard not to hate myself
[00:37.77]But quiet is kept right or wrong
[00:40.12]It’s just the way I felt
[00:40.75]I might be better of prayin for death
[00:42.76]On my knees I knelt
[00:44.01]Still trying to find a way to accept
[00:45.88]It ain’t a way I can help nobody
[00:47.36]Till I save myself
[00:49.02]Technically I’m still a slave myself
[00:51.03]I gotta climb out the grave myself
[00:52.79]Man I played myself
[00:54.18]But when I look at all the fans I touched
[00:56.04]I ask how can a man that’s done so much
[00:58.02]Be treated so unjust
[00:59.08]Cause I’m tryin to inspire da folks
[01:00.96]Wanna condemn cause they sell dope
[01:02.87]Well man show em the ropes
[01:04.23]Be a father a football coach a role model or a symbol of hope
[01:08.04]Take another approach
[01:09.25]Instead of testifying against em in court
[01:11.13]Handcuffin em and closin the door so they can be worse than before
[01:14.30]Can’t you see they only do what they know
[01:16.16]Then you wonder why they don’t care no more
[01:18.08]Life ain’t fair I know
[01:19.47]But why I’m hated everywhere I go
[01:21.19]Next time you wanna compare my flow just know
[01:23.18]I’m prayin for help…
[01:24.06]
[01:24.09]Askin somebody else to give me a hand
[01:26.29]I’m tryin hard but I’m only a man (man)
[01:28.36]I’m prayin for help
[01:29.49]Hopin somebody else can see what I see
[01:31.28]It’s like the hood only matter to me they got me(Prayin for help)
[01:34.49]Hopin somebody else can carry the torch
[01:36.40]I’m all alone with no kinda support
[01:38.36](While I) was prayin for help
[01:39.61]Realized I don’t need nobody else
[01:41.39]If God with me I can do it myself
[01:43.20](Tired of just prayin for help)
[01:44.23]I know it’s only one king
[01:45.32]One thing, one being, only something I believe
[01:47.83]Without seein and with all my faith
[01:49.77]I pray somehow, someway regardless of what anyone say
[01:53.49]I believe one day that imma change my life
[01:56.58]Get right, start livin like Christ, till the end of my fight
[01:59.89]Imma be defending my strife, till somebody come and shut off my lights
[02:03.56]I ain’t never gone quit
[02:05.08]No matter how difficult is gone get
[02:06.76]And you can bet whatever on this
[02:08.61]I’m forever gone spit
[02:10.10]Harder than niggaz hatin on TIP
[02:11.81]You can take the weight and place it on TIP
[02:13.73]I'll double my load carry it as the trouble unfolds
[02:16.90]Hold yos and I bet I don’t fold
[02:18.77]Put that on my soul
[02:20.22]If it takez till I’m 100 years old
[02:21.92]Bet I’m reachin every one of my goals
[02:23.82]You know I’m prayin for help…
[02:25.51]Askin somebody else to give me a hand
[02:26.79]I’m tryin hard but I’m only a man (man), I’m prayin for help
[02:30.17]Hopin somebody else can see what I see
[02:31.96]It’s like the hood only matter to me they got me(Prayin for help)
[02:35.05]Hopin somebody else can carry the torch
[02:36.97]I’m all alone with no kinda support
[02:38.91](While I) was prayin for help
[02:40.21]Realized I don’t need nobody else
[02:41.98]If God with me I can do it myself (Tired of just prayin for help)
[02:44.99]So many times I done wish that I could change my mind
[02:47.21]Change my life and leave the game behind
[02:49.03]And it’s been so many days
[02:50.39]I done prayed I could find a way
[02:52.16]Find the heart and the time to say
[02:54.09]Only so many are blessed with So many chances, so many checks
[02:57.22]So many fans with so many arrests
[02:59.15]And it’s been so many deaths
[03:00.53]So many prisons with niggaz in there
[03:02.24]And the system keep playin them to the left
[03:04.18]Man its so many test so many haters love seein you stress
[03:07.24]But tribulations come with being the best
[03:09.26]Still there's so many reflects, singin bout Tecs Winnin, green and the trix
[03:12.70]Sellin dreams that never seen in the jets
[03:14.28]That’s why I’m seen as a threat
[03:15.62]So many stripes off the streets in my vest
[03:17.41]So many rappers get so little respect
[03:19.30]Man niggaz faith on the shelf
[03:20.58]Cause of the cards that a nigga was dealt
[03:22.47]Or the hard that a nigga done dealt
[03:24.35]So many niggaz that left
[03:25.68]Out of the hood made a way for theyself
[03:27.57]Instead of givin back they stay for theyself
[03:29.43]So many playin theyself
[03:30.87]Instead of reading educating theyselves
[03:32.43]The ones who won’t pray for theyself, they got me prayin for help…
[03:35.60](Chorus)
[03:35.80]Askin somebody else to give me a hand
[03:37.55]I’m tryin hard but I’m only a man (man)
[03:39.93]I’m prayin for help
[03:40.75]Hopin somebody else can see what I see
[03:42.63]It’s like the hood only matter to me the got me (Prayin for help)
[03:45.92]Hopin somebody else can carry the torch
[03:47.73]I’m all alone with no kinda support
[03:49.36](While I) was prayin for help
[03:50.89]Realized I don’t need nobody else
[03:52.73]If God with me I can do it myself (Tired of just prayin for help)
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