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Cloud nine Kendrick Lamar |
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Uh |
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I take a sip of Hennessy |
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And then get pissy drunk |
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I ain't a drinker I'm a thinker |
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Call it what you want |
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But if you turn your back |
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Know that you just missed your chance |
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To witness the realest |
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Shit that's ever been told to man |
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I found myself losing focus |
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At a Sunday service |
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Embarrassed so I started questioning God |
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What is my purpose |
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He say to live the way he did |
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That's all he want from me |
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Spread the word and witness |
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He rose on the first Sunday |
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I said alright |
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Enthused that my Lord gave a listen |
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I opened my bible and searched |
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To be a better Christian |
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And this from a person that |
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Never believed in religion |
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But shit my life is so f**ked up man |
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I can't help but give in |
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I'm giving testimonies |
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To strangers I never met |
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Hopped on the pulpit |
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And told 'em how I was truly |
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Blessed |
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Felt like I'm free from all |
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My sins when the service was over |
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Walked out the church then |
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Got a call that my homie was murdered |
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And lost my faith again |
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What am I gonna do |
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Gotta have faith |
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Life is too much |
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Understood |
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Where is your faith |
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Oh faaaaaaaith |
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All you need is the size |
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Of a mustard seed |
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Single black parent from |
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Compton raising children of four |
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That's four innocent bastards |
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Cause papa they don't know |
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Her day consists of working back |
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And forth with babysitters |
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Can't find no one to watch |
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Her kids so she pay her sister |
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Her baby daddy ain't bout shit |
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That nigga ain't bout shit |
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Spent his daughter milk just |
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To cop a new outfit |
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She pray to God every night |
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Hoping that he'll mature |
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And maybe one day his kids |
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Something that he'll live for |
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Baby wanna go back to school |
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But she need some help |
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Because it's hard tryna pay |
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The bills when you're by yourself |
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She thought about credit card |
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Scams till she heard a voice |
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That said the Devil is a lie |
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Make a better choice |
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And so it's back to McDonald's |
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And every month dealing |
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With them crazy ass people |
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At the county building |
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Looked to the heavens and asked 'em |
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To make a better way |
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Then got a letter in the mail |
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Lost her section 8 |
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Then lost her faith again |
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What am I gonna do |
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Gotta have faith |
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Life is too much |
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Understood |
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Where is your faith |
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Oh faaaaaaaith |
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All you need is the size of a mustard seed |
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Kendrick |
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I had dreams of holding |
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A nine-milla to raise Killa |
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Ask him why as my eyes fill up |
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Each day it gets more realer |
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Orangutans bang like gorillas |
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It's jungle when the niggas ensue |
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The rat's lurking |
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Vulture's circling the serpents |
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Cats lying through they teeth |
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My nigga didn't deserve it |
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I flirted with the idea |
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Of caressing the steel |
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To make karma come faster |
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Than she normally will |
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It's ill to see my faith |
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Try and leave me |
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It's so hard to get it |
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To get rid of it is easy |
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I'm tryna reach cloud nine |
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That's what my niggas bout |
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But it never rain |
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In California 'less them pistols out |
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Until then my feet |
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Planted on the ground |
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Shadowboxing my conscience |
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Till my faith start responding |
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And if I get no answer |
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Just know I tried |
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I should have never |
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Looked into his son's eyes |
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Ray Charles voice |
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What am I gonna do |
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Gotta have faith |
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Life is too much |
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Understood |
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Where is your faith |
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Oh faaaaaaaith |
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All you need is the size of a mustard seed |
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This for my people that |
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Stressing whenever times is hard |
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Your mind's slipping |
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Wondering is there really a God |
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Knowing you shouldn't think |
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That way and tryna freeze your brain |
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But whenever it's pain |
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That feeling forever remains |
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We can't believe what we can't see |
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And reality seems stronger than prayer |
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Cause you tried to change your life |
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And now you live in a wheelchair |
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And your son was born with cancer |
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And he live in urgent care |
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At the tender age of twelve |
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And you feel that no one cares |
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Searching for answers that's human nature |
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You ain't in the wrong |
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Just know when you feeling |
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That way his spirit's in the room |
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I watched people I know pray |
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And catch the Holy Ghost |
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And wonder why I ain't never |
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Caught that feeling before |
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Maybe they know him better |
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Or I don't know no better |
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But what I do know is that |
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He's real and he lives forever |
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So the next time you feel |
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Like your world's about to end |
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I hope you studied because |
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He's testing your faith again |
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I'd rather not live |
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Like there isn't a God |
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Than die and find out there really is |
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Think about it |
