Freedom Of Preach - Album Version (Explicit) Lyrics
| Song | Freedom Of Preach - Album Version (Explicit) |
| Artist | Ludacris |
| Artist | Bishop Eddie Lee Long |
| Album | Release Therapy |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作曲 : Bridges, King, Long, ones | |
| 作词 : KING/C. BRIDGES/LONG/ONES | |
| [Intro]Can the church say | |
| Amen? (Amen reverend) | |
| We gon' do one more offerin 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(oh) | |
| The Lord giveth and the | |
| Lord taketh away | |
| Please Lord | |
| Jesus I wish you'd taketh away | |
| Sister Mary's wig | |
| Oh you disrespectin the | |
| House of God with that thing on | |
| It don't even look real; aww, it's testimony time | |
| Oh who is that? | |
| Young Chris | |
| BridgesBoy | |
| I'm glad you finally grew into them ears | |
| Go on and testify[Ludacris] | |
| Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes | |
| I've madeAnd thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my | |
| EscaladeSee | |
| 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 beingsbut 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 'emcause without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise 'emwhile 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...[Chorus One] | |
| Searchin so looooong, | |
| I was lost in the clouds | |
| I'm tryna stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud | |
| It took me some tiiiiime, but now | |
| I seeThat | |
| Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah[Ludacris] | |
| 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...[Chorus One][Ludacris - over Chorus One] | |
| 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'ma 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)[Chorus Two: sung by choir] | |
| Searchin so looooong (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now | |
| I seeeee (oh now I see) | |
| Heeeee resiiiides, in me (yeah)(Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house tonightCame with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long)[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, minus ad libs][Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee 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 youcause 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 understandthat | |
| I caught the wrong message, and now it's time | |
| I'm hearing from | |
| God, what amazing experience, as you hear from | |
| GodHe 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 mold our communities | |
| It's time for us, not to get hooked up in religion | |
| But to get hooked up in relationship, with | |
| GodAnd the amazing thing about itis wherever you find yourself right now, you can confessand you can tell | |
| God "I'm sorry;I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thingI was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't rightAnd now that I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to forgive meAnd I may have done the things, that they said I didBut I'm not, who they say I am; I am who you made me to beand I'm changing in that, and it takes a few momentsBut every time I fall down, I'll get right back upAnd every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in lineBecause 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![Chorus Three: sung by choir] | |
| Searchin so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now | |
| I seeeeeHeeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh) |
| zuo qu : Bridges, King, Long, ones | |
| zuo ci : KING C. BRIDGES LONG ONES | |
| Intro Can the church say | |
| Amen? Amen reverend | |
| We gon' do one more offerin 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 oh | |
| The Lord giveth and the | |
| Lord taketh away | |
| Please Lord | |
| Jesus I wish you' d taketh away | |
| Sister Mary' s wig | |
| Oh you disrespectin the | |
| House of God with that thing on | |
| It don' t even look real aww, it' s testimony time | |
| Oh who is that? | |
| Young Chris | |
| BridgesBoy | |
| I' m glad you finally grew into them ears | |
| Go on and testify Ludacris | |
| Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes | |
| I' ve madeAnd thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my | |
| EscaladeSee | |
| I could replace a | |
| Cadillac but | |
| I can' t replace my momma | |
| I' m sorry for the hiphop 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 beingsbut 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 ' emcause without ' em we' d be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise ' emwhile 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... Chorus One | |
| Searchin so looooong, | |
| I was lost in the clouds | |
| I' m tryna stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud | |
| It took me some tiiiiime, but now | |
| I seeThat | |
| Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah Ludacris | |
| 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... Chorus One Ludacris over Chorus One | |
| 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' ma 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 Chorus Two: sung by choir | |
| Searchin so looooong so long lost in the clouuuuuds in the clouds | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime took me some time now | |
| I seeeee oh now I see | |
| Heeeee resiiiides, in me yeah Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house tonightCame with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long Chorus Two repeat 2X, minus ad libs Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee 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 youcause 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 understandthat | |
| I caught the wrong message, and now it' s time | |
| I' m hearing from | |
| God, what amazing experience, as you hear from | |
| GodHe 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 mold our communities | |
| It' s time for us, not to get hooked up in religion | |
| But to get hooked up in relationship, with | |
| GodAnd the amazing thing about itis wherever you find yourself right now, you can confessand you can tell | |
| God " I' m sorry I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thingI was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn' t rightAnd now that I' m getting it right, I' m asking you to forgive meAnd I may have done the things, that they said I didBut I' m not, who they say I am I am who you made me to beand I' m changing in that, and it takes a few momentsBut every time I fall down, I' ll get right back upAnd every time I make a wrong turn, I' ll get myself back in lineBecause 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! Chorus Three: sung by choir | |
| Searchin so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime took me some time now | |
| I seeeeeHeeeee resiiiides Heeee resiiiides in me in me yeahhhhh |
| zuò qǔ : Bridges, King, Long, ones | |
| zuò cí : KING C. BRIDGES LONG ONES | |
| Intro Can the church say | |
| Amen? Amen reverend | |
| We gon' do one more offerin 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 oh | |
| The Lord giveth and the | |
| Lord taketh away | |
| Please Lord | |
| Jesus I wish you' d taketh away | |
| Sister Mary' s wig | |
| Oh you disrespectin the | |
| House of God with that thing on | |
| It don' t even look real aww, it' s testimony time | |
| Oh who is that? | |
| Young Chris | |
| BridgesBoy | |
| I' m glad you finally grew into them ears | |
| Go on and testify Ludacris | |
| Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes | |
| I' ve madeAnd thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my | |
| EscaladeSee | |
| I could replace a | |
| Cadillac but | |
| I can' t replace my momma | |
| I' m sorry for the hiphop 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 beingsbut 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 ' emcause without ' em we' d be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise ' emwhile 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... Chorus One | |
| Searchin so looooong, | |
| I was lost in the clouds | |
| I' m tryna stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud | |
| It took me some tiiiiime, but now | |
| I seeThat | |
| Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah Ludacris | |
| 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... Chorus One Ludacris over Chorus One | |
| 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' ma 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 Chorus Two: sung by choir | |
| Searchin so looooong so long lost in the clouuuuuds in the clouds | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime took me some time now | |
| I seeeee oh now I see | |
| Heeeee resiiiides, in me yeah Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house tonightCame with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long Chorus Two repeat 2X, minus ad libs Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee 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 youcause 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 understandthat | |
| I caught the wrong message, and now it' s time | |
| I' m hearing from | |
| God, what amazing experience, as you hear from | |
| GodHe 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 mold our communities | |
| It' s time for us, not to get hooked up in religion | |
| But to get hooked up in relationship, with | |
| GodAnd the amazing thing about itis wherever you find yourself right now, you can confessand you can tell | |
| God " I' m sorry I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thingI was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn' t rightAnd now that I' m getting it right, I' m asking you to forgive meAnd I may have done the things, that they said I didBut I' m not, who they say I am I am who you made me to beand I' m changing in that, and it takes a few momentsBut every time I fall down, I' ll get right back upAnd every time I make a wrong turn, I' ll get myself back in lineBecause 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! Chorus Three: sung by choir | |
| Searchin so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds | |
| Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud make you proud! | |
| Took me some tiiiiime took me some time now | |
| I seeeeeHeeeee resiiiides Heeee resiiiides in me in me yeahhhhh |
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