Mayday

[00:22.31] Awakened from my slumber by the thunder, lightning clapping
[00:26.39] Raining on my window pane and praying I make something happen
[00:29.01] A preacher's prophecies never bothered me when I was younger
[00:31.73] Sitting on my Grandma's lap, as she cried I often wondered
[00:34.47] What was her tears for? Could it be for my grandfather?
[00:37.45] Or maybe she felt for me cause I'll see more of those cold tomorrows
[00:40.13] Then she see the world will up and turn on me
[00:43.12] Cause the morals that she often spoke were meant for 1923
[00:45.59] I fall asleep off in her arms, a Psalm was spoken
[00:48.30] The Lord is surely my shepherd, he lead me to the water
[00:49.90] Thought that often stuck with with me
[00:52.54] Amongst the wolves that run the streets
[00:53.56] Out here paying dues to lose
[00:54.97] I pray your angels come for me
[00:56.69] A non-believer I never have or could be
[01:00.03] Lord give me time to peep the signs I should see
[01:01.48] Sipping got me feeling like a player riding clean
[01:05.78] Bending corners hoping I might find my saviour on the curb
[01:07.06] I rarely go to Church
[01:10.34] False prophets rocking Prada so I rarely feel the word
[01:11.73] Jezebels lurking in the pews on the first
[01:15.04] Preacher's weaker than the deacon cause it's hard to fight the urge
[01:18.78] It's hard to live and serve when you on the Devil's turf
[01:21.76] Sell your soul for the low with no sense of what it's worth
[01:24.50] Don't get it twisted, I ain't no saint, I ain't no pastor
[01:27.48] I pray just for cloudy days and natural disasters
[01:30.23] Aware of what comes after, I bet you ain't for sure
[01:33.16] I was warned that Heaven ain't the only place to go
[01:35.81] I'm doing what I can cause there really ain't much time
[01:39.27] I leave this in the Lord hands
[01:40.89] I'm tired of crying
[01:44.61] Man down
[01:48.68] Hope and pray and
[01:54.50] Don't you be another (Man down)
[01:57.26] Hope and pray and say (Man down)
[01:58.15] Help is just one prayer away
[02:13.75] Don't be afraid to say
[02:18.87] "Mayday"
[02:20.48] Father forgive us for we know not what we do
[02:22.54] Am I bias? I been pious put my nose up in the pews
[02:24.58] Like Paul I bear good news
[02:27.68] They think I'm pall-bearing
[02:28.79] My message sounds like death to these humans as they perish
[02:29.94] Scaring to think we on the brink of death
[02:31.74] But no one stops to look for answers on what happens next
[02:35.39] Got a couple scriptures from my grandma
[02:38.06] Sayings from a preacher
[02:39.43] But can't live out these standards that we heard it takes to reach 'em
[02:41.77] But when I look at Jesus
[02:43.12] He live the life I couldn't
[02:44.46] Suffered for my crime so I wouldn't
[02:46.10] I used to have to sneak into movies cause I couldn't afford to pay
[02:49.87] Explain to me how someone paved my way
[02:52.44] When I hear K.R.I.T. confessing I respect him
[02:54.17] Cause most of us be lying like our lives don't need perfecting
[02:57.17] Nothing that we can muster, nothing that we can change
[02:58.81] Admitting that we're imperfect, offending God with our games
[03:02.99] Look I'm just being honest so don't take me for no lame
[03:05.84] I seen it for myself, I'm a product of this thing
[03:08.83] Now I found true religion, and it's not inside a denim
[03:11.97] And those overpriced shades are never giving us vision
[03:15.33] Man down
[03:17.93] Hope and pray and
[03:20.25] Don't you be another (Man down)
[03:28.63] Hope and pray and say (Man down)
[03:44.39] Help is just one prayer away
[03:47.50] Don't be afraid to say
[03:53.10] "Mayday"
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