The Creator-WC And The Maad Circle

[ti:The Creator] [ar:WC And The Maad Circle] [al:Curb Servin] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Creator - WC And The Maad Circle [00:05.00]This one here's for The Creator [00:39.10]'Trying to get over ' like Curtis Mayfield said [00:42.48]I was a problem child running wild in the night [00:45.16]Livin on a not-so-safe set of life [00:47.85]Caught up in the rapture quick to blast ya [00:50.93] [00:51.77]Neglected as a juvenile so labelled a 'ghetto bastard' [00:53.77]Forced to live the life of a hoodster on the prowl [00:56.22] [00:56.79]Goin through my life with a permanent frown [00:58.55]But still you stood by me and you got me here safely [01:01.36]Never turned away from me when others lost faith in me [01:03.92]Even when I was a non-believer and doubted your existence [01:07.12]You still shed mercy on my ignorance [01:10.09]How can I say this no words can't explain [01:12.51]How much I thank you for helpin me deal with the pain [01:15.60]For sparin my life at times I thought I was through [01:18.16]All praise is due here's to you [01:20.36]So [01:20.55][ CHORUS ] [01:21.17]This is for the lover in you [01:22.55] [01:26.22]This is for the things that you do [01:33.65]This time I will take up for you [01:38.98]Cause your love's gon' last forever [01:41.93]Now as I reminisce like Minnie Riperton in a Pendleton [01:44.30]I'm havin flashbacks 'lookin at these photographs' [01:46.62]Glancin at old flicks of me and my dogs [01:49.68]Thinkin how we all played little league football [01:52.37]No set-trippin we was down for one another [01:55.12]>From pups to mutts we came up Westside hustlers [01:58.31]You couldn't stop us no matter what you told us [02:00.74]Starched Curduroys with the fresh peachy folders [02:03.30]Washington High School damn them was the days [02:05.99]The 12th grade came and we went our own ways [02:08.72]Doin what we had to do to make ends meet [02:11.42]Some of us went to college and some kicked the streets [02:14.25]Some of us passed away some just faded [02:16.49]Some turned snitch and some is incarcerated [02:19.55]Me I been blessed to catch wreck over beats [02:22.46]But without you this wouldn't be complete [02:24.72]So [02:24.97][ CHORUS ] [02:25.79]This is for the lover in you [02:30.24]This is for the things that you do [02:35.49]This time I will take up for you [02:40.74]Cause your love's gon' last forever [02:47.95](Ooh child things ain't gettin any easier ) [02:52.03]Survivin in the ghetto you gotta stay strong [02:54.43]But realistically no man out here can make it alone [02:57.12]Ain't no sleepin none of us creepin [02:58.99]I see the men that's in the streets and [03:01.40]Smokers fiendin the drama got me thinkin [03:04.12]How I need to play as if I was a Stylistic [03:06.46]And stop and look and listen [03:07.71]Take a second out to count my blessings [03:09.09]Cause you coulda laid me down a long time ago [03:11.09]But you let me live and God knows I ain't a angel [03:13.78]So I'ma take this opportunity to flip the script [03:16.40]For the lover of you cause props is due [03:19.03]For sparin my life at times I thougth I was through [03:21.78]I gotta give it up here's to you [03:23.90]So [03:24.09][ CHORUS ] [03:24.84]This is for the lover in you [03:29.40]This is for the things that you do [03:34.71]This time I will take up for you [03:39.96]Cause your love's gon' last forever