Freedom Of Preach (Album Version|Explicit)-Ludacris/Bishop Eddie Lee Long

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.06]From：stanstarks [00:00.24]Can the church say Amen [00:01.98]Amen reverend [00:02.37]We gon' do another off in right now [00:04.14]We gon' do another one in fifteen minutes [00:06.03]And we gon' do one mo' right after that [00:08.85]Yes women you lookin so very beautiful here today [00:12.12]Some of you with the same thang on from the club last night [00:15.00]The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away [00:17.16]Oh Lord Jesus I wish you'd taketh away Sister Mary's wig [00:20.58]Oh you disrespectin the House of God with that thing [00:22.86]It don't even look real aww it's testimony time [00:25.92]Oh who is that Young Chris Bridges [00:28.35]Boy I'm glad you finally grew into them ears [00:30.72]Go on and testify [00:31.71]Ludacris [00:32.10]Lord please forgive me for the mistakes I've made [00:35.58]And thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my Escalade [00:39.24]See I could replace a Cadillac but I can't replace my momma [00:42.66]I'm sorry for the hip hop beefs we sorry for the drama [00:46.11]But you gotta understand us rappers ain't never had nothin [00:49.68]And one's loss is another's gain so we gotta grab somethin [00:53.37]Lord got so many questions I need the answers to [00:56.70]And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's mama through [01:00.36]I feel that women are really the strongest human beings [01:02.97]But why do you make 'em so emotional and other minor things [01:06.84]I guess it's your way of sayin we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em [01:10.11]Cause without 'em we'd be nothin plus our kids they gotta raise 'em [01:13.59]While we out and about and seein what life has to offer [01:17.13]But if you offer a new life then what we need is better fathers [01:20.73]Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense [01:24.24]I'm 28 years old it just now started makin sense [01:27.51]And I've been [01:28.05]Chorus One [01:28.35]Searchin so looooong I was lost in the clouds [01:34.86]I'm tryna stay strooooong and make you prouuuuud [01:41.22]It took me some tiiiiime but now I see [01:48.15]That Heeeee resiiiiides in me yeahhhhh yeah [01:55.50]Ludacris [01:55.80]Lord forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein rude [02:00.09]I'm only human I'm not always in the best of moods [02:03.54]But thanks for givin the gift of rap to write my feelings down [02:06.99]And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out [02:10.65]Forgive the people that wanna blame everything on rap music [02:14.01]If they didn't live it they can't relate or even adapt to it [02:17.67]Forgive those who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go [02:21.18]Forgive Oprah for editin most my comments off her show [02:24.69]Don't get me wrong I know some people got a image to hold [02:28.14]But those who criticize the youth might just be gettin too old [02:31.65]We still travellin through life findin what's right or wrong [02:35.19]I know some folks may not agree or even like this song [02:38.76]But I'm just speakin MY truth cause I heard it sets you free [02:42.15]And my conversation's with God even though he speaks through me [02:45.33]I'm smarter cause of my daughter and I'm NOT too dense [02:48.69]I'm 28 years old it just now started makin sense [02:51.96]And I've been [02:52.74]Chorus One [02:53.07]Ludacris over Chorus One [02:54.51]I've been searchin so long [02:57.33]I admit that I've been lost in them clouds [03:01.47]I'm just tryna stay strong baby [03:04.83]You know I'ma make you proud [03:07.98]I know life is full of contradictions [03:13.05]I'm tryna become a better man [03:15.24]Prayin for redemption each and every day [03:17.58]Hallelujah as the choir sings [03:20.40]Chorus Two：sung by choir [03:20.94]Searchin so looooong [03:21.60]So long [03:23.88]Lost in the clouuuuuds [03:26.97]In the clouds [03:28.98]Tryin to stay strooooong and make you prouuuuud make you proud [03:34.65]Took me some tiiiiime [03:35.13]Took me some time [03:38.16]Now I seeeee [03:39.75]Oh now I see [03:41.31]Heeeee resiiiides in me [03:43.05]Yeah [03:43.17]Ladies and gentlemen we have a special guest in the house tonight [03:45.87]Came with some words of encouragement Bishop Eddie Long [03:47.94]Chorus Two repeat 2X minus ad libs [03:48.72]Outro：Bishop Eddie Lee Long [03:49.35]What you just heard is real life [03:51.81]It's real life for you it's real life for many [03:54.36]It's about where you been yet at the same time you [03:57.12]Ay you find yourself in the midst of conflict and turmoil [04:01.32]Yes I'm talkin to you in the midst of conflict and turmoil [04:05.16]Cause you realize HEY it's time to change right now [04:09.57]And in the middle of that I wanna say this [04:11.85]The Bible says that when I was a child I spoke as a child [04:16.80]I understood as a child I fought as a child [04:20.97]Hey but when I became a man [04:23.73]I put away those childish things [04:27.30]Did you not know that your environment has shaped you [04:30.87]Where you were born in the projects in the ghettoes [04:33.00]In the upper downtown wherever it was [04:35.40]The people around you the things around you [04:37.47]Cause you to do strange things because you were seeking to learn [04:41.19]But what you learned was on the streets and not in the book [04:44.46]God called you a prophet [04:46.11]When you open up your mouth everything of God comes out [04:50.19]And it commands attention it commands change [04:53.85]I'm talking about the power that's inside of you [04:57.24]And in the midst when you're starting to understand [04:59.49]That I caught the wrong message and now it's time [05:02.07]I'm hearing from God what amazing experience as you hear from God [05:07.35]He said Is there forth any man be in Christ he is a new creation [05:11.64]Old things are passed away somebody needs to hear that and behold [05:15.66]Everything becomes new and when everything becomes new in you [05:20.73]It's time to stop the killing [05:22.65]I said it's time to stop the stealing [05:25.50]It's time to stop disrespecting our women [05:28.65]It's time for us to come home and raise our children [05:31.56]It's time for us to really mold our communities [05:34.71]It's time for us not to get hooked up in religion [05:37.98]But to get hooked up in relationship with God [05:41.19]And the amazing thing about it [05:42.81]Is wherever you find yourself right now you can confess [05:46.53]And you can tell God I'm sorry [05:48.48]I had the wrong cue I was doing the wrong thing [05:51.69]I was going after things that I thought were right but it wasn't right [05:55.44]And now that I'm getting it right I'm asking you to forgive me [05:58.68]And I may have done the things that they said I did [06:02.31]But I'm not who they say I am I am who you made me to be [06:07.05]And I'm changing in that and it takes a few moments [06:10.32]But every time I fall down I'll get right back up [06:13.59]And every time I make a wrong turn I'll get myself back in line [06:17.85]Because I recognize I have been called for such a time as this [06:23.67]You can't resist the change [06:25.77]And you're not condemned by your yesterday [06:28.95]If you can grab hold of your now and move in your destiny [06:34.08]Move change and be now [06:37.02]Chorus Three：sung by choir [06:37.50]Searchin so looooong lost in the clouuuuuds [06:44.64]Tryin to stay strooooong and make you prouuuuud make you proud [06:51.78]Took me some tiiiiime [06:52.17]Took me some time [06:55.17]Now I seeeee [06:56.82]Heeeee resiiiides [06:58.41]Heeee resiiiides [07:01.44]In me [07:02.49]In me yeahhhhh