GRIT

When I'm gone Yeah When I'm gone Yeah Can you indulge me to what we see on the tv Women that give it freely to lavish homes and a Bently Watching it so intently can plant a seed to your envy enough that you rob your brothers and sister cousins for money look All I see is broken homes in my community No respect and lack of leadership we lost the unity Use to get together on a Sunday with the family but now we sitting at another chapel for this eulogy Yeah, we been catching hell just like a runaway Either follow Christ or you gone follow them and go astray They ain't got no message for your soul just like I do today Crucify this flesh so I can go and live where Jesus stay Meditate So, I know the scriptures like its night and day Elevate my pressure then my spirit starts to elevate I can put you up on game I can teach you how to pray But where you going to stay if you so happen just to die today Every sonnet I'm sure to keep 100 Just so you can seek wisdom and fill yourself with this knowledge Every word that I speak is to free my people from bondage And acknowledge Jesus Christ as your savior to give him homage Yeah Brutal reality met with fatal fatality causality count so high you can probably call it a tragedy yeah Officially we adopted a new mentality we rather be the brutes and the killers that lack morality When I'm gone Make sure you sing this song Keep holding on For a time, it won't be long Cause when I'm gone Make sure you sing this song Keep holding on For a time, it won't be long I ain't got no message for the streets I ain't got no crooked message to encourage you to drink You will never see me compromise the message that I speak Just so I can sell more CD's, or my riches be increased But at least I'm gone spit the truth and tell it like it is Not concerned about your past or the wrong you may have did Not concerned about your clothes or the way you stack your bread I'm more concerned about your soul and what you're putting in your head Comprehending what I said Study my pedigree heavily if you watching me Generously forgave me anointed my head and raised me Gave me a loving wife that has kept me from going crazy, but God is the cornerstone that has molded and also shaped yeah Broken my chains when the devil did try to take me, but God directed my path from the bad and He did sustain me People despise the truth and deny the power for saving, I'm here to tell them they wrong I'm the prime example for changing When I'm gone Make sure you sing this song Keep holding on For a time, it won't be long Cause When I'm gone Make sure you sing this song Keep holding on For a time, it won't be long When I'm gone Make sure you sing this song When I'm gone Make sure you sing this song