I Pray

I'm on my knees before I go to sleep, yep I'm at the table before I start to eat I pray and pray, I pray and pray, I pray and pray, I pray and pray, I pray Seen mama in a casket, looking at her body, red flowers in a basket I glanced at her face, I done blown the head gasket I needed me some space, now I'm on my knees asking, I pray Fear of the unknown, nowhere else to turn I can't do this alone, pain so deep it burns I pray, three in the morning, phone ringing off the hook Now my daddy gone, and I stopped to take a look In the sky im zoning, I guess that's what it took The Lord broke me down and told me to pray Losing my best friend, nothing left to show Life is at an end, nowhere else to go I pray, ah, what more can I do Another kid gone, now they done shot him after school You know that's dead wrong, mama crying on the news Couldn't live in the house no more, so she moved to pray Nothing left but memories, from the things we did Crazy and those silly things, growing as a kid I pray, ah, Tim call me crying Late one night, he said cousin Floyd was dying Cancer in his prostate, I knew he wasn't lying Handed me an outdate, without even trying to pray I'm on my knees before I go to sleep Yep, I'm at the table before I start to eat I pray and pray, and I pray and pray I pray and pray, and I pray and pray I'm on my knees before I go to sleep Yep, I'm at the table before I start to eat And I pray and pray, and I pray and pray I pray and pray, and I pray and pray Ah, sister she was sick Had her own dialysis, but still she took a trip Down in Atlanta around the time the COVID hit It didn't really matter, Candy Call and said That's it Darnell, Pray Didn't get to live long before the time I guess that's how it is, all done by design I pray, ah, ended up a alcoholic Almost lost my mind a couple times and couldn't talk about it Only waist deep, but I'm still drowning in a bottle Tossing, turning in my sleep, I heard a voice holler telling me to pray