HARD LIFE (feat. Carey Washington)

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Pray to the Lord, protect my son while I ride through the night

Keep my daughter aura shinin', bright like a light

It's a hard life, mm, it's a hard life, yeah

Make my son grow old and be a gentlemen to people

Pray that my daughter become the humblest of divas

Hard life, yeah, it's a hard life

Mm, lookin' in my kid's eyes, it's a innocent soul

Blind to the fact that the world so cold

Evil whisper in the wind if you listen, some days I be trippin', but I got they best interest

I gotta give and take, I can't bend nor break

This world full of hate, gotta love it anyway

It'll eat you up alive without sayin' it's grace

Hit my knees when I pray that my children okay

Safety ain't just for me, I gotta make sure we all straight

Pearly gates ain't nothin', but a wrong choice away

Stayin' high in my frequency, can't let the devil get to me

My kids, they depend on me, so I can never rest in peace

Lord knows, gold souls need the most ways to cope

Chosen under oath, feel like a rope be tied around my throat

Wrong quote, wrong road, lost heart, broken soul, no hope or on dope

My kids can't be none of those

Pray to the Lord, protect my son while I ride through the night

Keep my daughter aura shinin', bright like a light

It's a hard life, yeah, it's a hard life (hard life)

Make my son grow old and be a gentlemen to people

Pray that my daughter be the humblest of divas

Hard life (hard life), mm, hard life (hard life, yeah)

Two rose pedals that grew from concrete

In the reflection of me, it was destined to be, who am I without me?

I was lost, now I'm found

Contemplatin' suicide before Clover came around

That lil' girl be my world, hell and back 'bout you

I owe you everything, woulda been dead without you

Kiss her forehead, remind her every day that she an angel

When daddy feelin' low, see her face cure the anger

To my son Chozen, man, words can't explain, how you reverse my pain when your smile grow in vain

You got gold in your veins, innocence in the purest form of somethin' heaven sent, my soul, you blessin' it

With the small acts of bliss even in my absence, man, I still feel your presence

Days with you sometimes feel like seconds

Heart turn blue whenever we not connected

Apart from you sometimes I be-

Can a real man stand up?

That baby boy need a father (boy need a father), uh

Real woman put your hands up (woman put your hands up)

That baby girl need a mother (that baby girl need a mother), uh

Pray to the Lord, protect my son while I ride through the night

Keep my daughter aura shinin', bright like a light

It's a hard life (hard life), yeah, it's a hard life (hard life), yeah

Make my son grow old and be a gentlemen to people

Pray that my daughter become the humblest of divas

Hard life (hard life), yeah-yeah, it's a hard life (hard life)

I pray for strength in this world and the riddance of evil

I pray for energy obtained from the sun above me

I see a light through the clouds as a silver linin'

Where I grew up the world was cold, had to change the climate

I carried burdens on my soul from the shit that I've witness

I grew up surrounded by fire fights that never extinguish

I had to rise from the ashes to the clouds like a Phoenix

That's why my tears bring healin' for a reason