This is our life…As it is filled with joy, beauty, pain, struggles, and challenges…Many can only see the negatives as they may outweigh the positives. Where God has promised to be with us through it all…the challenges of life have caused many to negate faith in exchange for fear and anxiety. Our world is hurting! How do we move forward towards God’s promises despite the weight that we carry? Hook We’re unsaved in our life, and can’t be played in our life, but still we’re paid in our life, minimum wage that’s our life The power to earn lies in utilizing what we learn, as our bodies yearn for that abundant money to burn We living foul in our life, I wonder how in our life, could we be proud of our life, the here and now is our life From slaves we came, but the locks and chains still remain Some things stay the same, rearranged its our life that could change Verse 1 I calculate the sum, To break it down like a machine gun Who wants to fall behind like Re-run, there’s no ample reason We’d all be great if our sins lay dormant with our wins enormous We Hit the corners ignoring the words that attempts to warn us No on will get it for us Food, clothing, and shelter depends upon it Inviting the darkness to descend upon us Our minds will lift the tonnage of families and friends that plummet This is a dedication to life and all my mens that want it Our past is rummage forgive who done it yo its time for turning The tables we are capable to be the ones who run it I wanna confront fear before my eyes start the shedding of one tear Through imagination travel to where the sun lives I wanna give my wife my rib and all my future kids Teach’em the minds uses and what could be produced with it Introduce them to life with access to the tools for it So they could walk around in their own shoes though they may loosely fit
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We’re unsaved in our life, and can’t be played in our life, but still we’re paid in our life, minimum wage that’s our life The power to earn lies in utilizing what we learn, as our bodies yearn for that abundant money to burn We living foul in our life, I wonder how in our life, could we be proud of our life, the here and now is our life From slaves we came, but the locks and chains still remain Some things stay the same, rearranged its our life that could change
Bridge Because we are the illegitimate citizens Working two jobs that don’t provide benefits Everyday threatening to quit Yo that was my life, but we got something much higher to reach for Verse 2 Because we’re raised without fathers in our homes, watch our mothers work to the bone Make promises of better lives when full grown and on our own The lower class is rubbed in our face cortisone, but this can be overthrown Black mothers is the cornerstone Strictly wisdom and her strength that kept us holding on, we could chase bread till it gets old and the mold is growing on God is directing me I feel it in my chromosones, its like being raised from broken bones That’s why I know its on We complain about life at work in the home and so on, but when death is calling you can you say wait hold the phone Steadily stressing and second guessing like its our profession, accepting no suggestions less its TV’S subliminal message Circumstances theres no outcome for the untested, its cool to lie if you properly dress it, yo check it My presence here is a bonus, I could see my past and present moments Although my eyes received the diagnosis kerataconus
Hook We’re unsaved in our life, and can’t be played in our life, but still we’re paid in our life, minimum wage that’s our life The power to earn lies in utilizing what we learn, as our bodies yearn for that abundant money to burn We living foul in our life, I wonder how in our life, could we be proud of our life, the here and now is our life From slaves we came, but the locks and chains still remain Some things stay the same, rearranged its our life that could change