Pray Lyrics - Layers - Royce Da 5'9

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for watching over us today. I pray for the sick and [?] and for those who have lost loved ones. Lord, I pray for the homeless. Lord, I pray for our soldiers and their families. I pray for everyone here today... 

God taketh away, and God giveth 

The clock's tickin' away as the plot thickens today 

Cause I'm sippin' hard liquor 

We couldn't suffer the same amount of losses 

Cause my supply's bigger 

Don't associate me with nothin' but that dopest child star shit 

That Lindsey Lo', that Todd Bridges 

Hit your block with a tickin' bomb that'll 

Leave the competition in hospital 

I'm the product of foolish pride 

I'm a speeding bullet who responds to the pull of God's trigger 

Jumpin' out the barrel, like "Excuse me, Nas. Move aside, Jigga" 

I'm hard as proving ground bricks 

Groundbreaking each time I spit words and they hit the street 

You don't like the game, you can google my dick, bitch 

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And that goes to everybody 

I pray for foes, I pray for hoes 

I pray for everybody 

But you can pray for them 

If you gon' pray for somebody, pray for them 

Don't pray for me, pray for Paris 

Pray for Nigeria, pray for peace 

Pray for your marriage 

Pray your horse don't sway far away from your carriage 

Why you put all your eggs in one basket? 

Blowin' dumb cash on Wraiths and karats 

Your daughter ain't an heiress, I hope she's taken care of 

More importantly, I hope this gun in your face don't end up in your mouth 

I'll make you taste the terror of the kickback of this gat that could break the barrel 

More court cases, hate betrayal 

If I approach thee, boy, please take me serious 

Cause if I say that I shall, I shall proceed 

I don't cry wolf cause I don't enjoy wasting tears any more than I enjoy wasting shells 

I looked at the state of my health and asked the reverend 'bout it 

I didn't just pray for myself, I prayed for everybody 

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But you can pray for them 

They need you more than me, pray for them 

Pray for everybody 

Look around, look around, look around, look around 

Pray for everybody, tell me exactly what you're seeing 

I'm seeing children being murdered by police and then acquitted on all charges 

It's like they're all targets, pray for them 

Pray for everybody 

Live from the gutter, my father's a [?] 

The block is my mother, 2Pac got it on lock in my suburb 

I got dope double-wrapped up in bubble wrap on top of my cupboard 

Old ladies watching from shutters 

Tellin' all the children keep watching out for us 

Bad influences, we the gumbo that you see inside the pot 

Swimming 'round in all the saddest, truer shit 

Attic in the coolest whip 

Riding 'round my city lookin' for the baddest newest bitch 

Hammer in my stash, feeling too legit 

90 on the dash, slammin' on the gas 

Passenger mad, saying that the break pedal do exist 

I'm saying "I'm late man, I got school to skip" 

Introduce me to your chick, I turn this shit to a Skip to My Lou assist 

I don't talk too much shit, I discuss shit by throwing hands 

I'm a sucker for hoes in yoga pants 

Tell my queen I'm in this shit, like kissing and holding hands 

I keep my flings on the other end of a string with swollen glass 

I'm a player, I've been to every hotel and every lobby 

Every time I pray, I send up a prayer for everybody 

Don't pray for me, nigga 

Pray for them 

You gon' pray for somebody? 

Pray for them 

Don't pray for me, pray for respect 

Pray to get something different from rich and away from your debt 

Nigga, I'm straight to cassette 

Y'all digital, y'all about as physical as finger under some balls, coughin' while taking a test 

Too many artists get mistaken with best 

Cause they on the charts, you sleepin' on me, I'll come and wake you to death 

While I pray against all the violence and shootin' 

ISIS got Obama sittin' down with Vladimir Putin 

A saw a child online ask his father "Why did they do this?" 

His father then replied to him, "We gotta fight 'em with flowers growing out the ground" 

I look at violence the same way I look at slavery 

It's never ending in light of abolishment 

These are my finest hours, then 

I pray for everybody 

Look around, look around, look around, look around 

Pray for everybody, tell me exactly what you're seeing 

I'm seeing children being murdered by police and then acquitted on all charges 

It's like they're all targets, pray for them 

(Let us pray) 

Lord, please keep Your arms around us, and protect us from danger. In Your son Jesus' name, amen. (Amen!)