Lyrics Benediction (feat. Rick Ross).lrc August Alsina
[id: pysljsnd]
[ar: August Alsina]
[al: Testimony]
[ti: Benediction (feat. Rick Ross)]
[length: 04:56]
[00:13.38]Started off in the streets
[00:16.89]We would take collection from the fiends
[00:20.35]People dying all around me
[00:23.04]So I gave you my testimony
[00:26.99]We were down from the beginning
[00:29.84]When the world wasn’t listening
[00:33.31]Now that I got your attention
[00:36.20]Let us end with the benediction
[00:39.25]We are gathered here today
[00:41.72]Paying our respects to bein’ broke, hope he’s in a better place
[00:45.52]Cause life out here ain’t sweet, oh no
[00:48.74]I would close my eyes to sleep but didn’t dream no more
[00:52.28]So I had to make a way for my home, you know
[00:55.44]Now I’m in a place where I ain’t gotta scheme no more
[00:58.78]The good life, I’m done with the hood life
[01:01.64]I did what I could didn’t always do what I should and I was misunderstood
[01:06.54]So many nights I tried
[01:08.89]To hide how I felt, I would cry inside
[01:12.09]And I ran through the streets till my feet got tired
[01:15.45]Cause I ain’t wanna have my shoes on them power lines
[01:18.64]But I made it, and it made me
[01:21.21]I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me
[01:25.43]Cause I made it, it didn’t kill me
[01:28.06]So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me…
[01:32.65]Started off in the streets
[01:35.55]We would take collection from the fiends
[01:39.10]People dyin’ all around me
[01:42.26]So I gave you my testimony
[01:45.70]We were down from the beginnin’
[01:49.09]When the world wasn’t listenin’
[01:52.36]Now that I got your attention
[01:56.08]Let us end with the benediction
[01:58.57]Our Father who art in heaven
[02:00.42]I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level
[02:03.72]I know you kept my out of prison where I was headin’
[02:06.97]When I heard someone killed my brother, one-eighty-seven
[02:10.46]I hope he made it to Your presence, for me he was a blessin’
[02:14.25]At least I know he’s restin’ and he ain’t out here stressin’
[02:17.17]Tryna get to the good life, and out of this hood life
[02:20.51]I pray that my step-pops lay off that crack pipe
[02:24.16]So mama could sleep at night, I know it’s been hard on her
[02:27.98]I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her
[02:31.17]Now I’m up in hotels on the ocean shore
[02:34.46]When I was sleepin’ on the floor at the corner store
[02:37.74]But I made it, and it made me
[02:40.84]I know I did wrong, I pray to God he would save me
[02:44.30]Cause I made it, it didn’t kill me
[02:47.28]So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me…
[02:50.34]Started off in the streets
[02:55.09]We would take collection from the fiends
[02:58.33]People dyin’ all around me
[03:01.38]So I gave you my testimony
[03:04.61]We were down from the beginnin’
[03:08.26]When the world wasn’t listenin’
[03:11.45]Now that I got your attention
[03:14.76]Let us end with the benediction
[03:17.62]Bottle after bottle, snatching Belaire out the bucket
[03:20.85]Rightin’ all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin’
[03:24.13]Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise
[03:27.62]Condo out in Cabo, screaming “GABOS” to my nemesis
[03:30.94]Gold around my neck I’m ballin’ for these final minutes
[03:34.20]Nothing lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance
[03:37.40]Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man’s pain
[03:40.81]Daddy sat me down and said: “that came with the game”
[03:43.92]Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin’ up the music
[03:47.13]So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin’
[03:50.59]A mastermind is one who’s feedin’ others off his talent
[03:54.08]I owe it to my city but it’s time I pay my balance
[03:57.17]I’m in Holyfield’s estate, I started with a pallet
[04:00.65]I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled
[04:03.90]Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us
[04:06.83]Grateful for every lesson these by any streets taught us
[04:10.74]Started off in the streets
[04:14.26]We would take collection from the fiends
[04:17.59]People dyin’ all around me
[04:20.58]So I gave you my testimony
[04:23.80]We were down from the beginnin’
[04:27.39]When the world wasn’t listenin’
[04:30.76]Now that I got your attention
[04:33.95]Let us end with the benediction
[04:36.84]Year of Release: 2014