While listening through this album that song has jumped out to me for some reason. Listen to the song and read through the lyrics and let them resonate with you. Please comment your thoughts on this song.
Gimme a second, gimme a second yeah
Gimme a second, listen what I'm sayin to you
uh listen gimme a second
all I need is a second yeah
Gimme a second, uh yeah
Hey listen Cole talk that college talk
Wayne talks gangs Jay-z's talkin' money main to ain't talk fine
and people say I talk about the same old thing
reason that I sound the same's cause the truth don't change
look people get it twisted like a limit in the spirit
if I ain't talking killin' I must be talking bout healing
and I ain't talking bout Jesus gonna make me a million
with my hands to the ceiling I got that spiritual feeling
head bowed down knees to the floor
You a christian and you rap?
it must be the way you flow, NO
I talk reality like mama on the death bad
the birth of a child
the soldier losing his left leg
whose gon write songs to give him hope in his chair
addicted to pain killers whife left last year
your favorite rapper was probably tryin to make his next hit
talking looking who I got
who I shot and who I tip
couldn't be more common if them boys made sense
couldn't be more common if Serena was their chick
and this is not a dis this is how reality sound
let it off my mind this how my mentality sound
Hook:
Everything I do, I do it for you
I don't wanna single a thing, I don't wanna sing a thing
ain't got no kind of angle
I ain't tryin play you, you ain't gotta know my name,
you ain't gotta know my name
but in my short time only spend out of
baby birth and I know the sound
let me a little time
let me..been a couple lines
and I promise it might just change in two
I sound like the main rapper 'cause it crazy
the radio be like it love you
but they never play me
when I've been doing shows like you ain't gotta even pay me
I just wanna spread the same message that save me
you see I probably grew up just like you
tell em my heroes I wanna be just like you
I got in trouble went to court
show me couple inmates and he told me man
they started off just like you
I never rolled the round strap
I was busy chasing girls and money
I play ball and smoke weed and though world was funny
I'm with the church a few times with my head on the swivel
and I was looking for the bad ones that sat in the middle
I could not remember a sermon I never caught the spirit
and if Christians was tryin to rap then I'm not tryin hear it
I never would imagine that I would be rhyming
about the same guy that I couldn't confide in
never planned to get marry raise a family help kids
grow up, visit people in prison I was busy tryin to blow up
but see now I am unimpressed with the way these folks dress
or the engine in the truck, all I want soul rest
and I'm so blessed look of what he did to me
how could I keep this to myself somebody bled for me
nah, you don't just have to hate this
'cause God is the only reason I can say this
Gimme a second, listen what I'm sayin to you
uh listen gimme a second
all I need is a second yeah
Gimme a second, uh yeah
Hey listen Cole talk that college talk
Wayne talks gangs Jay-z's talkin' money main to ain't talk fine
and people say I talk about the same old thing
reason that I sound the same's cause the truth don't change
look people get it twisted like a limit in the spirit
if I ain't talking killin' I must be talking bout healing
and I ain't talking bout Jesus gonna make me a million
with my hands to the ceiling I got that spiritual feeling
head bowed down knees to the floor
You a christian and you rap?
it must be the way you flow, NO
I talk reality like mama on the death bad
the birth of a child
the soldier losing his left leg
whose gon write songs to give him hope in his chair
addicted to pain killers whife left last year
your favorite rapper was probably tryin to make his next hit
talking looking who I got
who I shot and who I tip
couldn't be more common if them boys made sense
couldn't be more common if Serena was their chick
and this is not a dis this is how reality sound
let it off my mind this how my mentality sound
Hook:
Everything I do, I do it for you
I don't wanna single a thing, I don't wanna sing a thing
ain't got no kind of angle
I ain't tryin play you, you ain't gotta know my name,
you ain't gotta know my name
but in my short time only spend out of
baby birth and I know the sound
let me a little time
let me..been a couple lines
and I promise it might just change in two
I sound like the main rapper 'cause it crazy
the radio be like it love you
but they never play me
when I've been doing shows like you ain't gotta even pay me
I just wanna spread the same message that save me
you see I probably grew up just like you
tell em my heroes I wanna be just like you
I got in trouble went to court
show me couple inmates and he told me man
they started off just like you
I never rolled the round strap
I was busy chasing girls and money
I play ball and smoke weed and though world was funny
I'm with the church a few times with my head on the swivel
and I was looking for the bad ones that sat in the middle
I could not remember a sermon I never caught the spirit
and if Christians was tryin to rap then I'm not tryin hear it
I never would imagine that I would be rhyming
about the same guy that I couldn't confide in
never planned to get marry raise a family help kids
grow up, visit people in prison I was busy tryin to blow up
but see now I am unimpressed with the way these folks dress
or the engine in the truck, all I want soul rest
and I'm so blessed look of what he did to me
how could I keep this to myself somebody bled for me
nah, you don't just have to hate this
'cause God is the only reason I can say this
All is Great in the Lord
Paul Shackelford