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Artist: Royce Da 5'9"
Album:  Layers
Song:   Pray
Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com 

[Intro]
(Let us pray)
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for watching over us today
I pray for the sick and shut in 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...

[Royce Da 5'9"]
Uhh, 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 ticking bomb that'll
leave the competition in the 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
Groundbreakin each time, I spit words and they hit the street
You don't like the game you can Google my dick bitch
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 of 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 yo' face, don't end up in yo' 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 then 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 don't just pray for myself, I pray for everybody
But you could pray for them
They need you more than me, pray for them

[Chorus]
Pray for everybody (now)
Look around, look around, look around, look around (what you see?)
Pray for everybody
Tell me exactly what you're seein
Ooh, ooh I'm seein children bein murdered by police
and then acquitted on all charges
It's like they all targets
I pray for them

[Royce Da 5'9"]
I pray for everybody

Live from the gutter, my father's a drugger
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 watchin from shutters
Tellin all the children keep watchin out for us, bad influences
We the gumbo that you see inside the pot, swimmin 'round in all the saddest truest shit
Addict in the coolest whip
Ridin 'round my city lookin for the baddest newest bitch
Hammer in my stash feelin +Too Legit+
90 on the dash, slammin on the gas, passenger mad sayin "That break pedal do exist"
I'm sayin "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 throwin hands
I'm a sucker for hoes in yoga pants
Tell my queen I'm into shit like kissin and holdin hands
I keep my flings on the other end of a string with swollen glands
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 somethin different from rich and away from your debt
Nigga I'm straight to cassette
Y'all digital, y'all about as physical
as a finger under some balls coughin while takin 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 of the violence and shootin
ISIS got Obama sittin down with Vladimir Putin
I saw a child online ask his father "Why did they do this?"
His father then replied to him, "We gotta fight 'em with flowers"
Growin out the ground, I look at violence
same way I look at slavery, it's never-endin in light of abolishment
These are my finest hours then

[Chorus]

[Royce Da 5'9"]
Let us pray

[Outro]
Lord, please keep Your arms around us
and protect us from all harm and danger
In Your son Jesus' name, amen (AMEN!)