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Amen praise him for black gold
Came up from where the crack sold

Used to walk to school with the cracked soles
Saturday cartoons for my black soul

Yeah, I used to want the Jordan's
I know mom couldn't afford them

Said them shoes ain't important
They ain't gonna get you endorsements

Just another kid from the projects
Different type of fear you can't process

Bills overdue that's our stress
9 Bodies to a three bed apartment

Rent past due and the lights off
Enough to make a grown cry y'all

Head to the sky ask why lord
This is life and I'm quite sure

Hmm Good kid, but a hood kid
Nobody cares if you live

Born in the belly of the beast like I'm food yeah
Another lost soul with a few tears

Ain't nobody here to console me
Mom sent me to store for the groceries

I see the police they patrolling
Think I'm not hip but I'm knowing that I could die today

Thanks
Thanks
Thank you for waking me
Never forsaking me
I just gotta say thanks
Thanks
Amen

Wish a nigga would try me
But I ain't got my ID

Cops all they wanna do is harass us
Frisk us and ask us

Call for they back up
But without a badge would you act tough

Without a gun would you be brave
Black folks ain't got rights these days

Act tough prolly not
Officer you can't contain me in this parking lot

No probable cause then I'm walking out
Then I hear boy
You better watch your mouth

Hmmm that's real cute
I know that ain't the real you

Plus I know couple thugs that would kill you
You can bleed red but you still blue

Yeah too true
12 Act like they bullet proof

You could get hit in that uniform
Cause you still a bitch in that uniform

Now I'm face down on the pavement
Ugh Whole life is in danger

Fast forward I'm in county with the strangers
Could've been another dead nigga but I'm thankful
That didn't die today

Thanks
Thanks
Thank you for waking me
Never forsaking me
I just gotta say thanks
Thanks
Amen