Take Me Up

[00:02.02] (And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray)
[00:05.69] (Every day, every day, every day, every day)
[00:07.43] (And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray)
[00:11.05] (Every day, every day, every day, every day)
[00:13.04] Take me up, take me up, take me up
[00:14.98] Take me up, take me up
[00:19.83] Take me up, take me up, take me up
[00:23.22] Take me up, take me up (yeah)
[00:25.54] Take me up (huh)
[00:27.30] I remember when we hit the block
[00:29.08] Selling candy tryna make a knot
[00:30.77] Riding bikes up to the corner shop
[00:32.42] Now we older and you end up locked up
[00:33.53] All of your kids getting bigger
[00:35.72] They missing they daddy, they wish you was with 'em
[00:37.51] I talk to your mama, she told me don't give up
[00:39.30] And pray for her son, 'cause she ain't raise no quitter
[00:40.81] I wish I could run it back
[00:42.03] I would tell us our daddies ain't coming back
[00:43.87] I would tell us if we stick together then we can do anything
[00:44.65] We got each other's back
[00:47.22] Lost my cousin, I cry every summer now
[00:48.92] I beat all of my cases, I wonder how
[00:50.78] If it wasn't for God in my life, I'd be wearing them stripes
[00:52.89] I'd be laying up underground, yeah
[00:53.70] Mm, been a long time waiting on an answer
[00:58.53] Been a long time praying with my hands up
[01:01.86] Won't You come through? Father, come through
[01:06.36] Won't You come through? Father, come through
[01:07.79] (Take me up, take me up)
[01:10.42] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[01:12.08] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[01:13.88] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[01:15.86] (Take me up, take me up)
[01:17.23] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[01:19.03] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[01:20.74] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[01:22.67] (Take me up, take me up)
[01:24.15] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[01:25.89] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[01:27.58] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[01:28.93] (Take me up, take me up)
[01:30.96] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[01:32.70] Every day, every day, every day
[01:34.47] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray
[01:36.08] Can't be mad at us, if you add it up
[01:37.81] Everything we been through, we still managing
[01:39.57] Used to drink every night just to handle it
[01:41.30] Losing sleep every night from the damages
[01:42.95] I was popping them pills in Decatur
[01:44.74] Scrolling online and responding to haters
[01:46.25] Came from the trenches, no handouts, no favors
[01:48.07] Lay awake close hopin' we get 'em later
[01:49.67] Hating on me, devil preying on me
[01:51.14] Everybody dying, it was weighing on me
[01:52.87] Lot of power in me, lot of pain on me
[01:54.67] I thank God for people who was praying for me
[01:56.48] And we was struggling, tryna pay the rent
[01:58.23] Taking losses, trying to get a win
[01:59.93] Praying, fighting, through the hardest years
[02:01.68] Took a minute, but we made it here
[02:03.06] Mm, been a long time waiting on an answer
[02:08.12] Been a long time praying with my hands up
[02:10.37] Won't You come through? Father, come through
[02:13.72] Won't You come through? Father, come through
[02:17.77] (Take me up, take me up)
[02:18.90] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[02:20.68] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[02:22.43] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[02:24.37] (Take me up, take me up)
[02:25.86] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[02:27.51] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[02:29.29] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[02:31.23] (Take me up, take me up)
[02:32.63] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[02:34.37] Every day, every day, every day (take me up)
[02:36.12] And we pray, and we pray, take me up (take me up)
[02:38.13] (Take me up, take me up)
[02:39.54] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[02:41.23] Every day, every day, every day
[02:42.99] And we pray, and we pray, and we pray (take me up)
[02:45.09] Yeah, yeah, uh (take me up)
[02:47.79] Yeah, uh (take me up), yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:51.46] Uh, yeah, uh (take me up), yeah
[02:55.26] Uh (take me up), yeah, yeah
[02:58.23] (And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray)
[03:02.94] (Every day, every day, every day, every day)
[03:06.64] (And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray)
[03:10.82] (Every day, every day, every day)
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