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[Intro: Jered Sanders] Sometimes the hardest records to write be The records where you got up to show people your scars, you know what I'm saying Sometimes you gotta tell em where you came from 'Cause it ain't always been rosy Let's talk real quick [Verse 1: Jered Sanders] Yo! What do you see when you look in the eyes of a grown man without his life together Do you measure all my flaws or maybe my wicked thoughts Never check the progress in all the ties I severed Back when I was on a shattered path, living off a nickel bag money Tryna triple that, Gift of Gab, brick or half money Get a zipper slab money And wishing for both And not a rapper pitch me some coke, then fishing for hope It's real And man, I had a couple of buddies they was jacking huffies Lil' ragga muffies, they was gassing like the path for thuggery Was way better than my lil' nickel past the custies But being these and petty thugging led them back in cuffies Hitting up they momma 'cause they got a checkered past, it's ugly And when the coppers going lock 'em they ain't half as lucky And they ain't gracious if you sagging with a matching skully I turn my back 'cause, homie, sinning ain't the path to luxury, real [Hook: Eris Ford] It took a long time to love who I am Despite how I was or how I used to be But if you look through the eyes of my God You too will love all I am underneath [Verse 2: Jered Sanders] Yo! Man, I remember living off my last dollar Grubbing on a wishing a prayer, knowing the cash proper Weren't the same as back when I was making mad cheddar Wasn't never bad weather, getting bread up off a brass popper 'Cause they was rolling off or thumping on the West End If the sticky had a little stubble, get a best friend To bring you in a frat house Treat you like the next kins Some paper in a couple hours, get another text in; yo But when the hotline blinging ain't what it used to be And 9-to-5 better than 25 for moving keys Up in the cell I ain't never better than moving free Look up to God and er'day He been renewing me I'ma testify to let you know that He using me Turned my heart on, now I'm seeing it more beautifully He told me, homie, either live for you or die for me I wanted heaven after Reverend read the eulogy [Hook: Eris Ford] It took a long time to love who I am Despite how I was or how I used to be But if you look through the eyes of my God You too will love all I am underneath [Verse 3: Jered Sanders] Yo! Yo! What do you happen to think of a lad who had the whole world reaching Back in the ache of his past lethal but equally mad evil Preaching a tad mad see through Believing I ain't even as bad as the bad people, we grew Up admiring, we knew Wasn't firing up a Backwood Of bringing down a black hood And I wasn't jacking for habit only trying to mack good Flicking in traffic see the paper stack good See the love of money never seemed to make a brother happy as a prayer life Living for the world always checking for what theirs like Racing to the top but homie I'ma take the stairs like Eternal life and that's a fair price, praise God And I be bigging up the boss with this sight of mine And I be carrying my cross with this might of mine 'Cause He ain't turn the flicker off with the vital signs That's why I'm lifting up the lost with this light of mine [Hook: Eris Ford] It took a long time to love who I am Despite how I was or how I used to be But if you look through the eyes of my God You too will love all I am underneath [Bridge: Eris Ford] You still love me underneath, oh Through the good and the bad Through the happy or sad You still love me, yeah, yeah You still love me [Sample] "Shout if he's ever taken anything from you! Now in the name of God's Christ, let him know, inform your adversary that war has been declared, and you're about to make him suffer the consequences..."