I did it for you
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I did it for you
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I did it for you
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That's why I did it yea'll
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For all the listeners
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Whoever be hearing this
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That's why I do what I do
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I did it for you
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Single mother low income riding the bus
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Big momma making a fuss saying in God she trusts.
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My uncles 20, I'm 10 taking gulps of gin.
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He don't realize that we all are engulfed in sin.
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Gang bangers on the corner got me wanna be down
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Take a bullet for some city on government ground
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By 25 everybody locked or died
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To busy playing around never looking ahead
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Every funeral, cats get upset and cry
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Turn their heads towards the sky trying to ask God why
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But they never looked up till then
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Every other day they concerned with the world and consumed in sin
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Not Christ just heaven they want
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They think clean means not trying to sling things out of their trunk
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Nobody ever to them heaven was spotless and we all dirty
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That's why we need a Holy God to wash us
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I did it for you
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I opened up my life and shared my life
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So that you can see we all need Christ
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I did it for you
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If you can understand my pain
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Maybe you can see we all need change
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I did it for you
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Can view my life my pain my hurt
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Man I hope this work
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I did it for you
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Sense Christ died for sin
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I never be the same again
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I did it for you
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Young dude, I remember coming home after school
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Changing channels from videos back to cartoons
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Up late talking on the phone under my bed
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So momma couldn't hear some of the things I said
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And it wasn't all bad but it wasn't all good
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Even though momma was doing the best she could
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I was a latchkey home alone for hours
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Entertaining my sin And my soul devour
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Pick up by the cops at the age of 12
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And not because my momma didn't raise me well
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I was a drug baby big momma dragged me to church
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Hated ever minute of it but she prayed it would work
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I an't never met my daddy so I feel all empty
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Like why he never call or why don't he come get me
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And momma under legalistic teachings and lies
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So she beat me and she tell me it was to keep me alive
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a typical youth I mean A typical youth 16 agnostic and looking for truth
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I lived for myself, No one ever told me the plan
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God had to bring redemption to a fallible man
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Good news really wasn't good news to me
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Cause I never new the condemnation due to me
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And I wish somebody would of told me then
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What it meant to know Christ and to be born again
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They say Mac got saved and X is a Christian
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Well I don't really know them but I pray they both listen
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It's hard trying to grow up in a sinful land
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And you don't have an example of a Godly man
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Well hold on; just keep your eyes on Christ
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When we enter in the world, man our lives alright
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They say heaven has a ghetto but that an't true
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And if God has a standard then that an't you and that an't me
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That's what I learned late one night when a man named James White changed my life
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He told me that Christ paid the price for sin
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Every lie I ever told Christ died for them
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See, I never knew I offended God I just knew I really wasn't trying to live for God
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And my sins all cost me, Yeah pretty costly
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I couldn't blame the hood for the death sin bought me
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All that I could do was blame myself and realize there was no way I could change myself
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So I trusted Christ with my lustful life
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And he saved me that's why I am trying to touch the mic
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Yeah so if you ask who I am spitting this to, that's right yea'll I did it for you
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And if you ask who I have written this to, that's right I did it for you
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I did it for you, I did it for you
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So I could show you that his grace is right here for you
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I did it for you, I did it for you
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So I could show you that his grace is right here for you
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I did it for you
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I Did It For You
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| Lecrae |
