I speak on behalf of the people
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Hope, faith
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We all got a story, this is me
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Ok, please forgive me, Father, all the sinning I done did
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All the dirt I had to do, all the trouble I've been in
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Went through trials and tribulations every day to make some ends
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I'm a walking testimony, still I stand yet again
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You don't know shit that I been through, all this pain, ain't that the truth
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So much tears that I done cried, feeling like I ain't got shit to lose
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Why my granny passed away, why my daughter didn't stay
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Wish they both was here today, oh Lord, in Jesus name
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I done been through hell and back, momma dodging heart attacks
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Ain't no AC in the house, just a broken thermostat
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Bill collectors on my line, please don't fucking call me back
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Got me stressing about this shit, ain't no way I could relax
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I was only eighteen, ain't no money coming fast
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Had no choice but turn to God, take some trouble of her back
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Everything just going wrong, feel like nothing going right
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I just seen my homie Dale and he die within the night
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Boy, these streets ain't nothing nice, had to make way out the hood
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Don't nobody give a damn, had to make sure we was good
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Just like that, before you knew it, I had got my record deal
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When you make it from the bottom just imagine how it feel
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Lord knows them niggas hate, everybody had a doubt
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Who this nigga think he is, that little black boy from the south
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They was laughing at me then, ain't no laughing at me now
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And for those who don't believe, ask 'em now who run the town
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Ain't no way I'm giving up, ain't no way I'm giving in
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I done lost it all before, can't go through this shit again, no
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Lord forgive me for what I'm about to do
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Forgive me for my sins, for the known, for the unknown, amen
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Let me get it back to legit to quit, Porsche got two percented tint
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Bitch, I made so many hits, look how quickly they forget
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Go ahead and count me out, you can talk behind my back
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Don't give a fuck about what you say, so you think my music whack
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That ain't what my banker said, couple million wired in
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Hope I see a hundred more that's before retirement
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Motivation on you hoes, ain't no waiting on the dough
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Heard they praying that I fail, tell them Ace will never fold
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I'm a walking testimony and I mean just what I say
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Looked my daughter in her eyes right before she passed away
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Watched them doctors pull the plug, don't wanna live another day
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This was all in God's fate, could not be no other way
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How I did it, I kept my faith
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They tried to break me but there ain't no way
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I kept my focus, whipped up the potion
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And when you make it out the struggle, you the chosen
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I seen the light, oh glory, glory, trials and tribulations, my life is a story
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And everything I did to make it made me who I am today
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We the best, it's in my blood, ain't no father around to thank
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I'm a lion in this field and my heart is made of steel
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Catch me speeding to the top, hollering God take the wheel
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Have mercy
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And even though we all are not perfect, forgive me
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Trials & Tribulations
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Ace Hood |