Please Listen

If I die on this ride Please know I love you If I ain't by your side Please know she got you If you lose faith Reside with God Don't fall in love with hate Now I'm gonna go abroad When we find a new place Don't forget the ones who Are glued to the roots that they ripped away from you For every change Please think of them too For every dark day Remember what we went through Every second of every day, I found a new place It's hard when my heart was livin in another state One statement changed my life, and everyone I love Now I live life I wish I could dispose of I've been so strong for too long thanks to my mother Without her as my guard I wouldn't hear my son song Had my little angel as a picture inside my pocket Kept me going and made a scripture too become their prophet One unborn I had to leave em Broke my big heart I couldn't be the one to feed em Now in a constant state of fight or flight Memories haunting me for the rest of life Kept my emotions at bay so I get through the night That's why I hate weakness you don't see your light I'm might sometimes be too harsh, but I know what this world could do I lived a long life, and my scars is all my proof Now listen If I die on this ride Please know I love you If I ain't by your side Please know she got you If you lose faith Reside with God Don't fall in love with hate Now I'm gonna go abroad When we find a new place Don't forget the ones who Are glued to the roots that they ripped away from you For every change Please think of them too For every dark day Remember what we went through Never got to say goodbye to the man I married Now all alone with the sequel and one more I carry Yeah I know I had my other friends and family Everyday afraid of the news that gonna ruin me My future in my stomach I couldn't get it tied into a knot I had to firm it and make sure to get through the rough God was by my side everyday I held him close and begged that no one would take him away The strength of the group, he needs to persevere We are a unit, almost time for the premiere I don't care if we start again, I want us to be free But I wanna attain that freedom as an entity Please lord bring us together this time So, we can see our kids grow into something divine We wanna kickback and share moments and turn off our lights And then layback and trust that we managed to take every turn right Now listen I had to wait for a ride You know I love you I'll be forever by your side Please know I got you If you lose faith Reside with God Don't fall in love with hate Now we're gonna go abroad When we find a new place Don't forget the ones who Are glued to the roots that they ripped away from you For every change Please think of them too For every dark day Remember what we went through Unaware for 18 years all the struggle it took I was raised in a luxury that they never could Took it day by day, belly was full, throat never dry It was the normality of my everyday life Plus, I had more than one should ask for But my selfish ways in my teens did that for sure While I was playing Xbox DS, games galore Now I realize I need somethin that'll make me soar Been to the motherland and seen my family's life It gave me a new perspective of what I deem is right I shouldn't waste the opportunity I have in front But I wasted 6 years of my time being a front All the worries and issues my parents had to deal with But I struggled on tests cuz I can't focus on real shit The times the world hit me, and I didn't hit back My mind convinced me that I couldn't keep up with the track When I got a bad grade and ignored the run Or when I failed with a girl thinking she was the one Or became lazy cause I didn't find anything fun It was tempting to find a solution through a gun My mental health battles Made me feel weak Felt I was adding more worry to their stress induced weeks And you call me selfish because I chase a dream I thought you chose to work hard so we could choose what life would mean Now listen I won't die on this ride Till the end I love you Differences on the side Till the end I got you Haven't lost faith I don't need God You made our life so great Now we are livin abroad Since we found a new place Won't forget the ones who Are glued to the roots that they ripped away from you For every change I will think of them too For every dark day I'll remember what you went through