Chinua Hawk - Mercy On Me lyrics

[1st Hook] Lord, Lord you know I tried When I should have been strong I cried When I should have helped I walked on by When I should have told the truth I straight up lied I know your love has set me free But I keep on putting you up on that tree Oh Lord, Have your mercy on me Loving father put you grace on me, on me [Verse 1: Sho Baraka] Tre's nerves are bubbling, juggling jobs, avoid hustling Hard trusting in God, cuz' now he's struggling TV's throwing lust at him, Corners boys punking him Wife wants to fuss with him, LORD keep touching him He might return to street life, But he'll fight will all he can But if they test him again, He would hate to have k** a man The pressure he can't handle it, he's lost ways to channel it He might Black out, Then he has to be in anger management His common problem, his values aren't- matching wallet He's praying but still jobless, his faith used to keep him honest He's got visions of bad decisions that are void of godly wisdom So this one bad decision will most likely land him in prison So a week from now, He'll be at a Bank in town He'll be yelling get down, with some other clowns, waving a gun around He'll succeed ducking the cops and leaving with profits But he'll have problems dodging all the guilt that's working on his conscious [1st Hook] [2nd Hook] Put Grace on me, on me (3 times) Loving Father Put your Mercy on me, on me (3 times) Loving Father Put you Mercy on me, on me [Verse 2: Sho Baraka] Jane feeling the pain, like razors are in her vain A year since the cancer came, her faith and frame has changed Chemo and pain k**ers, the disdain gets realer Her Hope becomes thinner, from all the news that they give her/ She taking the news with caution, she knows that the Lords awesome But often there's pauses, of the loses and of what d**h cost us Is it worth fighting she nauseous, plus the hospital charges She's heard there's light in the tunnel but all she sees is Darkness No one is feeling her burden, they just keep giving her sermons If they listened with more discernment, they could tell she's hurting Her speech is just an illusion, she's scared of the end conclusion If she shares her doubt- she feels her image may become ruined Shes holding her fears in, tears in, She'll be dead by years in Shes not thinking through how God forgives sins Until then her nights are long, alone, faking strong The corner of her heart, This will be her song, sing [1st Hook] [2nd Hook] [Verse 3: Sho Baraka] How often we go thru the motions, up and down rollercoasting Scared to admit were hurting, nervous thoughts of perversion This culture we've built is perfect, were saying his d**h was worthless Not to concerned with worship as along we do our churchin Were decorating our person, just to continue a lies Or shortcomings we hide, with a shallow disguise To prove we got it together, to make it seem like were better Than friends, fam whoever, we take some extreme measures We have a desire to add, to the grace that we have Were never content with our lives, we operate within pride We hate to seem dependant, but that's the way that he intended Humans made in his image, built to live in the tension Learn wisdom, we were distant his love we didn't deserve it We confess we were worthless, then break our backs trying to earn it Without you I'm, helpless, weak, my existence is bleak I refuse to proceed without your grace and mercy on me [Hook] [2nd Hook]