Follow your heads and close your eyes Let us pray We pray you got mercy on your heart, Father God We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God He don't understand what it means to be a man Can't take a jab, ready to shoot if it land Pops up and scrammed, got a gun in hand Trapped four back, getting high as he can Old heads can't tell him nothing, when they out there hustling All around him suffering, all he ever known is struggling Only if he knew better, he'd probably do better But the system ain't set up for him to get a Penn State school letter More like the state pen, two or three occasions The thought of freedom outrageous, come home still caged in Bow your head and close your eyes, join me, we praying You got mercy on your heart, Father God Let the church say amen We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God She never understood her own womanhood Maybe someday someone would see her more for running through it Abuse keep running to it, childhood, thundered through it Life never showed her nothing good, still believe there gotta be something to it Mama wasn't a role model, too busy chasing a cold bottle Narcotic swallow from America's Next Top to looking like an old model And baby girl got them same looks, and here come them same crooks She was raised around it, still a little lame to hide that game look She started blazing, that situation Quickly escalated, to freebasing Bow your head and close your eyes, join me, we praying You got mercy on your heart, Father God Let the church say Amen We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God This world a cold place, reverting back to them old days Them old races, segregated, hatred, always It's like they won't be satisfied until there is no trace That we ever existed on this planet, in no shape Form of fashion, as this madness happens Can you fathom heaven, peace, love, and compassion I know that it seems like something from a dream How can I not know you yet, you still hate me Blame me for your pain, like I ain't also aching When you're born a certain way, can't do *** But take it, bow your head and close your eyes Join me, we praying You got mercy on your heart, Father God Let the church say Amen We need you now more than ever, Father God For most of us it's now or never, Father God Don't look like it's getting any better, Father God If you hear us, why don't you help us, Father God Amen Bitch ass nigga