Kelly Price (Jay Z)

Talking: Throughout my life (uh huh uh huh uh)

no matter what I've done.(Right)

You've been merciful and your love endureth (yeah)

through all things (ye yeah) For that

I am eternally grateful.

Verse 1

Since my date of birth

bought you nothing but hurt

play those video games

stole change from ya purse

Sat on the cold court bench

'til I was arraigned in ya skirt

Saw the pain in ya face

through you maintained a smirk

All you did was motivate me

don't let 'em hold you back

What I do I turned around

and I sold you crack

I was a bastard for that

still I'm drowning in shame

Just remember one thing now

you're not to blame

You was newly seperated

tryin' to escape ya world

and through my thirst

I didn't help you

I just made things worse

I hated me and everybody

that created crack

Had me thinkin'

the newest kicks and the latest gat

Still haven't apologized

so please play this back

while I try to come to terms

with such a heinous act

you know in more than one way

cocaine numbs the brain

All I did was think about

how the funds once came

then I ran across this memory

and it stung the brain

How can you ever destroy the beauty

from which one came

That's a savage you're the reason

why me and these beats make a marriage

why I rhyme above average and

I ain't shit

Glad you got yourself together

no thanks to me

Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be

You must love me

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