Time After Time

CHORUS:
Time after time
find I question my life
how I went wrong
will it ever be right?
will I rise?
will I fall?
stand tall.
continue asking
but I’m knowing only God know.
Growing up in the hood as a hard knock
I never knew nothing too much about nothin
my only concern was making my money
and running these streets as a thug
instead of the birds and bees
I was taught the birds and the Gs
that coldness inside me
but I ain’t trying to hurt nobody
temptation
is keeping me steadily going under
and I wonder
if I could make it thru the thunder
cause I done caused so much hurt and pain
to some that ain’t deserve a thang
if I could change that, it would all be rearranged
but what’s done is done
and I paid the price
and now i’m like, “help me, Lord, to better my life, my life.”
just give me the chance to prove the world that I can
be the man that I am!
and I plan on keeping it realer, really, slow and steady.
CHORUS
So now i’m headed to the chapel
and i’m gunna try marriage
it’s goin’ down. yeah, yeah, yeah
but, what do ya know?
who woulda knew that would make situations worse?
and my curse, nothing I’ve tried seems to work
and I drop to my knees and I pray
yes I pray
and I wonder if i’ll ever see a better day (I need a better day.)
I’ve seen much in my time
and I think it was too much for my eyes
the wickedness pulling me closer to failure
everytime I think I’m rising
yeah
but you live and you learn and try to make better
gotta get control
then follow the Lord, and who knows where you’ll go, for sho’
I can see how i’ve been sinnin\'
I’m asking the Lord for a little bit of forgiving, ‘giving.
CHORUS