Past, Present, Future

[KJ-52]
Take a trip with me upon this memory lane / the 7th Avenue the area where I came / the past pain now comes back upon a flood / a place of .. down the street the mafioso type sold them drugs / and thugs found their way into / their lives are lost living enough to send you to the brinks of extinction / reflecting back upon my adolescent leave me thinking / where would I be if I mained in that environment to the day / but God sought fit to give me that grace to truly save / me from that ghetto my mental / can never let go but things be getting complex not ever simple / divorce left me shattered / my esteem bruised and battered / cause nothing mattered / my soul was straight up tattered / but God's reaching forth with these hands of reconstruction / taking off these weights that was crushing but I'm discussing / the 7th Avenue the place where I learned what was true and what was fake / it's time to take you back upon this self autobiography / but only those that truly see will come along with me / so clearly we speak forth the 7th Avenue discourse / I once was lost but now I'm straight up still lost / until the One that paid the cost reached forth with eternity / just a 7th Ave memory /

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22 long hard years I'm still struggling

[KJ-52]
I'm blasting forward to the present / the place where I represent ... violent lifestyles / we buried a juvenile a few months ago / overdosing on cocaine man himself through a window / his life be gone never to be coming back / my area of sin welfare and dealers selling crack / what's up with that they be killing off communities / but on the other hand tell me that they down to be / promoting unity .. neighborhood suicide / 16 years old killed off in drive-by's / right behind my church my eyes search / cause life today has sold it to worth cause it hurts / what people will be doing to one another / they used to be brothers but now they just duck run for cover / when shots be out firing their .. / you out looking for work but now there ain't nobody hiring / so you striving to make that money / by all means necessary even if it leaves you buried / at 21 you living by the gun / you gone's to die by the gun so where you at son? / in the eyes of the only One watching over you / you claim to be true but in the end you lose / you choose the avenue it's a short fuse set to explode / before you even reload /

[KJ-52]
Now comes the time I'm peering into the future / what does it hold for me I do not have these answers / I just begin to wonder contemplating on my dreams / the thinkings of the past and present to me it seems / that God guides all things it's all upon His hands / and if I trust in Him then He gives me a place to stand / many become the plans in the man's heart / but only God gives the man the plan to stretch his dreams forth / I do my part to make this world a better place / but only that it seems is the stressing that I face / my past has been erased my present now holds hope / I'm peering into the future cause I know I'll be able to cope / and one thing that I'm knowing in this world that constantly changes / that only Christ watching out for me upon a daily basis / so I can face this whatever be coming at me / and even if the future seems to hold uncertainty / cause certainly God will rule upon all things / and deep within my heart there comes the well that springs / forth everlasting I be basking in this flow / of a God that watches over me every single place I go / so (who do you think you are son?) / cause life ain't just cash money herb and your cars / the stars in your eyes will soon begin to fall / cause in the view of God now you looking kind of small / you standing tall and now you sticking out your chest / but I wonder where you at and when they lay your body to rest / cause will you be blessed by this eternal life Giver / or standing at the gates begging out just to enter / the paradise but my advise is this / to turn your life to Him cause ignorance is not bliss / and you can make a wish but all amounts to nothing / cause past and present gone future now is coming /