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Can the church say Amen? (A...gon' do another off in right now...gon' do another one in fifteen minutes...Some of you with the same thing on from the club last night...The Lord give'th and the Lord take'th away...h you disrespecting the House of God with t...ease forgive me for the mistakes I've made...I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama...ny questions I need the answers to...And sorry for the things I put my bab...at women are really the strongest human bei...I guess it's your way of saying we gotta ...e nothing, plus our kids they gotta raise 'e...so long, I was lost in the clouds...That he resides, in me yeah yeah...man, I'm not always in the best of moods...t thanks for giving the gift of rap to writ...Forgive the people that wanna b...those who criticize the youth might just be...that I've been lost in them clouds)...(Hallelujah, as the choir sings)...long (so long) lost in the clouds (in the clouds)...He resides, in me (yeah)...ave a special guest in the house tonight...re you been, yet at the same time you... you find yourself, in the midst of conflict a...I'm talking to you, in the midst of conflict a...And in the middle of that I wa...The Bible says that whe...here you were born, in the projects, in the ghetto's...In the upper downtown, whe...The people around you, the things around you...you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book...I'm talking about the power, that's insid...And in the midst when you're, ...That I caught the wrong message, and ...re forth any man be in Christ, he is a new...rything becomes new in you...It's time to stop the killing...d it's time to stop the stealing...ot to get hooked up in religion...ut to get hooked up in relationship, with ...And the amazing thing about...I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thing...And I may have done the things, that they s...And I'm changing in that, and it takes ...'ll get myself back in line...You can't resist the change...ou're not condemned by your yesterday... your now, and move in your destiny...ching so long, lost in the clouds...esides (He resides) in me (in me yeah)