[id:$00000000] [ar:Jay-Z/R. Kelly] [ti:Don’t Let Me Die] [by:] [hash:47f74503f2ba52fc8e9fef5107185fb8] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:00.02]Written by：J.C.Olivier/Alexander Spanador/Mosley/Robert Kelly/Shawn Carter/S.Barnes [00:00.42]Ohhh ohh oh oh oooooh [00:02.09]Dear god bring our p o w's home [00:05.47]Ohhh ohh oh oh oooooh [00:07.02]And bring our brothers on lockdown home amen [00:15.55]Whoa oh oh ya ya yah [00:17.98]Whoa oh oh ya ya ya ya [00:20.88]He's a ni**a from the back block [00:22.71]On everybody laptop who used to slang crack rock [00:25.34]Hov' and this ni**a from the chi' [00:27.10]Who hold a note like the guy who said the British is coming [00:29.67]My ni**a kels oh yeah the n***as is coming [00:32.01]Get out your good dishes or something like it's thanksgiving ni**a [00:34.36]It's hov' and none other than the r [00:37.09]And without further adieu like Freddie get ready it's [00:40.41]Whatever happen lord don't send me back [00:41.95]And whenever I did wrong it was your name I cried [00:44.31]I heard you forgave over and over again [00:46.59]But when I found that out I became immune to my sins [00:49.33]Lay wide awake in the middle of my sleep [00:51.73]I see dead people and sometimes it's me lord [00:54.11]I never wanted to be a thugfather [00:57.00]I only wanted to be a son of a father [00:59.14]Rahh that's how it sounds it's sad [01:01.51]Worse than the war in Iraq when it's me against i [01:04.05]I gave up the w**d and somehow I'm still high [01:06.32]Three years still seeing the w**d in my eyes lord [01:09.07]Sometimes I don't know what you want from me [01:11.03]But I do know you know what I want from you [01:13.65]Give it to me c'mon take away this hennessy [01:15.87]Take away me running the street [01:17.97]Stop people from hating me take away all of this jealousy [01:21.38]And prejudicy [01:22.74]Thought you said it was a better place [01:24.59]I grew up around pimps hustlers hoes and project gang sters [01:28.90]Hard to believe in what I can't see [01:31.47]I gotta get this money and feed my family [01:34.09]Whatever deity guides my life [01:35.78]Dear lord don't let me die tonight [01:38.13]But if I shall before I wake what shall I say [01:40.58]It's been a good run from hoodlum to island estates [01:43.00]How could one who made such foul mistakes [01:45.39]Still be allowed to have a smile on my face [01:47.82]Hell whatever the case I'm glad it wasn't murder [01:50.44]In a town you never hearda from a nickel plated burner [01:53.51]Now my life's straight like a perm [01:55.29]Try to take the spot I earned muh'f**ker better learn [01:58.03]It's hov' [01:59.07]He's a ni**a from the back block [02:00.52]On everybody laptop who used to slang crack rock [02:03.24]Hov' and this ni**a from the chi' [02:05.03]Who hold a note like the guy who said the British is coming [02:07.65]My ni**a kels oh yeah the n***as is coming [02:10.00]Get out your good dishes or something like it's thanksgiving ni**a [02:12.89]It's hov' and none other than the r [02:15.08]And without further adieu like Freddie get ready it's [02:17.58]Hey boy hear me out got a few mo' things to say [02:19.73]These n***as be chasing me like everyday [02:22.10]C'mere no my life on crutches devils say [02:24.61]I'll never walk again but the devil is a liar [02:27.13]Cause I believe within you're the reason that I'm still here [02:30.00]Even though I don't act like it [02:31.50]Even though I hear my calling and fight it [02:33.18]Fools do me so wrong it's hard to stay righteous [02:35.74]If pimping was a mountain to heaven I'd hike it [02:38.45]Believe me lord I want you [02:39.89]Got money and fame and still it just won't do [02:42.54]Sometimes I don't like who I am [02:44.25]When I look in the mirror my reflection is uncle Sam [02:46.69]And every night I have these weird dreams [02:49.12]That a creature's right beside me wake up and can't breathe [02:52.37]I feel like it's twenty of me [02:54.08]Going 20 different directions on a one way street lord [02:56.96]I got houses money and cars and met [02:59.49]Every single superstar I got the whole music industry sewed [03:03.07]But it still don't matter when I'm gone and my casket closed go [03:06.94]Whatever guillotine guides my life [03:08.89]Dear lord don't let me die tonight [03:11.08]But if I shall before I wake I'd accept my fate [03:13.96]I did what I did my heart was in the right place [03:16.32]I did so I could live to put food on my plate [03:18.62]You musta loved me not to let it end by 3 that day [03:21.13]Well whatever the case I'm glad it wasn't murder [03:23.41]In a town you never hearda from a nickel plated burner [03:26.96]I guess I'm not finished with my journey [03:28.37]Please forgive me for my sins sh*t I'm still trying to learn [03:30.74]Meet hov' [03:32.25]He's a ni**a from the back block [03:33.66]On everybody laptop who used to slang crack rock [03:36.07]Hov' and this ni**a from the chi' [03:38.23]Who hold a note like the guy who said the British is coming [03:41.76]My ni**a kels oh yeah the n***as is coming [03:43.49]Get out your good dishes or something like it's thanksgiving ni**a [03:45.91]It's hov' and none other than the r [03:48.04]And without further adieu like Freddie get ready it's