[ Featuring Kelvin Wilson ]
Intro: Sometimes, life gets hard and you get stuck in a rut. But you can't give up, you gotta stay strong.
Verse: I been dign myself up out a grave I been buried in a whole lotta pain, a whole lotta hurt and deceit. I didn't have a single soul that I felt I could call on that didn't need a dollar from me. So I didn't want'm bothering me. I just wana be a better man, a better father of three. cnd one day find my Queen, fall in love and live the cmerican dreammmm, but realistically. That's not how things been for me, I been through a lot you see. I trusted the wrong people with me, gave them so much of me, still don't know what's left of me, yet in spite of everything, I'm still here and I'm still me yeahhh!
Chorus: and there ain't no one or nobody that can take that away from me, but only God and he's the one who insures my destiny! I let pride get in the way of a lotta things, and blocked a lotta blessings surely they were meant for me, meant for me. I held my head up, all the way up, always stayed prayed up, and never gave up on me. Yea yea, never gave up onnnn me. Times got hard and days got lonely but never gave up on me.
Verse: I did my dirt I paid my dues now I'm the man that you see. There ain't no way I could regret the things that shaped and mold me. Cuz I paid dues for my wealth (my self and) gave up bad things for my health( stayed tough and) stayed true to my dreams, now look at me you can't take a thing.
Chorus: and there ain't no one or nobody that can take that away from me. But only God and he's the one who insures my destiny. I let pride get in the way of a lotta things and blocked a lotta blessings surely they were meant for me, meant for me, but I, held my head up all the way up, always stayed prayed up and never gave up on me. Yeah yeah, whoa ohhh yeah, times got hard days got lonely but never gave up on me.
Chorus: and there ain't no one or nobody that can take that away from me, but only God and he's the one who insures my destiny.