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Phanatik - Hope in the Streetz
(from the album The Incredible Walk)
© copyright 2005

Verse 1:
Every time I connect with Kevin Author/
We end up reppin our Heavenly Father/
So just relax and chill/
In a minute we’ll get in it kick some facts and build/
It’s action packed yup packed with thrills/
And what happens will fill your back with chills/
I’m not rapping to get stacks of bills/
And rock shows and have the stands packed with girls/
What I need with a one night stand/
I’m looking for a love to last one life span/
Anything short of that is sort of whack/
Caught on your back in more sacks than quarterbacks/
And that’s not the way I’m rolling out/
No wed no bed so I’m holding out/
I throw rhymes like spears and darts/
While I share my art I hope you hear my heart/
Here let me tear off a part/
And help someone out there steer clear of the dark/
For a second just for a moment/
Turn off the Lord’s opponents/
Put MTV, BET on pause/
Listen while I speak He gone call/
And all y’all need to do is answer/
It’s simple we’re sinful we’re sin soaked/
He’s sin’s soap plus men’s hope
He

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Brings hope to the streets/
Don’t we need hope in the streets/
Watch me bring hope to the streets/
Watch me bring hope over beats/
Don’t we need life in the streets/
Watch me bring Christ to the streets

Verse 2:
I’m a bible, I’m every chapter and verse/
I’m a revival a recital of His actions rehearsed/
I’m Jeremiah a fire burning inside yearning earnestly/
Fevorently trying to turn men to God/
Let me ease up on this track/
(How come) it’s just a little to smooth for all that/
I’m hoping that a brother don’t choose the wrong path/
If I do then that means that I’m loose and fall back/
Gotta tune out the voices/
This life is full of so many choices/
Like I never thought I’d see the day that I would/
Have to choose between Hip-hop and rap or like the last election/
I don’t know who to choose/
It was AVP whoever wins we loose/
I gotta choose between a lifestyle adult rated/
And God’s unadulterated Word/
Now maybe you saying I got a way with words/
But that’s nothing cause some cat just got away with murder/
And I’m not finish my job until they’ve all heard of the grace we all need/
And they receive Christ in the streets

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Verse 3:
Everyday I pray for the streets/
For revival that it begins in me/
I’m like Lord save me from myself/
Or maybe I need to one myself/
Not in a physical sense that’s ill/
It’s not kill Bill I need to kill my will/
‘Cause that’s we’re the problem lies/
My pride my lies what I priorities/
See ya man aint perfect but since I was purchased/
One of the perks is He purges me/
And keeps me in pursuit of His Person/
And keeps my engine purring like Persian/
Cats better recognize/
Who keeps us stepping like the electric slide/
And I pray for my family too with a whole saved/
Family Lord what could you do so I pray for Ken and I pray for P./
For Tanya, Shawna, Aaron, Shena, for James, Marcus, and Kevin too/
For Omar, I pray for Neru/
For Joshua, J and Donna/
That their whole family could bring you honor/
I pray for Tai, I pray for Sha/
I pray for Judah, I pray for Zi/
I lift up my uncles and pray for my aunts/
I lift up my Moms I pray for my Pops/
I pray for Margaret, for the Florida and Alabama family/
That we’d all be a part of ya plan for peace/
Please take up past religion/
Past church past hurts and past divisions/
So we can pass the vision along with the legacy/
To the next generation with each pregnancy/
And I know that this song is getting long/
But I’m praying that my family is getting strong/
And yeah it takes more than just prayer/
So I solemnly swear and volunteer to be there/
Lord save all my peeps I pray for ’em each/
‘Cause if they could be reached they could take it to the streets

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