My mother told me 'fore she passed away. Said, "Son, when I'm gone, don't forget to pray. 'Cause there'll be hard times, hard times, woah, yeah, yeah.
My mother told me. Before she passed away. Said son when I'm gone. Don't forget to pray. 'Cause there'll be hard times. Lord those hard times. Who knows better than I?.
She asks me 'round to have a bite to eat,. When i get there, she's invited the street.. She gives me hard times,. But when she loves me, she loves me..
Well, I recall days in the city. And I think back, oh what a pity. Rememberin' how it wasn't pretty. Everyday life in the city. . Out in the street we had to take it.
(by Ray Charles). . My mother told me. 'Fore she passed away. Said son when I'm gone. Don't forget to pray. . 'Cause there'll be hard times. Lord those hard times.
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears. While we all sup sorrow with the poor. There's a song that will linger forever in our ears.
Who put this shit together?. . I done done it all from jackin' and slangin' nigga trust that. Stealin' cars snortin' dope gettin' bust at. Never goin' ta school all kinda bullshit.
Same old bills on the dresser same old sheets on the bed. Same old pans in the kitchen the same old day old bread. Same old sad eyed news man on my same old TV set.
[Intrp]. They don? t seem to want me but they won? t admit. I think I? m some kind of creature that they are having fear of. Hard times. Theres no love to be found.
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Gotta bar lean, I'm looking mean. I need a drink, I've gotta drink to think. You say I'm drunk but that's me in the mirror. Looking for a fight who says "...".
[Killah Priest]. The prophecies of a poor man end on a train. Take his last breath. Slumps over drops his last bit of change. A mother pacing by her window pane.
Well, you know the boss was a good man,. But kindness on it's own don't pay.. "you can figure you're part of the cut-back". Was all that he could say..
live scene crack on the corner. a man stands proud as he peddles his wares. expedient overconfident because he knows he hold your pride in. his hand demand that's how he makes his proud stance because he.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah nigga. Uh, uh, yeah, yeah. Eightball nigga, Koncrete nigga. Yeah, yeah, uh, yeah, yeah. . Spark the weed up turn the beat up let's get it popping.
Why are you forever blue?. The perfect girl with a heart so true. Look at me, I'm so desperatley. Crying out for your company. . This doesn't happen every day.
[Chorus]. The struggle lives hard times, we do or die. My whole crews fly hands high to the sky. So maintain son elevate try to build. But now you're still 'cause incarceration is for real.
I ain't got a nickel to call mine. The government has made me pay my tax on time. They've taken all my bread and left me here for dead. I ain't even got a lousy dime.