دانلود آهنگ Pray از JAY-Z

“Pray” is the second track from Jay-Z’s tenth studio album American Gangster. In the track Hov delivers a semi-biographical narrative, which largely emphasizes the context in which he was brought up in: capitalist America and its symptoms – ghettos, poverty, violence and drugs. He explores the impact it had on his community and the impact on him personally; where both are trying to protect themselves from the stain of sin. Puff Daddy’s production samples “New Earth” by Hank Marvin, and Beyo...

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[00:05.66] Delivery me from my enemies, oh God
[00:09.00] Defend me from those that rise up against me
[00:12.21] Deliver me from the work of inequity
[00:15.82] And save me, from the Bloody men
[00:19.24] Look, mind state of a gangster from the 40's
[00:22.79] Meet the business mind of Motown's Berry Gordy
[00:24.86] Turn crack rock into a chain of 40/40's
[00:27.73] Sorry my jewelry so gaudy
[00:30.05] Slid into the party with my new pair of Mauris
[00:32.51] America, meet the gangsta Shawn Corey
[00:34.99] Hey young world, wanna hear a story?
[00:37.55] Close your eyes and you could pretend you're me
[00:40.18] A cut from the cloth of the Kennedy's
[00:42.83] Frank Sinatra having dinner with the Genovese
[00:45.48] This is the genesis of a nemesis
[00:47.70] Mother America's not witnessed since
[00:50.57] The Harlem Renaissance birthed black businesses
[00:53.01] This is the tale of lost innocence's, as the incense burn
[00:57.53] And the turntables turn and that Al Greens plays
[01:01.43] I see my mother's afro, as mama taps her toes as she rolls her J's
[01:06.18] And my papa just left the house, in search of the killer of my uncle Ray
[01:11.58] And she's tryna calm my nerves, as I observe this is just one day
[01:16.57] And what tomorrow has in store, we could never be sure, so all we can do is
[01:20.57] Pray
[01:22.83] Because of Your strength
[01:25.11] While I walked upon thee
[01:27.14] For God is my defense (pray for me)
[01:31.62] As I head towards my homeroom, I observe the ruins, dope needles on the ground
[01:36.66] I hear a car go, "Vrooom", drug dealer in the BM with the top down
[01:41.94] As the girls start to giggle, I ask, "Why you laugh?", they say, "You too little
[01:47.01] One day you'll understand, when you become a man 'bout things you have to get you"
[01:51.42] Fast forward, freeze frame on my pistol
[01:53.94] Fist full of dollars, ignorance is so blissful
[01:56.47] I didn't choose this life, this life chose me
[01:59.03] Around here is the shit that you just do
[02:01.59] I just left school, the same BM is pulled over by the boys dressed blue
[02:06.51] They had they guns drawn, screaming, "Just move"
[02:09.12] "Or is there something else you suggest we can do"
[02:11.74] He made his way to the trunk, opened it like, "Huh"
[02:14.54] A treasure chest was removed
[02:16.78] Cops said he'll be back next month
[02:18.95] What we call corrupt, he called paying dues
[02:22.55] Now when the rules is blurred, as they is and were, what am I to do?
[02:26.90] But pray, pray the Lord forgive me
[02:29.16] Pray He guides me by what I'm 'bout go through
[02:32.18] Pray
[02:33.01] Delivery me in thy righteousness
[02:35.31] And cause me to escape
[02:37.31] And climb thine air unto me
[02:39.45] Save me Lord (pray for me)
[02:42.01] Geah, anywhere there's oppression, the drug profession
[02:44.96] Flourishes like beverages, refreshing (ah)
[02:47.74] Sweet taste of sin, everything I've seen made me everything I am
[02:52.45] Bad drug dealer or I victim, I beg
[02:54.69] What came first? Moving chickens or the egg?
[02:57.44] This is why I be so fresh,I'm tryna beat life 'cause I can't cheat death
[03:02.69] Treat shame with shamelessness, aim stainless at anuses
[03:07.18] You know who's game this is
[03:08.79] Move coke like Pepsi it don't matter what the brand name is
[03:12.97] I stand behind mine, everything I do I'm a man behind mine
[03:18.14] I'm not a angel, I'm sure, but every night before I lay
[03:21.26] I drop my knees to the floor and I pray
[03:26.03] The name shall endure forever
[03:28.75] The name shall be continued as long as the sun (pray for me)
[03:33.16] Men shall be blessed in Him
[03:35.58] All nations shall call Him blessed
[03:39.45] In your name I pray (pray for me)
[03:43.85] Lord bless us

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