I Did It for You

I did it for you I did it for you I did it for you That's why I did it y'all For all the listeners Whoever be hearing this That's why I do what I do I did it for you Single mother low income riding the bus Big momma making a fuss saying in God she trusts My uncles 20, I'm 10 taking gulps of gin He don't realize that we all are engulfed in sin Gang bangers on the corner got me wanna be down Take a bullet for some city on government ground By 25 everybody locked or dead Too busy playing around never looking ahead Every funeral, cats get upset and cry Turn their heads towards the sky trying to ask God why But they never looked up till then Every other day they concerned with the world and consumed in sin Not Christ just heaven they want They think clean means not trying to sling things out of their trunk Nobody ever told'em heaven was spotless and we all dirty That's why we need a Holy God to wash us I did it for you I opened up my life and shared my life So that you can see we all need Christ I did it for you If you can understand my pain Maybe you can see we all need change I did it for you Gave you my life my pain my hurt Man I hope this work I did it for you Since Christ died for sin I never be the same again I did it for you Young dude, I remember coming home after school Changing channels from videos back to cartoons Up late talking on the phone under my bed So momma couldn't hear some of the things I said And it wasn't all bad but it wasn't all good Even though momma was doing the best she could I was a latchkey home alone for hours Entertaining my sin And my soul devour Pick up by the cops at the age of 12 And not because my momma didn't raise me well I was a drug baby big momma dragged me to church Hated ever minute of it but she prayed it would work I ain't never met my daddy so I feel all empty Like why he never call or why don't he come get me And momma under legalistic teachings and lies So she beat me and she tell me it was to keep me alive A typical youth I mean A typical youth 16 agnostic and looking for truth I lived for myself, No one ever told me the plan God had to bring redemption to a fallible man Good news really wasn't good news to me Cause I never new the condemnation due to me And I wish somebody would of told me then What it meant to know Christ and to be born again I did it for you I opened up my life and shared my life So that you can see we all need Christ I did it for you If you can understand my pain Maybe you can see we all need change I did it for you Gave you my life my pain my hurt Man I hope this work I did it for you Since Christ died for sin I never be the same again I did it for you They say Mac got saved and X is a Christian Well I don't really know them but I pray they're both listening It's hard trying to grow up in a sinful land And you don't have an example of a Godly man Well hold on; just keep your eyes on Christ When we enter in the world, man our lives alright They say heaven has a ghetto but that ain't true And if God has a standard then that ain't you and that ain't me That's what I learned late one night when a man named James White changed my life He told me that Christ paid the price for sin Every lie I ever told Christ died for them See, I never knew I offended God I just knew I really wasn't trying to live for God And my sins all cost me, Yeah pretty costly I couldn't blame the hood for the death sin bought me All that I could do was blame myself and realize there was no way I could change myself So I trusted Christ with my lustful life And he saved me that's why I am trying to touch the mic Yeah so if you ask who I am spitting this to, that's right y'all I did it for you And if you ask who I have written this to, that's right I did it for you I did it for you I opened up and shared my life So that you can see we all need Christ I did it for you If you can understand my pain Maybe you can see we all need change I did it for you Gave you my life my pain my hurt Man I hope this work I did it for you Since Christ died for sin I never be the same again I did it for you I did it for you, I did it for you So I could show you that his grace is right here for you I did it for you, I did it for you So I could show you that his grace is right here for you I did it for you