Spiritual

Album: Single release only (2016)
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  • And it says, now the works of the flesh are manifest
    Meaning, the things that are in the sinful nature
    They always come to the surface
    And when they come, when they come to the surface
    They come to the surface as demons

    All this work can pay off
    I just want all this work to pay off
    Just don't calculate us
    Don't calculate us
    Get to know you later (spiritual, yes it is spiritual)
    (No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison)
    Just don't calculate us
    Alcohol in my room
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison
    Just don't calculate us
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison
    Just don't calculate us
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison
    Just a boy from the hood that
    Got my hands in the air
    In despair don't shoot
    I just wanna do good, ah
    I am not poison, no I am not poison
    Just a boy from the hood that
    Got my hands in the air
    In despair don't shoot
    I just wanna do good, uh

    Pray your father's father wasn't touching his little daughter
    Creating trans-generational trauma, that shit'll haunt ya
    Pray your little cousin ain't fall from the place that you fall asleep
    Of course it's hard for me
    Nigga ain't dozed, I ain't washed in a week
    I ain't changed clothes 'til the Black Album
    Y'all rap about 'em, I wrestled in these streets
    'Til I tapped out 'em, them niggas is WWE
    Y'all can have that, I'm smack dab
    In a hurricane of emotions
    Can't even raise my little daughter, my little Carter
    We call her Blue 'cause it's sad that
    How can I be a dad that, I never had that
    Shattered in a million pieces, where the glass at
    I need a drink, shrink or something
    I need an angelic voice to sing something
    Bless my soul, extend your arms, I'm cold
    Hold me for a half hour until I am whole, yeah

    I am not poison, no I am not poison
    Just a boy from the hood that
    Got my hands in the air
    In despair, don't shoot
    I just wanna do good, ah
    Alcohol in my room
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison
    Just don't calculate us
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison
    Just don't calculate us
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    Sick of hiding in holes and behind hyperbole
    This is the real me unfold
    Gangster is love, I'm thuggin', I'm huggin'
    This is tougher than any gun that I raised
    Any crack that I blazed, that was nothin'
    Peeling back the layers, uncovering
    Scars that never healed, I never kept it this real
    I acted out, my life a stage, ten thousand people watchin'
    Where's the little boy I knew?
    I must have forgot him
    Stuntin', of course we never grew
    But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you
    Stuntin', of course we never grew
    But we're alone now and I'm singing this song, you

    I am not poison, no I am not poison
    Just a boy from the hood that
    Got my hands in the air
    In despair don't shoot
    I just wanna do good, ah
    I am not poison, no I am not poison
    Just a boy from the hood that
    Got my hands in the air
    In despair don't shoot
    I just wanna do good, uh
    Alcohol in my room
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not poison, no I'm not poison
    (Just don't calculate us)
    Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
    No I'm not Writer/s: SHAWN CARTER
    Publisher: Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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