[Pre-Chorus]

Take a look, tell me what you see

I promise it look like a cemetery in these streets

Where the black, brown, yellow, they all shades of gray

They walk around num, like they don't feel a thing

[Chorus]

Got me walking around the neighborhood stressed like what is this?

Knew we wasn't well but, how did he get this sick?

All we do is say it's broken, no one cares to fix it

Everything man's trying to fill

So I'm sending prayers up for my hood

I promise I would change it up, if I could

Until then I'm sending prayers up, for y'all hood

Until he answers, me

I be sending prayers up, for our hoods

I promise I would change it up, if I could

Until then I'm sending prayers up, for all hoods

Until he answers, he'll answer, yeah

[Verse]

I look around and all I see is the dead walking

No love, just cold hearts and flesh coffins

Grown kids with no fathers and lead choppers

No feelings, just cold heart for the bread constant

No one smiles anymore, everybody mugging

We taught school is wack, now everybody hustling

We taught not to snitch, so the only option is

Let 'em run us over, bang, now everybody thugging

We encourage pimping and glorify the player

Now ain't no fathers in these homes and nobody cares

All these cats with this money and this influence

They'd rather rap about crack than put an end to it

They'd rather make it rain and talk about ice

We dying over here, homie, talk about life

We need God more than ever, talk about Christ

It's about that time homie

[Chorus]

Walking 'round the neighborhood, stressed like what is this?

Knew he wasn't well, but how did he get this sick?

All we do is say it's broken, no one cares to fix it

Everything man's trying to fill

So I'm sending prayers up, for my hood

I promise I would change it up, if I could until then

I'm sending prayers up, in y'all hood

Until he answers, me

I'll be sending prayers up, for our hoods

I promise I would change it up, if I could, until then

I'm sending prayers up, for all the hoods

Until he answers, he'll answer, yeah

[Verse]

Can't even wave to each other ' cause our guard is up

And growing up around hate makes it hard to love

You try to love and get stabbed in your heart or cut

Now it's hard to trust so we're guarded like an armored truck

A generation of men that beaten great women

Hit it then run away and just leave her to raise children

Don't be a coward if you knew you was gonna leave his mother

Why you break her first? Now he's being raised by pieces of her

Our parents ain't wait for sex, they just did their own thing

So they feel like hypocrites when dealing with their own things

No more waiting for the ring, now it's just a grown thing

Now she having sex at 12, thinking that's what grown means

We are so misguided, trying to find a light switch

The problem is you roll your eyes, if I say that's who Christ is

The Lord said today, I said before your life and death

Choose life, leave the past behind and you can write what's left

[Chorus]

Walking 'round the neighborhood, stressed like what is this?

Knew he wasn't well, but how did he get this sick?

All we do is say it's broken, no one cares to fix it

Everything man's trying to fill

So I'm sending prayers up, for my hood

I promise I would change it up, if I could until then

Until then I'm sending prayers up, for your hood

Until he answers, me

I be sending prayers up, for our hoods

I promise I would change it up if I could

Until then I'm sending prayers up for y'all hoods

Until he answers, he'll answer, yea