[Intro] [简介]

Can the church say Amen? (Amen reverend) 教会可以说阿门？ （阿门牧师）

We gon' do another off in right now 我们会去的，现在做的是另关闭

We gon' do another one in fifteen minutes 我们仍然在做另外一个在十五分钟

And we gon' do one mo', right after that 我们坤做一摩“ ，之后即

Yes, women you lookin so very beautiful here today 是的，女人你今天这么看着很漂亮在这里

Some of you with the same thang on from the club last night 你们当中有些人对从俱乐部昨晚同胜

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away 耶和华所赐的神夺

Oh Lord Jesus I wish you'd taketh away Sister Mary's wig 哦，主耶稣我希望你夺姐妹玛丽的假发

Oh you disrespectin the House of God with that thing 哦，你disrespectin神的殿与东西

It don't even look real; aww, it's testimony time 它甚至不看真实的; AWW ，它是时间的见证

Oh who is that? Young Chris Bridges 哦，那是谁？年轻的克里斯桥梁

Boy I'm glad you finally grew into them ears 男孩，我很高兴你终于成长为他们的耳朵

Go on and testify 去作证

   

[Ludacris] [卢达克里斯]

Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes I've made 主啊，请原谅我，我犯的错误

And thanks for keepin my momma safe when she wrecked my Escalade 并感谢坚持着我的妈妈安全的时候，她破坏了我的凯雷德

See I could replace a Cadillac but I can't replace my momma 见我可以更换凯迪拉克，但我不能代替我的妈妈

I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama 对不起了嘻哈肉牛，我们遗憾的电视剧

But you gotta understand us rappers ain't never had nothin 但你得理解我们的说唱歌手是不是从来没有过没什么

And one's loss is another's gain so we gotta grab somethin 而一个人的损失是另一个人的收益，所以我们得抢事端

Lord, got so many questions I need the answers to 主啊，有这么多问题，我需要答案

And sorry for the thangs I put my baby's mama through 而遗憾的thangs我把我的宝宝的妈妈通过

I feel that women are really the strongest human beings 我觉得女人真的是最强的人类

but why do you make 'em so emotional, and other minor things 但为什么你让时间这么激动，和其他小东西

I guess it's your way of sayin we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em 我想这是你的言谈方式，我们总得爱他们，得称赞时间

cause without 'em we'd be nothin, plus our kids they gotta raise 'em 原因无时间我们就没什么，再加上我们的孩子，他们要筹时间

while we, out and about and seein what life has to offer 而我们，外出活动和seein什么生活所提供的

But if you offer a new life then what we need is better fathers 但是，如果你提供了一个新的生活，然后我们需要的是更好的父亲

Either I'm smarter cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense 无论是我女儿的聪明原因或只是我太密集

I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin sense 我28岁了，只是现在开始做个感

And I've been... 我一直在...

   

[Chorus One] [合唱一]

Searchin so looooong, I was lost in the clouds Searchin那么一长串，我迷失在云端

I'm tryna stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud 我tryna留strooooong ，让你prouuuuud

It took me some tiiiiime, but now I see 我花了一些tiiiiime ，但现在我明白了

That Heeeee resiiiiides, in me yeahhhhh yeah 这Heeeee resiiiiides ，在我yeahhhhh耶

   

[Ludacris] [卢达克里斯]

Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was bein rude 主啊，原谅我随时粉丝说我是贝因粗鲁

I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of moods 我只是个普通人，我并不总是在心情最好

But thanks for givin the gift of rap to write my feelings down 但感谢安宁说唱的礼物，写我的感受下

And sorry for cursin sometimes but feelings make me shout 'em out 很遗憾的，有时cursin但感情让我喊时间了

Forgive the people that wanna blame everything on rap music 原谅人们想要的一切归咎于对说唱音乐

If they didn't live it they can't relate or even adapt to it 如果他们没有辜负它，他们可以不涉及，甚至适应它

Forgive those who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go 原谅那些谁不认为我是伟大的，想看到我走

Forgive Oprah for editin most my comments off her show 原谅奥普拉在编辑的我的大部分意见了她的表演

Don't get me wrong, I know some people got a image to hold 不要误会我的意思，我知道有些人有一个形象举行

But those who criticize the youth might just be gettin too old 但是，这些谁批评年轻人可能只是刚开太老

We still travellin through life, findin what's right or wrong 我们还是通过生活在travellin ，发掘的什么是对还是错

I know some folks may not agree or even like this song 我知道有些人可能不同意，甚至喜欢这首歌

But I'm just speakin MY truth, cause I heard it sets you free 但我只是speakin我的真心话，因为我听到了你们自由

And my conversation's with God, even though he speaks through me 和我的谈话是与神，即使他通过我来说话

I'm smarter cause of my daughter, and I'm NOT too dense 我为我的女儿聪明事业，我不是太密集

I'm 28 years old, it just now started makin sense 我28岁了，只是现在开始做个感

And I've been... 我一直在...

   

[Chorus One] [合唱一]

   

[Ludacris - over Chorus One] [卢达克里斯 - 过合唱一]

I've been searchin so long 我一直searchin这么久

I admit that I've been lost in them clouds 我承认，我已经失去了他们的云

I'm just tryna stay strong baby 我只是tryna留强的宝宝

You know I'ma make you proud 你知道我是让你骄傲

I know life is full of contradictions 我知道生活中充满矛盾

I'm tryna become a better man 我tryna成为一个更好的人

Prayin for redemption, each and every day 祈祷赎回，每一天

   

(Hallelujah, as the choir sings) （哈利路亚，作为合唱团唱）

   

[Chorus Two: sung by choir] [合唱二：由合唱团唱]

Searchin so looooong (so long) lost in the clouuuuuds (in the clouds) Searchin那么一长串（这么久）失去了在clouuuuuds （云端）

Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! 试着保持strooooong ，让你prouuuuud - 让你感到骄傲！

Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee (oh now I see) 我花了一些tiiiiime （我花了一些时间），现在我seeeee （哦，现在我明白了）

Heeeee resiiiides, in me (yeah) Heeeee resiiiides ，在我（是）

   

(Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest in the house tonight （女士们，先生们，我们有一个特别的客人在家里今晚

Came with some words of encouragement, Bishop Eddie Long) 带着一些鼓励的话，主教埃迪龙）

   

[Chorus Two - repeat 2X, minus ad libs] [合唱二 - 重复2倍，减去广告库]

   

[Outro: Bishop Eddie Lee Long] [尾奏：主教埃迪·李龙]

What you just heard is real life 您刚才听到的是真实的生活

It's real life for you, it's real life for many 这是现实生活中的你，这是现实生活中的许多

It's about where you been, yet at the same time you 这是关于你去哪里了，但在同一时间，你

Ay, you find yourself, in the midst of conflict and turmoil 哎，你发现自己在冲突和动荡之中

Yes I'm talkin to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil 是的，我对你说话，在冲突和动荡之中

Cause you realize HEY - it's, time to change right now 因为你知道，嘿 - 这是时间来改变现在

And in the middle of that I wanna say this 和我想的中间这么一说

The Bible says that when I was a child, I spoke as a child 圣经说，当我还是个孩子，我曾作为一个孩子

I understood as a child, I fought as a child 我明白了作为一个孩子，我打小时候

Hey, but when I became a man 嘿嘿，不过当我成为一个男人

I put away those, childish things 我把那些离开的，幼稚的东西

Did you not know that your environment has shaped you? 难道你不知道你的环境塑造了你？

Where you were born, in the projects, in the ghettoes 你在哪里出生，在项目中，在少数民族聚居区

In the upper downtown, wherever it was 在上面的市中心，无论它是

The people around you, the things around you 你身边的人，身边的事做起

cause you to do strange things because, you were seeking to learn 因为你做奇怪的事情，因为你试图学习

But what you learned, was on the streets, and not in the book 但是，你学到了什么，是在大街上，而不是在书中

God called you a prophet 上帝叫你先知

When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out 当你打开你的嘴，上帝都出来

And it commands attention, it commands change 和它的命令的关注，它的命令改变

I'm talking about the power, that's inside of you 我说的是权力，这就是你的内心

And in the midst when you're, starting to understand 而在当你在中间，开始了解

that I caught the wrong message, and now it's time 我赶上了错误的信息，而现在是时候

I'm hearing from God, what amazing experience, as you hear from God 我的天啊，什么惊人的听觉体验，当你从神听到

He said, "Is there forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation" 他说， “有没有规定任何人在基督里，他就是新造的人”

Old things are passed away, somebody needs to hear that and behold 旧事都过去了，有人需要听到和看见

Everything becomes new, and when everything becomes new in you 一切都变成新的，而当一切都在你成为新的

It's time to stop the killing 现在是时候停止杀戮

I said it's time to stop the stealing 我说现在是时候停止偷窃

It's time to stop disrespecting our women 现在是时候停止不尊重我们的妇女

It's time for us to come home and raise our children 现在是时候让我们回家，并提高我们的孩子

It's time for us, to really mold our communities 现在是时候对我们来说，真正塑造我们的社区

It's time for us, not to get hooked up in religion 现在是时候对我们来说，没有得到迷上了宗教

But to get hooked up in relationship, with God 但要获得挂钩的关系，与神

And the amazing thing about it 而令人惊奇的是

is wherever you find yourself right now, you can confess 无论是你发现自己的权利，你可以坦白

and you can tell God "I'm sorry; 你可以告诉上帝“对不起;

I had the wrong cue, I was doing the wrong thing 我有错的线索，我在做错误的事情

I was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't right 我打算以后的事，我认为是正确的，但它是不正确的

And now that I'm getting it right, I'm asking you to forgive me 而现在，我得到它的权利，我在问你原谅我

And I may have done the things, that they said I did 我可以做的事情，他们说我这样做

But I'm not, who they say I am; I am who you made me to be 但我不是，他们说我是谁;我是你让谁我是

and I'm changing in that, and it takes a few moments 而我自己在改变在于，它需要一些时间

But every time I fall down, I'll get right back up 但每次我倒下，我会马上回了

And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in line 每次我做一个错误的一步，我会自己回来行

Because I recognize, I have been called, for such a time as this!" 因为我知道，我一直在呼吁，在这样的时刻，因为这！ “

You can't resist the change 你无法抗拒的变化

And you're not condemned by your yesterday 而你不是你昨天谴责

If you can grab hold of your now, and move in your destiny 如果你能抓牢你的现在和移动你的命运

Move, change, and be, now! 移动，改变，是现在！

   

[Chorus Three: sung by choir] [合唱三：由合唱团唱]

Searchin so looooong, lost in the clouuuuuds Searchin那么一长串，失去了在clouuuuuds

Tryin to stay strooooong, and make you prouuuuud - make you proud! 试着保持strooooong ，让你prouuuuud - 让你感到骄傲！

Took me some tiiiiime (took me some time) now I seeeee 我花了一些tiiiiime （我花了一些时间），现在我seeeee

Heeeee resiiiides (Heeee resiiiides) in me (in me yeahhhhh) Heeeee resiiiides （ Heeee resiiiides ）在我（我yeahhhhh ）