[ti:I Wanna Thank You (Album Version)] [ar:The Lox] [00:00.00] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wanna Thank You (Album Version) - The Lox [00:09.48]Yo you can't fake it [00:11.54]Life's only what you make it [00:13.13]Front be a snake mess around [00:14.67]Get your weight it [00:15.71]Ex school boy who wanna go [00:17.07]And try to take sh*t [00:18.38]Found his body [00:19.38]In the projects naked [00:20.79]I ain't gonna lie [00:21.95]If I wasn't doing this now [00:23.32]I'd probably'd be tied down [00:25.02]In a small town [00:26.31]With my eyes on a couple of guys [00:28.34]With their eyes on a couple of pies [00:30.24]'Cause I will survive [00:31.72]Brains is the key to the game [00:33.66]If you ain't got none [00:34.80]What good is a shotgun [00:36.18]If you ain't got guns [00:37.52]Then you better cop some [00:38.91]'Cause the new world order's [00:40.22]Around the block dun [00:41.63]Streets be where Lox [00:42.87]Get their props from [00:44.07]Check us on the internet [00:45.20]L O X dot com [00:46.82]A worldwide message [00:48.23]I try to express it [00:49.31]The best I could [00:50.08]For ya'll to cherish [00:51.22]I wanna thank you [00:53.52] [00:54.09]Heavenly father [00:56.64]For shining your light on me [01:01.51]It's been a long time [01:04.53]Since I had someone to love me [01:07.35]I owe my thanks to thee [01:10.13]They never expressed [01:11.36]That life's a part of death [01:12.84]They never go there [01:13.96]But you can blow here [01:15.41]The 25 to life and greens from below [01:17.71]Where outta nowhere [01:18.77]You in the bus hands is cuffed [01:20.63]Can't call your mom dog [01:21.76]You know times is rough [01:23.03]You was out yesterday [01:24.37]Stressing a better way [01:25.80]Funny thing [01:26.58]They always seem to lock down Kings [01:28.42]And the thugs on the street [01:29.66]Just love to say [01:30.77]It's all foul [01:31.91]Watch the honeys check your style [01:33.61]Worthless when they w*****p [01:35.27]What you purchase [01:36.26]They only see ice not me [01:38.00]Under the surface [01:39.00]What's the purpose [01:40.01]I just go my way [01:41.39]Know my way [01:42.21]'Till bullets blow my way [01:43.95]Which they might [01:44.65]'Cause any night can change your life [01:46.60]Keep your state of mind tight [01:47.91]And remain alright [01:49.08]It's plain to fight [01:50.02]But different to shoot [01:51.09]And might do it [01:51.90]If you ain't 10 different ways [01:53.83]I wanna thank you [01:56.88]Heavenly father [01:58.78] [01:59.43]For shining your light on me [02:04.07]It's been a long time [02:07.14]Since I had someone to love me [02:09.87]I owe my thanks [02:12.22]Hey yo we handle rap [02:13.58]Like we do the street [02:14.58]Holding heat [02:15.24]It's them same crooked n**gas [02:16.60]Watching dough [02:17.04]Ain't nothing sweet word [02:18.43]Buying beats is like copping grams [02:20.16]N**gas got too many scams [02:21.33]To give you garbage [02:22.17]Slide the butters to their mans [02:23.67]That's aiight though [02:24.69]'Cause even ready rock [02:25.56]Gets sold on our block [02:26.62]Watch us turn nothing into nitro [02:28.69]And we don't mingle [02:29.72]'Cause none of us don't really know you [02:31.22]From the heart we never talk to strangers [02:33.03]So why start [02:34.04]Anyway we're rapping [02:35.07]For this luxury sh*t [02:36.28]I watch wild n**gas blow [02:37.60]See how plush sh*t can get [02:39.23]But we ain't trying to kiss a** [02:40.49]To blow up fast [02:41.23]We gonna take our time [02:42.25]And rely strictly on the rhyme [02:43.92]If I wasn't that cat [02:45.15]Sheek Lucian that rap [02:46.63]Would you still be my man [02:47.67]And pass your bottle to my hand [02:49.30]Would I be in the rain [02:50.38]While you pass me in the Land [02:51.95]Oh you think by now [02:52.93]That I don't already know your plan [02:54.57]To get next to me and possibly sex me [02:57.11]Then slip e*****y inside a n**ga's Pepsi [02:59.62]Money'll never amount to respect B [03:01.99]And you don't wanna test me [03:03.56]'Cause God [03:04.13]I wanna thank you [03:07.22]Heavenly Father [03:09.14] [03:09.92]For shining your light on me [03:14.39]It's been a long time [03:17.52]Since I had someone to love me [03:20.29]I owe my thanks to thee [03:24.41] [03:25.11]And I know [03:27.63]It could not happen [03:29.79]Without you [03:32.87] [03:40.98]I know I know [03:44.08] [03:44.73]Know know know know know [03:47.99] [03:51.04]I know it could not happen [03:55.89]Without you