I Did It For You (Feat. Diamone)

I did it for you
I did it for you, yeah, uh-huh
Yeah, uh, uh-huh, I did it for you
That's why I did it y'all, uh-huh
For all the listeners, I did it for you
Whoever hearin' this, yeah
That's why I do what I do
I'll do it for you, I'll do it for you
I'll do it for you, yeah, let's go

Single mother, low-income, ridin' the bus
Big Mama makin' a fuss, sayin' in God she trusts
My uncle's 20, I'm ten, takin' gulps of gin
He don't realize that we all 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 playin' around, never lookin' ahead

Every funeral, cats get upset and they cry
Turn their heads to the sky, tryna ask God, "Why?"
But they never looked up 'til then
Every other day, concerned with the world and consumed in sin
Not Christ, just Heaven they want
They think clean means not tryna sling things out of the 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 and shared my life
So that you could see we all need Christ
I did it for you, if you can understand my pain (oh)
Maybe you could 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, and since Christ died for sin
I'll never be the same again (mhm), I did it for you

Young dude, I remember comin' home after school
Changin' channels from videos back to cartoons
Up late, talkin' on the phone under my bed
So Mama couldn't hear some of the things I said
And it wasn't all bad, but it wasn't all good
Even though Mama was doin' the best she could
I was a latchkey, home alone for hours
Entertaining my sin and my soul devour

Picked up by the cops at the age of 12
And not because my Mama didn't raise me well
I was a drug baby, big Mama 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?" And, "Why don't he come get me?"
And Mama under legalistic teachings and lies
So she beat me and she tell me it's to keep me alive

A typical youth, I mean, atypical youth
16, agnostic, and lookin' 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 knew the condemnation due to me
And I wish somebody would've told me then
What it meant to know Christ and to be born again

I did it for you, I opened up and shared my life
So that you could see we all need Christ
I did it for you, if you can understand my pain (oh)
Maybe you could 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, and since Christ died for sin
I'll never be the same again (mhm), I did it for you

They say Mac got saved and X is a Christian
Well, I don't really know 'em, but I pray they both listenin'
It's hard tryna 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 gots 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 a price for sin
Every lie I ever told, Christ died for them
See, I never knew that I offended God
I just knew I really wasn't tryna 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 tryna touch the mic
Yeah, so if you ask who I am spittin' this to
That's right, y'all, I did it for you, I did it for you
And if you ask who I have written this to
That's right, y'all, I did it for you

I did it for you, I opened up my life and shared my life
So that you could see we all need Christ
I did it for you, if you can understand my pain (oh)
Maybe you could 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, and since Christ died for sin
I'll never be the same again (mhm), I did it for you

I did it for you, I did it for you
So I can show you that His grace is right here for you
I did it for you, I did it for you
So I can show you that His grace is right here for you
Oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, I did it for you
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Mhm, oh, oh, oh, oh, I did it for you
Mhm

I did it for you
I did it for you, oh
I did it for you