Hold Me Down - DMX, Alicia Keys

Hold me down

Hold me down

Even when the rain falls

Hold me down

Hold me down

I’m just so thankful

Every day gets darker, the road gets longer

My body gets weaker, my faith gets stronger

The devil’s working on me hard because God loves me

As long as I’m in his grace it’s gon' get ugly

But only he can judge me so what another motherfucker say don’t matter

So I avoid the chatter, that way I ain’t gotta splatter with the rat-tat-tatas

Watch what you say or you gon' wish you had’a

Check a nigga data, ain’t naan nigga battled

With the mic and the dog, from rights and the wrongs

Still bite and go hard, spazz to the left

And with the last of my breath I beat that ass to death

Hold me down

Hold me down

Even when the rain falls

Hold me down

Hold me down

I’m just so thankful

I’m pulled in opposite directions, my life’s in conflict

That’s why I spit words that depict a convict

Man, if you not able to see what I’m sayin' to you then you not able to be

It’s like reading the Bible to a baby

Some of y’all will get it but most of y’all will think I’m crazy

But I ain’t never gave a fuck about what you think

What you think don’t matter, you think your shit don’t stink

Man, it hurts when people I love don’t want me

Want it all from me, then think they can judge me

Treat me like I’m ugly

I done did some dumb shit but I ain’t never been a dummy

'Cause I know God loves me

Hold me down

Even when the rain falls

Hold me down

Hold me down

I’m just so grateful

Hold me down

Hold me down

Hold me down

Hold me down

Even when the rain falls

Hold me down

I’m just so grateful

Nobody, nobody’s gonna take me down

Hold me down

'Cause I went through it all

Hold me down

Hold me down

Hold me down

Nobody, nobody’s gonna take me down

Hold me down

Oh Lord

You wanna know how I survive

And it’s all because of you

And I’m just so grateful