Praying Mantis - Eric Biddines

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Eric Biddines on a beat made by Danny D

If you feeling how the vibe is now

Listen close with your ears they’ll become you eyes

Listen close with your ears they’ll become your eyes

Back with another one story of a mother who

Single parent raising babies in a single room

Have no idea how she gone make it barely pushing through

She hardly make enough to pay the rent and it’s reduced

Sister you don’t know the challenge when you’re worth it

The devil put you under surveillance for a purpose

But you gone flourish I can feel it

That carpet that you cry upon one to lift your spirit

And these bills don’t never stop accumulating

And it’s a gamble when you filling out applications

The third time this week you don’t really want to eat the ramen noodles you

making

The only thing you can really do is pray

The only thing you can really do is pray

Yeah

Bow your head

We taking chances

Whenever we take glances

Out the window pain but we ain’t praying like the mantis

We step on ants and spray the cockroaches

Not their fault where they look for food

The place we call our home it’s

Hard being good when you accepted

The shit that come out our mouths we cover Chloraseptic

For when I shout out I hope the lord protect me

Carry that umbrella when it’s raining kinda hectic

I once was him who used to travel with no gas

Ignore the blinking light I said I get there if I had

I know it’s hope for each and every person lately

I been feeling like it’s more to life than just complaining

Forgot bout praying

Forgot bout love

Forgot what I was supposed to write about on this here song

And these bills don’t never stop accumulating

And it’s a gamble when you filling out applications

The third time this week you don’t really want to eat the ramen noodles you

making

The only thing you can really do is pray

The only thing you can really do is pray

Back with another one student try to finish school

Said he don’t qualify to get the help he needed so

He work a 9−5 and overtime for minimum

No benefits he don’t complain that’s what he gotta do

One day he get a check up saying he got cancer

Around the time his doctor say insurance cancelled

There goes his savings now he coming out of pocket

No way to pay tuition now to go to college

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