Dear destiny, please be sweet to me
Give me hope, give me life
Dear destiny, please be good to me
Give me hope, give me life

In the back of my mind, I can see me
Riding around in the car with the TV
I never had much had to be me
And since my daddy wasn't there to teach me

How to be a man, how to be a man
Code of genetics, I'ma turn to him
Only goal, I strive to be better than
Make it easy for my son, stay a step ahead, yeah

So I'm painting you a picture
I barely roll a J, but I'm buying me a Swisher
I hardly even smoke while my lungs getting bigger
Trying not to choke, but they staring at a n***a

When I ain't even bout that life
When he asks me to smoke, I just nod back twice
Just tryna fit in, truth is, I ain't nothing like him
Dear destiny, please be sweet to me

Give me hope, give me life
Dear destiny, please be good to me
Give me hope, give me life
Riding on the train where I first saw her

Shorty so bad, can't ignore
Up the steps she went, I'm like, what's your name
Reply with mine, I was 19
She say she finish school, I'm like, college

Damn, what you must be like a doctor
Say she graduated double major, which is crazy, have me lying
Saying that I studied communications, still in high school
Who would ever knew, the woman at the station would soon say I do

Same year, early that November
Carrying my son is all I remember
Now I'm married to a stranger that I barely got to date
Try and be faithful, with a lack of faith

Growing fast three years deep
Trying not to sink, regret covers my feet
Dear destiny, please be sweet to me
Give me hope, give me life

Dear destiny, please be good to me
Give me hope, give me life
Tattoos, cuffs, scars
So sad thoughts, such soft sad thoughts

Sitting here alone, please pray for me
Hoping that tomorrow I'll bring a better day for me
Tattoos, cuffs, scars
So sad thoughts, such soft sad thoughts

Sitting here alone, please pray for me
Hoping that tomorrow I'll bring a better day for me
Life, I know it's so little
Little brother lifestyle, feel like I can't feel you

It feels like, it's just me and these rhymes
Overtime Sims, don't bother keeping time
Sister was the last to leave, before I
Brother moved to Philly, got married a second time

And I'm still stuck in my first
Looking at my son keeps me from divorce
Marriage like a curse, it's probably why I curse
Why I ain't been to church, I'm probably at my worst

Like, if there's a real God set me free
I know you hear God, but do you hear me
Back on my knees, I gave you my word
But it's not for me, I vow eternity

Well if death do us part then
Then pull the trigger please
Please be close to me
Please be sweet to me

Give me hope
Give me life
If death do us part then
Please be close to me

Give me hope
Give me life