Keep Holding On

[Intro: Elzhi]

Wutupdoe

Feeling a little under the weather today

But I had some stuff to get off my chest, you know

Now, what I'm about to say to y'all

I might had never said to the general public

So y'all gotta hear me, yo

Feel me

[Verse 1: Elzhi]

I know I might sound like I got a cold and I'm sneezin'

But I'm grown and I'm breathin', hear the tone in my speakin'

Both of my parents gone for a reason

Daddy's wrong just for leaving

Mother moved on and I'm grievin'

Now spirits above the stones and the demons

She belongs in the teachin' where there's a throne in the kingdom

And deep inside my bones I'm believin'

That my poems that I'm reading is the songs to my freedom

But life can be known as deceivin', what I'm shown isn't pleasin'

Makes me wanna throw stones at a deacon

In his home when he preaching

See, that's Satan making my heart cold as a breeze

'Til it's frozen from freezin'

Gotta get right, I might not make it over this evenin'

'Cause your time period is shorter than breath going from wheezin'

Heard my nigga Tone, he was bleedin' through his clothes, it was leakin'

From some chromes that was squeezin'

Then when I'm all alone, I be thinkin' I'm against all odds

Prayin' to God to show me the evens

But I'm sick of being poor through the seasons

Smoking dro through the drinking

With two hoes through the weekend

Bout to go 'til I see

[Chorus: Melanie Rutherford]

Life can sometimes be so hard to bear

When you feel like there's no one who cares

There are times you feel all hope is gone

Don't lose faith and just keep holding on and on and on

Keep holding on and on and on

[Verse 2: T3]

But sometimes I feel alone in these streets

It gets cold in these streets, my heart and soul on these streets

I lost my mom so I hold to a piece

Of a place of a time when we both intertwined

It was love for a fatherless son

Although he had love for a son, visits were none to seldom

I would sit on a porch 'til the mail come

And when it came, there never was a letter with my name

But Moms was there for me

She held it down 'cause she cared for me

She never left, even in her last path where she slept

Next to death, she was always at her best, never stressed

That's why I love her

[Chorus: Melanie Rutherford]

Life can sometimes be so hard to bear

When you feel like there's no one who cares

There are times you feel all hope is gone

Don't lose faith and just keep holding on and on and on

Keep holding on and on and on

[Bridge: Slum Village & Melanie Rutherford]

You gotta keep holding on

You gotta keep, keep holding on, keep holding on

Just keep holding on

You gotta keep, keep holding on, keep holding on, yo

Keep holding on, you gotta keep

Keep holding on, keep holding on

[Chorus: Melanie Rutherford]

Life can sometimes be so hard to bear

When you feel like there's no one who cares

There are times you feel all hope is gone

Don't lose faith and just keep holding on and on and on

Keep holding on and on and on