Keep Holding On - Slum Village, Melanie Rutherford

Waddup?

Feelin’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 Yo

I know I might sound like I got a cold and I’m sneezing

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 widowed and I’m breathin'

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 readin’is the songs to my freedom

But life can be known as deceiving, what I’m shown isn’t pleasing

Makes me wanna throw stones at a deacon in his home when he preachin'

See that’s Satan makin’my heart cold as a breeze till it’s frozen from freezin'

Gotta get right, I might not make it over this evening

Cause your time period is shorter than breath goin’from weazen

Heard my nigga?

Tone?, he was bleedin’through his clothes

it was leakin’from some chromes that was squeezen

Than when I’m all alone I be thinkin’I’m against All Eyez

prayin’to God to show me the evens

But I’m sick of bein’poked through the seasons

smokin dro through the drinkin’with two hoes through the weekend

About to go till I see?

Life can sometimes be so hard to bare

When you feel like there’s no one who cares

There are times you feel all hope is gone

Don’t loose faith and just keep holding on («and on"echoes)

But sometimes I feel alone in these streets

against the cold of these streets my heart and soul on these streets

I lost my mom so I hold to a piece of a place

Dead a time when we both inner-twined

It was love for a fatherless son

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

I was sat on a porch till the mail come

and when it came it never was a letter of my name (damn)

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 (whispered)

Yeah

You gotta keep holdin’on you gotta keep keep holdin’on keep holdin’on

Just keep holdin’on you gotta keep keep holdin’on keep holdin’on yo Keep holdin’on you gotta keep keep holdin’on keep holdin’on