Dear God is a song where Dudley talks to God, sings about getting high and raps about the misled children from the hood over catchy production by Madlib.
[Part I: Dear God]
Dear God
Divine Spirits
I come to you as a humble servant
As I experience your creations
[Verse 1]
Oh Lord!
Why’d you take my sunshine away?
Why’d you have to darken my days?
Is this the last days?
The end of all our wicked ways?
Yeah (Come on, Come on)
Dear God
On my knees is how I pray
But the pain won’t go away, hey
It hurts more each day
But it won’t take my faith away, no
Divine Light
Don’t you see how I fight for what’s right?
Even while I’m sleeping at night
In my dreams, you’re holding me tight (tight, yeah)
Dear Lord, use me as your light, a glorious light
If that’s alright? If not, I’ll be okay
I know your love is real
Forever and a day
[Interlude]
Look out for my nephew, Marlin, he needs it right now
In fact a lot of people need it right now
But you look out for them in a way
Y’all know this
I see this
(Dear God, Dear God)
[Verse 2]
Dear God
They say, “Why does he does he say the things that he says?"
Maybe I’m just lost in my head
Maybe I’m just better off dead
And so what it said
Divine light, this song is for you
Thank you for everything that you do
Every breath that I take
Dear God
Watch over all my enemies, my friends and family
Those who rest in peace, look out for my little niece
Yeah
Dear God
Let your love flow through me
Be the man you made me to be
Spread light for the whole world to see
Dear God, Dear God
[Interlude: Dudley Perkins & 'God']
Dear God
'Yes Dudley'
I need to ask you just one more question
'Speak boy'
You see, I been into this habit
'Go on'
And It’s- kinda become an expensive habit
'Mhm'
Lot of my friends and family tell me this is wrong, this habit
'Hmm'
But it can’t be wrong
'What is this habit?'
This thing you call Marijuana, come on now
'Yes'
Came from a seed, planted in your Earth (No hold on me, No hold on me)
'I know this, I know this'
You see Carrots don't
'Yes you do'
But until it’s taken from me, I think I shall remain high (No hold on me)
[Part II: I Want To Get High]
[Refrain]
I want to get high
So when the rain comes down
I won’t feel a thing
Tell me how to get by
Because I try and try
To get things right
But not the first time
No hold on me
There’s no hold on me
There’s no hold on me
(No hold on me)
[Chorus]
Now what I want y’all to do for me
Is clap your hands and stomp your feet, like that
Now clap your hands and stomp your feet
Clap your hands and stomp your feet
Clap your hands and stomp your feet
Clap your hands and stomp your feet
I think y’all got it (there's no hold on me)
Come on
[Refrain]
I want to get high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
So when the rain comes down
I won’t feel a thing
Tell me how to get by
Because I try and try
To get things right
But not the first time
Just let me be free
You’ve got no hold on me
No hold on me, yeah
No hold on me, yeah
[Verse 3]
Free like the mind’s third eye
I just can’t wait
No hold on me
No hold on me
I just can’t wait
There’s no hold on me
I wan’t to get high
C’mon, yeah c’mon, yeah c’mon
So when the rain comes down, I won’t feel a thing
[Part III: Misled]
Yeah
Turn it up, some
Turn it-Turn it up, yeah
T-Turn it up
T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up a little more
Turn it-Turn it up
T-Turn it up
T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up
T-T-Turn it up, little more
[Verse 4]
Started from a block that was good, till it turned hood
So I turned hood
Never come across my path, understood?
Young brother living fast, unstoppable
Knock on wood
Wrong colour on my corner, wish you would
Dope deal, hood kills, Unreal
Baseheads were still
Made you feel, like you was trapped with one way in and no way out
Doing dirty deeds just to gain clout
Uh, It was all about blue and red
Enemies found dead
John Doe fo’ sho’
Million dunna and so much more
Uh, it just wasn’t me
I need to take leave
Never follow, by a nigga misled (misled)
[Verse 5]
(Misled, yeah)
It just wasn’t me
It just wasn’t me
I need to take leave
Never follow dying hollow pointless man
By all the bodies found dead, face flat
Like my main nigga
Popped in the back for a little less than a weed sac
Fade to black
Life in Iraq
My cousin Joe dead and even though 12 wanna die
Someone’s at the front door
One shot, my homies is all I got
And you think your block was hot
I think not
'Cause you can get got
You can be dead
Big ass bullet through your head
By a little nigga 13, misled
Front page yeah this is what it said
[Hook]
When lost child, lost child
You a warrior
Kill him for the glory, Uh
Days will be short
You in the wrong fort
There’s just ain’t no justice in court
You can’t get ahead if you dead
[Hook x2]
Lost child, lost child
You a warrior
Kill him for the glory, Uh
Days will be short
You in the wrong fort
There’s no justice in court
You can’t get ahead if you dead
(Misled, Misled)
[Outro]
I know, I was like that myself, wildin’ out
I be wildin’ out, just wildin’ out
Young front wildin’ out
Dear God was written by Declaime & Dudley Perkins.
Dear God was produced by Madlib.
Dudley Perkins released Dear God on Tue Apr 18 2006.