Underneath

[Intro: Jered Sanders]
Sometimes the hardest records to write be
The records where you got up to show people your scars, you know what I'm saying
Sometimes you gotta tell em where you came from
'Cause it ain't always been rosy
Let's talk real quick

[Verse 1: Jered Sanders]
Yo!
What do you see when you look in the eyes of a grown man without his life together
Do you measure all my flaws or maybe my wicked thoughts
Never check the progress in all the ties I severed
Back when I was on a shattered path, living off a nickel bag money
Tryna triple that, Gift of Gab, brick or half money
Get a zipper slab money
And wishing for both
And not a rapper pitch me some coke, then fishing for hope
It's real
And man, I had a couple of buddies they was jacking huffies
Lil' ragga muffies, they was gassing like the path for thuggery
Was way better than my lil' nickel past the custies
But being these and petty thugging led them back in cuffies
Hitting up they momma 'cause they got a checkered past, it's ugly
And when the coppers going lock 'em they ain't half as lucky
And they ain't gracious if you sagging with a matching skully
I turn my back 'cause, homie, sinning ain't the path to luxury, real

[Hook: Eris Ford]
It took a long time to love who I am
Despite how I was or how I used to be
But if you look through the eyes of my God
You too will love all I am underneath

[Verse 2: Jered Sanders]
Yo!
Man, I remember living off my last dollar
Grubbing on a wishing a prayer, knowing the cash proper
Weren't the same as back when I was making mad cheddar
Wasn't never bad weather, getting bread up off a brass popper
'Cause they was rolling off or thumping on the West End
If the sticky had a little stubble, get a best friend
To bring you in a frat house
Treat you like the next kins
Some paper in a couple hours, get another text in; yo
But when the hotline blinging ain't what it used to be
And 9-to-5 better than 25 for moving keys
Up in the cell I ain't never better than moving free
Look up to God and er'day He been renewing me
I'ma testify to let you know that He using me
Turned my heart on, now I'm seeing it more beautifully
He told me, homie, either live for you or die for me
I wanted heaven after Reverend read the eulogy

[Hook: Eris Ford]
It took a long time to love who I am
Despite how I was or how I used to be
But if you look through the eyes of my God
You too will love all I am underneath

[Verse 3: Jered Sanders]
Yo!
Yo!
What do you happen to think of a lad who had the whole world reaching
Back in the ache of his past lethal but equally mad evil
Preaching a tad mad see through
Believing I ain't even as bad as the bad people, we grew
Up admiring, we knew
Wasn't firing up a Backwood
Of bringing down a black hood
And I wasn't jacking for habit only trying to mack good
Flicking in traffic see the paper stack good
See the love of money never seemed to make a brother happy as a prayer life
Living for the world always checking for what theirs like
Racing to the top but homie I'ma take the stairs like
Eternal life and that's a fair price, praise God
And I be bigging up the boss with this sight of mine
And I be carrying my cross with this might of mine
'Cause He ain't turn the flicker off with the vital signs
That's why I'm lifting up the lost with this light of mine

[Hook: Eris Ford]
It took a long time to love who I am
Despite how I was or how I used to be
But if you look through the eyes of my God
You too will love all I am underneath

[Bridge: Eris Ford]
You still love me underneath, oh
Through the good and the bad
Through the happy or sad
You still love me, yeah, yeah
You still love me

[Sample]
"Shout if he's ever taken anything from you! Now in the name of God's Christ, let him know, inform your adversary that war has been declared, and you're about to make him suffer the consequences..."