Soul To Take

(album: What Had Happened Was… - 2022)

You're beautiful (You dig?)
You're beautiful (Can you dig it?)
Yeah

Now I lay (Now I lay)
Down to sleep (Down to sleep)
Pray the Lord (Oh, Lord)
My soul to keep (Keep my soul)
If I die (If I should die)
Before I wake (Before I get up)
Pray the Lord (Oh, Lord)
My soul to take me higher (High)
Higher than I've ever been before
Me high
Yeah

I realized some time ago (What?)
That you can never really find a ho
She gotta come to you (Peace, peace)
I said, "What's up?" with a tone like King Tut
She said, "Hello," with a purr, she was flee as fuck
She said, "I thought that was you," I was me as fuck
Yeah, right on, yeah
I'm in the flesh, you in the flesh, but where your head at?
Is you the type to entice and not text back?
You the type that be like, "Where the bread at?"
Better get that money, baby (I mean)
Money make the girl, money make the world
You already know
Just how can I see your vision if our waves are off?
How you gon' feel me for my words if you gon' say it all?
Who are you to speculate if I get paid at all?
Worry 'bout what you getting paid (Don't worry 'bout that)
I mean, shit, it look like you charge by the hour, I mean, you know what I'm sayin'?

And I'm not good at keeping tabs
Partially 'cause my memory's bad
And I didn't put you in my memory's stash
Ooh
I said, ooh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, darling
Sweet baby
Fabulous, my brother and sister

Now I lay (Now I lay)
Down to sleep (Down to sleep)
Pray the Lord (Oh, Lord)
My soul to keep (Keep my soul)
If I die (If I should die)
Before I wake (Before I get up)
Pray the Lord (Oh, Lord)
My soul to take me higher (High)

Two hours later