Every Cloud Has a Silver Line

I know it may be hard to see it at first
But every cloud has a silver lining

I been through the worst now I'm the best inside
Always keeping faith and put the rest aside
Now I use my tests to make em testify
Bugged by the hate but my love be the pesticide
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line

I just won the fight of my life
Paying the price of living right almost cost me life
Its never easy to trust when it gets harder and harder
To stay out of jail man I was praying to the father
Staying focused on the future of my sons and my daughters
So I started going at heads like the boy was a barber
The more that she lied the more that they caught her
Generational mistakes but the past never taught her
Everyday I had to swallow my pride
Going to sleep with them tears in my eyes
Feeling defeated the more that I tried
Got easy to see it the more that I cried
Had what I needed but low on supply
Sending the message but got no reply
Hopin to die
Broken inside
Made to survive
What I spoke came alive
I lost everything except patience
Handing over my paper like I needed someone to grade it
Feeling hated
By the ones that I loved the most
Now I got it back with the bread so let's make a toast

I been through the worst now I'm the best inside
Always keeping faith and put the rest aside
Now I use my tests to make em testify
Bugged by the hate but my love be the pesticide
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line

I'm black so I'm guilty until I'm proven innocent
But God's magnificence brought significance to my indifference
Dying to live again everyday I had a funeral
Incontinent when pissed off the microphone became my urinal
They mistake my kindness for weakness when I'm being merciful
Personalized attacks but I never took it personal
Had to humble myself and put my wrist up in the handcuffs
I'm over sitting down it's understood when I stand up
I'm just made to stand out
Won't looking for no hand out
But God worked his plan out
I'm just who I am now
They just want this man down
But they can't take me out, take me out, take me out, take me out no
I got hit from all angles
Never pledge to flag if it got stars spangled
This land of the free is designed to put you in debt
But when you rich in faith God will put your name on a check

I been through the worst now I'm the best inside
Always keeping faith and put the rest aside
Now I use my tests to make em testify
Bugged by the hate but my love be the pesticide
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line
Dry your eyes, see the sky, every cloud has a silver line

I made it, you hate it
Yeah I made it, know you hate it
Say I made it, you hate it
Yeah I made it, know you hate it
So I'm safe in his arms
Forever
Say I'm safe in his arms
Say I'm safe in his arms
Forever

Listen, moment of silence
Just close your mouth and let you heart listen

The most beautiful people treat you the ugliest
And what's meant to be easy is often times the most troubling
I graduated after patience became my subject
My private praise brought God glory in the public
When it came down to it he was like the only friend I really had
In court I listened to my kids refer to me as their other dad
When in fact for the past few years I was like the only parent that they really had
That type of hurt will make you really sad
Not to mention someone who is not even a man claiming to be a real dad
It don't make sense but that foolishness will make you real mad
Cuz I was the one that they cried to
After they had been lied to
Protected them I tried to
Like a male lion in a pride do
Who can I speak my mind to?
I must be destiny's child based on all that I survived through
I could've died from the stories but I kept living it
My all I kept giving it, bleeding without a period tryna breath through the sentences
They didn't care what it could do to me
But it wasn't new to me
Through the scrutiny God had something to prove to me
The story was twisted, but the righteous prevailed over the wicked
When no one else did God listened
now I'm forever gifted
Amen