Pray We Make It Out

Chorus

Write it all down

Write it all down in this letter from the Jax

I keep a smile just to cover up the cracks

Watching the vultures just circle for the snacks

I pray we make it (Make it)

I pray we make it out for real this time

Before the law man make us pay for every crime

Post-Chorus

For real this time

Yeah for real this time

Oh oh

Verse 1

Mama stay crying bout the news on the screen

Told her keep praying for her baby in the middle of this mess

My brother caught a decade in a cold gray room

Life moving fast like a highway zooming

Too many funerals for friends who were barely grown

Picking out suits for the caskets we known

Tired of the sirens

Tired of the violence

Living in the dark while we searching for the sun

Pre-Chorus

I tell 'em I'm straight but I'm bending

Keeping it real never pretending

Feeling the weight of the city

Nothing but pain and it's gritty

Chorus

Write it all down

Write it all down in this letter from the Jax

I keep a smile just to cover up the cracks

Watching the vultures just circle for the snacks

I pray we make it (Make it)

I pray we make it out for real this time

Before the law man make us pay for every crime

Verse 2

Stabbing my back while they shaking my hand

Funny how money change the plans of a man

Lost three brothers in a single summer heat

Blood on the pavement in the middle of the street

Thinking bout the days when we didn't have a dime

Wondering if the struggle was a symptom or a crime

Used to share the bed now I'm sleeping in a king

Wishing I could buy back the peace that I lost

Staring at the ceiling while I count up the cost

Count up the cost

Count up the cost

Pre-Chorus

I tell 'em I'm straight but I'm bending

Keeping it real never pretending

Feeling the weight of the city

Nothing but pain and it's gritty

Chorus

Write it all down

Write it all down in this letter from the Jax

I keep a smile just to cover up the cracks

Watching the vultures just circle for the snacks

I pray we make it (Make it)

I pray we make it out for real this time

Before the law man make us pay for every crime

Hook

Rain falling down (Falling down)

Mama don't frown (Don't you frown)

Jax on my back

Pain in my crown

I'm just trying to make it

Just trying to make it