It's like say swear 2 God 2 atheist 

Facin the clouds why I'm lookin to the sky 
hopin to be seen by a God figure 
buildin with a percent of who took his last and looked me in my eye and said 
I'm looking for God, your God nigga, damn 
God body, God mody, God what did I do to slidy 
what it shakes the, what was seen by Christ light 
double shows the signs death the images of this quick success
to game this fell into rap and same old hour into tack 
tack not strange except this stranger on the corner except 
change except corner niggas diams anything to help
down only way is up, up only way is down 
rich taking richy why the poor continue stayin down 
I contemplate and concentrate, why we settle for section 8 
the lunch and crimes that we ate for dinner date for roach and.. 
they creepin croll the night will fall despite us all 
they say God loves us despite our falls 

Hook:
Sometimes I feel like man I wasn't made for this 
I grew up in the city that's the shadiest 
I grew up in the city that's the craziest 
it's like sayin swear 2 God 2 an atheist, swear 2 God  
swear 2 God 2 an atheist, I swear 2 God 
I say I swear 2 God 2 an atheist, swear 2 God 
times man I feel like I ain't made for this 
it's like sayin swear 2 God 2 an atheist.

So why you're ballin at the plaza 
kids 2 and 3 dot every day out in Gaza 
civil wars in caro and the buildings burn like piro 
and the..are fighting for survival 
the  priest follow sandasky and a drunk bishop say trust me 
and I feel before religion stinks bad it's musty 
survives from height that's survivors well maybe 
in the port of princes so the tense and violence well maybe 
my city acting third world 'cause the violence is a constant 
and the violence is just nonsense 30  mow cities full of projects 
and the police treat us like subjects 
in the moment we say f*ck it they say f*ck it and they kill us Oscar
grand, rest in peace 

Hook:
Bra, sometimes I feel like man I wasn't made for this 
I grew up in the city that's the shadiest 
I grew up in the city that's the craziest 
it's like sayin swear 2 God 2 an atheist, swear 2 God  
swear 2 God 2 an atheist, I swear 2 God 
I say I swear 2 God 2 an atheist, swear 2 God 
times man I feel like I ain't made for this 
it's like sayin swear 2 God 2 an atheist.

Truth be told if they ever told the truth 
Alex Hayley show their true hearts 
in the movie roots tryin to given black thought 
but they don't wanna learn their roots 
all my life I've been pow, take off my head 
cities now been roots, shoe fully this is me the message I can bay 
but take a survey, someone say na, someone say ney
rose in the bay, who know if they 
who know if they know my conscious this is like a conscious gift 
the consciousness is like the conscious gift 
but consciousness is coincidence 
life that I've been living that's why I'll be on the bullshit 
that's why all these songs go slide the way 
but no I'm not ashamed over nothing I did 
'cause what I did helped me take care of my kids 
you did 
but true fully, honestly if I was getting deep 
I'll be somewhere like a tale
nt Kweli 
and I just say that 'cause I was the famous line by Jay Z, shit 
you're gonna ask my brodi KWEli
here tell you that I am deeper than that 
I just got call it with the evils threat for the stacks 
had to do what I had to do