Dedication, hard work plus patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm done waitin' I'm done waitin', told you that I wasn't playin' Now you hear what I been sayin', dedication Look, my nigga this is dedication This is anti-hesitation This a real nigga

I'm learning all about my life By looking through her eyes She never really had a chance On that fateful moonlit night Sacrificed without a fight A victim of a circumstance Now that I've become aware And I've exposed this tragedy A sadness grows inside

There is no forever, just today Don't let your sacrifice waste away Insinuations of what might be Trading life for life It all must fall It must end with us It must end with me Fight through deprivation There will be no sleep

No sacrifice at all Cold, cold heart Hard done by you Some things look better, baby Just passing through And it's no sacrifice Just a simple word It's two hearts living In two separate worlds

But now I'm dead in the water Time washing over Where are you now? You know it weighs me down Pressure building all around You said you'd never let me drown The sacrifice Sinking till I'm out of sight You said you'd bring me back to life

The proceedings seem so painful But now that I know And so slow, slow, slow And so slow What I give is what I will take I gave love - I won't take no wait I say : love love love - universally Love love love I was given as a sacrifice

Why I never walked away Why I played myself this way Now I see your testing me pushes me away The sacrifice of hiding in a lie The sacrifice is never knowing Everything falls apart Even the people who never frown eventually break down Everything has to

All we ever sacrificed has paid, Found everything that I had to take away, All our lives, Save it all and make a better way, Everything, Everything is possible to me, Save your life,

I made sacrifices, I been ballin' ever since And I'm convinced We seein' so many blessin's, shit don't make no sense Someone watchin' over us, so shout goes out to him Yeah, I'm convinced Someone watchin' over us, so shout goes out to Yeah, I did some

Soon we will be gone A free will sacrifice As free men we are born And free we shall die See them gathered on the plains now See an army strong and vast As long as one of us remains here None of them will ever pass Here they come so raise the shields high