Samba Gainde Diop

[Intro — Spoken]

Yeah...

Another day, another breath, another blessing.

Sometimes we get so caught up in what we don't have,

We forget to thank God for what we already do.

This one's from the heart.

[Verse 1]

Years came and went, still You blessed my life,

Waking up every morning, seeing another sunrise.

Smile on my face, got a reason to believe,

Still breathing in this world, that's a blessing I receive.

While some said goodbye, never got another day,

I'm still here standing, got another chance to pray.

Got food on my table, got a roof over my head,

While some are out there wondering how they'll be fed.

Got my health, got the strength to carry on,

Got the means to pay my bills when the month rolls on.

I ain't saying I'm better, I ain't claiming I'm the best,

I'm just counting my blessings, leaving God to handle the rest.

[Chorus — Melodic / Sung]

I'm thankful, Lord, for the life You gave,

For another morning, for another day.

For the food on my table, the roof over my head,

For the gift of tomorrow when I rise from bed.

I'm thankful, Lord, for the air I breathe,

For the unseen blessings that I don't always see.

I don't need to be richer, don't need to be above,

I'm thankful for Your mercy, I'm thankful for Your love.

[Verse 2]

Competition ain't here, I got nothing to prove,

I'm content with my blessings, got my own path to move.

I don't measure my worth by the things others own,

Everybody's got a journey, everybody's got their own.

No frustration, I don't compare my situation,

No anger in my heart, I refuse the negativity.

No anxiety, my mistakes have made me wise,

Every failure taught a lesson, every fall helped me rise.

I don't live on expectations of a handout from a friend,

I keep working, keep believing, let my faith help me transcend.

I accept what I can't change, learn from what went wrong,

Even when the road gets rough, I keep my spirit strong.

[Chorus — Melodic / Sung]

I'm thankful, Lord, for the life You gave,

For another morning, for another day.

For the food on my table, the roof over my head,

For the gift of tomorrow when I rise from bed.

I'm thankful, Lord, for the air I breathe,

For the unseen blessings that I don't always see.

I don't need to be richer, don't need to be above,

I'm thankful for Your mercy, I'm thankful for Your love.

[Verse 3 — Reflective]

I'm no better than the souls who struggle every day,

Nor more deserving than the ones who've lost their way.

Some are fighting battles that the world will never know,

Some keep planting seeds but never see their gardens grow.

So I walk with humility, no reason to boast,

For the things I value most aren't the things that cost the most.

I could never claim the credit for the blessings in my life,

For the strength to make it through the struggle and the strife.

You're the Master of the universe, the One above it all,

And I know that every season has a lesson in its call.

I won't judge another's journey by the place where they reside,

I'll be grateful for my blessings and show love along the ride.

[Bridge — Spoken / Sung]

No envy, no hatred, no need to compete,

A grateful heart makes a rich man out of me.

Not by the money, not by the things I own,

But by finding peace wherever I call home.

[Final Chorus — More Powerful]

I'm thankful, Lord, for the life You gave,

For another morning, for another day.

For the food on my table, the roof over my head,

For the gift of tomorrow when I rise from bed.

I'm thankful, Lord, for the air I breathe,

For the countless blessings that I don't always see.

I don't need to be richer, don't need to be above,

I'm thankful for Your mercy, I'm thankful for Your love.

[Outro — Spoken]

I'm thankful to be here.

Thankful to be healthy.

Thankful to be breathing.

No comparison. No competition. No reason to brag.

I'm not better than the next man.

I'm just grateful for what I've been given.

You're the Master of the universe, Lord.

And for everything I have...

I'm thankful.

Can't brag about anything.
By God's hands I made my achievements.
By God's hands my failures came.
Man born into fortune fails to keep his assets.
While man born into poverty keeps opening closed doors to secure a lavish life.
Can't brag about anything, things happen by His will.
Humility keeps the wise man from bragging about his success.
Empathy explains why the successful man gives back.
While arrogance is the reason why the successful man looks down at others.
Hatred makes a man hate his brother dragging him through hell.
Can't brag about anything.
It's by God's will we differ.
Not that some are better than others.
But by His desire for diversity.
Everything by His hand.
Diversity makes us more complete.
Can't brag about anything.
By God's hands, we achieve or fail.
He chooses who He wants to bless.
While deciding who walks through hardship.
Can't brag about anything.
Anything happens by His will.
For He is the one in control deciding if we'll laugh or cry.
Can't brag about anything.
I succeed or fail by His hands.

The thing that differentiate me from the rest is that everything I do, I do from the heart. Just like Jeezy.
Putting my actions to trial challenging anyone I ever crossed for personal gain.
Keeping it 100 with my word challenging anyone I ever lie to.
Meaning always what I say while always saying what I mean for it's rare to see people with these kind of standards nowadays.
Unlike men with desire to lead while they are wolves in sheep's clothing I can never deceive another soul.
Unlike politicians full of promises to solve problems they are quick to forget once elected.
Unlike preachers with promises of tickets to heaven while deceiving in the name of religions.
I do things from the heart.
I can never be deceiver nor can be a liar living from fortune obtained from crossing innocent souls.
The paths of living a life free of sins are paved by commandments from the Torah to the Quran passing through the Bible but common sense always served as direction for whoever wishing to play the game right.
Life being the toughest game men are called to play leaving some stranded in places and situations they never imagine.
Sweet or painful I take full responsibility for my actions even when they were influenced by external powers, divine or satanic understanding God test His children to measure their faith as the Devil plays games with the minds of poor souls for the purpose to lead them astray.
My angle of regret remaining nonexistent for everything I do, I do from my heart. Willing to accept whatever outcome I get from my actions understanding if my prayers weren't answered it's because the Lord has something greater in store for me.
Proud to claim this statement " Everything I do, I do from the heart" like Jeezy understanding sometimes catz and dogs labeled "thugs" are way more righteous than priests and so called men of God with villain intentions.

From heart beats about every second each making what we call life itself to a 24 hours cycle timing a day, 365 days to add up for a year and 100 of those to make it a century.

Life is a system of cycles which the frequency changes from one cycle to another and the reason to all that remain beyond our comprehension for only the Master of this Universe knows the WHY.

Since we agreed it’s a cycle of cycles, nobody would do anything that hasn’t already been done like Lauren Hill already found out and even a first time phenomena doesn’t contradict the rule for people always invent or do new stuff.

Fact remains that we are identical in term of mind, heart and structure to the people who lived before and the ones that would live after us but the only thing that change is time itself and when it does. It doesn’t leave anything intact turning young to old, strong to weak, beautiful to ugly, life to death and again the only thing that’s relevant in a cycle would be what’s engraved in it like Michael Jackson has marked the 21 century with his griffe forever.

As the days come and go and everything else, people are also recycled in a form of reincarnation although the famous caught the most our attention, in others words there is a sense of repetition in everything.

A better visual comes in a form of portrait that illustrates the real essence of life in a sense that we were created and then stored in a place beyond our knowledge and imagination awaiting our entrance and exit in life and again the order in which we were line up one after another depends on our character, personality, purpose and timing in life.

So prophets line up one after another, entertainers one after another. So on and so on but the position in terms of greatness in whatever we were made of is randomly chosen by the Creator of these so called cycles.

Therefore we should expect saints among us if not prophets, another Bob Marley, another Elvis Presley, another Einstein, leaders in the rank of Alexander the great, entertainers of all kind, hell raiser like 2pac cause he’s definitely coming back.

But mostly expect without a doubt Christ cause he’s on his way.

Been to hell and back after my hands went from clean to dirty when I have been thirsty. Shorty failing to satisfy my sexual appetite. I became lusful like dogs running around after chicks in the streets of Taipei.
When I commit the unforgivable and shorty being more vicious than a bit bull decreed the order for the kill and besides all the insanity I was in I decided to serve the sentence leaving my blood behind.
Can't never forget that day hugging for the last time my baby Rokia.
So from now on, when we ride. We always ride clean.
I was so remorseful that I didn't taste a woman for four years after that dramatic event in my life.
Moving slowly to let women be part of the game again for me. The search then for the right one to restart over with became long and sometimes expensive with bxxxxes like Arame who was a psycho and a gold digger at once. Always uncertain if starting over was the right thing to do I kept procrastinating until I met the woman that would change all that.
And then the horn was blown marking a new start when I decided to get married and start riding again safely.
So when we ride now. We always ride clean.

Never too inclined to entertainment games in general, always too serious for that.

I don't play games. Neither for fun nor to deceive.

So you when she shattered my life thinking like this is a game about whose most evil.

Laying in my convalescence bed my mind kept screaming within my own self consciousness: "She doesn't really know me.Playing with me like that. I don't play games. This isn't a game"

That's when I truly get DMX screaming out of his lungs into the mic: " This is not a game, this is not a game " always going deeper " most people that gave me love, end up taking it back "

That being in a lot of ways the history of my life and that's why I no longer trust easily.

Preferring proofs over credits before letting people enter my heart. Not that I don't give love genuinely to the common souls for the love of humanity but there is a perimeter in my heart only chosen ones can enter.

I don't play games neither for fun or to deceive.

Plenty cats and dogs out here wanting to be champions in deceiving others, some for fear to struggle in life. Others for only pure evil reasons for they are nothing but a bunch of wicked Satan's disciples.

I don't play games neither for fun nor to deceive for it isn't part of my habits and will never be.

I don't play games neither for fun nor to deceive.

I'm too real for that.

Die like everything and everyone that ever existed so I'm sitting in this chair asking myself what's life?

I do not even have recollection of all the things I did yesterday. Is everything meant to be forgotten as if our existence is only framed in the present.

I grow admiring my dad until he passes now that I'm a man still searching for answers to why we all have to go?

Is this real or a game that overpowers everything and everyone, why exist if we all have to go?

Life being a present while we're living it and promise again when we lose it .

Heaven or hell upon our conduct according to what we believe. Some believing in good others in evil both we get know and chose from.

Some to act accordingly for fear of God and the love they have for the next man while others chose to break all the rules by selling their souls to the devil for fear to struggle like the rest.

Either you were born unfortunate or a silver spoon in your mouth the process don't change, there's time you need others to make it and time you got to return the favor whether you chose to do it with your heart or not.

We were in the nil and shall return in it so we can only pray for our love ones and all the people who have contributed to make life easier.

If the opposite of life is death both present every single second, why enjoy one and fearful of the other if it's not once again one is associated with happiness while the other inspires nothing but fear and sadness.

So loving one and despising the other while accept it would be the proper attitude of an subject faced to a ruthless master leading to the ultimate question " does God care about people or what is the purpose of creating people and killing them or even why life if we all have to go?"

I was already with the dead ones when you blew a second breath to my life reviving me from the dead after I was convinced that life wasn't no longer worth living without her.
Not just once but God decided to keep me alive twice after I was determined to exit this world because I couldn't no longer be with her.
Not getting the picture the Lord was drawing I was quick to throw the towel tired of cleaning after other people messes but God you didn't give up on me making sure I get the proper training to forever be ready for anything that arise tomorrow.
Thank God, master of universe your plan may not always be the one we want but it is surely the one that brings salvation to our ignorant souls for you put every one of your generals to the most rigorous tests. Ones if they succeed in passing they'll be forever invincible soldiers.
Coming from the dead, the journey for recovery was filled with struggles because not that I'm a weak being but because my biggest handicap affecting my mind shattered by the strengths of depression so severe resulting in suicidal ideation and I know the common souls were quick to judge. You made the illness but also came up the remedy in my case it is your determination not to give up on me, always saving me from myself.
Thank God for being my savior and loving me and making sure I'm trained like a good soldier.
You put Christ to the ultimate test so it is only normal that every loved one sustain scars from the tests we came out victorious and I can't never doubt your love cause you blessed with me a good life besides all the challenges.
God, I'm forever grateful for you granting me a second breath to life. Life so precious that all the sick souls would give everything to have a normal one.