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letra de pimp tide - james cook

lead vocal, spoken-sung with conviction)
the game is a scripture,the street is the pew
and every lesson learned,i’m givin’ back to you
i took a lost soul,shiverin’ in the night
taught her how to channel the city’s hungry light
now her worth is a number,her hustle is a prayer
and my commission on her faith is the burden that i bear
(spoken ad-lib):it’s a cycle, you see? a divine economy…

(choir responds – call & response)
lead:i’m just a shepherd…
choir:(sung, rich harmony) for the stray lambs!
lead:collectin’ the offering…
choir:(powerful swell) on the pimp’s tide!
lead:so the bentley can glide…
choir:(whisper-to-crescendo) amen… amen… amen…

(chorus – lead vocal melody emerges, choir supports with harmonies)
hoes gotta pay the pimp tide,it’s a holy law
so my vision stays 20/20 behind the versace flaw
the mink is my vestment,the rollie tells the time
for another soul i rescued from the gutter and the grime
this whole life’s a testimony,can i get a witness? (choir: witness!)
fundin’salvation on a bedrock of business. (choir: yeah!)
all (lead & choir together):the tide rolls in… the tide rolls in…
(verse 2)
the crocodile boots tread on hallowed ground
the tailor-made suit,for the prophet newly crowned
i need ice out,rolex, not for vanity’s sake
but so the doubters see the blessings that a strong hand make
this cuban link a rosary,i kiss it when i think
of all the tender mercies,saved from the brink
i’m a living,breathing parable in gucci and in grace
showin’love through discipline to every single face in my fold…

(choir interlude – gospel run)
ooooooh, the river flows…
from the bottom to the top, everybody knows…
the tide must come in… (must come in!)
for the rain to begin… (let it rain!)

(bridge – music strips back to piano & lead vocal, intimate)
some call it exploitation,i call it a exchange
i provide the vision,the purpose, and the name
the shelter from the chaos,a doctrine that is plain
from the shadow to the spotlight,through the window pane
of a phantom or a wraith…it’s the same god we praise
just different kinds of crosses through these different kinds of days

(choir builds behind him)
different days… (different days!)
different ways… (teach us, teacher!)
all your praise… (all your praise!)
(full gospel explosion – chorus reprise)
lead & choir (triumphant):
hoes gotta pay the pimp tide!(pay the tide!)
it’s a natural law!(it’s a law!)
so the bentley can glide on twenty-fives of raw!(glory!)
this coat of many minks,this cross of gold i bear
is a testimony
to the fact
that i
was
there!
the tide rolls in!(rolls in!) the tide rolls in! (rolls in!)

(outro – music fades to just choir and organ)
choir:(singing softly, repeating)
tides roll in… pimp’s tide…
tides roll out… holy drought…
tides roll in… again…
(repeat, fading into a single sustained organ chord and the sound of distant, jingling keys or a car ignition starting.)

- james cook

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