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Below are the transcripts, organized alphabetically for video works featured in Prisoner of Love.

And she says, “Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry.” I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway, dead giveaway.

I’m tryna keep my faith

  • We on an ultralight beam
  • We on an ultralight beam
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream
  • This is everything

    • This is everything

    Mmmm, I’m tryna keep my faith

  • Deliver us serenity
  • Deliver us peace
  • Amazing…

    • Deliver us loving

    …Grace

    You know we need it

  • The description doesn’t fit
  • It’s not a synonym of minutes

    • Then forget it and turn

  • That’s why we need you now, oh I
  • Pray for Paris
  • Pray for the parents
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream
  • We on an ultralight beam
  • We on an ultralight beam
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream

    • This is everything

    Everything (Thing, thing, thing)

    The mundane Afro preachers recognize that you’re not aliens

    I’m trying to keep my faith

    Mommy!

    Joaquin, stop, stop, stop.

    Mommy! Wake up!

    Stop.

    But I’m looking for more

  • Deliver us serenity
  • Deliver us peace
  • Deliver us loving
  • We know we need it
  • Lord knows we need it
  • You know we need it

    • You know we need it

    That’s why we need you now, oh, I

  • Teach me how to dougie
  • Aye
  • They be like smooth
  • What?
  • Can you teach me how to dougie?
  • You know why?

    • Cause all the girls love me

    She said, “Somethin’ ain’t right.” I said, “Ahh, man.” She said, “Aww, man, the building is on fire.”

    I got my kids and we bouncin’.

  • This is a God dream

    • This is a God dream

    I been dreamin’, I been dreamin’

  • We on an ultralight beam
  • We on an ultralight beam
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream
  • This is everything

    • Everything (Thing, thing, thing)

    I’m tryna keep my faith.

    That’s it, don’t run away, walk backwards, keep your hands up in the air. Keep going.

    Come on back, come on back, keep walkin’ backwards.

    I’m just why?

    Keep walking backwards. Put your hands behind your head. Right here. Come on back.

    What is wrong?!

    We don’t have a gun.

    Get in the car.

    My kids.

    How old are they?

    How old are they?

    They’re six and eight. What is going on? Oh my God, you’re gonna terrify my children.

  • But I’m lookin’ for more
  • Somewhere I can feel safe

    • And end my holy war.

    And now, Mr. Wallace.

  • This is me, the B.I.G.

    • Competition never ever same story

    I’m tryna keep my faith

  • So why send depression not blessings?
  • Why, oh why’d you do me wrong?
  • More
  • You persecute the weak

    • Because it makes you feel so strong

    So what would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

  • To save
  • Don’t have much strength to fight
  • So I look to the light
  • Lord
  • To make these wrongs turn right

    • Head up high.

    I want my mom!

  • I look to the light
  • Hey, cause I know that you’ll make everything alright
  • And I know that you’ll take good care of your child
  • Oh, no longer am afraid of the night

    • Cause I, I look to the light

  • When they come for you, I will shield your name
  • I will field their questions, I will feel your pain
  • They don’t know, they don’t
  • They don’t know, they don’t know
  • Foot on the Devil’s neck ‘til they drifted Pangaea
  • I’m moving all my family from Chatham to Zambia
  • Treat the demons just like Pam
  • I mean I fuck with your friends, but, damn, Gina
  • I been this way since Arthur was anteater
  • Now they wanna hit me with the woo wap the bam
  • Tryna snap photos of familia
  • My daughter look just like Sia
  • You can’t see her
  • You can feel the lyrics and spirit coming in braille
  • Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail
  • I made Sunday Candy, I’m never going to hell
  • I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail
  • He said let's do a good ass job with Chance 3
  • I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy
  • Let’s make it so free and the bars so hard
  • That there ain’t one gosh darn part you can’t tweet
  • This is my part, nobody else speak
  • This is my part, nobody else speak
  • This little light of mine
  • Glory be to God, yeah
  • I’mma make sure that they go where they can’t go
  • If they don’t wanna ride I’mma still give them raincoats
  • Know what God said when he made the first rainbow

    • Just throw this at the end if I’m too late for the intro

  • Uh, I’m just having fun with it
  • You know that a nigga was lost
  • I laugh in my head
  • Cause I bet that my ex looking back like a pillar of salt
  • Ugh, cause they’ll flip the script on your ass like Wesley and Spike
  • You cannot mess with the light

    • Look at Lil Chano from 79

  • We on an ultralight beam
  • We on an ultralight beam
  • This is a God dream
  • This is a God dream

    • This is everything

    Yes, God

    Hallelujah

    Everything (Thing, thing, thing)

  • I’m tryna keep my faith
  • Faith
  • Yes, Jesus
  • But I’m looking for more
  • Somewhere I can feel safe

    • And end my holy war

    I’m tryna keep my faith

    That’s what the police do to you

    Father, this prayer is for everyone that feels they’re not good enough. This prayer’s for—

    Put your hands up against the wall

    —everybody that feels like they're too messed up. For everyone that feels they've said "I'm sorry" too many times. You can never go too far when you can't come back home again. That's why I need...

    Faith

    In the war we was looking for

    More

    God, please keep my little brother

    Safe

    Don’t stand here, we fighting this

    War

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