God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good I laid in bed just while the rats scurried overhead Praying now to God that they didn't run up on my leg Neighbor kept fighting I could hear every word they said Laying there at night just while I'm struggling to get ahead The only white kid in a neighborhood that I lived They chase me on my bike cause the light color of my skin Trapped in a fight that I could never ever win Trapped in a life that really wants to hold me in Watch my head spin messing now with my mental Playing in a back alley bullets thru the front window Is this all we have daddy then tell me why it's so little I draw to escapes through a paper plus an old pencil It was all simple it all came to pass Bored out my skull dad dragging me to latin mass I saw all the cars flying past But all the while as you called the time had to pass God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good Teachers on my back told me just to stay on task All I did was laugh while I'm sitting in the back of class Walkman on replay hip hop's on full blast Stuck on the freeway and the car's running out of gas Walk fast past the dealers trying to hold the cash Plus these fellas on the court they just talking trash Everything that I could see was all about to crash Its getting hard to breathe thinking this would never pass All the things that I'd wish that I'd never had All I wanted was a gold ring and a dope rap I think about when I was three I want to go back When they didn't leave and all I felt was so bad There was hope and peace I didn't know that Fell to my knees with my head straight thrown back Praying to see a little light on a dark path Praying to seek a new life that I didn't have God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good all the time All the time all the time God is good