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Mumu Fresh aka Maimouna Youssef - What's The Use

from Vintage Babies II: Queen Of Culture by Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh

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WHAT’S THE USE IN PRAYING

Hook:
What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying

Verse 1:
If faith brings me peace
Why am I stressing
If God covers me
Blessings on blessings
Where I can not see
I feel his presence guiding me
So if I believe
Why do I worry and toss in my sleep
Sometimes I feel like my own enemy
Fighting the water
We gon’ drown in the sea
But what's the use in praying if

Hook:
What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
if you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying

Verse 2:
I swear, prayer works when you work it
It hits different when you’re living on purpose
You don’t have to figure it out alone
You don’t have to do without no more
Worrying don’t buy you no time
Worrying don’t give you a dime
It don't make it alright
Give it to God
Nah really give it to God
Or what’s the use in praying

Hook:
What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying

Verse 3:
When a simple “how you doing”?
is a loaded weapon
I say I'm blessed to keep you from asking further questions
And yes
Ok, I'm blessed but I'm also a mess
And perplexed
With anxieties of what could happen next
It’s crazy
Fear ain’t even real
It's just the way we feel
About something that hasn't happened
Probably never will
We the greatest storytellers
We so innovative
Jumping to conclusions
It gives the worries flavor
And the best screenplay award goes to
the worry wart inside you
That over thinks it through
Worst case scenarios
Always comes to blows
Never let you sleep
Never give you peace from your foes
We take the burden on and carry it
But pain don't decompose when you bury it
It only grows unexposed
Til you're marrying it
Now that’s the scariest
But what's the use in praying if

Hook:
What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry
(Adlibs: if you’re still going to worry)

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

(Adlibs: when you've done all you can do, God will pull you through, what’s the use in worrying/ what’s the use in praying if you’re going to worry)

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying
If you’re going to worry

(Adlib : Give it to God/ Baby don’t worry/ ahhhhh/ What’s the use)

What’s the use in praying
What’s the use in praying

(Adlibs: Oh If you're going to worry/ baby don't you worry/ Don’t worry, oh don’t worry, baby don’t you worry, oh don’t worry)

credits

from Vintage Babies II: Queen Of Culture, track released June 18, 2021
16. WHAT’S THE USE IN PRAYING Written by M. Youssef & Candace Coles
Performed by M. Youssef
Produced by Dj Dummy
Additional instrumentation
Piano by Shameka Dwight
Additional keys, key bass by Irvin Washington Mixed by Trayvon Hill

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Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh Washington, D.C.

Maimouna Youssef aka "Mumu Fresh" is a Grammy nominated seasoned singer, emcee, songwriter and producer. She received a Grammy nomination for her contribution on the Roots hit “Don’t Feel Right” in 2007 for best rap song and has since taken off as an independent artist. This is the right place for all things fresh! Welcome to the Muvement!!! ... more

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