PRAY FOR
ME
THE WEEKND
SONGWRITERS:
DOC MCKINNEY; FRANK DUKES; KENDRICK LAMAR & THE WEEKND
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: BLACK
PANTHER
LABEL: TOP
DAWG
GENRE: POP-RAP
YEAR: 2018
"Pray for Me" is
a song by Canadian Singer The Weeknd and American rapper Kendrick Lamar from the
soundtrack album of the Marvel Studios superhero film Black Panther. The song
was released by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope
Records on February 2, 2018 as the album's third single. It serves as the
second overall collaboration between the two artists. The song appears in the
movie during the scene where the titular hero along with his allies, Nakia and Okoye,
enter a secret casino in Busan.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
[The Weeknd]
I'm always ready for a war again
Go down that road again
It's all the same
I'm always ready to take a life again
You know I'll ride again
It's all the same (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Tell me who's gon' save me from myself
When this life is all I know
Tell me who's gon' save me from this hell
Without you, I'm all alone
Who gon' pray for me?
Take my pain for me?
Save my soul for me?
'Cause I'm alone, you see
If I'm gon' die for you
If I'm gon' kill for you
Then I'll spill this blood for you, hey
[Kendrick Lamar]
I fight the world, I fight you, I fight myself
I fight God, just tell me how many burdens left
I fight pain and hurricanes, today I wept
I'm tryna fight back tears, flood on my doorsteps
Life a livin' hell, puddles of blood in the streets
Shooters on top of the building, government aiding
relief
Earthquake, the body drop, the ground breaks
The poor one with smoke lungs and Scarface
Who need a hero? (hero)
You need a hero, look in the mirror, there go your
hero
Who on the front lines at Ground Zero? (hero)
My heart don't skip a beat, even when hard times bumps
the needle
Mass destruction and mass corruption
Their souls are sufferin' men
Clutchin' on deaf ears again, rapture is comin'
It's all prophecy and if I gotta be
Sacrificed for the greater good, then that's what it
gotta be
[The Weeknd]
Who gon' pray for me?
Take my pain for me?
Save my soul for me?
'Cause I'm alone, you see
If I'm gon' die for you
If I'm gon' kill for you
Then I'll spill this blood for you, hey (hey)
Hey (hey), hey
Hey (hey), hey
Hey (hey), hey
Hey (hey), hey
Who gon' pray for me?
Take my pain for me?
Save my soul for me?
'Cause I'm alone, you see
If I'm gon' die for you
If I'm gon' kill for you
Then I'll spill this blood for you, hey
[Kendrick Lamar & The Weeknd]
Just in case my faith go
I live by my own law
I live by my own law
I live by my own
Just in case my faith go
I live by my own law
I live by my own law
I live by my own.