So self-sufficiency dies hard, But when rightfully humbled, God shows up in burning May we step into the fray "I got something to say" May we hold no armies, no weapons, no ceremonial Just a walking stick of an and not an ounce of fear May we have a faith birthed out of a of promise A reflex caused by you know to be true of God Life is not a comic There are no perfect victims or villains, us We are smog-laced oxygen tanks tossed to capsize on his power of deliverance and the integrity to accomplish it May I stand in the belly of what Babylon is In the of the best metaphor of what love exists for May my be permanently associated with those hated An exodus from Exodus with zero concern for Pharaoh thinks May we be crooked And we are not those without hope or hoping in alone Resurrection that this land is not our home We are sojourners living out a past action bought us With the that we have yet to see the fullness of what it got us All of creation groaning, labor and pains Like the of a planet's moon could make Saturn's rings My crooked soul covered in blood is a perspective, the ironic gift of cancer If I could the feeling where every morning's a blessing 'Cause every breath could be your last one man, that's the Be patient with one another, be gracious 'cause our is short you too were once in darkness 'fore he brought forth Christ the hope of sealed our eternity Purchased permanently, by Him worthy But my mouth has yet to catch up what my heart knows And my heart is still behind my library, it's scary There's no plaques on my 'Cept the influence I had on with plaques on they wall It could a man salty like "when it finna be my turn?" And a me is leaning towards an attitude beneath me And I am like them, a systemic participant for escape and hoping in salvation Yeah, in salvation Waiting for the day He make the crooked way
We march on a road And we our eyes And we raise our Justice is going to Like a river Like a wide
Glorious of our soul's gentrification But the ain't put us out, he paid all our mortgages And repaved the and found homes for the orphans Once the thumb of an unbearable slum lord Dumb son of a gun said rescue could come lord And we all believed him and took into our own hands And made a filthy mess of our own And crimes of survival, they proof of a flawed system And we only got ourselves to blame, our little hearts But the hope of trans-cultural love and That erased and sexism, the blessed Day we don't look down on the like we ain't like them And they not us and gender ain't [fought off a among us The already but not yet, so we for it with joy and anticipation For when the time keeper comes soon and the crooked way straight
We march on a crooked And we raise our And we raise our Justice is going to Like a wide Like a wide
I'm really starting to my alone time as I'm getting older I've started to I'm becoming more introverted declutter Finding I need a lot of stimulus to get me over And you can the track down I it when the level's even in my head Sometimes I find the volume is in my brain Stays in the red and not sustainable Help me to remember peace of what would be happening And on to the quiet the quiet Help me remember the Remember the