So self-sufficiency dies hard, But when rightfully humbled, God up in burning bushes May we into the fray like "I got something to say" May we hold no armies, no weapons, no ceremonial Just a walking of an old-timer and not an ounce of fear May we have a faith birthed out of a of promise A caused by what you know to be true of God Life is not a comic are no perfect victims or villains, just us We are oxygen tanks tossed to capsize murderers Resting on his power of deliverance and the to accomplish it May I stand in the belly of what Babylon is In the vein of the metaphor of what love exists for May my legacy be permanently with those hated An exodus from Exodus with zero concern for what Pharaoh May we be crooked And we are not those without hope or in hope alone Resurrection shows that this land is not our We are living out what a past action bought us the knowledge that we have yet to see the fullness of what it got us All of groaning, labor aches and pains Like the crushing of a moon could make Saturn's rings My crooked soul in blood stains is a perspective, the ironic gift of cancer If I could bottle the where every morning's a blessing 'Cause breath could be your last one man, that's the answer Be patient with one another, be 'cause our time is short Remember you too were in darkness 'fore he brought forth Christ the hope of sealed our eternity Purchased permanently, by Him worthy But my has yet to catch up with what my heart knows And my is still lightyears 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 leave a man salty like "when it be my turn?" And a me is leaning towards an attitude beneath me And I am just them, a systemic participant Longing for and hoping in salvation Yeah, hoping in Waiting for the day He make the way straight
We on a crooked road And we raise our And we raise our Justice is to roll Like a wide a river wide
Glorious of our soul's gentrification But the purchaser put us out, he paid all our mortgages And repaved the and found homes for the orphans under the thumb of an unbearable slum lord Dumb son of a gun said rescue could never lord And we all believed him and took matters our own hands And a filthy mess of our own homelands And of survival, they were proof of a flawed system And we only got ourselves to blame, our little hearts But the hope of trans-cultural and acceptance That racism and sexism, the blessed Day we don't look down on the like we ain't like them And they not us and gender [fought off a suicide??] among us The already but not yet, so we look for it with joy and For when the time keeper comes and make the crooked way straight
We march on a road And we raise our And we raise our is going to roll Like a wide a river wide
I'm starting to enjoy my alone time as I'm getting older I've started to notice I'm becoming introverted declutter Finding I don't need a lot of to get me over And you can the track down I it when the level's even in my head I find the volume is peaking in my brain Stays in the red and not sustainable Help me to remember of mind Despite would be happening And on to the quiet the quiet Help me remember the Remember the