So self-sufficiency dies hard, But rightfully humbled, God shows up in burning bushes May we step into the fray "I got something to say" May we no armies, no weapons, no ceremonial authority Just a walking stick of an old-timer and not an of fear May we have a faith out of a revelation of promise A reflex caused by what you know to be of God is not a comic book There are no perfect or villains, just us We are smog-laced oxygen tanks tossed to murderers Resting on his of deliverance and the integrity to accomplish it May I stand in the belly of Babylon is biting In the of the best metaphor of what love exists for May my legacy be permanently associated those hated An exodus from Exodus zero concern for what Pharaoh thinks 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 sojourners out what a past action bought us With the knowledge we have yet to see the fullness of what it got us All of creation groaning, aches and pains Like the of a planet's moon could make Saturn's rings My crooked soul in blood stains Blessing is a perspective, the ironic gift of If I could bottle the feeling every morning's a blessing 'Cause every breath could be last one man, that's the answer Be patient one another, be gracious 'cause our time is short Remember you too were in darkness 'fore he brought forth Christ the of glory sealed our eternity Purchased permanently, by only Him But my mouth has yet to catch up with my heart knows And my is still lightyears behind my library, it's scary There's no on my wall 'Cept the influence I had on those plaques on they wall It could leave a man salty "when it finna be my turn?" And a lower me is 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 way straight
We march on a crooked And we raise our And we raise our is going to roll Like a wide a river wide
Glorious of our soul's gentrification But the purchaser ain't put us out, he all our mortgages And the streets and found homes for the orphans Once under the thumb of an unbearable slum Dumb son of a gun said rescue could never lord And we all believed him and took into our own hands And made a filthy of our own homelands And crimes of survival, they proof of a flawed system And we got ourselves to blame, our cheating little hearts But the hope of trans-cultural and acceptance That erased racism and sexism, the Day we don't look down on the poor like we ain't like 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 the time keeper comes soon and make the crooked way straight
We march on a crooked And we our eyes And we our eyes is going to roll Like a wide Like a river
I'm really starting to my alone time as I'm getting older I've to notice I'm becoming more introverted Tryna Finding I don't need a lot of to get me over And you can turn the down I it when the level's even in my head Sometimes I find the volume is peaking in my Stays in the red and it's not Help me to remember peace of Despite what be happening And hold on to the Remember the Help me remember the the quiet