Verse 1
Owner of a lonely, ticker with a slow beat
Cold feet shiver still bickering with old beefs
In my battles at times I might babble
Mind scrabbles to find right words but eyes tattle it
Seems whenever I think I’m in a good spot
Start longing for things I wish that I would not
Be so earthly some days it hurts me
Swiping Nike bottoms on God’s grace and mercy
He has mysterious ways about Him
Feel like I hit curious phase without Him
So distant, waiting on my call but I’m
Thinking I missed tangled up in my mischief
Gotta get flame back ain’t the same cat
Who promptly would drop to his face at day crack
And praise God for breath, health, wealth and shelter
Time when my mind was less helter skelter
Chorus
Can’t give in, can’t live in
Sin again can win with Him who lives within
Devil's tempting me, won’t let me be
But wont let him get the best of me
(repeat)
Verse 2
Heart guarded God’ll say who gets it
It’s much too fragile to play roulette with
Gamble I can’t afford so work on my rapport
With the Lord to ensure we are on one accord
Yet I’m, looking for love in all the wrong places
Shapes and sizes, waists and thighs inspired
By a bubbling lust fueled by struggles with smut
That still try to put stumble in strut
Now I canceled plans to find what love wasn’t,
A brand new man have I become from it
But still, the larger the charge the harder the fight
So wonder would I stand tall facing Potipher’s wife
'cause the flesh is a problem can, cite Sampson,
David, Solomon, honorable men who fell following
After lust and had to suffer justly
So when gut says flee in a rush I must be
Chorus
Verse 3
Made to reign over many things, knowing I don’t
Deserve anything thank God for everything
Happily took me on when I was
So gone, as if I had done no wrong
And if not for His grace I’d be rotting away
Still locked in a maze or boxed in a grave
Or rocking a straight jacket, ain’t laughing
So me back in chains gasping ain’t happening
Stand brawling with will that got Apollo killed
Can’t be crawling over hill holding bottle still
Spirit babe living under child labor laws
God reaching for me steady getting alligator arms
Soul corroding in a hole that’s no win
Hoping I could grow fins drowning in my old sins
My hands dripping with crimson, questioning if
I have been given dominion, forget it listen
Chorus
credits
from Peace (2008),
released September 2, 2013
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