We’re livin’ in extreme days
Comin’ at ya like a whirlwind
A hundred miles an hour’s where we’ll begin
I spy the eye of apprehension
Show me risk and you’ll get my attention
Come on, can ya take it
Bang to the bip I make ya wanna flip
Take my trip and you can bust your lip
Separated, I cut myself clean
From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I’ve divorced
I saw a man with tat on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head
‘Jesus Saves’ is what it raved in a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city
And claimed he had a dream
Hush little baby baby don’t you cry
Daddy’s gonna sing you a lullaby
Everything’s gonna be alright
The Lord’s gonna answer your prayer tonight
Hush little baby don’t you cry
Daddy’s gonna sing you a lullaby
Everything’s gonna be alright
The Lord’s gonna answer your prayer
I’m a brand new man, I’m a conscious man
I’m a man who’s burnin’ for you
The mistakes I’ve made have been chased away
to the bottom of the ocean blue
I’m a brand new man in a foreign land,
I’m a man who’s feelin’ that fire
And it’s all so clear when i’m standing here
at the peak of my desire
I know you keep a journal and every page is rippled
From the tears that you cry, ain’t no meanin’ to your scribble
Cause words can’t describe what you’ve been feelin’ inside
It’s like thousand foot walls, and they’re still on the rise
But look up to a beautiful sound
And see for yourself you’re not that far down
And know this, I cannot love a little
My promise to you is unconditional
And I’ll keep the light on, for you
Just keep the course, you can weather the storm
I’ll keep the light on, for you
You’ve come this far, don’t you ever lose heart, now
They call us Diverse City, we’re colorful good
It’s like a freak show in your neighborhood
So, if you wanna praise you can come on down
Cause this freak show’s leaving the ground
Up, up and away, baby we don’t play, maybe you thought you was done for the day
He said, she said, I said this, that you can’t get away from your moment of bliss
Stirring, we’ll lure you in and we’ll make room for the shade of skin
Short ones, tall ones, skinny ones, bigger, love is the gun and we pullin’ that trigger
So you send me and I’ll send you hope in the form of a new tattoo
Mine is the shiny city on a hill and yours, of course, is the colors that fill it
We’ll take you high, we’ll take you higher
God’s in the spot you can like it or not
So rip the knob off the volume when you give this a shot
And raise your hands as the slam starts to thicken the plot
Openin’ eyes to the lies of the enemies’ lot
So run like the wind from the sin of your past
Keep your eyes on the prize when they put you on blast
It’s the Christ on the cross, it’s humanity’s shot
It’s a worldwide call to everything that we’re not
This is the slam, this is the one
This is the slam, this is the one
I clear my throat before I grab the mic
I need uno momento *ehem*
Them cynics gonna ride me like a pinto
No resentment do you comprehend my innuendo?
You still can’t leave the party til you drop your crucial info
Am I jaded in assuming that you’re simply bound to do me (echo)
Like them other lyricists who’s message ain’t so gloomy (echo)
Pan my positivity cause love has let you down
Man if you tasted the love I tasted
You’d be makin’ sweeter sounds…too
Government checks, they flex with no dollars
Two turntables and a plate full of collards
Royalty checks we flex with few dollars
But my DJ makes the people wanna holler
