Before I enter the kingdom – I gotta leave earth/ so I’m parting from my ways like Moses parted the waves// a sea section – I ain’t talking a breach birth// I’m reaching for the sky, but I’m on my knees first// so I ain’t gotta put my feet first – I’m so fly// I’m walking by my faith I can see with no eyes// and it’s a long journey – I’m not in it for the ride// no fancy cars by my side but you can see I got drive// my tank is never empty – Most High always fillin’ it// yah feelin’ it?// I light up like a filament// I’m married now – so everything that I produce and everything that I carry down is going to be legitimate// It ain’t gold because it glistens// so I stopped being conscious – and started being a Christian// I left that industry and God blessed my ministry// He extracted the sin in me – this is a beginning me//
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Word is truth, Word is life, Word is love, Word is bond Word is all that you need, you can’t go wrong (straight and narrow) You can’t go wrong – If you got the Word in your life then you can’t go wrong
Liberated from vacant chasing, now daily waking/And facing Amazing Grace, and aching to teach the message/Living in a tent, or apartment/ We all need the Light, so let me be the lamp (yea)//Cuz sin is never benign/ Figure 8s, big estates, never saved man/ Brethren, I’m tryna get to seven/I’m tryna get to perfect, so I’m tryna get to Heaven (so)//All I got to give/Is designed to fix/And designed to save these from the triple six// For I’ve/ Been wooed by the Lord God/ So what I got for you/ is a whole lot// I talk to God, I’m led by His word/As if that ain’t enough, boy I’m walking with His third/He ain’t a old dude, never was He old school/Ever-present, Ever-Necessary, Ever-O2/ The only One
Chorus
My conception is immaculate// refined thoughts over a nine month growth process to bless the track with it// my light shine – life line like umbilical rhyme for each fetus in need – feeding my frequency most – High// breath into the miracle of style birth – conceived in the mind – the realm – tell ‘em to head out – head first// and put a smile on the trials of the earth// instead, quiet ya loud mouth, put in some work// packing light for my strange excursion// a book – of rhyme pages on my person in the King James Version// I’m holding my lamp – out ahead because the road has been cursed and the path is uncertain// the here and now – is here and gone and the moments are merging// other offers look soft than the light of eternal// reimbursement – is urging me further. My journey taking me closer to the Master than the servant. Word. Chorus
credits
from The Ones,
released November 11, 2011
(C.Christian, D.Jordan, M. Adeyemi, M. Morely,) Produced by Flawless Tracks
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