LYRICS: UNDERQUIET

06. freedom

mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah-ah-ey-ey

professional or beginner, doesn’t matter

every sinner is a prisoner

in a body that is subject to time now

my entwined mind tries to form a straight line

not like twisted scoliosis of the spinal cord

construct, cross-eyed carpenters are cuttin’ crooked lines can’t construct man-made shrines when

the winds and the water move the sands of time

many minds on a deadline yet live life like a livewire

I’m not tired of blood and fire

the Spirit’s movin’ higher

than the green grass ever lifted me

the Spirit’s movin’ higher

than anything else ever lifted you

see, we got spirituality

it’s livin’ in us like one in three

injustice is concerning me in a nonlinear eternity

I’m speaking paradoxically

but you can nod your head when you understand me

this is for my free men

whose backs won’t bend in the lion’s den

with their eyes on the end and

this is for my free women

they fight with their love, the bearers of our children

( x 2 )

we shine like lights

exposing what lies underneath decomposing

unearthed old chains that are rusted

oh my God, is that what I trusted in?

that sin, that tom-foolery?

what it is is mental jewelry

that I adorned myself with

the enemy’s gifts, the man-made myths, the ignorant bliss of marijuana splifs and alcoholic fifths,

and I got really sick and tired of it

delivered and redeemed, by Christ I mean

time to start livin’ and get a reason for the rhyme

I don’t wanna be dead wrong on the deadline

standing on the dark side and all out of time

like a blind pantamimes fantasized

climb up his own ladder to the sunshine

nothing’s mine that has been given

and no one’s alive now that ain’t been risen

for 19 years I was trapped in a prison

feenin’ my escape by means of derision

but every man-made attempt failed just when

trapped in the jail of my own guilt, shame and iniquity

I needed to get free  …how do I do it? 

He said believe -who’s He?

He said believe –who’re you?

how do I do it?

so I believe …in Christ

mm-hmm, yeah-ahh-eey