[Intro - Distorted choir sample, reversed] Shhh... They loved me till I said... no. [Verse 1 - Low whisper, close mic, dead calm] Same house I ate at, Same couch I wept at, Same hands on my shoulders, said "brother, we got that." Prayed me out the darkness when I was low low, Said love never fails, let the scriptures show though. Then I said one sentence, quiet in the kitchen, "I don't think I believe this, I gotta be different." Air left the room, eyes went cold, 50 degrees colder, watch a soul get sold. [Pre-Chorus - Clean vocal, doubled with low octave] That's when the sermon changed subject, Suddenly I'm the subject, "Lost sheep, pray for his soul" While they carve it up when I'm not home. [Hook - Heavy auto-tune + gang vocal adlibs, 808 slide] CHRISTIANS GONNA STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU WALK AWAY (walk away) Smile in your face, cross around the neck, blade where the heart lay (heart lay) Hug you real tight just to feel where to put it, Bless you on Sunday, Monday they booked it. THEY GON' STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU SAY NO (say no) Holy water in the cup but the venom underneath though (underneath) All that "unconditional" was conditional, Love you till you question what they live for. [Verse 2 - Aggressive triplet flow, gritty] Yeah, I didn't leave God, I left y'all, Left the guilt trip, left the curtain call, Didn't lose my morals, I found my spine, But to you that's treason, that's crossing the line. Now it's group chats, prayer requests, "Y'all remember him? He's a mess," "He's deceived, he's prideful, he's far gone," Building a coffin with a Psalm on. They don't shoot you in the street light, They kill you with a "we're worried 'bout you" late night, Passive bullet, blessed trigger, Kill you soft so they feel bigger. [Post-Hook - Sung, broken, reverb soaked] I walked away from the building, Didn't walk away from good, But you needed me a villain, So you made me like you should. [Hook - Bigger, add female choir in background whispering "stab"] CHRISTIANS GONNA STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU WALK AWAY Cross on the chain but the knife still sways, Kiss on the cheek like Judas did that night, Thirty pieces, watch a brother sell your life. THEY GON' STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU SAY NO Say you free but you chained to the pew though, Love with a leash and that leash gon' choke, Minute you speak truth, that's when they cut throat. [Verse 3 - Deep demonic pitched down vocal, then snaps back to normal] [VOICE: -12 SEMITONES, SLOW] Blood is thicker than water but doctrine thicker than both, You were my brother till you took off the cloth, One question was all it ever took, To see the blade hidden inside the book. [VOICE: NORMAL, RAGE BUILDING] You call it love, I call it control, Call it saving, I call it selling souls, You forgave everybody except the one who left, Forgiveness on sale, but not for him. You preach grace like an ocean wide, Till somebody wanna swim outside, Then that ocean turn to desert fast, Prayin' for my future while you trash my past. [Bridge - No drums, just dark piano + heartbeat 808, vocal changes every line] They said come as you are... But don't you dare leave as you are... [Sung soft] If you stay you a saint, if you go you a demon... MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! [Whispered choir] Make it make sense...[Whisper][Spoken][Shouted][cracked] [Breakdown - Beat stops, gangster whisper stack] Look - look at how they do you, When you say "no thank you." Love was a contract that you didn't read through, Fine print said "we own you." [Verse 4 - Final verse, cold, exhausted, most personal] Lost more friends to a "no" than I did to drugs, More cuts from a bible than I ever got from thugs, At least the street gon' tell you that the blade is comin', These cats hug you first so you feel nothin'. So I walk alone now, yeah it's quiet though, Peaceful without all that holy white noise though, If love leaves when belief does, It wasn't ever love, was it, cuz? [Outro Hook - Stripped, vocal chops, fade with knife sound effect] STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU WALK AWAY... [distorted repeat] walk away, walk away... STAB YOU IN THE BACK WHEN YOU SAY NO... [whisper to scream] THEY SAID THEY'D DIE FOR ME... NAH... THEY JUST KILLED ME... IN JESUS NAME. [Beat cuts. One piano note holds.]
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