<details> <summary><b>INTRO</b></summary> [**low organ note**] [**distant choir hum**] [**vinyl crackle**] [**slow build**] [**wind blowing**] [**rain falling**] </details> <details> <summary><b>VERSE 1</b></summary> I was fresh off a boat, runnin' pills, weed, and coke, being broke is a joke, taking... tokes... for hope. [**exhaling smoke between words**] [drag effect: "hooope"] I was Torn in the core, trouble a revolving door, God I ignored. [echo: "God I ignored" — choir] [**808 enters**] While money I chased [repeat effect: "chased… chased…"] forsaking pain embracing rain enslaved and chained. [echo effect — "chased… rain… chained…" — choir] [echo effect — repeat again — choir] I watched homies fall, families break, told myself that just what it takes…" (takes) [**thunder rumbling**] </details> <details> <summary><b>PRE-CHORUS</b></summary> **TRUTH** is… [3 second silence] [echo effect: "**TRUTH**… **TRUTH**…" — choir] </details> <details> <summary><b>HOOK / CHORUS</b></summary> [**silence 1–2 seconds / dramatic pause**] My soul was running from God [echo: "running from God" — choir] [reverb] It got swallowed by a whale **SEDUCTION** seduction [echo: "**SEDUCTION**" — choir] But when things got real, everything got quiet. [**silence 7 seconds**] Painfully quiet. [repeat: "Painfully quiet" — choir] </details> <details> <summary><b>VERSE 2</b></summary> Darkness in the streets, but the real darkness is the loneliness in me — eating me alive one bad decision at a time. [**rain intensifies**] I lost people I love, I hurt people who trusted me, livin' like a thug knowing Jesus died for me. Stuck in jails, trapped in addictions, saying we "real" while livin' in fiction. [echo: "fiction" — choir] in prison with friction — told myself I'd change but the change never stayed. Tryna fix a spiritual problem with physical hustle. Tryna fix a spiritual problem with physical hustle. [echo: "Tryna fix a spiritual problem with physical hustle" — choir] Need to let go of the struggle and let the Lord fight my battles. </details> <details> <summary><b>BRIDGE</b></summary> </details> <details> <summary><b>HOOK / CHORUS (repeat)</b></summary> I'm on my knees begging please take this disease out of me. I'm on my knees begging please take this disease out of me. I remember when I first got saved, Sunday school promises made. I remember when I first got baptized, confirmation of eternal life. RIGHT! i was jumped in the fight, renewing of the mind. I wanna be born from above WITH THE STRENGTH TO drink HIS wine. Hugged in HIS love [echo effect: "hugged in HIS love" — choir] [repeat: "hugged in HIS love" — choir] Baptized into a Diiiivine life [**heavenly thunder rumble**] hear Him say, "He's mine." [**rushing water from above**] [slow down] gifted with eyes spiritual eyes. Redeemed to push this line — save souls or get left behind. [**thunderstorm swell**] [**wind + rain fade out**] </details> <details> <summary><b>VERSE 3</b></summary> Invited The Holy Ghost in me, My perspective lifted — My whole life got shifted with one eternal sentence. Walk the narrow path the wide one leads to wishin' (what if?) [choir: "What if"] the gate of life, testifies of Christ. [choir: "WHAT IF"] I DIDNT miss my day ones, [choir: "WHAT IF"] WE WOULD OF FOLLOWED HIS BLOOD [choir: "WHAT IF"] we would of walked in His Love. [choir: "WHAT IF"] WE WOULD WALKED IN HIS FREEDOM — [choir: "WHAT IF"] OUR MISSION WAS TO ADVANCE HIS kingdom. Free indeed, victories bring them, Won't turn my back but I've been reborn. [**thunder crack**] Old things gone, new mercies every morn. </details> <details> <summary><b>OUTRO</b></summary> [**thunderstorm fades**] [**wind calms**] [**soft rain outro**] [choir humming "mmm-hmm" style — choir] [**fade to silence**] </details>
