God Given Tongue

One time I was staying at this
Homeless shelter Hope Haven in Kingsport
Tennessee and the rule was if you didn't
Go to Church on Sunday you
Couldn't sleep there that night and, uh, me
And my friend, Paul David Miller
We overslept and didn't go to church
And so we were, like
Trying to get dibs on this
Abandoned car out back
So we could have a place to sleep
But then this guy showed up at the
Homeless shelter and he was wearing
Like regular clothes, looked like a regular
Guy, and um, he was like
"Hey! anyone wanna go
To the mall? I'll buy you lunch" something
Like that and we were like sure
Paul I didn't ever say anything but Paul
David Miller was like "yeah, yeah
Come on"
And so then, um, we went to the mall
And the whole time
We were hanging out with this
Guy he was like uh
"Do you like Rock and Roll?
There's Rock and Roll
At my church do you like girls? There's a
Lotta girls at my church y'all need a
Job? There's people that can get you a
Job at my Church" He even said
"Do you need a car? There's people that
Have cheap cars at my church"

Jesus is walking, stigmata infected
The beast in the pocket
Go 'head and inject it
Jericho in the grip, with merlot on the lip
Body and Blood, testament taking a trip
Taking your dollars, call it collection
Calling God on collect from
A site of correction pharmaceutical using
Isn't the spirit delicious
In the clutches of circumstance
Still remain an invictus

And uh, this girl was on stage and, like
When you get ready to puke, uh
Your cheeks kinda puff up you can tell
When someone's getting ready to vomit and
So then she started puffing up her
Cheeks a whole bunch
And then she jumped off the stage
And started running up the aisle and the
People the guy and Paul David Miller
Were behind me and I said
"Look out! This girl's
Get- about ready to get sick!" like that
And then she busted through the door and
Into the girls' room and you could
Hear her getting sick in there and I
Said to the guy that brought us there
I said "Aren't you gonna send someone
In there after her to
See if she's okay?" and he said
"Nah, she's just spitting out demons
We do that here"

Devil under the tongue
He been eating the wafers
Getting drunk off the wine
His design never wavers
Are you feeling the heating? Check
The vent in the ceiling
That shit is obviously the fire
That the preacher is speaking
Tongue's parched, put quill on the parchment
Stop looking for arks
The hole where the heart
Went is ripping apart the little apartment
Of the bleeding heat and
Frequenting the park bench

And they had my arms held out like a
Like a spread eagle
Or something in the air, and
This one guy started going
"a hmmunumunumunumunumunumunumunumunumuna!
Hmmunumunumunumunumunumunumunumma!"
Like that and then this big huge a
Big huge guy comes up
Grabs me around the waist like he wants to
Dance or something and then he starts
Pushing on my head really hard and
Saying "You best start speaking in
That God-given tongue, boy! You best start
Speaking in that God-given tongue, boy!"

Speak the light of the Lord
It should sound like a curse
How could the tongue of the chosen
One translate in your verse
Make the melody foreign
Octaves jumping the levels
(But then they thought I was the devil)
Well shit maybe you are
Has your brain been idle?
Do you study the details when
You're reading your bible?
Cause you know that's where he lives
So don't be reading to close
Just keep looking for God in
The spiral and smoke

And then they pushed me all the
Way up these stairs and
Into a closet, and it was
Totally dark in this closet, and then all of
A sudden-like, after like
Two minutes or something the door
Opens up and I get hit in the chest with a
Soaking wet orange, bright orange, jail
Jumpsuit and a cop says "Get your bottoms
Off! Get your bottoms off!" Like
That, and so I just got my
Bottoms off i was, like, scared
To death, i was in this closet of
This crazy church and so
Then, uh, they opened up the door
And they said "Come on
Come on!" like this and then uh
I looked and here was a pool upstairs
With fake rocks and fake plants and then, uh
The guy who was in the water and
Put his leg up on a rock
And was like "come on come on"
Like that and then I went
Down in the pool and he said
To hold- how to hold my
Arms and he said "When I
Dunk you under this water
You're gonna feel really cold
But when I pull you up out
Of this water, you best be
Speaking in that God-given tongue, boy"

Say it, say it, say it till you feel it
Feel like dancing on the ceiling
Feel like sitting on a million
Feel like everything equating to success
Is really nothing more
Than compensating for not being blessed
Now strip, see the pole
Climb it like stairs to heaven
But the stars are higher than
You could possibly be getting
And sever all the begetting unless
You be getting married
Just play with your genitalia for
Jesus until you're ready

This little bitty guy with glasses all
Of a sudden jumps out
Of one of these rooms and
Gets in front of me
And I kept trying to, like
Walk around him but he
Kept stepping in front of me
He's like, "I know, i know you've had
A long night, I just need to ask
You a few questions before you leave
I know it's been a very eventful night but
Just come on in this room and
Answer a few questions" And
So I said "okay" I'm gonna
Go in this room
I'm gonna answer his questions and then I'm
Gonna walk straight out of this room
And walk straight out of this church
And sleep at the homeless shelter
And so then I go in the room
He never even turned the light on
And he had a clipboard and it had different
Thing- questions were on it and he
Said, he looked at me and he said uh
"Holy Spirit" and then he put
A little checkmark, and then he said "Spoke
In tongues" and checked like this
And he said "baptized" and
He checked and he
Just went down this list of all
These things they did to me against my
Will and I never said anything
And then he says, "well what we do is we
Send people to your house"
Uh, I guess he didn't know we were
At the homeless shelter, he said
"we send two people to your
House and then we teach you the bible" And I
Said, "well I've read- I've
Read the bible
Three times, Old Testament and New
Front and- to
Back in prison, I know the bible
That's-I don't need anyone coming
To my house"

Three things first, Father, Son
And Holy Ghost holy Water, hallelujah
Hold your daughter close
Hold up the bible in Fallujah, light it
Holy smoke drop them bombs on the Qu'ran
Before they drop them first
And if you drop it like it's hot
You better open up your soul to
Jesus Christ ready or not
Let us carry the cross for you
Take a load off
Come in the water and started
Washing off all the dross

They would come to the homeless shelter
Right away to try to
Get us and bring us back
To it-um, every service, i don't
Know how many they had a week
It-it was a lot and
So I just said, "well I'm gonna get a job
I gotta get a job and I
Gotta move out of this homeless
Shelter to get these cult freak people
After me away from me"
And so I got a job at McDonalds and
Rented a room in this biker house
And they were just constantly making meth
And fighting each other for fun
And knocking each other's teeth out and
Looking like monsters and stuff
And then one day I was at work
And they said two guys came looking
For me and they knew they
Were from that church, and so then one of the
Bikers, Chris, when they came
In he said, "yeah, bryan lives
Here, he's up- he live upstairs
He's up there" and so he let them
Go upstairs but he had a sawed
Off ten-gauge shotgun
And then he followed them up the
Stairs, and once they knocked
And I didn't answer, he pulled
Out the shotgun, and he said "I've got 666
Tatooed on the head of my dick
Y'all wanna suck it?" like
That, and then he pointed- I'm
I'm sure he pointed
It at them because he was crazy like that
And then they never came back for me again