Believe Us
[Spoken]
I'mma have to apologize to my audience real quick
'cause y'all ain't ever heard nothing like this
Coming from me you know?
And this is my job
Just forgive me you know?
I'm just sitting here shedding tears in the booth
R.I.P. Khalid Daniels-Shareef
I'mma make it up to you though
Check it
This is what I shoulda told ya
This real talk right here
[Verse 1: Sevin]
Uh, I was once lost in space
In the wasteland where coffins wait
And metallic war weapons hang off the waist
In the days of dark violence apart from grace
Where the APR financed the cost of hate
I was exposed to this sin sick road that these hearts embrace
By which we all then...
Journey to a darker place
Conceived by sin's seed
So we all relate
'Cause the grapes of wrath that I ate left an awful taste
It's like I'm stuck in a flood but my ark's misplaced
Realizin everything that I was thought was way off its base
And laced with deception it had me guessin'
If my posture's straight
Cause I'm carrying this awesome weight
I feel trapped like I'm Lot behind Sodom's gate
Dog, I used to think God was fake
'Cause I never had nothing but exhausted faith
Since my brother's death taught me to watch for snakes
And they blew out his candle just to floss his cake
I've been searchin' for a meaning to his heartless fate
'Cause he was better than that
I was provoked that night to a hopeless life
So I settled in that
Started hanging with an attitude
Never was the baddest dude
But still got respect where the veterans at
And this is long before my pleasure was rap
I learned to jack
While my best friend was measuring crack
But He was with me wherever I'm at
How you think I got the name--
Blasted on seven times and I've never been capped
I went to Church
The Reverend was whack
Last week he's on the track getting head in his lap
Plus he robbed the congregation
Using heaven to jack
So if he's cool I know I'm straight
'Cause I would never do that
He's always talking to me like I'm the devilish cat
But I ain't feel it
Cuz on the real
That's like the skillet saying the kettle was black
So how could I develop a relationship
With the one that I needed a basis with
When all of them was faking it
He found me high, drunk, and concealing a gun
Child of the night broken ready to kneel to the Son
Believe me it was real what He done
Nails through His hands and feet
Crown of thorns plus a spear to the lung
Three days later from the grave He reappeared to become
The only sacrifice worthy so His will can be done
It's a blessing so I live just to give because of that man
Anglos to saxon, the black man, rooftops in the flat lands
He don't care where you at man
Faith requires action
Anything could happen
[Hook 2x: Sevin]
Believe us
We never thought we could be this
You should've seen us
In need He reached us
Real talk dog we need this so please just
Come meet this man called Jesus
[Verse 2: Sevin]
And I spit my angelic whispers to God alone
Clutching a scepter
One touch it'll infect ya
Braids bang to the collar bone
I reign from the darkest shadows of earths region
Trained in these heartless battles to convert demons
Turf leaning
Born breached and birthed screaming
Wishin' my pops ain't squirt semen
But earth needed him
To disperse his first seed for this reasonin'
Too many conceived to this breed it's displeasin' Him
Hit weed then switch speeds to sip Seagram's Gin
It seems we lack the esteem to reach evil men
Stand firm wit' a lantern
Hit until the beacons dim
Without grace we all reek of sin since that Eden spin
Even the Deacons and Preachers need Jesus
For the evil that they think but don't speak
When they preach to men
You see we are weak and we all must receive Him in
From the ballers on Wallstreet to the G's off the reefer
And single mothers raising brothers to be peaceful men
Twelve hour shifts just to feed 'em and
She still finds time to cook, clean
Help them read in the evenings
But when they lay asleep she can't sleep
She just weeps cause when
Tomorrow comes
Sorrow runs deeper
Her boss done withheld the check
'Cause she has too much self respect to sleep with him
Even my necros on Death Row could believe in Him
Y'all too can be saved before they put the needle in
[Hook 2x: Sevin]
Believe us
We never thought we could be this
You should've seen us
In need He reached us
Real talk dog we need this so please just
Come meet this man called Jesus
[Spoken]
Thank God phew
Come as you are, know what I'm saying?
You ain't got to clean up your house (Hay Aye)
Seriously
If you open the door He'll come in and sup with ya
Dine with ya
Fellowship with ya (Ayyyy)
He just wants a relationship
God bleshya
Believe us
Never thought we could be this