[Hook]
When the lights shut off
And it's my turn to settle down
My main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse]
I woke up this morning and figured I write
I felt troubled the other night
I figured that I could get sight
Of a peace of mind I'm behind on what's really important
My mind is really distorted, I find nothing but trouble in my life
I'm fortunate I was born in a dream
This mess outside we call a country is quite a routine
And every day these glances outward getting tougher to watch
But here safely inside my house I tie my psyche in knots
Riddled in a Christian society trapped in dilemma
Between brotherhood and the notion that we could pretend
Another man who walks the same hills and same old valleys as I do
Could only be created to walk two or three steps behind you
Oh, Almighty God. But I don't know what God is talking
The same one giving gifts only shifts to the one that's balking
At David fighting Goliath as high as his praises flying
Can only lie in the same place, useless in that defiance
That duality only teaches David how to be David
What's previously permissible now is just plain outdated
In my mind, the high tide is one that we have created
With our double image of God, the vision has just been shaded
In the fear that white walls might fall in the love of Jesus
Something doesn't love a wall but somehow we need it
To protect our possessions in repression that's somehow kind
The logic to follow such a statement escapes my mind
In return for hypocrisy, we gain at another's expense
Tense in our own beliefs with no room to even repent
And we mustn't let South Africa continue that
There is room to be remarkable for both white and black
Now, to elaborate, allow me a minute (gunshots)