Benjamin Blower - I Am Ready To Climb The Mountain And Die lyrics

Walking out east of Eden with a mark upon my head If anybody tries to k** me damn sure they'll be dead Seven times over And I don't know why the LORD will avenge my life But I'm ready to climb the mountain and die Born into the river Nile - saved by a princess The blood of slaves runs through these veins a crown on both my heads And I'm crying because I feel I've been a traitor to my own So I'm ready to take my crown off and fight Revolution in my bones - blood on both my hands Running from my masters house for k**ing an evil man I got bad dreams I can't believe he's never going to breathe again So I'm going to become a shepherd and start again Looking out for the wife and kids and chasing after sheep Jesus calls out from the bush and says "My people are weeping under enslavement Crushed like a thousand million coke cans into the pavement So I'll tell that city to set my people free Standing in front of the president and all his politicians Folks have been writing letters to these for years and years about all kinds of issues You need a sign? You'd better let my people go this time I'm here because the LORD is by my side Watch these rivers turn to red The sun blocked right out Watch all of your firstborn die And the military buried alive in the Red Sea And I'll cry for you - stubborn as a mule And I'm ready to take my people and leave Bury me LORD because I'm tired out Everybody's hanging off me Breaking up fights all day and all night Choices coming up faster than I can choose which way is right Its always something I don't know why I keep on trying to try And I'm ready to climb the mountain and die Sitting around thinking way more thoughts than a man can think Seen so many people I begin to wonder if they all exist And my heads so full of everything I feel like a walking television And I'm ready to pull the plug out and sigh Ran the race pretty dang hard but perfect I am not Lost myself a million times Grit my teeth and smashed the rock Looking over the promised land - You hold me by the hand And I know you're going to do whatever's right I don't care about anything now I've got nothing to lose anymore I've got nobody in heaven by You and the world has nothing I want So screw it all I count it all a loss to be found by Your side And I'm ready to climb the mountain and die Bury me LORD because I'm tired out Weeping in the garden with blood on His face Praying: "By this time tomorrow I know I'll be dead, for three days" Then He crushed the snake "Not My will but Yours" He said "And I'm ready to climb the mountain and die