Close your eyes But open them tomorrow It’s just the start Something to hope for

and if i aint fun cuz i dont drink all the alcohol then you can keep your time to yourself, or give someone else a call i aint been on your mind at all i'm to off base and i don’t get high, i'm high octane i'm orangatanging everything that's in my range i'm in a rage i'm going ape if you enter in this cage then their is no escape no better way to take the delicate in my embrace they try to erase my faith but they cant take away what i already dedicated i'm still young opinionated underestimated taking time to rewind my rhymes to a time where i knew what i was saying saving all the breath i've baited till the famous notes have faded greyed it whats left inside the fog is a ruin of a mess we made its useless from young and old but still why do i do this used this mic till it was out of rhymes now i find i'm a nuisance foolish lots of squares in my cube i'm still a rubiks they can't solve me with their systems i'm a puzzle with the rhythm hard to listen it's like you got Pharaoh’s wisdom asking others to explain your dreams i still feel the scars where feathers got plucked from wings but i dipped that quill in ink so the extinct still breathe hold me back hold me back hold me back you gonna have to hold me back i know the devil got a dagger to cut off my tongue i know angels that'll fight for me with their harp unstrung i'm someone that no one has heard of absurd but i'm sure of one thing my soul has been purchased (Jesus) sign of the times why my lines getting urgent i love fresh fruit but don't convo with serpents life as a servant till close of the curtains stopped looking down at the ground profound as my purpose this is lyrical leprosy flesh fall from felonies more of him less of me untill there's nothing left of me unless you rest in peace give all you’ve got to be opposite of property positive philosophy suburban kid bustin’ out with back packs raps underground hip-hop i wasn't raised on that but i changed on that i was made on that and this the catastrophe, push play on that Satan still saying he's on the attack I got angels on both shoulders like a backpack strap my impact still intact I’m in that cant detach and after this catastrophe, hold me back

what a time to be alive I'm just chilling with my wife Some would kill to have this life but aren't willing to sacrifice stay lowkey outta sight i've been following the light darkness try to swallow life bring me down just for spite But I'm just here to fight I’m just here to fight darkness try to take my life I'm just I’m just here to fight I’m just here to fight I’m just here to fight darkness try to take my life I'm just I’m just here to fight welcome to the calm before the storm everybody rebel against the norm now it's normal to be a rebel yeah i'm rebel in that I don't conform this realness in it’s rarest form Infantry aiming to settle scores pacifist with my fists all torn you either fight for whats right or you lose this war if losing the only option its forgotten no caution to get caught in no pauses this the line that were crossing no position off limits no mission relinquished were given permission for visions in distance been a fight from the beginning till the end when it's finished we're winning or going down swinging this pennant i mean it i meant it say it again if you need it the squeamish get cast out like legions of demons i do this for the squad and my girl and my God who gave me a purpose profound as it's got Against all the odds in the valley of shadows i will still battle my head in the gallows how far can that get us when faith seems so distant still fighting for righteousness against all of this evilness hard but the scars are part of the war there is no loss when the cost is the faith that is formed I do what i do cuz i am who i am i dont expect you to ever understand you do what you do because you want to be them follow these trends to the end then start over again identity crisis in prices despite this alliance with violence and vipers with fire and venom on the tips of these javelins jabbed in my abdomen still i am adamant it's faith over anything anyone anywhere anytime anything threatens me let it be revenge is the lords and peace is my recipe but i'll fight for the light when the darkness is pressing me if david squandered armor to harbor the strength of the father with stones from the water then how should i falter though giants stand taller then all of my army god has still called me i feel every evil they whisper and call out You can either fall down or you go all out the fire conspired inside like an arsonist When we go to war better know who your partnered with regarded as scarred with my heart torn to parts again God is sovereign and good on his promises We will be dragged through the mud and the blood but the fight is worth fighting for we never give up

10:53 on a Sunday night open eye’s try not to see Monday’s sights my car parked under these incandescent lights that light faker than the kind that flickers alive inside sometimes i pray for anxiety to subside and when it does i still feel like it won’t suffice my mind resigned with thoughts i can’t describe blink twice just to say hi, i’m still alive when i think like this my eye’s look unoccupied an exoskeloton was left where nothing resides my potential in my peripheral, if i keep my eyes wide id see an opportunity to seize, a sensation to survive an invitation for the patient growing ancient as time binds like a vagrant in detainment with no restrainment but his vice what is life besides what we do with it but who decides if it’s worth it to do it or sit back and hide relax this world got me feeling detached i fell for all of the traps no not a chance they lie but they claim it as facts i been there no going back i can’t relax this world got me feeling detached i fell for all of the traps no not a chance they lie but they claim it as facts i been there no going back i can’t relax I hate how slow i fall asleep wake up so fast like i can’t dream dream what i wanted to be that was the first achievement took time to recognize defeat But didn’t dedicate allegiance seconds settled into the seeds They had planted in appeasement as time turned they had buried me but i was planted for this season without reason i feel the air empty from my lungs and i’m lost, deep inside nostalgia like a drug there’s parts of my past i can feel deep with in my being it’s like i’m there but i’m only thinking, no ones seeing what i’m seeing seizing fleeting seasons as they’re leaving falling deeper into dreaming not a sleeper but i’ve deemed it as relief from all these secrets if i leave it it’s like waking, from paralyzation searching for salvation, blink twice as an invitation

yeah, call me slow motion logan beat up the beat like a skinny hulk hogan lyrical samurai, microphone shogun no haters only doubters till I show them schedule wide open, word play so potent victory like nike but i got no endorsements they talk in whispers when they hear my performance actions speak louder than words so enormous i play the game wrong like Shawn Marion’s form is still ball out of control, sportscenter record it the one who yells the loudest isn't the most important watch out for the quietest kids in the corners watch out for these kids who think before they speak Didn't your mom teach you the mind is a powerful thing? life can pass in a flash, think before you blink open your eyes and you'll find that hope is not extinct simple things are gorgeous in slow motion but life has become such a blur take a pause i need to focus when did everything become so obscure wordplay is highlight play rewind that back slow it down what he say I Jump over competition rap vince carter more like raptor we ain't talking bout toronto 5 am no metaphor here I gain control like the bite on dogs ear can't claim to be alpha when omega so near no games no Sega but Genesis clear since by, Adam all die be careful what you make the apple of your eye these snakes will try to get you to taste a little slice You on the eve of destruction, keep the sun in the sky and turn the beat up till your ears bleed and your earrings get a fresh coat of that heart colored piercing I'm covered by the blood of the one redeeming love a quenching thirst when all others were never enough and I'm willing to drown if grace is an ocean turn the fast life into worship thru slow motion you can still make a difference even when nobody will notice Opposite of Barry Allen, all i really know is they said I was no match for the devil I showed my match to the devil and he wasn't on my level that's a little light, I'ma let it shine evolution of my faith by intelligent design double entaundre, intelligence in rhyme my faith cannot fade become irrelevant with time love cannot change based on how it's defined the blood bought offering paid by amazing sacrifice like no, no, can't slow it down no Pinocchio nose we keep it realer now we in the cut just like a healer now they lost in the dark hoping to feel it out and I could be right there with them broken and hopeless lost in the system in-between planets on a spaceship prison interstellar bars that's a black hole mission but who created the worm hole who gave us a firm hold, in this inferno who gave a chance in this ash not to burn but learn and return whole, it's crucial on the inside renewed it's internal but everyday it's rabbit verses the turtle life goes fast it could pass in flash no chance to ever come back full circle

eah yeah oh ooh yeah yea oh oh Its the point i’m at in life now where every fight happens with the lights out i got secrets i hid nobody finds out and in the commotion i just wait for it to die down force field but they couldn’t shield me force fed fake now i’m vomiting the real me forget nights with my eye’s glued to the ceiling and every body hands up if you feel me really, this is the point that we all at like we all that I been dodging missiles preparing for impact I’m intact but barely, cautiously daring I dare you to dart back to where their cross hairs are aiming i’m tired (so tired) to tired to hold your gaze i’ll take a back seat while this escalates and we both hold this fate like it’s a hand grenade I see you in me do you see me the same i’m just in the same place that i always stay interpolated interpretations percolate they love to keep me in the meditative state where i don’t ever act, i’m just out the way I know you here for the Vibes (for the vibes) I know you here for the turn up (for the turn up) They told me run for my life (for my life) But i couldn’t carry this burden (this burden) I know that you down to ride (down to riot) I know you here for a purpose (for a purpose) They told me run for my life (for my life) But i couldn’t carry this burden (this burden) Some want their story to be tragic some want attention for their clip like automatic somedays i feel off balance and carrying this weight left my soul all calloused i just spin spin on this carousel they just cash in on a soul to sell i swear when did everything become a product probably around the time my moves became cautious barely conscious bars like a convict ask for consent content get condemned contained in this thing with no accomplice made it to the center of their circle what did that accomplish all these actions i’m appalled with only to have another trophy to polish add in another idol i have to worship the image in the mirror no less than perfect we fighting the wrong dang wars now battle just to settle a score now we all want God to reign till he pours down but we don’t fold our fingers to pray till we the prey now

ok Two thumbs up, vibin I cant let my life in Still feel stuck, Smiling This weight in me seems seismic Two thumbs up, Lyin Don’t know why I’m trying Two thumbs up, Vibing Vibing Expressionless face in the mirror Effortless grace for the phantom of fear where is the measure for when heaven is near is it fate or is it faith when it all disappears Am I in the clear? I been insincere But never revealed I let my emotions act as a shield When I didn’t express any powers I wield This is the feeling you get and suppress So the more they expect, the more you show less Until it’s regressed to the point of obsession Is there life in the lesson if there’s none in expression Vibing Two thumbs up, vibin I cant let my life in Still feel stuck, Smiling Vibing Riding Thriving in the silence don’t know where this line ends Or when I became the pilot I conceal and hide it Dress it up so vibrant They can tell they like it The dim lit makes them short sighted I can’t even fight it Rolling and its frightening Ice cold hands in vice grip The sky spreads out like lightning darkness roars like lions Let’s move on despite it I guess it’s decided Two thumbs up, vibin I cant let my life in Still feel stuck, Smiling This weight in me seems seismic Two thumbs up, Lyin Inside i feel like dying Two thumbs up, Vibing Vibing Yeah yeah Oooo I guess it’s decided? Im alone as i’ve been I’m so sick of hiding Jesus can you find me?

I don’t want your cold, old religion I wanna know that i’m not alone I don’t want your cold old religion I just want a little bit of hope

esus, tell me can you hear us God, are you near to us we live delirious Jesus, tell me can you hear me God, what’s the plan for me in this catastrophe you can flash the smile only God know what’s inside i’ve been taking falls for all others pride in the night watching for the sun to rise been around the world so i’ve seen the other side devil said i’m in for one hell of a ride try to keep it close despite the divide hold it together like my soul is in a vise grip around my throat, I might not survive ok i’ve been holding on to straws of faith praying i don’t fall away another casualty Angels calling out to me my lungs full of praise my heart speak blasphemes watch out for the devil he scheme so tactfully who’s gonna save you when darkness comes rushing in i’ve been battling alone i will never win I said i’m just here to fight, but i’m giving in i’ve lost every desire i’ve lost every fix i had some faith but i nixed it what of light that can’t blight out the wicked i’ve been holding to hope but it’s ricocheted and everything that’s left came back around and told me it had been in vain God can i hold to you when it all decays Will you be my strength as i waste away got to be more to life than being entertained I know faith doesn’t always provide an escape

don’t ask for attention We don’t need it we slipped out the back before they realized we were missing we were long gone left no traces of evidence somewhere between hellishness and wherever heaven is i think we escaped they had sentenced our fate lock us up for life and never visit our grave i was blank parchment just begging for color you were life to the fullest uncontrollable wonder I forgot what it was like you helped me to remember sunset summer nights painted sky it still lingers picture worth a thousand words i see it in my mind and can’t find any words to begin to describe went without a disguise they October 31st it so they were looking for a mask when we were being our own persons thought it was me verses me with the whole world in between conflict of empty dreams making melancholy memories i don’t want to feel empty i don’t want to feel lost it all started with this broken hearted fear i’d be alone I placed my my palm against yours and said i’d never let you go this selfish evil enters to splinter to the bone the frost bites at the heart until it grips around the soul the lost fights back to battle till it rips right out the throat and the light that filled your hope now starts to choke And this darkness is getting darker feel like just letting go empty all this empty out of me i don’t want lose control Now the sounds of victory all viscously surround expectations lacerations can’t you see me bleeding out my lies all turned to leaches in the shallows ready to drown will the shadows be my savior or just drag me further down we rewrote all the rules and that wasn’t allowed you look beautiful and broken like the shape of your crown don’t ask for attention Find beauty in what’s hidden like that secluded glade of trees we used to visit there’s an old cottonwood where we carved our initials in the outline of a heart to feel official that was before crisis hit and our life exploded like a missile just to make sure i felt the point i sewed these seeds without a thimble you kept me steady when i felt like i was falling in but if i said this was the end i’d be playing pretend They want to hear the greatest story ever told another page turned but the endings still unknown i see shadows of my past in every single sun ray but i found a love that lasts in the light the dark can’t claim

If i wrote my own eulogy it’d probably be a song about you the type of happy tune you can sit back and relax to on simple summer day when the sky is bright blue without you my life just didn’t seem important at least not enough to bring up and report it I existed with out you could call it that existence isn’t living and living isn’t all that we crack it up to be i mean if we’re being honest we spend most of life living for what happens when we’re gone if i could write a song to encapsulate this feeling i’d start it much different than i did in the beginning of this one, hopefully something about a smile and a beauty that lies inside reflected in the wild if i told it how i wanted the congregation would be beaming and you catch them at the memorial still singing i hope i don’t die tonight i hope i don’t die tonight I wrote this in a moment i was broken I wrote this after words said i never should have been spoken I wrote this after seeing the tears in your eyes that you long disguised, but didn’t need to hide i wrote this alone with all the lights turned off on a hot summer night with the frost all dissolved frozen hearts can drown others out as they thaw sometimes the greatest love songs ever written need paused but if i press that you pressed back like whats the point of it all there’s just further to fall when love is involved what is love? i contemplate it after sun down sip a blue moon until it comes back around i didn’t make any decisions besides it something i want us to be in some times love is the victim But love is never the villain i hope i don’t die tonight i hope i don’t die tonight i hope i don’t die tonight is this what love feels like? all right all right all right all right all right all right all right now she wearing all white like a ghost does all rise as she enters and approaches me what an exquisite seen i can’t dream like this it’s better than any dreams can be i hope i don’t die tonight i hope i don’t die tonight i hope i don’t die tonight this is what love feels like

and looking back its crazy like what if these moments we have now we would have always had those? what would that have been like? If i could go back i would dance with you if i could go back guess i'm hear to get an education at the back of this class just sitting and waiting impatient but time isn't wasted just taken as hostage and the possibilities shaken spit out whatever they intake regurgitation you should see the inside of my imagination if you opened the backdoor to my brain you see the things i couldn't begin to explain and it's plain that my dreams all need to include you your the whole reason I even sit in this room i swear i keep myself more closed off than a tomb but i'd open up, i'd resurrect for you is that true? i feel empty no good way to say it but i dream of invading the vagueness of vacant i'm still in the same spot i was detained in but your hands in my hand and you hear me saying i never went to a school dance I had so many dreams but they don’t last i gave up on every last chance if i could go back ( i would dance with you) Nobody ever taught me to slow dance interlocked fingers when we hold hands for as long as this note lasts i know that ( i would dance with you) i would pick you out of all the crowds out of all of the audience out of all that surrounds i would pick you out like a sniper through scope though the scope is sloped with hope that all that we know will change as this rust gives way to gold like Midas you touch it and you lose what you own what if what you love turns into what you loathe and what you never wanted is becoming the goals i can see the fire requires to relight the coals as the cold ocean waves continues to roll this is the thievery that i thought was stolen when i held the pieces of my heart like glass that was broken and it butchered my hands putting the pieces together hoping i could fix it and make it as good ever but as i held the pieces of my makeshift feelings you took the parts of my heart and showed me it's healing now she's all alone on the balcony gazing over the city in it's glory the beauty is blazing i wonder if she even knows she's breath taking this life a work of art the brush stroke of a painting as i'm standing my mouth agape in amazement the moment for which we've waited is here and cant waste it a radiant engravement of savored sensations sedated but now elated invigoration this is the scene before the director yells cut where we walk off set or where i wake up this is the part that seems to good to be true but i mean just look at you, just look at this view! just feel the moment and hold it and grasp it and make the most of it it's yours you can have it your faced away lost in the silence of your gaze i walk behind you take your hand and i say

me and my crew, we do real things best friends for life and we live as kings with no thrown no crown, humble not proud and when that music starts we turn it up loud this is youth group music feels like it's 2009 I just got my first girl thought the world was mine it can all flip in a minute thought it was legitimate next second new direction she tell me she not interested thats just how life goes some days but i'm happy as long as my soul is saved we the goofy misfits the parents said stay away but we're going to grow up and be okay so like it or not this microphone gets rocked for me and my crew who you never gave a shot Give us one chance and we'll show you our potential all i need is a blank note pad and a pencil trying to turn us around almost turned us away brothers build up their brothers now we're here to stay me and my crew, we do real things best friends for life till we see heavens gates Bible study and i'm hanging with the youth group pray requests, no regrets in my small group they said we wouldn’t make it through sunday school but i'm back and im hanging with the youth group me and my crew made a lot of mistakes didn't pay attention listenin to what the devil says without some leaders that could relate to us lack of trust probably would'v caused us to erupt those that didn't judge but lifted us up might saved our lives wasting the time at church camp like every night Where would i be without people that believed in me instead of scolding and holding me back from what i could be it's a scary thought, a grim picture one i only look at to become a better leader Jesus came and saved me despite my imperfections so i pray for todays youth when they feel rejected yeah we rejects, in the worlds eyes thankful to be a son of God, the lords prize The worlds not mine, but i am not the worlds I am God's possession, so the world couldn’t hurl trying to turn us around almost turned us away brothers build up their brothers now we're here to stay me and my crew, we do real things best friends for life till we see heavens gates addictions inflicting us, tricking and conflicting us about to bust from lack of trust, they're looking down on us we coulda skipped coulda spent our sundays other places but without the love of Jesus our lives are more than wasted every single joy i've felt from every moment of my life is a gift from God that I can't deny so when it seemed cliche when it seemed like there was no way i relied on jesus christ and his saving grace like…

i escape from my nightmares bare foot thru broken glass and the demons that chase me smell the blood on their path hopping into sedans where the tires have been slashed to make a getaway that’s blocked by the fires and ash got to ask for a faster way than fascination with the path i’ve taken takin longer than expectations stated when i made the statement not waiting i think i got lost i’ve been counting on God, never counting the cost i’ve been walking by faith, needing no explanation these ill fated vacated faces saying i’m faking i’ll know it’s safe when i see the glow then i’ll know i’ve made it safely through this hades we’ve strafing just to make it maybe i’ll have to feel my way through the dark or listen hard for a still small voice i call upon the lord i know he’s beside me even when i’m denying he has his hand guiding me Away we go Away we go This is why we fight Why we live this life Why we shine this light had a celebration low key in the shadows with no lights on Because the savior had a hope we new wouldn’t fade and we could lean on we knew at the start this was only getting tougher wouldn’t be gone but every victory made it lighter and light struck away are burdens there was a purchase that was surfaced for the nervous and the frail that made us read outside the lines and touch it like it was braille and with every exhale we felt a little bit of life the type you can’t really feel until you step out into the night …to shine a light and to your surprise you find that there was more within you sight and despite all you despise theres still a love that grows inside that fights away the pain till it’s denied and theres a love for the world not just for the one outside your window but the world you have to seek to see the part you’ve never been to this is me when God opened my eyes inside the night to see the light through so if i tell you we are leaving i pray you wouldn’t feel rejected this retrospective directions god has lead us, i read it said it the message for where we’re headed may all that feet thats filled with lead be un imbedded impressive that the lesser i am the more that he makes of me and the more i fear the more he creates the faith in me waiting impatiently for the creator to call me out the darkness now he leads me to the darkness with this light thats meant for sparking heavy hearted as we depart but this part is the important pardon all these days inside my life, the time i squandered used to ponder the purpose inside my person till i was offered a crown to be a servant and let my service do the talking I am a narrative written by the greatest of all authors offer these words on an altar to the lord to show my father that the farther he can take it let it be the farthest that i go…