DC TALK - Jesus Freak

1 So help me God
Bombarded by philosophies that satisfy the surface
I flee to something deeper at the risk of seeking purpose
How can I hang in this environmental state of being
When everything I'm striving for it's nothing that I'm seeing

Won't you take my heart, won't you take my soul
Won't you come and make me whole again
You, you've got what I need and you never retreat
Unto you I will concede

So help me God
To put my faith in you
So help me God
Before I come unglued
Call it my addicition
I can't get enough of you
So help me God
To put my faith in you

Infected by the skin I'm, in that's starving with desire
And Jesus ain't the latest thing to come across the wire
I throw myself in mercy for I am the chief of sinners
But daily taking up my cross
has brought it's share of splinters

You're there when I call
And you're there when I fall
Even though I don't deserve it all
You, you light my way
Through the night and the day
And from you I will not stray

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God so help me
This is my soul's plea
I'm desperately devoted
I can't get enough of you

Cause you are the one I love
Cause you are the one I need
Cause you are the one I'm seeking 
Cause you are the one for me

2 Colored People
Pardon me, your epidermis is showing
I couldn't help but notice your shade of melanin
I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement
Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skin

We gotta come together, and thank the maker of us all

We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place
We're colored people, and they call us the human race
We've got a history so full of mistakes
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace

A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope

We gotta come together, aren't we all human after all?

Ignorance has wronged some races 
And vengeance is the Lord's
If we aspire to share this space
Repentance is the cure

Well just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones
As a part of our anatomy

3 Jesus Freak
Separated I cut myself clean
>From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I've divorced

I saw a man with tattoo on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rythem of his belly with my head
Jesus saves is what it raved in a typical tatoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city and he claimed he had a dream

What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak
There ain't no disgusing the truth

Kamikazi my death is gain
I've been marked by my maker 
A peculiear display
The high and lofty they see me as weak
Cause I won't live and die for the power they seek
There was a man from the desert with naps in his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn't too much left in the upper room
With skins on his back and hair on his face
they thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
You see the Pharisee's tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus Freak

People say I'm strange does that make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger 
People say I'm strange does that make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger

What will people think
What will people do
What will people think
What will people do
I don't really care
What else can I say
There ain't no disguising the truth
Jesus is the way

4 What of I stumble
Is this one for the people?
Is this one for the Lord?
Or do I simply serenade for things I must afford?
You can jumble them together, my conflict still remains
For holiness is calling, in the midst of courting fame

Cause I see the trust in their eyes
Though the sky is falling
They need your love in their lives
Compromise is calling

What if I stumble, what if I fall?
What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all?
Will the love continue?
When my walk becomes a crawl?
What if I stumble, what if I fall?

What if I stumble, what if I fall?
You never turn in the heat of it all
What if I stumble, what if I fall?

Father please forgive me for I cannot compose
The fear that lives within me or the rate at which it grows
If struggle has a purpose on the narrow road you've carved
Why do I dread my trespasses
Will leave a deadly scar?

Do they see the fear in my eyes?
Are they so reaveling?
This time I cannot disguise
All the doubt I'm feeling

Everyone's got to crawl when you know that
you're up aginst a wall its about to fall

I hear you whispering my name, you say
My love for you will never change, never change

What if I stumble?
What if I fall?
You never turn in the heat of it all
What if I stumble, what if I fall?
You are my comfort, and my God

Is this one for the people, is this one for the Lord?

5 Day by day
I live a simple life, I take a day at a time
I spend my mornings with God before I hit the grind
The subtleties of darkness never cease to amaze
As a physical world creates a spiritual haze

Blinded by distractions
Lost in matterless affairs
Reaching through the darkness
trusting you will meet me there

Day by day, Day by day
Oh dear Lord, three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
To love thee more dearly
To follow thee more nearly I got to take it day by day

You sweep your feet down the alley streets
Somtimes you creep I never see you coming
Monday, man you're on my back like a knapsack
strapped with my heavy burden
No! You cannot condemn me
I won't buy your bag of goods
You've got nothing for me anyway that's why I pray

Day by day, Day by day
Oh dear Lord, three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
To love thee more dearly
To follow thee more nearly, we got to take it day by day

These three things I do pray, day by day

6 Mrs. Morgan
7 Between you and me
Sorrow is a lonely feeling
Unsettled is a painful place
I've lived with both for far too long now
Since we've parted ways

I've been wrestling with my conscience
and I found myself to blame
If there's to be any resolution
I've got to peel my pride away

Just between you and me
I've got something to say
I wanna get it straight
before the sun goes down
Just between you and me
Confession needs to be made
Recompense is my way to freedom now
Just between you and me
I've got something to say

If confession is the road to healing
Forgiveness is the promised land
I'm reaching out in my conviction
I'm longing to make amends

So I'm sorry for the words I've spoken
For I've betrayed a friend
We've got a love that's worth preserving
and a bond I will defend

In my pursuit of God I thirst for holiness
As I approach the Son I must consider this
Offenses unresolved will keep me from the throne
Before I go to you my wrong must be attoned

8 Like it, Love it, Need it
Under these circumstances they can hardly cope
Notice their fleeting glances and their lack of hope
I offer this suggestion they don't seem to care-o
This is my generation drowning in despair-o

You'll never find peace of mind in your pool of self
You'll never find peace of mind in a sea of wealth
You'll never find peace of mind in your rock and roll
You'll never find peace of mind if you sell your soul

You gotta like it, You gotta love it,
I know you need some freedom from the strife
You gotta like it, You gotta love it,
I know you need some Jesus in your life

We circumvent our feelings through an angry sound
He who complains the loudest wears the fattest crown
We're anti-everybody call it paranoia
Well, I ain't no judge or jury, but I'm praying for ya

You'll never find peace of mind in your lucky charm
You'll never find peace of mind on a hippie farm
You'll never find peace of mind in a one night stand
You'll never find peace of mind in your superman

Ya dropped right into the middle of a freak attack
Cause we're back and we're comin' like that
Ya see we're lowerin' the boom in the middle of the tune
cause the funk is always heavy where it's at
So, while you're whining all the time never changing any minds
It is clear to see your lip has lost it's button
Cause, if ya take a think at this it is easy to admit
That the selfish way you're living is for nothing

9 Jesus Freak Reprise
10 In the light
I keep trying to find a life
On my own apart from you
I am the king of excuses
I've got one for every selfish thing I do

What's going on inside of me?
I despise my own behavior
This only serves to confirm my suspicions
That I'm still a man in need of a savior

I wanna be in the light
As you are in the light
I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens
Oh, Lord be my light and be my salvation
cause all I want is to be in the light
All I want is to be in the light

The disease of self runs through my blood
It's a cancer fatal to my soul
Every attempt on my behalf has failed
To bring this sickness under control

Honesty beomes me
There's nothing left to lose
The secrets that did run me
In your presence are defused
Pride has no position
and riches have no worth
The fame that did cover me
has been sentenced to this earth
Has been sentenced to this earth

11 What have we become
A preacher shuns his brother
cause his brides a different color
and this is not acceptable his papa taught him so
It was love that he'd been preaching, but this was over reaching
the boundaries stretching further than his heart would choose to go

Like an angel with no wings
Like a kingdom with no king

What have we become?
A self indulgent people
What have we become?
Tell me where are the righteous ones
What have we become?
In a world degenerating
What have we become?

Speak your mind, look our for yourself
The answer to it all is a life of wealth
Grab all you can cause you just live once
You got the right to do whatever you want
Don't worry about others or where you came from 
It ain't what you were, It's what you have become.

Mom and Dad are fighting as Rosie lies there crying
For once again she's over heard regrets of their mistake
With Christmas bells a ringing, lil'Rosie'd leave them grieving
The gift she'd give her family would be the pills she'd take

An inconvenient child, She wasn't worth their while

What about Love?
What about God?
What about holiness?
What about mercy, compassion, and selflessness?

12 Minds eye
You know what I'm going through
I know this is true
Cause you've stood in my shoes
Desires's inside of me
but, it's hard to believe
In what you cannot see

Can you catch the wind?
See a breeze?
It's presence is revealed by the leaves on a tree
An image of my faith in the unseen

In my mind's eye I see your face
You smile as you show me grace
In my mind's eye You take my hand
We walk through foreign lands
The foreign lands of life

In my minds eye
I'm where I belong as I rest in your arms
And like a child, I hold on to you in my moment of truth
Yes I do
We can ride the storm, endure the pain
You comfort me in my hurricane
And I'll never be alone again

In my mind I can see your face
Love pours down in a shower of grace
Life is a gift that you choose to give
And I believe that we eternally live
Faith is the evidence of things unseen
People tell me that you're just a dream
But they don't know you the way that I do
You're the one I live to pursue

Can you catch the wind?
Can you see the breeze?

13 Untitled
Alas my love you say goodbye
wipe the poison from my brow
alas my love this guilty night
it gives me up like a foster child
and in this moment I take my vow
these angels sleeping at my feet 
and in this moment you do not know how my spirit wants to flee.
you see it was one man, aginst the night taking on multitude
that had left him high and dry no candle burning vigil could light the way
darkness hit the ground like a fallen satellite 
he wrestled unitl morning with human souls
and dark angels 
and there finished his work on the third day.