ONCE UPON A NOW
Learn to see with the eyes of Jesus
LYRICS
[Intro]
I wanna take you where Him and I reside//the heaven that's in my mind//mi casa beyond time//a peace of mind, shalom when you socialise, the wisdom a gold mine, the river that flows life.
beyond the visual lies, you steady visualise//in your minds eye//the Sci-fi, reality you call life.
A distortion of truth, that's reality proof//the Eden fruit, a gain that's built simply for you to lose.
[Verse 1]
I met a man who had a cane for his soul//unable to walk unaided, crutches for self control//picking up the pennies trying to making sense of his life//He traded for money the dollar a very steep price.
Sitting on the corner with a reality cheque//that bounced tried to buy eternity from the lucy set//He spent the gold of his soul and accumulated debt//dug a hole to console, a suicide, to appease death.
Swimming with the loan sharks, interest is on the deep end//shallow puddles of water he dives in every weekend//deeper he keeps on sinking, cash float, he's barely breathing//feeling the choke of the note, for life he was reaching.
So I let him know, heaven ain't a mile away but a heart a way with a mouth to pray, and you'll be saved.
[Verse 2 ]
I met a girl who was in the eve of her life//she had Adam in sight, Kevin and his friend Mike//innocence taken away molested at the age of 3//the same prison was a key that somehow brought relief.
Like nicotine//pass the alchy//roll the weed//now set me free//. No dad in her life so no King to raise a queen//she's trying to kill the same monster with her purity//a purity that was tainted before she her reached puberty.
Looking for love in the wallet of an older man//maybe the change in there could take her away to the promised land//back to the innocence the age of 3 before the man//so I brought the man, Christ and she took his hand.
I tell you, Heaven is a word away, a hand away, so give away your heart today.
[Verse 3]
What I told Fake and figurative, based it on a reality//see the truth of the matter is, this is a daily tragedy//my heart is crying, emotions flowing on potions, I hit you with double doses, I'm hoping to shift your focus.
So you can see, beyond the vanity venom, the cataracts on your lenses, leave retina defenceless, you can't see love//hate the heart blindness I meant it, I wanna give you a different perspective, my sight I'll lend it.
He was drowning in the flesh the sea of his senses//no anchor for his soul, moving with the cash flow, riding on reckless//reckless abandonment for self, suicide apprentice//but I brought Jesus Christ who is the hope for the hopeless.
See she was looking for the love of her father she never had//He said you're the apple my eye when they got the pad//she paid with her body, her dignity was cash//I told her He paid with blood and body for her hand.