THE CROSS MOVEMENT - Rise lyrics

[Chorus]

We all wanna rise

We surely wanna fly

Y'all know we wanna try to live it up until we die

You know we gon' expire

But before it is ya time

You got a clue about what you gon' do with this part of ya life

[Verse One]

Father forgive me I'm a sinner

And I need you at the center of my heart

Cause that's where it all starts and I remember

When I entered your presence

You opened arms and loved me tender

Told me to observe your word so I could learn surrender

Without surrender it's the cold shoulder like it's winter

Cause your Son was stabbed, dragged, beaten, battered and injured

Before we were believers He was striped like a zebra

So we could rise like a fever

Instead of die in a heater

So for Him I get deeper

Cause life is grim like the reaper

The sin price will not get cheaper

And death he strikes like a cheetah

So you better believe a brother that tells you it's either

Light with the sinner seeker or night with them dimmer creatures

It's time

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[Verse Two]

Misses and Misters this Life will trick ya

It'll pretzel twist ya

Have you thinkin' that you are when you're not

I bring the Scriptures

What better way to get you focused in on the picture

Than to contrast and ask which life you think is the richer?

There's a dude who's about his paper

Some straight, some out of capers

Stay out his way cause he's tryin' to get back to Jamaica

When asked about his dirty dealings he called me "hater"

I said, "Look brother I hate the game, son I don't hate the playa"

He said, "I don't bother nobody, so me and god we just probably need to have a chat

How can he beef? I like to party"

Another example of one who's had ample shine

But only has samples of life in his mind It's time

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[Verse Three]

There's another dude

This brother is never rude

His jokes are never shrewd

His comments never lewd

And this dude grinds on a 3 to 11 sometimes 7 days a week

And speaks of how it's gon' be up in heaven

He's not a goody two shoes

A bible based truth dude

Lives to be a light

Who do you think this dude is glued to?

No sex before marriage - no kiss, no baby, no carriage

No if, no maybe, won't happen

One day his lady gets carats

He understands the way relationship is supposed to happen

So I ask him, "Why not chase the silver, gold or platinum?"

Maybe back then but now it's new reaction

New walk, new talk, new mind and you'll find new time

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