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(Reposting a Post) -Something I wrote while not able to access my blog- Original: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:06am
I wrote this rap while I was living in Santa Monica, California and hanging out with the homeless on Venice Beach. After eating lunch with a few of my new found homeless friends a rich man walked by and scoffed at me...and this is when these words came pounding onto my heart :) I've never written a "Rap" before so Critics go easy on me... but these words are meant to be read with a beat in your head. Read it as a rap or verse.
No Name Rap
Here I am standing right here
Do you hear me? Do you see my fears?
Of course you don’t
You’re looking at me with blind eyes, closed ears.
Open your mind, open your eyes.
Look around but don’t look so surprised
This is the way it’s always been
A life starving for love but surrounded by sin
Be the change that you want to see?
Does it start with you? Does it start with me?
I clutch my bible, keep it by my side
I read the words, become mad,
at how much the world has lied
I dance to my own beat
I wave my fists, jump to my feet
It starts now
No longer do I take a back seat
I feel the beat so strongly it pulses my heart
If you want to change the world now is a great time to start
People are running, they look so scared
The world just watches,
making comments, make’n em sound like they cared.
Throw off your shoes; give the shirt off your back
If you can’t do that,
don’t be surprised when its respect that you lack.
There you are, where you drive your nice cars
Whistle at the women, hang out at the bars.
Here I am made for the poor
But I have to be rich to open the door
Screw irony I will break that chain
I’m bringing new reason to why my savior was slain
I hold my hands high, jump to my feat
No longer do I sit here accepting defeat
If this is the life that I was made to live for
I’m not going to live it
as if I’m living for chores
People say, Jesus is coming back to the earth, I say He’s been here the whole time
he’s in them, the them that you don’t give a dime
Listen up people…now is the time!
Start it up…start living out those words that are so easy to speak
The words of the bible, your life, words that were meant for the meek.
People will laugh at you not understanding your ways
They turn the others around you, on you, choosing how to number your days
I say bring it on cause I got God on my side
The one, who for me, chose to die, broke my pride, watched me lied
And in the end, still, chose to be my guide
They look at me and they think they know
They got it all figured out, a white girl from Wheaton
But you reap what you sow
I get to say that I’ve been there before
No money, no food, broken family
But what is it that you’ve got to show for?
No Name Rap
Here I am standing right here
Do you hear me? Do you see my fears?
Of course you don’t
You’re looking at me with blind eyes, closed ears.
Open your mind, open your eyes.
Look around but don’t look so surprised
This is the way it’s always been
A life starving for love but surrounded by sin
Be the change that you want to see?
Does it start with you? Does it start with me?
I clutch my bible, keep it by my side
I read the words, become mad,
at how much the world has lied
I dance to my own beat
I wave my fists, jump to my feet
It starts now
No longer do I take a back seat
I feel the beat so strongly it pulses my heart
If you want to change the world now is a great time to start
People are running, they look so scared
The world just watches,
making comments, make’n em sound like they cared.
Throw off your shoes; give the shirt off your back
If you can’t do that,
don’t be surprised when its respect that you lack.
There you are, where you drive your nice cars
Whistle at the women, hang out at the bars.
Here I am made for the poor
But I have to be rich to open the door
Screw irony I will break that chain
I’m bringing new reason to why my savior was slain
I hold my hands high, jump to my feat
No longer do I sit here accepting defeat
If this is the life that I was made to live for
I’m not going to live it
as if I’m living for chores
People say, Jesus is coming back to the earth, I say He’s been here the whole time
he’s in them, the them that you don’t give a dime
Listen up people…now is the time!
Start it up…start living out those words that are so easy to speak
The words of the bible, your life, words that were meant for the meek.
People will laugh at you not understanding your ways
They turn the others around you, on you, choosing how to number your days
I say bring it on cause I got God on my side
The one, who for me, chose to die, broke my pride, watched me lied
And in the end, still, chose to be my guide
They look at me and they think they know
They got it all figured out, a white girl from Wheaton
But you reap what you sow
I get to say that I’ve been there before
No money, no food, broken family
But what is it that you’ve got to show for?
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