Hold It Down

VERSE(1):

This thing is fatal

Long before the cradle

While prenatal

Sin seeped in through your navel

None escape the curse

cause none escape the verse

("But we got") Cheese!...

Please put away the purse

Cause there's a thief coming to pull off a heist

Appraise your life and smash up your ice

How bad can it get?

Well, you gonna throw a fit

when all your Bling! Bling! turns to psst, psst!

(Note: Psst= nothing. This is not a substitution for anything else)

All your shine will be snuffed

all your Plat. will turn rust

but what do you do when life's a must

Is what your screaming

but your meaning is leaning

cause that would make your existence no different than a demon

Cause though we too were condemned, each man now has a choice

to choose Christ and rep with more than your voice

Cause just what is it that you're really telling me,

when you say you love God but live the life of Be-elzee?

Even demons tried to say, "Son of God, what up?"

Jesus would turn ice grill and say, "Shut up!"

How you gonna try and praise the Most High,

when you know your native tongue is a lie

So if you say you see life through the eye of Minolta Picture what Christ condemns in our culture

Peep the clear picture

It's a muddy mixture

How is a Celtic gonna play 76'er?

We need elixir, when the trickster seems Royal

Yall, McDonalds don't serve flame broil

If your truly lost, but now found

If He's truly lifted up, hold it down

CHORUS:

You try to show'em day from night (They're like, "What!")

You try to tell'em wrong from right

You say yo live the life, That's why we gotta hold it down

You tell'em righteousness is tight (They're like, "What!")

You tell'em to walk in the Light

Praise God when you get your Mic

That's why we gotta hold it down

In front of rich men and Ceasars (Hold it down)

When everybody's screaming Jesus

Even if they ain't believers

VERSE(2):

And this ain't vendetta

Love is better

we just saying if it's real you can smell (the) leather

(like) Niagara=Falls

vapor action=Halls

and true Lemonheads tighten up jaws

We talking Cause and Effect,or called and elect

Which means when Christ chose you

You lose the choice to select

Whether or not

You think righteous living is hot

When heavenly minded

It's the only choice you got

It's getting late, every soldier got to carry his weight

Yo, we contending for the faith Baby Boy

And you to Sis, If you chose to enlist

In His Salvation Army then it goes like this

Because of the sacrificial bleeder

We follow the leader

feed the soul and starve the Saturday night fever

Either give a committed pound and bring your sword

Or side with this world, name your Lord!

Cause the True God don't need an upgrade like your Pentium

Why change His whole steez to meet the needs of this millennium?

He won't and you can't, So like the deer pants

If you thirst after God, Then raise up those hands

Our God has got plans, Much different from man's

So either choose His, Or be down with Satan's

But you can't love both, believe me you'll choke

taking deep breaths in Heaven, While inhaling hell smoke

Both wheat and both tare

Grow up together right here

And we can't separate

And that Christ made clear

But he also gave Truth, To let us see Duke

You can hide behind lies, But can't hide fruit

So if you headed Uptown, And like how this sounds

Then keep them hands up, For a sign that your down

If you were once lost , But now your once found

Then All God's people, Gotta (or Say) "Hold it down!"

CHORUS