Off the Hook

Verse 1: Your lookin' at an ex-crook

In fact, I'm lookin' back at the day I got off the hook

And put the crookin' act back behind

Man I got, no plans to rewind

I used to be blind

But now I see fine, with divine spectacles

Some biblical meats and vegetables, my level's risin' like cholesterol

Best of all, I'm blessed to call God my father, I got arrested, y'all

Let me tell you how it happened

Check it, y'all

Though I'm tough like shoe leather

I always new whether

Or not I did good, I always could do better

Plus I knew a lot of fellas worst than me

I thought, "How bad could I be?"

Then I got a letter

A subpoena

To pre-bema

Court trial. I thought, "How?

Of course I'll plead not guilty

I'm just a poor child

I figured, "No lawyers needed...

The court speeded

They're mistaken.

I'll take my own case and plead it."

Conceited

I figured I'd throw the judge one line

Blow his dumb mind and be out of there by lunch time

Dressed to impress

With my best clothes on

Just then the Judge stepped in

With a red robe on

(hold on)

This must be a dream

It's Chief Justice Supreme Judge

Elohim

I'm feelin' sick like disease

Cause in His court we all fall short like midgets on our knees

My lunch plans canceled

I don't stand a chance

He'll pull my file

I'm in distress like a damsel.

I'm shocked and in awe then my jaw hits the floor

The prosecutor comes in and it's Mr. Law

(Awww)

No more hope and now I'm waitin'

He's known

For bringin' condemnation

With his open statement

My heart is poundin' as he states what the charge is:

"THE DEFENDANT'S GUILTY OF NOT KNOWIN' WHO GOD IS."

Chorus: I'm in trouble man

I better come up with a plan

Maybe I can make the dash

Or give the judge a little cash

I know that I'm wrong

And I'm trying to be strong

But my rap sheet is long

So I'm singing this song

Verse 2: I found myself jammed in court

And in short

I was guilty of bein' filthy like men in sports

I was losin'

The prosecution was relentless

He pointed out the flaws in my mouth like a dentist

He exposed my very words

Gave the court a record of every dirty joke and every curse word

More error when he picked my mind like a psychiatrist

The jury's buyin' it

They're gettin' mad like a scientist

(There's a door)

You know I'm eyein' it

Better tryin' split

Cause Mr. Law rules with an iron fist

I'm not a chump but I know I gotta run

But I'm not dumb

I see that guard and he's gotta gun!

No one's laughin'

Not a one

He pulled out x-rays of my heart and I don't know where he got em' from

He labeled me a thug-I screamed, "I WAS NOT!"-Objection overruled-then he pulled out my mug-shot

Showed the jury me and my boys at the drug spot and the bus stop smokin' much pot in a rough spot

He went on, revealed the lust I hold

Plus I'm swoll

'cause He showed all the stuff I stole

(the prosecution won't rest)

He made reference to my sin-nature

Pulled out mad evidence

Statin' ever since I was born I've been fond of sin, on one accord with Satan

Like a Honda

With justice on the trail He proved I was gonna fail

Put my motives on the scale

(that's it, I'm goin' to jail)

Kind of petro,

But yet I'm thinkin', "Let's go.

How bad can jail be?"

But now they're screamin', "DEATH ROW!"

Chorus: This is ill yall

Yo, it's for real yall

Can't you see that I'm doom

And I'm about to be consumed

So young

But sin has got me so strung

I'm about to cry

Because I'm about to die

Verse 3: I'm still in court

And in my mind thoughts of death sink

By now I'm funky

I'm hungry plus my breath stinks

The Judge, jury, even I'm convinced

I'm guilty of law-breakin' and it's all makin' sense

You and I only look good to the human eye

Man bein' basically good is a human lie

I'm thirsty, but not for water, for mercy

I'm unworthy

The whole court room heard me

The Judge stood with the law book

They all looked

And saw what blew their minds as the one who made the law took off His robe, and became the substitution

Off we strolled

To the place of execution

Gave me a pardon

Instead let them bruise Him

Justified me and let the law accuse Him

They gripped Him, stripped Him,

Whipped Him

They saw thorns and picked Him

They sticked Him,

He made Himself the victim

I felt the pain

I walked home in the rain

Changed

Not the same,

Because I knew I should have got the blame

How could I complain?

I wept on my bed, when on my pillow I found a letter and it read,

"I BLED,

ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, MY BLOOD WAS SHED,

ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU,

THEY KILLED ME INSTEAD,

ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU,

I AROSE FROM THE DEAD,

ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU."

"He's Alive!" I thought that He'd be back

At the morgue tears poured, then I hear tap

At the door

Unexpected but...Yup,

You guessed it.

He had resurrected!

He came in my heart and blessed it

Love manifested

Though I wear jeans and not the double breasted

I praise God I got arrested,

Cause I had just heard of Him,

Now I'm a son, not a distant relative

Like a third cousin, word brethren.

Get a load of me

I'm free

I'm property of the only God who died for me

I can see a whole society who need to cop a plea

Sin's got the lock

But God's got the key.

Chorus: Look now

No more crook now

Close the book now

My sins are took now

No more death row

No more death yo

Come what ever

In Christ I'll live forever

Forever off the hook.