How Long

How Long

I question myself yo' Flame

why are you tryin'/ to live without the

Lion of Judah inside you are dyin'/

Not communin' with the God of

Mount Zion/ Can't you see you're

denyin'/ the very God they can't

break down to a science/ I know

you're young and you see some

things that you think you are missin'/

Man you trippin' you're missin'

nothin' get back on your mission/ you

followed the flesh next you would

wallow in mess/ don't let thinkin' bout

sex throw you back like a you're

Mitchell and Ness/ don't get weary in

your well-doin'/ you were doin' well

until you let your well ruin and run dry/

tryin' to fulfill them selfish ambitions/ making sinful

decisions without repentance leaves only contention/

don't forget you're a professin' Christian/ them lyrics

you've written they don't mean nothin' unless they match

your livin'/ no one ever received elevation dibblin' and

dabblin' and rappin' with procrastination

How long has it been since we've communicated/ oh

Lord I'm tired of sin it keeps me humiliated/ so much sin in

the world we in and I've been regenerated/ oh Lord I need

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus oh, how long has it been?

I haven't been girded with the full armor/ I've

deserted your Word it turned to nervousness and then full

drama/ it's better for me to have never known/ than to

know the truth and turn back to what is wrong/ that's like

spewin' from my own stomach/ then turnin' around and

eatin' my own vomit/ when I've been made clean and I

don't mean Comet/ Lord break me abase me make me face

holiness/ shake me shape me make me face loneliness/

redeem me rescue this vessel press through/ so much just

to get next to you it's stressful/ it helps to confess my test

it's just to bless you/ disconnected I need to connect to

you/ where can I go to escape from your presence/ you're

omnipresent you're present in hell and present in heaven/

plus I'm weary and wounded/ my theory's consumed in/

iniquity's union my history is sick with influence

Lord let these broken bones rejoice in a song/

givin' you glory until I get home/ never takin' my freedom

and overthrow your authority on the throne/ livin' it holy

until I get home/ desperate measures will I take from now

on to stay away from what I'm knowin' is wrong/ selfcontrol

because my suffering is long/ no more will I ignore

the fact that it's on/ prayin' until you come back for your

own/ I'm fearfully and I'm wonderfully made/ elected and

affected by your irresistible grace/ and Lord that means

something/ take my heart and then clean something/ make

me mature and help me endure please/ deliver me from the

guilt and the filth/ find me on my knees/ knelt down about

to put my face to the ground/ when I start renewin' my

mind it'll lessen the times I have to sing