LYRICS: OVER OCEANS

4. SISU

By the word and command mortal man can stand, son of man is the manna manifest
In the flesh and the blood, and the bones and the rocks in the valley of the dead
The dry bones are gonna walk and talk
To the rhythm of the saints y’all, to the rhythm of the saints
And I paint it red to remember the dead who laid down their lives for the truth
And the seed that is buried takes root, and this ignorant world will have proof
I remember the sins of my youth—the path and the madness of unrestrained pleasure
The heavier trip it made the heavier debtor
In the deepest of dark without a wing or a feather,
The spiral closed in like a cage, like a cage
A maze that’s amazing for days turns to rage if the page it refuses to turn
And the hopeless will hope the book burns
When the lesson it returns, but the lesson is still unlearned
See I yearn to discern if a life can be earned or is given as a gift to the dead
I read and I bled and I fed to the full, my soul on the sickest of sickness
Seeking the light of a savior’s witness, a way that one day that I might forget this
But slave master won’t permit this
‘Cause I’m a hooker I’m his mistress
And when I look for freedom he puts more chains on me
Strangles my hope so that I live like a zombie
What master’s house can this be, that when I look for freedom he still deceives me?
If there’s a God, I screamed, answer me!
I didn’t expect an answer to be received
He said, you must die, to be set free, living in the kingdom of God eternally
Open up my eyes so that I can see, and die with a cry revolutionary
Every man and woman is a witness, and we will never forget this
Truth
Undiluted, undisputed, never to be substituted or uprooted, fully suited for the war
It’s a modernization of a timeless metaphor, and
By the boomerang we bring the beats back more
What for man do we work exterior to core, or begin it in the spirit of the Lord
Now you could pull the chord, but the people still sing it a cappella
Marching to the beat I hear their feet are in the cellar
Fear not, the world cannot stop what must begin within you and me
A fire wind, holy hymn, beautiful diadem, hidden within positively pure prism refraction
Every color’s broken down, harmonize with my eye’s spectrum
In the end bleeding into the One, to the source, to the beautiful Father of Light
All the pressure and pain produces perseverance
It’s purged by the flames, without interference
Produces a hope in the glory of God
My God, I am your son, and I know that You will finish the work that You’ve begun
Homespun, grassroots, spontaneously suits the purpose, and we don’t deserve this
Life
He said, you must die to be set free, living in the kingdom of God eternally
Open up my eyes so that I can see, and die with a cry revolutionary
Every man and woman is a witness, and we will never forget this
Truth