1000 Deaths

Album: Black Messiah (2014)
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  • When Jesus, when I say Jesus, I'm not talking about some blonde-haired, blue-eyed
    Pale-skinned, buttermilk complexion cracker Christ
    I'm talking about the Jesus of the Bible, with hair like lamb's wool
    I'm talking about that good hair
    I'm talking about that nappy hair
    That his body would be like beryl
    Another scripture said his body would be like jasper
    Another scripture said his body would be like fine brass, as though it had been burned in an oven
    Jesus, the Lord, the Savior, the Master, the Redeemer
    Jesus, the Black revolutionary Messiah
    Taken up on the hill, up on the mountain by Satan, by the Devil
    And the Devil talked about a New World Order
    The Devil talked about giving Jesus all of this world out there
    If Jesus would just seek an alliance with him
    If he would just bow down to him
    And I say to you here tonight, Devil (Black people need some peace, white people need some peace)
    Get thee behind me, Satan, get thee behind me, Satan (and we are going to have to fight)
    We're going to have to struggle
    We're going to have to struggle relentlessly
    To bring about some peace because the people that we're asking for peace
    They're a bunch of megalomaniac war-mongers
    And they don't even understand what peace means
    We've got to fight them
    We've got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means

    I can't believe I can't get over my fear, oh-oh
    They're gonna send me over the hill
    Ah, the moment of truth is near, oh
    They're gonna send me over the hill, oh no

    I can't believe I'm so caught up in the thrill, oh
    And nothing's gonna change my will, oh
    Locked and loaded up, and I know the drill
    (Say know what I'm saying)
    They're gonna send me over the hill, oh God, yeah
    'Cause I was born to kill, they're gonna send me over the hill, oh-oh

    I been a witness to this game for ages
    And if I stare death in face, no time to waste
    But oh

    And if I charge it to the game before
    Every time I slip into the unknown
    Well, that's only when the spot gets blown
    It's war, that is the Lord
    I won't nut up when we up thick in the crunch
    Because a coward dies a thousand times
    But a soldier only dies just once
    Once, once

    Oh-ah
    Oh, yeah
    Yeah
    Yeah

    Yahweh, Yehushua, uh
    He don't want no coward soldier
    Ah, sinking in the golden sand, oh
    Musta didna hearda ma prayer, oh-oh
    I receive everything that it means, uh
    And wield it victoriously
    Aha, and cast out all the wickedness, oh-whoa, yeah-yeah
    (When they) send me over the hill, oh-oh
    I was born to kill, oh-oh
    Send me over the hill, oh-oh

    I been a witness to this game for ages
    And if I stare death in face, no time to waste
    But oh

    And if I charge it to the game before
    Every time I slip into the unknown
    Well, that's only when the spot gets blown
    It's war, that is the Lord
    I won't nut up when we up thick in the crunch
    Because a coward dies a thousand times
    But a soldier only dies just once
    Once, once

    Yeah Writer/s: Kendra Foster, Michael D'angelo Archer
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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