Album Name

Losing My Religion

Artist

Kirk Franklin

Genre

국외CCM, CCM

Release Date

2015.11.13

Release Agency

Sony Music

Losing My Religion - Kirk Franklin
I'm losing my religion
Thank God
I prayed about my decision
How odd
For the man with the mic
To be the man all his life
While Christ-like
stipes did with REM
Rev up the RPMs
How do I begin to try
to paint this sin of rules
That divides God's people in two
In the beginning
religion created a mask
The reformation helped
but soon the patch didn't last
I don't tell you don't ask
So we created a lie
And for generations
church was where
we went to go hide
Or we no longer tried
Because rules read
our relationship
was empty inside
Leaves you bitter dry
Swift to cut like a razor
Swift to call you a traitor
Cause you're swift to love Taylor
Now we got bad blood
with our neighbor
Who's wrong who's right
Every Sunday we're divided
Who's black who's white C'mon
Now the man
in the mirror never gets race right
He'll never be Christ-like
Never receive good pay
So your faith never rises
above minimum wage
So when it's time to save the world
You don't know what to say
To your brother that you
love when he tells you he's gay
Do you push him away
Judge him down till he leaves
Give him a gospel
he hears or a gospel he sees
Love wrapped in truth
is the gospel he needs
There's room at the cross
for everyone even me
Well my sins are now clean
The loss now redeemed
Religion is a prison
but truth sets us free
Helps us believe
That the world we're in now is
not the world that will be
Terror famine disease
Millions in poverty
Hungry can't sleep
With all of this religion
why these babies can't eat
And if the middle class is gone
how can America see
How can America breathe
When the oxygen is gone
from the American dream
And these American streets
listen close as they speak
The next time you think
America please include me
Help the ones that are weak
All they want is a piece
Of the pie that you keep
Is that too much to ask
of those who lay the concrete
Still laying on concrete
Pop Pop by police
See they the foundation
of the nation
Not the 2%
Not the ones that own
the building that
the middle class rent
Because they make sense
Tell me how do you feel
I'm the new Franklin
and I have the new deal
I fight and do right
FDR for real
One nation under God
God show us the way
The science of opinion
God is not a buffet
You pick what you
want so no God on your plate
The preacher isn't God
Religion's first mistake
Serving stewards
shepherds not kings
Has to die to his
flesh everyday like me
One VIP
All the other seats
in church are free
We're just groupies
God's the celebrity
Before 313 AD
Before Constantine
Before the council of Nacia
Before Romans and Greeks
Before Kalvin Alexander Luther
Before let there be
Before history
To the last century
Before the death on the tree
Before the fall of man
Was a picture of me
Nailed to his heart
Right before the last three
Words he would speak
It is FINISHED
Can you believe
I'm losing my religion
Thank God
Helping you lose yours
Is my job