Behind Bars

[VERSE 1: muzeOne] Metallic metaphors locking down once open doors / vain repetition echoing off of empty corridors / dirty floors dingy and dusty / air stale and musty / rugged as rugby / yo kid for real this place is ugly / curiosity drug me deeper in this heartless darkness / mind racing wondering who on earth could be a part of this? / the architect of destruction must have been a human hand / what foolish plans / who on earth would build their house on fluid sand? / ran through it and found a cage with a man chained to the back wall / came closer saw his face I almost had a heart attack y'all / stepped back stalled in awe of this sight before my face / it was Christ bound up mouth strapped closed with duct tape / is this a mistake? a bad joke? if it is I ain't laughing / thoughts and actions blasting out the lot to ask what happened / rapidly unchained my Savior took the tape up off His mouth / asked Him Lord what happened yo I can't figure this out / He explained to me the pain which He endured ever so patiently / faithfully facing His death in order to get this wretched building / finally after His own spirit was let go / He snatched the key from the owner after three days in escrow / the transaction was sealed by the mark of the Holy Ghost / stuff was cool until destruction decided to boast / lies and greed decided to hide the seed / they bum-rushed violently till pride of life come take the title deed / feeding the flesh leaving the temple looking scary B / new tenant heresy landlord is popularity / the Lord spoke of His grand design He had in mind / His plan was kind but the building stands blind / to the simple fact that these other towers are crumbling / who need the grand Architect and now I'm left wondering / one question burned Lord what place could this be? / He said sad the heart of most so-called Christian emcees //

[SAMPLE: Ambassador in I Love You Jesus]
It's getting hard for me to ignore the spiritual part of me that wants to hear Christ and not just lyrical artistry //

[VERSE 2: Timothy Brindle] As muze was saying / you ain't conveying the truth or displaying your fruit when your music's playing / who's obeying? / if we're created to worship Christ how come you never stated His purchase price / rearrange your steez and change your thesis / some Christian emcees seem ashamed of Jesus / but when you do talk principles and try to drop syllables / about God they're not biblical / if you saints are Christian and you're chosen and saved / why ain't you spitting about how He rose from the grave? / on your tape it's sublime / if you're basing your rhyme on anything but His grace you're wasting your time / how could you not represent what God heaven-sent? / just to cop props man stop and repent / don't lose your crown just to prove you're down / its sin or righteousness there's no neutral ground / claim we reppin' Christ just to sell records B / nah we preach cause souls face hell's treachery / you see the comparison man people are perishing / in your rhymes is the word Jesus embarrassing? / I'd rather have no fans and spit the gospel bro / than rap dope jams just to get popular / why ignore His honor? / deny Christ before men and get denied before the Father / we worship fervently / might as well get used to praising Him now we'll be worshiping for eternity / running your traps the rhymes you dealt are selfish / and some of you cats are kind of health and wealthish / not to send this hostile / but a lot of these gospel rappers don't present the gospel / so Timothy and muze came to bring you the news / we minister to simply lift the King of the Jews //

[VERSE 3: Shai Linne] Like Timothy was spitting / speak what's true no beef with you / what's offending me is your writtens / let's reason together brethren / if your profession of faith is real that means you're going to heaven / by grace through faith in Christ we're eternal lifers / forever we'll be partaking in heavenly cyphas / but if I pass the mic to angelic beings would they flip silly schemes about how they had the illest wings? / or would they say how they used those wings to cover their feet and eyes in the presence of Jehovah El Shaddai? / I should clarify lest I be misunderstood / make sure you're not so earthly minded that you're no heavenly good / you say you witness with your lips we witness with our life for Christ / it's not either or it's both and to be precise / lips without life makes you a hypocrite / life without lips a moralist -- either way the Lord is dissed / and I hear the chorus line you and your supporter chime / forget boring rhymes saying Jesus' name forty times / dawg if you said it forty million times / that wouldn't be enough to praise the God who took you out your filth and slime / we spit our King's message of reconciliation / you spit your message of skills and affiliation (who's your king?) / you choose to sing about your clout in beats / but out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks / that's right you're not a gospel emcee you're a Christian who raps / word? here's something you can listen to black / we're smashing all notions of rap and promotion through bragging and boasting / cause cats should know that provokes His wrath with explosion / my avid devotion passion and emotion for my Master Jehovah who fashioned the ocean got my flags in the open //