Deliverance is about the passage from feeling bad to then feeling good again and Protoje mentions that even though life can be hard and that everything feels meaningless, you will still come through it just by believing in Jah (Rastafarians god).
[Intro: Ziah]
Jah deliver me
Jah deliver me
I-i-i-io!
[Verse 1]
I see this life I living, I look 'pon it like, "Oh my" (My!)
Time fly, whole ten year, drop "Arguments" in ’09 (Nine)
Fly my family to the Grammy
Oh God, them remember me trying (Yeah!)
That's a part of me I cannot delete
Keep that shit in my mind (My mind)
I was sitting outside the studio waiting just to get voiced
Them would send me home
Come back everyday, never even think twice
That was me in two-thousand-eight, you see
Nobody never did a fly the get for me
Nobody never did a try make fi we
So me take time and me guide it carefully
These the things I been thinking of
Please nuh bring no damn feelings up
Love my dad, I don't see him enough
We had reasonings while steaming up
Whether famine or feast the same
See the sun, you goin’ see the rain
Throughout all of this we remain
[Chorus: Protoje & Ziah]
I hold my order, give my praises
Oh Jah, deliver me through these days
Jah deliver me
Sometimes really hard to go and face it
Oh this life can truly be amazing, amazing
Hold my order, give my praises
Oh Jah, deliver me through these days
Jah deliver me
Sometimes really hard to go and face it
Oh this life can truly be amazing, amazing
[Verse 2]
Ey, check the vibes we a bring
Sev and Lila dem asing
No intruder to the thing
Lion of Judah pon the ring
King David with a sling
A no ding, a stone a fling
Song a sing so phone a ring
Them gone back pon tour again?
How much money them a spend
Them and Shenseaa a friend
Man deya a try ascend
All knowledge get comprehend
I've been feeling like Romeich
Making five or six a week
Earning even when I sleep
In the hills, I'm out of reach
Choosing how I spend my time
It's completely by design
They don't even see the trying
All them see is dollar sign
All I make is sacrifice
Forget the prize you pay the price
When I look into my life
[Chorus: Protoje & Ziah]
I hold my order, give my praises
Oh Jah, deliver me through these days
Jah deliver me
Sometimes really hard to go and face it
Oh this life can truly be amazing, amazing
Hold my order, give my praises
Oh Jah, deliver me through these days
Jah deliver me
Sometimes really hard to go and face it
Oh this life can truly be amazing, amazing
Amazing
[Outro: Ziah]
Jah deliver me
Deliver me, yeah, yeah, oh yeah
Jah deliver me, Jah deliver me
Deliverance was written by Protoje.
Protoje released Deliverance on Fri Aug 28 2020.