Headlines

HOOK: Check the headlines, uh read it for yourself / check the headlines, take the Bible down from the shelf / check the headlines, come on y'all pick up a copy / check the headlines, yeah peep God's agape / come on and check the headlines, read it for yourself / check the headlines, take the Bible down from the shelf / chеck the headlines, yеah y'all peep God's agape / check the headlines, come on and pick up a copy /

VERSE 1: Check the headlines from the mind of the spiritual journalist-type reporter / sort of chronologically placing things in order / come grab the story, hot off the presses, come test this / God's glory versus mankind at his best is / I'd rather side with the invisible, indivisible / triune three-in-one God who birthed the Son into the physical / mankind is fickle, they tickle me pink tryna think my God extinct / or make His person shrink by merging words with ink / on some paper catching vapors tryna change the living ledger / with treasure beyond measure, but it don't change like the weather / indoctrination, be patient as the truth serum / drips through the lyrical funnel and tunnels right through your eardrum / you show me the man who don't need Christ to stand strong / and I'll show you the man who's eternity is planned wrong / believe me, I know that you won't see me like Stevie / but if you ever wonder who's God and where He be / pick up a copy, my God will rock your daily planet / by what the Lamb did, innocent yet caught red-handed / with nails in His wrists, tales with a twist we specialize in / when a title's on the line, back up and watch the levels rise when / it's on in the whirlwind, come children, see the blood boil / a royal priesthood, at least we should be loyal / to the Father of time, not father time / He ain't blind and senile, rushing around tryna run earth by freestyle / check the headlines ...

VERSE 2: To all the truth seekers, let's go deeper and reach beneath the surface / taking the top off of the synagogues, the mosques and the churches / cut the worthless chatter, the real matter that I'm seeing / goes much deeper than Blacks versus Europeans / or Europeans versus Africans / this whole world around us is suffering from the sin pathogen / what's wrong with planet earth? the first ship without a captain / why in the world is 1997 even happening? / when does it all end, better yet where did it all begin? / is Genesis the right account or the amount of writing men with lying pens? / let us suppose that when this bodily form decomposes, we stand before the God of Abraham and Moses / the same God from back then wants back in / with more force than a MAC-10 / more beef with America than black men / it had been nice for mankind if there was no God / but by a landslide we lose without his hand to God /