Subtle Approach

[Verse 1]
Around my crew
I'll be giving myself a bad rap
My blasphemy is a show off tool
And I'm a natural at being offensive
Y'all know the name
I call myself Ethic
But I act out in vain
Went from down for the cause
To down for the count
Now I'm down for the experience
I'm instilling doubt
In the hearts of those
That don't use their head
This is a cathartic flow
And the voice of the mislead
Conditioning is so hard to reverse
I know there's something out there
But they got to me first
Space is too expansive
For us to be alone
I know our kingdom's too amazing
To have a vacant throne
But who sits upon the chair
And determines which of us
Will be burning or spared
Why can't that person
Make the answer clear
Why the hell would a god rely on fear?

[Chorus]
I'm one step closer on this path and I ask
How many more steps before
I even have half of a grasp?
Where anguish meets the abyss
And any other place that made you
Felt like this
I'm one step closer on this path and I ask
How many more steps before
I even have half of a grasp?
Where anguish meets the abyss
And any other place that made you
Felt like this

[Verse 2]
Yo I feared for a while
I was here in denial
Of the holy spirit
All them years as a child
I'm trying to turn the page
Become a man
Like corinthians
But with understanding
Innocence fades
And they say that you created
This place in six days
And all the [? 1:40] rested
Impressed with your invention
But the serpent's working overtime
To tempt us with its presence
So you took the form of man
As Christ to send us a message of
Love and forgiveness
But I wasn't there to witness it
And two thousand years later
It's almost as if it's just a mith
I came to grips with it
Painted the abyss vivid
It means atheist agonstic lost
Baited fish swimming
Living in the name of [? 1:59]
'Till this pagans all win
But evolution only explains the obvious
Not why there's anguish in my soul
When your face is just a glow
From below the murky waters
That I sank so far below

[Chorus]
I'm one step closer on this path
And I ask
How many more steps before
I even have half of a grasp?
Where anguish meets the abyss
And any other place that made you
Felt like this
I'm one step closer on this path
And I ask
How many more steps before
I even have half of a grasp?
Where anguish meets the abyss
And any other place that made you
Felt like this

[Verse 3]
I watch as anguish
Turns into anger
With questions directed
At a baby [? 2:34]
And how a subtle approach
Can cause disarray and prevent
A whole lot of souls
From getting saved
I could care less
How a gentleman behaves
You're a savior
I expect more effort to be made
On my behalf
Give me more than a sign
Make yourself a presence
That I can't deny
This isn't a challenge
It's me asking you
From a humbled state
Exactly what I have to do
'cause right now
I'm not all that impressed
That we are born with desires
The favor, the flesh
Sometimes It feel you're abscent
From my life im asking you why
I see your one pair of footprints
On the sand is it mine? or yours?
I'm trying to follow the course
Highly endorsed but sometimes
It's either the bible
From battle im torn
What to do I'm just human
Consuming too much
I do clutch on to the idea
That I'll see you someday
I pray my sins are forgave
But shit just gets in the way
The snake sheds its skin
My face strecthes thin
'bout to give in and break down
But haven't yet
And thats evidence for me
You exist even though
We haven't met
This path has been rough
But in your passion I trust
You will carry me through this
The footprint is actually us