Firm Foundation

English translation

Yeah.

Mm-mm.

Yeah.

Ayy.

I just need peace for me.

I just gotta take my time.

Devil wanna take my mind. Know they wanna kill my vibe.

I just need Jesus, yeah.

I just gotta see your face.

Reconstruct my faith.

Build me a firm foundation. I just need peace for me.

I just gotta take my time.

Devil wanna take my mind.

Know they wanna kill my vibe.

I just need Jesus, yeah.

I just gotta see your face.

Reconstruct my faith. Build me a firm foundation.

I started from the bottom, then I made it to the top.

Made it, I'ma leave my mama proud of me.

We thought we'd never see the day that it would stop.

Just relying on the Spirit. Told me go to college, learn how to make a living.

But I learned 'bout religion. Blind to the truth, God gave the kid vision.

Unashamed, whole clique on a mission. Riding through the city on blades.

Went from barely making minimum wage to the people singing with me on stage.

Everybody tryna give the Lord praise. It was all so simple.

No denominations, now the whole nation split through the middle. Church start trippin'.

A lotta people fightin' 'cause some of us turn a blind eye to killin'. Mm.

No time for religion. Them types never understand grace. I made my decision.

Still here tryna work on my faith.

Mm.

Just a little bit of hope, yeah. Whole lotta Holy Ghost, yeah.

Only way that I can cope, yeah. I just need peace for me.

I just gotta take my time.

Devil wanna take my mind.

Know they wanna kill my vibe. I just need Jesus, yeah.

I just gotta see your face.

Reconstruct my faith. Build me a firm foundation.

Help me get up out the hole I feel I dug. Sick of writing songs 'bout the pain that

I feel. I just wanna laugh again, I'm making my appeal.

Doctor said to crack a smile, I need a couple pills. Let me keep it real.

People love to say that I'm fake 'cause the choices I make. I just wanna be great.

Probably gotta walk the green mile or go senile on 'em 'fore they ever let me catch a break.

Back in '08, I was just a rebel with a cause. Youngin', but I thought I knew it all.

Had a lotta trauma, but I never got to heal. I was thinking my theology would keep me safe from harm.

Safe up in your arms, I was bearing arms.

Shoot a heretic before they knew what's going on.

Always in the middle of a battle, always getting people rattled, going crazy just to survive in the storm. Now I got no time for religion.

Them types never understand grace. I made my decision.

Still here tryna work on my faith.

Mm.

Just a little bit of hope, yeah. Whole lotta Holy Ghost, yeah.

Only way that I can, only way that I can cope. I just need peace for me.

I just gotta take my time.

Devil wanna take my mind. Know they wanna kill my vibe. I just need Jesus, yeah.

I just gotta see your face.

Reconstruct my faith.

Build me a firm foundation.

I just need peace for me.

I just gotta take my time.

Devil wanna take my mind.

Know they wanna kill my vibe.

I just need Jesus, yeah.

I just gotta see your face.

Reconstruct my faith.

Build me a firm foundation.