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Written By:    Ingrid Bryant

 

DEM’ BE FIGHTIN’ WORDS

 

WHAT OF IT

DEM BE FIGHTIN’ WORDS

YEA, THAT’S WHAT I SAID

THAT’S WHAT I HEARD

 

WHEN I OPEN UP THE BOOK

THAT’S MY SWORD

TAKE A PEEK AT THE REVELATION OF THE LORD

I SEE MY STORY IN MY NOW UNTOLD

ONLY TO UNFOLD AS HE PROSPERS MY SOUL

 

MY FIGHTIN’ WORDS COME FROM

LISTENING ABOUT THE BLOOD

THAT COVERS ME

KNOWING HE PAID ONE HEFTY FEE

ON A CRUEL TREE

CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING ME FREE

 

SO MY FIGHTIN’ WORDS BE

WHAT I NEED

LIKE

LOVE

STRENGTH

TRANQUILITY

 

IT’S ONLY BECAUSE OF REVELATIOAL LIGHT

I EVEN HAVE THE WILLPOWER TO FIGHT

 

CAUSE FIGHTING BE A PART OF THE JOURNEY

LIFE AIN'T NO CUP OF TEA

SO I INCORPORATE VERBS IN MY VOCABULARY

SUCH AS

COME

GO STOP

AND

BE

 

AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK

THIS THING HERE COULD END IN A BLINK

AND I AIN’T SPEAKING DEATH

BUT BECOMING UNLINKED

FROM TRUE REALITY

CAUSING YOURSELF TO SINK

 

SO WE GOT TO FIGHT ON

PROSTATE BEFORE HIS THRONE

BLESSED HE’S THROWN OUT WHAT WE’VE REALLY SOWN

GRATEFUL HE CALLS US HIS OWN

 

WHEN I SEE WHAT I’LL BECOME

I JUST SIT

YOUR NEGATIVITY I DISMISS

CAUSE WHEN HE SPEAKS REVELATION HITS

AND IF YOU DISAGREE

WHAT OF IT

AS FOR ME I KNOW WHAT I HEARD

AND FOR CLARITY SAKE

DEM BE MY FIGHTIN’ WORDS

 
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