Produced by Screwaholic. Recorded by Adrian McCann at Audio District Recording Studios.
holy hip hop
christian rap
fate
missing you
memories
sands of time
reminiscing
lost friends
longdistance relationship
Lyrics
(Elias)
Seems like it was jus' yesterday
Nothing but the playground would take my stress away
We were all so young, but we wanted to change
And all that drives people now is the need to get paid
Who woulda thought that we'd ever be on it?
Skipping school, chasing girls, fighting, and smoking chronic (cough)
I'm left with my life waiting for me to show up
Life was a mystery then, we just couldn't wait to grow up
Yesteryears, b'fore I was tossed in this haze
That I'm blinded by now like I'm lost in a cave
I would turn back time before the start of this rat race
Many things, I'd change, others I would not erase
Now I'm here, feeling so damn misplaced
And I can't stand to even look time in the face
(Sigh) How could we not have seen it coming?
Days turned to weeks, months, years, and still running
And I doubt that I will ever understand
How it just didn't turn out the way I had planned
Goin' off the track, but it's not too late
To change the course of my train and alter my fate
I can always pick back up right after that spark
That starts to reignite and set ablaze my heart
That gets me ready to run and set on my mark
Writing 'bout my life now 'n' disregarding the start (uhh)
They say time flies, I remember when it was slow
We would pretend to be grown, now we wish the sand wouldn't flow
And that clock hands wouldn't go, that time would stop...
But it can't and it won't, just like we can't plan the unknown
Some former friends are now foes, wish they'd understand what was told
I won't abandon the Lord even if I'm standin' alone
'Cause He amended my soul, I came to a bend in the road
Who knew I'd be endin' up goin' the journey headin' up home?
(Didactic)
Let me take you back, man, how times have changed
Imagine me just a few years back, a mind deranged
Spendin' my days in front of pages with rhymes arranged
Livin' in a loud home, but mentally I'm estranged
With the door shut to my room, living as in a cage
I aged with inner rage, waiting for life to cut to my doom
Consumed by nothin' but gloom, acting like I didn't mind
Like I'd find a hidden mine spillin' my guts out to whom-
ever would listen, but One was listenin' all along
To all my songs and He could recall all my wrongs
He was there with each addiction I would fall upon
He was there when I would care what I would call a bong
I would awake dismayed, thought I was just made this way
I'll never be able to erase the mistakes I've made
But of the day I fade, I no longer stay afraid
'Cause I found Him Who came to save when I strayed away
And if I didn't, I would still be goin' down that road
In drowned sorrow, emotionless with no frowns that showed
But I awoke one morning with an astounding glow
Bein' blessed with destined rest, He got me now in tow
Never did I think that this would be my unseen fate
I chose to go my own way and to me it seemed great
But always led me to be heartbroken, full of mean hate
Now I walk the present a new me with a clean slate