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Everyday Process - Grace
(from the album Everyday Process: The Process of Illumination & Elimination)
© copyright 2007

Verse 1a: IZ-REAL
If it wasn’t for your grace no doubt I’d be hopeless/
A schizophrenic living life homeless/
Paranoid thoughts every moment/
In the trash with a can of OE hungry looking for doughnuts/
I’d probably be depressed trying to mask it/
On average drinking away my problems ‘til the liver can’t manage/
News reports states and it’s tragic/
At twenty-six commits suicide by suffocating in plastic/
Man I’m quite sure I’d be locked up/
A victim of the game mom ashamed to explain my illegal conduct/
Or matched up in the D.A.’s after line ups/
On my death bed doctors report time’s up/
I could be hustling crack/
Known in the trap as the dope boy twisting your cap/
Or I might across the map promoting sin as I act/
Your kid’s idol preaching death through my raps…

Verse 1b: Mac the Doulos
I could have been a slave to my own lust/
Hooked on drugs, sweeping it under the rug-unwilling to own up/
Or maybe a pedophile/
A sadistic misfit who gets kicks out of trying to sex a child/
I’d be who the devil’s using. Believing evolution/
Screaming revolution for no apparent reason/
Maybe an irresponsible parent even/
Or a fool gripping a tool instead of finishing school/
My story could have come/
To me living a criminal lifestyle slapped with a mandatory minimum/
My friends would have come/
To my funeral ‘cause I tried to be tough in a gun fight and didn’t run/
Instead of doing these gigs, I might be doing a bid/
From corner biz thinking I was doing it big/
I’m thankful he hunted me down/
A lost dude who ain’t wanna be down is now a son who is found.

Hook:
I should have woke up in my grave/
With no escape from God’s wrath gotta deal with His rage/
A sin slave hell’s fate for the human race/
But Christ saves through faith. What amazing grace!
(repeat)

Verse 2a: IZ-REAL
No grace scratch love and compassion/
I’d no I be snapping heart cold like the winters in aspen/
Grudges in my heart from the past tense/
Living in unforgiveness trying to deal with pain daily through Aspirin/
I’d probably be struggling bad the next dead beat dad/
With hidden bags of photographs from porno ads/
Never seeking help for the habit like I’m far from a addict/
In denial lies killing my marriage/
Could be confused since the first step unstable like waves get/
Deceived blind chasing the same sex/
Never introduced to the faith yet but flying a main jet/
With no clue of my after life and the plane wrecks/
Might steal from your mother beef with your brother/
Or pops I’d be the creep you hate too creep with your daughter/
I might be clowning Christians down with Islam/
Helpless like drowning victims.

Verse 2b: Mac the Doulos
Minus God, I’d be somewhere on broad in a brawl over some broad/
Following that road that’s broad/
Instead of this road that’s narrow/
In the path of god’s wrath pulled back like a bow and arrow/
Could have been slipped a bad bag loosing my mind state/
Or breaking into your pad boosting the crime rate/
Could have been showing up in court/
For turning someone you know into a corpse, still showing no remorse/
Could have been binge drinking and vomiting/
Over a toilet then drinking a Heineken again/
‘Cause of sin in my genes, I’d be chasing cinnamon queens/
Trying to get in they’re jeans if Jesus ain’t intervene/
No beats on the MPC/
Or emceeing with CM until the lungs is empty see/
I’d be a heretic minus a savior/
If not for God’s unmerited kindness and favor.

Hook:

Chant:
He sought us. He bought us.
He raised us from the grave plus
He changed us…rearranged us
Amazing grace has saved us
He’s seeking you. He’s seeking to
Raise you from the grave too
He can change you…rearrange you
His amazing grace can save you