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Phanatik - Odd Job
(from the album The Incredible Walk)
© copyright 2005

Hook:
Brothers are we lovers of pleasure or of God?/
If not then let’s cross to the other side
Sisters Yes do a check for self respect/
Check don’t sell it for wealth and regret
Families what up stay together pray together/
Brave the elements of weather/
Whether it’s sunshine or rain/
Do that thing like it’s your day job/
Work it overtime over time we’ll make’em praise God

Verse 1
When they look they’re shook/
They’re like where’d you get your wisdom from/
I bet it’s from that book/
‘Cause we don’t point to us/
We stay pointed up/
This is how God appointed us to live/
He entrusts His kids with a road map to peace/
‘Cause the streets is like the Middle East/
A beast but He teaches us to say no/
To desires that rage like fires in our souls/
Then He goes and shows us what’s best/
And gives us His mind to help us say yes/
And He tells us stay blessed/
And to walk in the light/
And live like it’s day and not get lost in the night/
He helps us to desire what we should/
And protects us like a fence unless it’s all good/
Now you can climb His barbed wire/
And get scared by it but how’s that gonna make’em lift God higher/

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Verse 2
Poc made it cool to be a thug/
Why not be the one to make’em say/
“Ok made it cool to be in love with God”/
Or “pop ain’t no fool he put his trust in God”/
I remember when I was in school I put in plugs for God/
Back then it was hard to try to find/
The balance between the daily and the divine/
Now I find that it’s just one of those things/
That for the Christian those two are one in the same/
It’s not something we construct ourselves/
Scripture instructs us how to conduct ourselves/
We’re still human beings still humans seeing/
And doing as humans do it’s just our views are changing/
We don’t laugh at all the jokes/
Especially when the hope that we hold is called a hoax/
No club and bed hoppin’/
It’s tuff not to sin when you’re constantly breaking your neck watchin’em/
I know she ain’t have to where them jeans like that/
But that don’t mean you gotta stare all at her seems like that/
It seems like that’s the hardest part of all/
Is how to stand strong after standing for the alter call/
But we gotta learn to say no/
Sometimes we gotta lay low/
Not that we rockin’ halos we just gotta stay on or J.O./

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Verse 3:
You can clock out but I’m punching mines/
Hard workers are getting’ harder to find/
Like it’s quarter to lunch time/
But I know some they aint livin’ ho-hum/
They go gung-ho for the Son/
It’s not an issue of going to work or not/
Tell’em Tonic
When you’re heavenly minded it’s the only choice you got/
And ambassador told us Christ soldiers/
Like rolling with Him now no more wait til this life’s over/
Truth gave a shout to my Christians in school/
Who decided to be more Christian than cool/
And sometimes when you’re livin’ the truth/
You don’t have to say a word ‘cause your life is the livin’ proof/
That’s Badia Jeter she said it the sweetest/
I’m a spokes model on the runway for Jesus/
See our job is to find life and define life without going outside of our God/
I go to work like it’s 9 am/
Trying hard to find me a friend who reminds me of Him/
Be distinct don’t let the lines blend/
To where they can’t tell where you start and the carnal mind ends/

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