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TRUTH, da - Stand
(from the album The Faith)
© copyright 2005

Hook:
We gotta live it—oh/
If we don’t live it—oh/
Than who’s gonna live it—oh/
Stand for the truth—shorty/
We gotta walk it—oh/
If we don’t walk it—oh/
Than who’s gonna walk it—oh/
Stand for the truth—wodie/
We gotta say it—oh/
If we don’t say it—oh/
Than who’s gonna say it—oh/
Stand for the truth—dirty/
We gotta live it—oh/
If we don’t live it—oh/
Than who’s gonna live it—oh/
Stand for the truth, now

Verse 1: Lecrae
Get it up, get it in, get it out/
Don’t sit on it—we know it’s hard/
Trying to rap for Jesus, believe us/
From the block to the hood to the yard/
You feel like Noah—huh/
You tryin’ to hold it down/
But when you stop and look around/
No one solid to be found/
WAIT—don’t grow weary man/
Listen close and hear me man/
I know you feel alone/
In your zone or your city man/
But, all across the globe/
Christians are getting it on/
Stand for the truth/
Though it feels like you’re standing alone/
STAND—Grow in grace and reason/
PREACH—In and out of season/
CHRIST—Crucified even if we get martyred like Steven/
PRAY—for a faithful crew/
RAISE—up a faithful few/
Know we in this together/
Pray for us as we pray for you/
LOOK, what you feelin', we feelin' but keep on buildin'/
‘Cause God is into revealing His glory using His children/
Sometimes it’s lonely but know that you ain’t the only one/
Standing up for the truth and anticipating the HOLY One!

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Verse 2: Flame
Begin blazing the trail if you can look and see ‘em sitting on the job/
Consistently dissing the God that done saved us from hell/
Be standing examples with answers for seekers seeking salvation/
Or sinners who swamped in they sin from circular situations/
It’s sad—I noticed you’re weary—it’s clearly a time to reflect/
On the cross of the Christ in spite of how many times they reject/
You’ve got fam in Dallas, Texas and fam in St. Louis/
And fam that’s in Philadelphia standing in this confusion/
We brothers in love with the lover who loved us enough to embrace us/
The least we can do is just stand in they face and then take it/
The face of temptation the face of persecution/
So face it we made it—just continue to stand and be suited/
Because the Lamb has included/
People like us to carry the truth and share in the truth in a land that’s polluted/
In extreme measures, take pleasure in what the Father has done/
Don’t get weary in well doing if you in the Son

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Verse 3: da’ TRUTH
I’m not a quitter I’m a fighter/
I’m a fight since Elijah was taken high up/
On a mountain of fire/
Man—I’m inspired to stand/
I take pride in my camp/
Stay quiet—I can’t/
Pray private and clandestine/
My plan is stay biased—the chance/
To take I Am and champion His views/
Man—it’s so beautiful that/
I pray, why is it scant/
It ain’t wisest to plant before plucking the root/
Take Jeremiah for example/
No punches were pulled/
Saints rise up and stand/
Don’t plunge in the pool/
A blatant, obvious stance/
On state college campuses/
Make a lot of them tense/
So what, you ain’t cool/
Stand firm in the faith/
You can’t swerve when they shake/
You with questions that are hard/
To answer in debates/
The standard has been raised/
Seven thousand ain’t bowed to Baal/
Man—get your hands up if you don’t follow the crowd

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