Overcome

Rap Reading of Overcome

We’re stuck in this miserable, broken place

that’s absent of love and absent of grace

because all of us people have turned our face

to a darker side that ignores light’s embrace

so now that goodness is all but erased

our hearts will thump to a faster pace

that fears what will be without the taste

of a love that has vanished, leaving no trace.

Inside we beckon and long for more

but already our minds have predicted the score

that leaves us battered, beaten, and sore

scattered in pieces across the floor

with nothing left but a hollow roar

to mourn the death of the peace we ignored

and hung out to dry on that golden shore

so now we wonder of all we deplored.

Our blood hasn’t settled, at least not yet

so now we’re left shaking in all this cold sweat

just dripping and shivering and all soaking wet

outside of our bones as life won’t let

us avoid all the noise of these vengeful threats

that we earned for ourselves by aid and abet

and murder and robbery and unpaid debt

and now the devil won’t let us forget.

Our hearts have been buried under all this sin

just squashed to oblivion and paper thin

to the sad, slow song of the violin

as we quietly slide to that place within

but somewhere inside this rebirth begins

and erases the fears that have always been

and so the vice is gone to the devil’s chagrin

because, my brothers, Jesus Christ wins.