Light bulb broken in the kitchen
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Grab a chair we need to fix it
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Deliver us our daily bread and give us water livin'
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Cause I keep seeing all these children out here water whipping
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See that there on television
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But we don’t care cause it ain’t where we livin'
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Besides we go to Africa to cure some sickness
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But not the other side of the town cause they just way to different
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Bear the name of Christians
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But we don’t look like Christ, we do not live the mission
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We so inconsistent
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That’s not even intermission
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Brother, do you love the poor?
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Let me ask again, do you love the Lord
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That’s two yeses or two no’s
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Jesus freezing in the snow
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We just doing what we know
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Looking out for number one
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But if we keep being so cold
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How could we be like the Son
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The Son, He told us to be low
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He will raise us to be free
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But if we do not love the least
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How can we love who we ain’t see
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The darkness deep like submarines
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We need the light to intervene
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Past the celebrity status
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And all the glitz and the glam
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Take a look behind the curtain, things aren’t always what they seem
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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When the cameras turn off
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And then the night turns from day
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When the show is all over the problems don’t go away
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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Ten bands
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Fifty bands
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One hundred bands
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All in this collection plate
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This tax free business outta hand
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Tell these people they’ll reap more the more that they give
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Ignore the scriptures make these folks feel good and keep them content
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You know it’s all about numbers
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A tithing check shows your faithful
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An infant baptism and sinner’s prayer is really what saves you
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Small group once every month
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A self-help daily devotional
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And a prayer every now and then when your life gets dysfunctional
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Tell me how we gonna justify eighty grand on the steeple when there’s four
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thousand people sleeping every night on the streets
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What type of Gospel you believe forgets the people in need
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When we’ve got homeless veterans freezing with the mental disease
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This is the Bible belt son
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We’re living up to that name
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We come together as one and, trust me, these problems will change
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Crosses on every corner
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A Church on every last lane
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If we’re the hands and the feet, right now we’re crippled and lame
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Past the celebrity status
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And all the glitz and the glam
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Take a look behind the curtain, things aren’t always what they seem
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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When the cameras turn off
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And then the night turns from day
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When the show is all over the problems don’t go away
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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Now we like to bow our heads and just pray
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In the comfort of our home and watch that TV all day
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What you doing homie go and get up and do what you was lead
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Don’t forget that without action and work your faith is dead
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And now we lift up our heads and just pray
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In the comfort of our home and watch that TV all day
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Get up and shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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Past the celebrity status
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And all the glitz and the glam
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Take a look behind the curtain, things and always what they seem
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city
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When the cameras turn off
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And then the night turns from day
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When the show is all over the problems don’t go away
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Just shine a light on the city
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Shine a light on the city |