Old Time Religion

Huh, yeah

My God, what happened to us?

Somewhere after 68, we embraced the nuisance

Quoting a dream but ain't any nobody stay walking to it

You think a service and prophets profit equipped for usage

Remember back when community was everything

The body was social networking with Christ as the seams (uh)

God knows I'm sick of it

Don't focus, moments of yesterday act now, kindle it

Women becoming masculine, men are turning out feminine

I am my brother's keeper when he isn't in

My God, it's sickening, Lord knows we dwindling

Speaking out on the block proclaiming the holiness (uh)

Guess somebody has got to do it

Become the Garvey, Luther, Malcolm, of the Christ influence

(Tell me, are you a revolution?)

Picking up the torch and cutting off the nooses

Give me that old-time religion (old-time religion)

Give me that old-time religion (old-time religion)

That old-time religion (my God, we need it)

That's good enough for me (old-time religion)

Yah, I ain't coming at your neck while you bob and limp

But you need to settle quick, been eating too long star hypocrites

Hands up, don't shoot, boy your spine loose

Don't be hollering for justice when you fuel the feud

I wonder who they gon' call me hater now

Real recognize real, and y'all played out

Move in the streets like Katrina the beast

Wake up, baby boy, it's time to earn your keep

Organize, televise, the day you grew deceased

Cause when you're living for neighbors ain't nothing but room for peace

Megaphone, no silence, pulpits to apartments

We gon' crack the cities with the thunder from where God is

I'm talking true holy consecration

Not an author from Times or an Instagram creation

(Don't believe the hype they say)

OK, but you know nothing, but God can separate your pain like

Give me that old-time religion (old-time religion)

Give me that old-time religion (old-time religion)

That old-time religion (my God, we need it)