Welcome Home

I've got a lot to say so

I'mma go straight away, yo

Aye man, I grew up in a church

Where you had to dress your best on a Sunday

Even if you was living like a wretch on a Monday

Nobody cared, but everybody was scared

If they didn't keep a pretence if anybody's there

And the pastor's wearing tailored suits

Prada shoes, Gucci boots he would flip between

Some of the church people were starving and homeless

But he was addicted to the life, call it nicotine

Fast cars, he would pull up at his private spot

And I ain't saying that's wrong, cause I am not God

I'm just saying that my spirit doesn't sit right

When there's a brother in church and he lives right

On the street with nothing to eat

And the pastor of the church is just living that rich life

I give tithes when I get time

But my brother stopped because he's debt tied

And he's struggling

There ain't a worry in the world and it's puzzling

Church is gonna be his home

Find the family he knows that can pour into his soul

Give him hope, let him overcome the hard times

To him a church like that is a past-time

As in it happened in the past time

If only they would replicate and do it now as a past-time

Remember Mandela and Apartheid

He overcame with love and that's a far cry

From what some of the churches are displaying

Don't shoot me, cuzzy, I'm just saying

I just wanna say

I recognise why you might wanna run away

God is for everybody (everybody)

It's for anybody, yeah

Welcome home, you never know

You might like this home so before you go

Try this home

I wanna say

Welcome home

And I ain't even paint the churches with the same brush

Cause the one I'm at now ain't the same cuz

They showing same love

Any creed, any colour, any race, any class

There'll be grace for your background

They wanna see you move, never turn back round

Cause the past is the past, that's that now

And I don't care what you done

I just care where you going, real talk on the track now

Religion nearly killed all of my vision

Had me thinking I could be perfect with no more sinning

Had me judging others like, "Why's he wearing that?"

"She's the criminal, why's he blaring pack?"

"Why's she swearing fam?"

And then I realised that nobody's perfect

He without sin cast the stone, yeah you've heard it

So God be started digging through the verses

Grace, not works, it is done, don't deserve it

But he paid it all, unconditional

So tell me, why the hell are they dissing you?

Acting like there's a hierarchy of sin

Well sin is sin, what hierarchy you in?

They're all the same as long as it's just a mistake

And not a lifestyle, thank his grace

So glad that I made it out religion

Relationship with God is what I'm on and now it's different

I just wanna say

I recognise why you might wanna run away

God is for everybody (everybody)

It's for anybody, yeah

Welcome home, you never know

You might like this home so before you go

Try this home

I wanna say

Welcome home

So walk into that church with your head high

No matter what you done, go and get right

If anybody talks tell em step aside

It's between me and God, say I'm just fine

And get a couple good people round you

And tell em you was lost but he found you

And you don't need anybody pointing their fingers

You're just tryna get it right and see your vision

I just wanna say

I recognise why you might wanna run away

God is for everybody (everybody)

It's for anybody, yeah

Welcome home, you never know

You might like this home so before you go

Try this home

I wanna say

Welcome home

I just wanna say

I recognise why you might wanna run away

God is for everybody (everybody)

It's for anybody, yeah

Welcome home, you never know

You might like this home so before you go

Try this home

I wanna say

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

Welcome home

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I go into a church, it's called Hillsong

And they have a pastor there named Carl Lentz

And from the moment I walked in the church I said

"Okay, this is where they mean come as you are"

You just knew?

I walked in the spot, I pass a bar coming in, it's dark

Then I see like strobe lights, a stage and a disco ball

They turn a club into a church on Sundays

Oh word? Yeah

Wow

And that really hit me like, "Okay, so alright, this

Is very different, let me go see what this is about"

Then I started looking around in the crowd, in the audience

And I see like skater kids in the back with their

Skateboards and their skate gear in the back you know

Dudes over here look like they just came off of one four fifth

Like, "Yo, Papi, Papi, I got that thing though"

You know, it was a real eclectic group of people

And really come as you are

And really come as you are

And then the pastor walks out

He's wearing some jeans, a t-shirt and a red pair of J's

Word?

With tats all over him

Oh man, that's what I'm talking about

And he, and this is how I felt, and he started preaching the Word

So I'm looking around I'm like, "Okay, you

Know what? This might be something different"

Yeah

And I started listening to him, pastor, started listening to him speak

And it moved me differently because

Now all three components were there

I felt comfortable, I felt like he was really speaking to me

And that moved me to say, "You know what?

Now I get it, I can accept God into my life"

From what you're saying and from what I see, if I do this

You're not asking me to make gospel

Records tomorrow, you're not, you're not

It's, it's, it's a walk, you know

It's, it's, it's taking baby steps and

I get to take them steps at my own pace

You know, I'm not saying I'm perfect but I'm

Making that step and they're accepting me as I am

Right