Losing My Religion-Kirk Franklin

[ti:Losing My Religion] [ar:Kirk Franklin] [al:Losing My Religion] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Losing My Religion - Kirk Franklin [00:00.25]I'm losing my religion [00:01.35] [00:02.21]Thank god [00:02.95] [00:04.13]I prayed about my decision [00:05.59] [00:06.47]How odd [00:06.99] [00:08.12]For the man with the mic [00:09.28] [00:09.99]To be the man all his life [00:11.77]While christ like stipes did with rem [00:14.06] [00:14.58]Rev up the rpms [00:16.28]How do I begin to try to paint this sin of rules [00:19.83] [00:20.61]That divides god's people in two [00:22.39] [00:23.66]In the beginning religion created a mask [00:26.07] [00:26.66]The reformation helped but soon the patch didn't last [00:29.26] [00:29.83]I don't tell you don't ask [00:31.57] [00:32.27]So we created a lie [00:33.38] [00:33.98]And for generations church was where we went to go hide [00:37.19]Or we no longer tried [00:38.37] [00:39.07]Because rules read our relationship was empty inside [00:42.19]Leaves you bitter dry [00:43.81] [00:44.32]Swift to cut like a razor [00:45.76] [00:46.35]Swift to call you a traitor [00:47.97]'Cause you're swift to love taylor [00:49.67]Now we got bad blood with our neighbor [00:51.68] [00:52.21]Who's wrong who's right [00:54.05]Every sunday we're divided [00:55.58]Who's black who's white c'mon [00:57.40] [00:58.11]Now the man in the mirror never gets race right [01:01.03]He'll never be christ like [01:02.83]Never receive good pay [01:04.25]So your faith never rises above minimum wage [01:06.57] [01:07.18]So when it's time to save the world [01:08.88]You don't know what to say [01:10.09] [01:10.60]To your brother that you love when he tell you he's gay [01:13.79]Do you push him away [01:14.80] [01:15.43]Judge him down till he leaves [01:17.22]Give him a gospel he hears or a gospel he sees [01:19.95] [01:20.74]Love wrapped in truth is the gospel he needs [01:22.99] [01:23.51]There's room at the 'cross for everyone even me [01:26.53]Well my sins are now clean [01:28.40]The loss are redeemed [01:29.39] [01:29.90]Religion is a prison but truth sets us free [01:32.94]Helps us believe [01:33.64] [01:34.20]That the world we're in now [01:35.56]Is not the world that will be [01:37.47]Terror famine disease [01:39.12]Millions in poverty [01:40.72]Hungry can't sleep [01:42.38]With all of this religion why these babies can't eat [01:44.88] [01:45.40]And if the middle class is gone how can america see [01:48.64]How can america breathe [01:50.14]When the oxygen is gone from the american dream [01:53.18]And these american streets listen close as they speak [01:56.43]The next time you think america please include me [01:59.54]Help the ones that are weak [02:01.15]All they want is a piece [02:02.56]Of the pie that you keep [02:04.19]Is that too much to ask of those who lay the concrete [02:07.37]Still laying on concrete [02:09.01]Pop pop by police [02:10.48]See they the foundation of the nation [02:12.83]Not the 2 passed at [02:14.02]Not the ones that own the building that the middle class rent [02:17.05]Because of they make sense huh [02:19.04]Tell me how do you feel [02:20.55]I'm the new franklin and I have the new deal [02:23.10]I fight and do right [02:24.06]FDR for real [02:25.71]One nation under god [02:27.01]God show us the way [02:28.57]The science of opinion [02:29.80]God is not a buffet [02:31.50]You pick what you want so no god on your plate [02:34.13]The preacher isn't god [02:35.44]Religion's first mistake [02:37.15]Serving stewards shepherds not kings [02:39.60]Has to die to his flesh everyday like me [02:42.41]One vip [02:43.61]All the other seats in church are free [02:45.96]We're just groupies [02:47.17]God's the celebrity [02:48.60]Before 313 ad [02:50.41]Before constantine [02:51.55]Before the council of nacia [02:53.25]Before romans and greeks [02:54.92]Before kalvin alexander luther [02:56.92]Before let there be [02:58.14]Before history [02:59.40]To the last century [03:00.93]Before the death on the tree [03:02.29]Before the fall of man [03:03.67]Was a picture of me [03:05.18]Now to his heart [03:06.34]Right before the last three [03:08.16]Words he would speak [03:09.50]It is finished [03:10.32] [03:11.68]Can you believe [03:12.49] [03:13.75]I'm losing my religion [03:15.13]Thank god [03:15.89] [03:16.66]Helping you lose yours [03:18.08] [03:18.65]Is my job