STORY OF GOD-Justin Bieber

[ti:STORY OF GOD] [ar:Justin Bieber] [al:SWAG II (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]STORY OF GOD - Justin Bieber [00:00.72]Lyrics by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton [00:02.46]Composed by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton [00:04.20]Produced by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin [00:05.07]Before the first shadow touched our hearts there was only light [00:08.84]I'm not just talking about the sunlight [00:11.15]Though it filtered through the canopy like liquid gold [00:14.54]Warm on my skin I'm talking about life [00:18.10]The air itself tasted sweet like honey and rain [00:22.77]Everything hummed [00:24.60]The garden wasn't just a place we lived it breathed with us [00:29.31]There was no fear here fear hadn't even been invented yet [00:34.56]A lion this massive beautiful creation [00:38.91]Would lean his heavy head into my touch [00:43.48]Everything was connected [00:45.59]Everything was exactly as it was meant to be [00:49.88]And Eve when I look at her [00:53.10]I finally understand what God meant when He said [00:56.81]"Very good" [00:59.02]And then there's Him [01:02.80]It's the cool of the day that's when He comes [01:07.45]You always know when He is near [01:09.95]The air changes [01:13.25]Expectant like the atmosphere itself is leaning in to listen [01:18.57]We hear the sound first not heavy footsteps [01:22.54]But a shifting of the atmosphere [01:25.32]A weight of goodness moving through the trees [01:28.83]And we run we run toward the sound [01:32.36]His voice it isn't just sound [01:35.86]It's the foundation of everything [01:38.11]When He speaks it's warm [01:40.55]Resonant it vibrates in my chest [01:43.95]We talk about the colors of the water [01:46.03]Why the monkeys chatter so much [01:48.23]What it means to be us [01:50.72]There's no gap between us [01:52.85]No hesitation no hiding it's complete [01:57.44]It's a feast right? [01:59.69]Everywhere you look [02:00.55]Tastes the explosion in your mouth [02:03.11]We're completely free [02:05.97]Except in the very center [02:08.23]The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil [02:12.28]It's the only boundary line in a world without walls [02:16.22]God is very clear "Don't touch it [02:18.52]The day you eat it you die" [02:20.77]Die? [02:22.18]The word just hangs in the air [02:24.40]It means nothing to us [02:26.30]We trust Him of course we do [02:29.60]But I find myself near it more often than I admit [02:33.40]It's stunning [02:34.87]The fruit looks different [02:38.24]Doesn't just look delicious it looks wise [02:42.73]Eve [02:44.60]One day I'm by the tree and there's this voice [02:47.58]Smooth like polished stone [02:50.56]It belongs to the serpent the most clever [02:53.86]The most beautiful of them all [02:56.61]He doesn't shout he doesn't threaten [03:00.01]He just asks a question [03:02.57]"Did God really say you can't eat from any tree?" [03:06.57]It's a simple question but it shifts the entire world on its axis [03:11.54]Suddenly the God who gave us everything sounds restrictive [03:17.29]The serpent tells me I won't die [03:19.94]Tells me my eyes will be opened [03:22.30]That I'll be like God that's the lure [03:26.00]It's not rebellion it's ascension [03:29.43]It's the promise of more [03:31.86]He makes it sound like God is holding out on us [03:35.23]The fruit is heavy in my hand [03:37.72]Its skin is smooth cool to the touch [03:42.20]The tension is unbearable I bite [03:47.46]The taste isn't just sweet or bitter [03:49.86]It tastes like everything at once the world tilts [03:55.50]She brings it to me her eyes are wild [04:00.66]My gut screams that this is wrong [04:04.04]My partner my reflection she is still standing [04:08.05]I trust her more than I trust the voice of God [04:11.44]I eat and instantly the light fractures [04:16.34]It's like a mirror shattering inside my soul [04:20.55]The air turns cold [04:22.62]I look at Eve she looks at me [04:25.12]And for the first time I mean really for the first time [04:28.68]I see we are exposed vulnerable naked [04:34.90]This is shame [04:37.53]We scramble panicked [04:38.69]We grab these big rough fig leaves stitching them together [04:42.87]They scratch my skin they cover nothing [04:46.25]And then we hear it His footsteps [04:49.00]The sound that used to mean love that used to mean safety [04:52.58]Now means dread absolute dread [04:55.29]We run we hide in the thickest [04:58.15]Darkest brush we can find holding our breath [05:03.00]And then His voice it's not angry not shouting [05:07.84]It's worse it's heartbroken "Where are you?" [05:12.07]He knows exactly where we are physically [05:16.13]He's asking where we've gone relationally [05:18.86]Where we stand trembling covered in itchy leaves [05:21.95]The question comes gentle but firm [05:24.22]"What have you done? Did you eat the fruit?" [05:27.66]Is this where the fracture deepens? [05:29.56]The break spreads? [05:31.49]I look at the woman I love and I I point [05:33.85]"The woman You gave me" I blame her [05:36.34]I blame Him [05:38.44]And I point to the serpent "He tricked me" [05:41.48]The blame shifts faster and faster [05:43.12]We throw responsibility anywhere but ourselves [05:46.93]And the verdict comes down the world is broken now [05:50.08]Because we broke it [05:51.95]The ground will fight us birth will be a battle [05:55.45]Relationships will be complex painful and death [05:58.69]That word we didn't understand now has a shape [06:02.99]It has our shape [06:05.46]But then the strangest moment [06:07.48]He kneels down He takes an animal [06:09.88]One of the creatures Adam named [06:13.06]It's the first death we witness and He makes clothes for us [06:15.58]Skins that are heavy and they smell of loss [06:20.76]And they cover the shame the fig leaves were our idea [06:24.60]The covering is His [06:26.84]It's this terrifying tender moment [06:29.84]He's judging us yes but He hasn't abandoned us [06:35.22]But we can't stay we've chosen knowledge over intimacy [06:39.13]He walks us to the edge of the garden [06:41.38]The air gets thinner out here [06:43.18]The ground is hard under my feet [06:46.86]As we take that final step out of Eden [06:49.47]We look back and it's overwhelming a celestial being [06:53.54]An angel blazing with light and fire [06:55.97]Holding a sword that spins like a whirlwind [06:59.82]The gate slams shut with a sound that echoes across the universe [07:04.02]We're outside it's cold [07:06.19]The sun is setting we lost paradise [07:09.52]We lost the unbroken connection we broke the world [07:13.70]And that's how the silence began the separation [07:18.14]But as we walked away into the dust and the thorns [07:20.84]We carried a strange promise with us [07:22.85]A whisper from God about a coming savior [07:25.96]Someone who would crush the serpent's head [07:29.07]The door to the garden was closed [07:31.03]But the Story of God? [07:32.62]It was just beginning