Hear the CLINK! of the nails as they pierce His hands

And the... lash as they slash this man

Crash this man, hit and harass this man

Bash, stick and inflict mad gashes and

Mentally put yourself at the place and time

Use your faith as a way to trace the crime

Let your mind take you back laps and laps

Back track till your mind sees back to back

All the things that happened to a silent Lamb

All in chains they trapped Him like a violent man

Like He forwarded a violent plan, but it was prophecy

That said God would be treated like unwanted property

You've got to see the ill way that they flogged Him

Blood leaked, it was deep how they mobbed Him

Think thorns worn as a crown

Here the Jews say, "Crucify Him pass it down"

Hear the squeals as the steel comes crashin' down

Can't get pass the sound, teeth are gnashing' now

Veins snap, feel that, He's hot flashin' now

Draped in blood, covered in a cap and gown

So many crack from the straps that it numbed the back

Crucifixion makes your lungs collapse

Watch His chest, see Him gasp for breath

Hear Him... and... till there's no gasp left



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What do you see when you close your eyes

What will you see when your life goes by

Think hard visualize the ill mob

Either you'll feel God or your hearts real hard



Concentrate, your mind should stay in study mode

Tell your buddies, "roll" as you contemplate the bloody robe

Which was worn by the One beaten and torn

Killed by the same dust people He'd formed

But He emptied Himself---paused the wealth

Put independent use of His attributes on the shelf

Loving men who weren't loving Him but were loving sin

Loving gin, lovin' a night at the club again

I'm Ruben' men wrong but souls will die

If my rhyme doesn't come in and blow your high

I'm right in the site of Jehovah's eye

So the gospel I'll tell till I'm old and dry

The world's cold like a frozen pie

With little sense like missing your ears

tongue, nose, and eyes

But back to the ugliest things you've ever heard of

The murder of the One who took more flack than Roberta

They came in droves "cats" had His veins exposed

Played a game where they claimed His robe

Eyes swollen, even rearranged His nose

Only Providence helped Him sustain the blows

Are yall seeing the One who owns it all

The King getting beaten in the Roman halls

Headed for a Roman cross, and heaven is His home and all

But He wouldn't give His home a call

Soon to dislocate His bones and all

And still wouldn't wish for His opponents fall

Ahhh!---tired and thirsty too

Blood lossed on a cross in His birthday suit

As He droops, pooped from attempts to breathe

I grieve... tears stop my attempts to read

The sign hanging over Him limp and weak

It's (Memphis) bleak---How could this have been meant to be



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No time to blink, but just continue to think of Scripture

Let it convict ya, focus get in to picture

Watch it blow you square off the rector

As it teaches you of the real Victor

Who prevails, you hear the crucifixion details

Now ask yourself why's your life still derailed

And why we fail to live for the One we nailed

This same Jesus, you know the One we Hail

With lips but not with lives

Time see with the heart and not with our eyes

See the Son, the One, who was hung like a poster

Was buried, but popped up like a toaster

Got all the host of heaven makin' a toast to

The King of kings who brings God and men closer

Sin's roped ya, guns out the holster

Can't stay alive even with John Travolta

Now I hope to pull you off the sofa

Cut the TVs pause the CD's, the culture

Is in the midst of a raging storm

The rage is on, obituary page is long

Life is short, but casket sales are high

No surprise that numbers in the jails are high

On the streets anything you want they'll supply

That's why beer, crack and weed sales are high

Love songs making you wail and cry

Number of pregnant single females is high

Youth get high, deal just to get by

Doing street corner business with no suit & tie

It's "do or die", truth or lie, you and I

Refuse to try, and trust the Crucified



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