Better Way, Pt.2

Lyrics

[Intro] Lord, You know I don't wanna write this (Write this) But it's all I can think about (All I can think about) As soon as I picked up my pen (My pen) This is what the ink started bleedin' out: [Verse 1] Woke up this mornin', timeline hella thick Folks like "Biz, did you hear about Connecticut..." ("Did you hear?") ...At the elementary school?" No, I didn't So I turned the news on, what I saw made me hella sick (Ugh) A dude ran up in a school, with his tools drawn Clips flyin', twenty-six lyin' on the school floor (Pssh...) Twenty of 'em kids, homie, picture that Parents gotta live with the fact they won't get 'em back (Chck) Shot like 50, but they ain't get to rap When you're six to seven and you done ate 9, homie, it's a wrap (It's a wrap) Seein' what we become got me finna snap (Finna snap) Heaven's home, this hellhole's just where I'm at [Chorus] (Take me home) So many of the things that I see here Got me feelin' like I don't wanna be here (Take me home) But I know it's a reason I'm still breathin' and the Lord's keepin' me here (Take me home) But I can't just sit back And watch 'em pass away, when I know (Take me home) I know, I know, I know That there's a better way, better way [Verse 2] Lord, help me understand, I won't always understand (Lord) As long as you are God and I am just a man (Yes) Who am I to say we should move God's hand? (Uh) And who is man to have to approve God's plan? (Uh) They're like "Where is your God?" I'm like "I don't know When you kicked Him outta your schools, where'd you tell Him to go? You know?" ("Huh?") We forget about the Lord when that plane flyin' (Yeah) But how fast we remember when that plane diving (Yes) Sick of this place I'm in We kill thirty-five-hunnid children a day and remain silent Maybe it's late timin', if he would have caught 'em in '05 with Different tools, we would'a stayed quiet (Abort him) Maybe he misunderstood ('Stood) Maybe he thought what he was doin' was all good (Good) Maybe what he heard was "school" and "kill 'em in the room" (Heard, school) When you really said it's cool to kill 'em in the womb [Chorus] (Take me home) So many of the things that I see here Got me feelin' like I don't wanna be here (Take me home) But I know it's a reason I'm still breathin' and the Lord's keepin' me here (Take me home) But I can't just sit back And watch 'em pass away, when I know (Take me home) I know, I know, I know That there's a better way, better way [Outro] Evil has visited this community President Obama, in an emotional statement from the White House Spoke more as a parent than a politician And he quoted the Bible to bring comfort to the nation Churches were filled in Newtown, Connecticut last night As candlelight vigils were held To grieve for the twenty-seven innocent people killed And the countless lives of those shattered By a few seconds of crazed carnage On Friday, Neil Cavuto asked me "Where was God?" And I said that "For fifty years, we've sym-systematically Attempted to have God removed from our schools And public activities But then at the moment we have a calamity, we wonder where He was" Well, the predictable left lit up the airwaves And blotted the spirit with a vile, viscous reaction (Take me home) And jumped to the conclusion that I said that if we had prayer in school The shooting wouldn't have happened (Take me home) I said nothing of the sort It's far more than just taking prayer and Bible-reading out of the schools (Take me home) It's the fact that people sue a city So we aren't confronted with a manger scene or a Christmas carol (Take me home) And all suits are filled to remove a cross That's a memorial to fallen soldiers Churches and Christian-owned businesses are told to surrender their values Under the edict of government orders To provide tax-funded abortion pills We carefully and intentionally stop saying things are sinful Then we call them "disorders", sometimes, we even say they're normal And to get to where that We have to abandon bedrock moral truths Then, we're ask- "Well, where was God?" And I respond that, as I see it We've escorted Him right out of our culture And we've marched Him off the public square And then we express our surprise that a culture without Him Actually reflects what it's become As soon as the tragedy unfolded I think God did show up He showed up in the lives of teachers who put their lives (Take me home) Between a gunman and their students He showed up in policemen, who rushed into the school (Take me home) Not knowing if they would be met with a barrage of bullets He showed up in the form of hugs and tears (Take me home) For children, parents and teachers Who had lived through the slaughter (Take me home) He showed up at the overflowed church services where people lit candles in praise They showed up at the White House Where the President invoked His Name and quoted from His Book And in a few days or weeks, we'll probably Ask God to excuse Himself from view, and We will announce in our arrogant pride that we're now enlightened and educated And we've evolved beyond needing Him And somebody's gonna suggest That we pass a law to stop all this kinda thing I might want to point out that we don't have to pass a new law There's one that's been around a while that works If we teach it and observe it: "Thou shalt not kill" Well, there are about nine others But to tell you about 'em would require bringing God back And we know how unacceptable That might be (Take me home) (Take me home)