"The Truth"
Written by: Rhyan K. Shirley
I don’t want you to be some distant figure I always talk
about but never to.
I don’t want you to be an accessory around my neck.
Or a thing on a list That I have to check
I don’t want you to be a distant thought
A Sunday school class I was once taught
A concept might
consider in class
Or a theory deemed unable to grasp
The truth is what I care about the truth is what I need
The truth is what I’m desperate for what brings me to my
knees
Outside my state of belief
Outside my state of faith
Outside my state needing relief
Outside of the concepts we make
The truth is what I care about the truth is what I need
The truth is what I’m desperate for what brings me to my
knees
So what if you
are some distant Figure
Or a banner waving above an angry hand on a shaking trigger
What if you are a routine of good deeds
To gratify conscious, a way to feel clean
The truth is what I care about the truth is what I need
The truth is what I’m desperate for what brings me to my
knees
What if...you’re God. The way the truth the life
What if you
sent your son to die on a cross to destroy deaths hold and bring us to light
What if you lived a perfect life, something we can never do
What if every word spoken from your mouth was true
What if all these what ifs begin something great
What if these what ifs lead me to my fate
Cause The truth is what I care about the truth is what I
need
The truth is what I’m desperate for what brings me to my
knees
According to the facts in science and in history
You are either the son of God, a liar, or you’re crazy
Approaching a conclusion logically
Reveals an answer that will change everything
You’ll be more than some distant figure I always talk about
but never to.
More than an accessory around my neck.
More than something on a list That I have to check
More than a distant thought
More than a lesson I was once taught
More than a concept
More than a theory
More than a system
More than a story
You would be immeasurably more than I could have ever
dreamed
More hope and more love, anyone could have made me believe
That truth is what I care about
That truth is what I need
That truth is what I’m desperate for what brings me to my
knees