Our Waking Lives

[Intro: From *Waking Life*] On the way to discovering what we love We will find everything we hate Everything that blocks our path and what we desire Comfort will never be comfortable For those who seek what is not on the market A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness We’ll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker We’ll yank the social symbols through the looking glass We’ll devalue societies currency To confront the familiar society is a fraud So complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed Beyond the power of memory to recall its existence Where there is fire we will carry gasoline To interrupt the continuum of everyday experience And all the normal expectations that go with it To live as if something actually depended on one’s actions To rupture the spell of the ideology Of a co-modified consumer society So that our repressed desires Of a more authentic nature can come forward To demonstrate the contrast between What life presently is and what it could be To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions And now we’re making it happen We’ll be an intensity never before known in everyday life [Verse 1] Waiting for the day to come My illusions have excluded any negativity The fire of my passion burning in my lungs Temptation on the shoulders of my armor Have I proven that I’m stronger Give the glory to the highest In the heavens I am honored My head is bowed before the Lord With my words and in my soul Stricken I’m afflicted with the power of his sword Sin is slain death has died it conquers me no more Find me in my rest Restoring to my fullness faith is all I have Certain of my worth walking straight ahead See me at the top here is Broken once again Walls are breaking down Like Jericho they can’t defend My blessings are for taking I’m entering the land This is for my dreams from beginning to the end Going back to the start I’ll let em know that I’m coming They better prepare [Hook] Refine me through the flames and fire I burn for you brighter I can’t give up now Refine me through the flames and fire I burn for you brighter I can’t give up now [Verse 2] My bones are feeling weak I’m shaking at my knees Forgive my sins I’m saying please to the Father To put this all behind My past is like a ghost The voices screaming in the steps that I take I can’t seem to put them all behind They haunt me in the day They’re realer in my dreams I look up to the sky thankful for today Breathe the air in exhale the old out My efforts running thin how much more can I allow I know that I can do this my reason for waking up It’s time to face the music am I really brave enough Hold my head up high you’re the apple of my eye I chose it in the garden now I’m working for my rights I’ve strayed to right and left conserving what is left Will I be the best? Rapping is my life I’m not about to give up yet God you are my strength my love is to the death [Hook] Refine me through the flames and fire I burn for you brighter I can’t give up now Refine me through the flames and fire I burn for you brighter I can’t give up now