Your Brother Came Deceitfully

[Intro] One brother I have loved another I have hated I’m the Author and the Finisher of exactly what is sacred [Verse 1] I came out shook, took life by the heel I’m birthright crooked always looking to steal Cooking hot meal inside this treacherous steel Pot, “Everything you got for a drop is that a deal we got?” (You’ve been got) Our mother co-conspired Touch my arms to see your brother came deceitfully attired These animal men, hemmed in animal skin To blend a panel of the cannibal with tangible sin Preamble to a patriarch, a scandalous hymn Like God made a vandal His friend Dismantle my brother left caressing defeat Crying, “Father do you have any blessing for me?” I climbed a ladder like a nightmare heavenly scene A stone for a pillow make the dustiest dreams Traverse the stairway to heaven angel airplay Stalk my Master like Tiger on a fairway Forgive me I’m in the house of the Lord He didn’t say a single word or try to settle the score Tested my mettle, composition was poor But your purpose and will were still to give me more A book rhyme pages stacked like stones An alter to the vision of Jehovah enthroned I cheated my way to the top and you let me Plus your mercy waterfall, when I was thirsty, how it wet me [Hook] All the world will be your enemy more than a few They will catch you when they do they kill will you [Post-Hook] So be cunning be fast By your clever tricks your people will outlast [Verse 2] Silfaying on the down in the sunset light Grazing is profound when its done just right Blades of the brown withered grass spun tight Come bite by the ground river Giver of Life Shiver at the thought of the blight white blindness Fiver fight or flight or the night might find us I got a feeling that I can’t trust my family Sandleford to Watership Down found tragedy Sensing the fear, I’m ready to bolt I got my ears pinned tuned in to danger remote I was on some Dionne Warwick tip type a palmreading Visions of my family bowing down to me Clowning my steez the envy I produced I had a cross colors rainbow double bubble goose Never one for subtle always running at the mouth And so my brothers took a shot to try and turn this mother out But you burned another route, spurning every doubt Keeper of the kingdom, come from servant house Fervent I would never falter, not on your life But when the bed was finally made I laid with Potiphar’s wife It’s like a conjugal knife, I lived a prodigal life I’m both the one who ran away and the one who sat tight “Is that right, that your really rejoice At the return of your sons?” Some boys will b-boys [Hook] [Post-Hook] [Outro] All the world will be your enemy But I have overcome the world I walk ahead of you So meet me in the Galilee The race does not belong To the swift nor the strong But I will lift you up If you’ll only follow Me I came deceitful You still knew me Gave me what was not mine Your mercy is great I came deceitful I came deceitful You saw me under the tree I came deceitful I came