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		<title>BRENDAN&#8217;S BOOKS</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Book of PSALMS in Rhyme &#8211; by Brendan Conboy &#160; &#160; About the Author Now, in my latter years, I have returned to the storytelling of my youth, and I love to use all the skills and tools I have gained on my journey of life. I have over 40 years of experience in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><strong>About the Author</strong> Now, in my latter years, I have returned to the storytelling of my youth, and I love to use all the skills and tools I have gained on my journey of life. I have over 40 years of experience in business and charity development, mainly in in three areas, income generation, communication, and governance. Though I do still offer advice in these areas, my passion is in communication and to communicate creatively and artistically in as many ways possible, but especially in poetry  </div>
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<div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><strong>About the book </strong>This is perhaps the most exciting writing project that I have ever been involved in and it is scheduled to be published in August 30 2021.  As I started listening to God and working on this project, in what is really an incredible partnership, I felt God saying to me, &#8220;Everything else that you have done before now, was in preparation for this&#8221;.  This means all the Rap songs that I wrote, the previous six books, all the poetry and all of the research, has led to this one book.  All of the Psalms were written to be sung out loud and that really is the best way to read this book, out loud.  I urge you to do that with this book and when you do, something special will happen.  This rhyming translation is accurate and extremely easy to read.  Four main translations that were used as a guide were:  The Passion, NIV UK, Amplified Classic and the Good News Bible.  In addition, at times reference was sought in the original Hebrew, using the Blue Letter Bible.<strong><br /></strong>Brendan</div>
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<p class="has-normal-font-size">You can find The Book of PSALMS in Rhyme at Major Bookstores including Amazon and Goodreads.</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #333399;">Other books by Brendan Conboy:</span></h2>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He talks to me in poetry, He gives me words to speak. Often when I’m wide-awake, but also in my sleep. You may think I sound pathetic, Words of beauty so poetic. Then at times they’re quite prophetic. Always with a heartfelt message. That message is for you to hear That message is simple, always [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">He talks to me in poetry,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He gives me words to speak.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Often when I’m wide-awake,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">but also in my sleep.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You may think I sound pathetic,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Words of beauty so poetic.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Then at times they’re quite prophetic.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Always with a heartfelt message.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That message is for you to hear</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That message is simple, always clear.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like do not fear.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He talks to me at the strangest times,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nearly always in words that rhyme.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He gave me a mouth to speak without fuss</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And two ears to listen, twice as much.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yes, listen, something we all can do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So why don’t you?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If it was anyone else talking to you,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You would listen wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So, why don’t you listen to Him?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Words lost upon a whim.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Too many distractions, broken attractions,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Listen a fraction, dissatisfaction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Every action has a reaction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come now listen to Him.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Somehow vision the win.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">His words will set your tongue on fire</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Don’t be blinded by the liar.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tell me your desire? You want to be</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">higher?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Listen be-a-trier. Time to choose the fire.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Set your tongue on fire.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Instead you’re the denier.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Foolish dissatisfier,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lost within the mire,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He is now the crier.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To ignore that loving voice,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">it really is your choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But every action has a reaction,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">consequences we must face.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">His love was shown in action,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to recompense the human race.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now He talks to me, He talks to you too,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">but you? Don’t have a clue, do you?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Don’t listen with your ears,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">your heart you must use.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">No longer be confused.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Just let Him in and you will win,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no longer you refuse.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<li><a href="./#pub3"><span style="color: #3366ff;">MASTER&#8217;s MC</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="./#pub1"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Inspired by God (Thinking mens club mix) &#8211; remix of track 1.</span></a></li>
<li><a href="./#pub2"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Reality (Sinners choice mix)- remix of track 2.</span></a></li>
<li><a href="./#pub5"><span style="color: #3366ff;">The Word (Tummy rumbler mix)- remix of track 5.</span></a></li>
<li><a href="./#pub6"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Mystified (Reclining chair mix)- remix of track 6.</span></a></li>
<li><a href="./#pub7"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Keep on mocking (&#8220;I like fast&#8221; mix)- remix of track 7.</span></a></li>
<li><a href="./#pub3"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Master&#8217;s MC (Feel good factor mix)- remix of track 3.</span></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #3366ff;">Matt (Mad gorilla mix)- this is a remix of Matt, which is a track from another album. Matt is based on the Lord&#8217;s Prayer.</span></li>
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<h2 id="pub1"><span style="color: #3366ff;">INSPIRED BY GOD</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">I been thinking ‘bout the good times,<br>been thinking ‘bout the fun,<br>Been a wandering in the darkness<br>and a wondering what’ve I done?<br>(repeat)<br>Feeding off the memories but memories fade and die,<br>Doom and gloom and darkness over head in an ever changing sky.<br><br>[Chorus]</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Inspiration come, inspiration go,<br>Exactly where it go, aint no body know. x2<br><br>I hear the sound&#8230;. I hear the sound,<br>I hear the sound of the nightingale as it sits away up high,<br>Unaware of darkness looming, looming in the sky.<br>Riders on the backs of horses running from the storm,<br>No inspiration’s needed now we must be home by dawn!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yeshua Adonai we love you!</p>
<p>People, people, people, people everywhere,<br>Hurrying, scurrying without a care.<br>People struggling to make ends meet<br>On their way to nowhere, walking in their sleep<br>people keep looking, people keep searching, searching to stay alive.<br>People keep looking, people keep searching, for that feeling good inside.<br>Are you searching for that feeling that feels good inside?<br>Are you searching for that feeling to make you stay alive?</p>
<p>Yo people!<br>What are you searching for?<br>Are you searching for inspiration?<br>Well I’ll tell you.<br>When you find your inspiration then take some good advice.<br>Are you inspired by good?<br>Are you inspired by bad?<br>Are you inspired by Jesus Christ?<br>God gave his Holy Spirit, inspiration to us all.<br>So don’t give up, just ask yourself,<br>What’s that inspiration for?</p>
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<p>Inspiration come, inspiration go,<br>Exactly where it go, aint no body know. x2</p>
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<h2 id="pub2"><span style="color: #3366ff;">REALITY</span></h2>
<div class="tralbumData tralbum-about">We all spend our lives hiding from the realities to face us. We escape into distraction. Are you ready to face your Reality?</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">The dream generator keep on dreaming the dream.<br><br>[Chorus]</div>
<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">Reality, reality, it happen to you and it happen to me.<br>Reality, reality it happens to us all. X2<br><br>The dream generator is the major dominator,<br>Influencing the way of life.<br>You gotta keep dreaming, dreaming a dream,<br>A big car or a beautiful wife.<br>Hey there mister average what is your dream?<br>Are you just another dreaming fool?<br>Do you gamble, do you bet, are you a millionaire yet?<br>Do you dream about winning the pools?<br>Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?<br>A yellow brick road showing you which way to go?<br>Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?<br>A yellow brick road showing you which way to go?<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>If you dream about loving, then you dream about giving.<br>If you dream giving, then you dream about living.<br>If you dream about living, then you dream about lying<br>If you dream about lying, then you dream about crying.<br>If you dream about crying you dream about love!<br><br>Now reality happens to us all,<br>Just as pride comes before a fall.<br>Whether you dream or whether you don’t.<br>Whether you will or whether you won’t.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Are you looking for a high, when you’re feeling low,<br>Escape into a chemical and life begins to glow.<br>It’s easy to say “yes”, but you’d rather answer no.<br>You’ve tried all of the rest, but this high is the best,<br>So why is there an element of doubt?<br>I’ll tell you now for why, cuz when you’re flying high,<br>You’re the one that’s really losing out!<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Are you a running and a hiding from the things you have seen?<br>Hiding your face in a video screen.<br>Take a look at the dream in your head if you can,<br>The dream in your head’s about a little man.<br>Are you a Mario or Sonic, Street Fighter Two,<br>Lost in a world where nothing is true?<br>. Are you a Mario or Sonic, Street Fighter Two,<br>Lost in a world where nothing is true?<br>Get real, stop dreaming a dream!<br>Get real, stop dreaming a dream!<br>Get real, stop dreaming a dream!<br>Get real and stop your dreaming!<br><br>Now there is the ultimate game,<br>With your helmet on it’s inside your brain.<br>But the helmet of salvation,<br>Is the helmet of the nation.<br>Virtual reality or reality that’s absolute,<br>The choice is yours,<br>put the helmet on and get to know the truth!<br>Get real you know what I’m saying!<br>Get real you know what I mean!<br>Get real you know what I’m praying!<br>Get real and stop your dreaming!<br>Get real you know what I’m saying!<br>Get real you know what I’m praying!<br>Get real you know what I’m saying!<br>Get real and stop your dreaming!</div>
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<h2 id="pub3"><span style="color: #3366ff;">MASTER&#8217;s MC</span></h2>
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<div class="tralbumData tralbum-about">Is it right to enjoy doing something with as much fun as performing on stage? This was the question that Brendan asked God one night, just before going to bed. Lying in bed, God now gave<br>Brendan these lyrics. As sleep crept in the lyrics crept out, so Brendan rushed to his desk and in less than ten minutes the song was penned. God said, “it’s OK for you to be an MC, you are my MC, but don’t forget, I am the Master.”</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">Ya’ll listen right now cuz they’ve given to me,<br>The microphone and a chance to be free.<br>If you listen to the words, the things I have to say,<br>The smart ones among you are sure to find the way,<br>Chorus: I’m the Master you see, of the ceremony<br>Now they’ve given me the MIC<br>I’m the Master you see, the Master’s MC<br>Check it out!<br><br>Now the Master of the Master’s MC<br>Is the Master himself, the Master JC<br>We all have a Master of some kind or another<br>But the Master I got, I can call my brother</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText"><br>Some people worship the colour TV<br>Listen to their music on the latest CD<br>There’s football, cricket, all kinds of sports<br>Going to the pub drinking beer and shorts<br>Maybe your master’s some kinda new drug<br>Or cigarettes, you’ve been hit by the bug.<br>You could have the master of crime,<br>Do time you slime and other words that rhyme</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText"><br>So let me tell you bout the Master JC<br>He cares for you and he cares for me.<br>He’s with you at work, he’s with you at play,<br>He’ll tell you the truth, he’ll show you the way.<br>So if you’re sitting by the TV, or you’re sitting in the pub,<br>Remember Master JC, he’s the one that they call love.<br>If you’re feeling kinda lonesome and you want someone to care<br>Reach out to the Master, cause he is always there!<br>And that’s a fact!</div>
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<div class="tralbumData tralbum-about">Will our good works get us into Heaven? No! Were these songs created and performed in order to get into God’s good book and work my way into Heaven? Certainly not! We can all do good things in life, but there is only one way onto Heaven&#8230;</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">If you could rap your way into Heaven.<br>If you could rap your way out of hell!<br>The whole world would be rapping,<br>The good the bad as well. [repeat]<br><br>You can’t try to justify the things that you still do.<br>You might die, might even fry, unless you find what’s true<br>So I rap, let’s rap, c’mon rap, let’s rap, GO!<br>If you are a kid or you are a child,<br>Get poetic get justice get reconciled<br>You gotta get in the light get poetic.<br>If you follow the dark you’re pathetic.<br><br>So I rap in time, I rap with rhyme,<br>but there’s something I’ve gotta say,<br>I rap for good and I rap for God<br>cuz there’s something I’ve gotta say<br>I rap for good and I rap for God<br>and I get down on my knees and pray.<br>When He speaks to me, it’s shear poetry,<br>but words just can’t explain.<br>The way that I feel, I know that God is real<br>so I rhyme in time again.<br><br>Though I’ve told you before I’ll tell you again.<br>I’ll tell you again and again and again.<br>I’ll keep telling you just as long as it takes,<br>You to realise we all make mistakes.<br>Rapping is easy, but you know it’s not the way.<br>You gotta pray to God in Heaven and this is what you say.<br>Please forgive me God for the things that I have done.<br>I believe in Jesus your one and only Son!<br><br>[Chorus]</div>
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<h2 id="pub5"><span style="color: #3366ff;">THE WORD</span></h2>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">Baby craving, craving baby, craving to be fed,<br>Gotta keep craving, gotta keep feeding, else you wind up dead!<br>Don’t matter if you’re rich, don’t matter if your poor.<br>Starvation hits the nation and it happens to us all.<br><br>[Chorus]</div>
<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">You gotta feed on the word.<br>You gotta feed on the word.<br>You gotta feed on the word of the Lord<br>You gotta feed on the word.<br>You gotta feed on the word.<br>You gotta feed on the word of my Lord God.<br><br>There’s a feeling of hunger deep inside,<br>I don’t wanna eat because of my pride.<br>But pride it comes before a fall,<br>That feeling of hunger happens to us all.<br>Satisfaction, satisfaction, never can get enough,<br>Of the right stuff, you know what I’m saying?<br>Nuff said I’ve said enough!<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>If you wanna feed, you gotta have a read!<br>If you wanna feed, you gotta have a read!<br>If you wanna feed, you gotta have a read!<br>You gotta water the seed!<br>But don’t get choked upon the weed!<br>Do you read or do you not?<br>You gotta water the seed when the sun is hot.<br>You gotta water the seed and let it grow.<br>You gotta water the seed and more seed sow!<br><br>Spiritual nourishment,<br>it’s the word of God, there’s no supplement.<br>If you feed the word, your spirit will grow,<br>Feed the spirit within and more seeds sow.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>If your feeding on the word, you get closer to the Lord.<br>Check it out this word is living.<br>So take a look inside, get a new start to life,<br>From a God that is forgiving.<br>Can’t judge a book by it’s cover,<br>get into the word you’ll discover.<br>There’s a God in Heaven that you can call Dad,<br>With a Son that you can call Brother.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Baby craving, craving baby, craving to be fed,<br>Gotta keep craving, gotta keep feeding, else you wind up dead!<br>[repeat]</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">I am mystified by the way you walk,<br>I am mystified by the way you talk,<br>I am mystified by the things you do<br>I am mystified by your love so true.<br><br>Sleeping in my bed, a dream inside my head,<br>A dream I do not really understand.<br>I see my feet go walking and you beside me talking,<br>Two pairs of footprints walking in the sand.<br><br>Walking in the sand, walking hand in hand,<br>Walking in the sands of time.<br>Walking hand in hand in the sands of time,<br>Listening to the voice with the words that rhyme.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>The footprints in the sand see them side by side,<br>The footprints in the sand they will never die.<br>Joined together in love, with a love that is above.<br>Joined to live and not to die in a love to mystify<br><br>When the going gets tough, I know that you are there,<br>When the going gets tough, I know you’re there to care.<br>When the going gets tough, feel you holding my hand,<br>When the going gets tough, see your feet in the sand.<br><br>In the struggles of life, the toil and strife,<br>When I’m feeling like there’s no one there to care.<br>I reach out for your hand and I look into the sand,<br>I’m all alone, there’s just my footprints there,<br>And I despair, where’ve you gone Lord where’ve you gone?<br>Where’ve you gone Lord where’ve you gone?<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>I pray to my God, I cry to my Lord<br>Don’t desert me Father you gave me your word.<br>You left us your spirit to carry us through.<br>The bad times, the sad times, I know that you are true.<br><br>When I cry to you Lord, I cry from the heart,<br>You answer me saying you will never depart.<br>I know that you are always by my side,<br>I know that you are watching over me.<br>I know that you are always by my side,<br>With a love I know is gonna set me free.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>In your troubles and your struggles, when times are hard to hack,<br>Just look a little closer, you’ll see you’re on my back.<br>When all you see is one set of footprints in the sand,<br>The love of God will carry you and help you understand!<br><br>I am mystified&#8230; I am mystified&#8230; I am mystified&#8230;</div>
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<div class="tralbumData tralbum-about">I once played the part of God in a piece of drama. I was on a microphone off stage, but when I came back out onto the stage, 300 young people were laughing. It seemed that they were laughing at me and not laughing with me. The Bible tells us that when we are persecuted for what we believe, God will bless us&#8230; so go ahead keep on mocking!</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">Hear you laughing, laughing at me,<br>Laughing with a heart of misery.<br>See you mocking, mocking what I do,<br>You mocking bless me don’t you know it’s true!<br>[repeat]<br><br>What d’you think your laughing at now?<br>Gonna let us in on the joke?<br>Are you laughing at me? Are you laughing at him?<br>Are you laughing at some other bloke?<br>Everywhere I go, everything I do,<br>I hear the sound of laughter.<br>Faces smiling and fingers pointing people heading for disaster.<br>Nothing wrong with having a laugh.<br>Nothing wrong with a bit of fun.<br>If no one in the world ever had a laugh,<br>No work would ever get done.<br>If you have a laugh it aint that bad.<br>All work and no play it make Jack bad.<br>If you have a laugh it aint that bad.<br>All work and no play it make Jack bad.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Just wait a while before you smile and ask the question ”why?”<br>Do you laugh at my belly?<br>Do you laugh cuz I’m smelly?<br>Can you look me in the eye?<br>When I ask you do you know what’s true?<br>Do you know what is a lie?<br>When I ask you are you laughing at me?<br>Are you laughing at the man in the sky?<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Are ya laughing by yourself?<br>Or ya laughing with your friends?<br>If ya laughing for a reason keep on laughing to the end.<br>If ya laughing by yourself?<br>Or ya laughing with your friends?<br>If ya laughing for a reason keep on laughing to the end.<br>If ya laughing cuz someone else does,<br>And you don’t want to look out of place.<br>Just think again, what your laughing about,<br>About the look upon my face.<br>If you laugh at me because I’m free,<br>All I feel for you is sorry.<br>They laughed at the Boss as they hung him on the cross,<br>All his thoughts for your tomorrow.</div>
<div class="tralbumData lyricsText"><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Now this is nearly the end of this song,<br>Or the end of you if you wait too long.<br>Don’t laugh at me anymore,<br>You can laugh with me, you know the score.<br>Don’t have to be weak, like the rest of the sheep,<br>if you know what’s true.<br>You can be blessed, just forget the rest,<br>And let them laugh at you.<br><br>Blessed are those who are persecuted in my name. x4<br>Woe to you who laugh now,<br>For you will morn and weep. x2<br>Blessed are those who are persecuted in my name. x2</div>
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<h2 id="pub8"><span style="color: #3366ff;">CROSS THE LINE</span></h2>
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<div class="tralbumData tralbum-about">Jesus said, “you are either for me or against me and if you are not for me, then you must be against me.” Before becoming a Christian I felt that I was looking over an imaginary fence at loads of weird people. Those people, although they seemed a little weird, had something that I didn’t have. I soon became fed up with the emptiness of life and just looking over that fence. On 5th May 1986I jumped over that fence, I crossed the line, I invited Jesus into my life&#8230;</div>
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<div class="tralbumData lyricsText">[Chorus] There’s no time to wait!<br>No more hesitate!<br>Think about it no more time,<br>Jump up step out and cross the line!<br><br>Check it out this life of ups and downs,<br>Of in and outs and merry-go-rounds.<br>A life of good, a life of bad,<br>A life of happy sad and mad!<br>Some people are crazy, some just lazy!<br>Work hard, play hard, live hard, die hard.<br>Filthy dirty, squeaky clean,<br>All questions and answers, you know what I mean.<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Black or white, short or tall,<br>Fat or thin, or large or small.<br>God loves you all.<br>God loves you all.<br>Summer, winter, rain or shine,<br>You gotta get on up and cross the line.<br>Get up a, get down.<br><br>Some things are happening, but some things aint,<br>Do you know what happens to all wet paint?<br>Starts off wet, but it ends up dry,<br>You gotta cross the line if you don’t wanna die.<br>Now I’ll explain to you the words of this song,<br>Some things are right, some things are wrong.<br>One hand is left, the other is right,<br>Work all day and sleep all night!<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>Now the words of this song that I rap to you<br>is communication through and through.<br>You may not understand it, but you know what to do,<br>Get rid of the false and follow the true.<br>The truth that I am talking about,<br>Is the kind of truth that leaves no doubt.<br>No doubt of what is in your mind,<br>Jump up step out and cross the line.<br><br>[Chorus]</div>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You’re the Potter, I’m the clay. Know I gotta, try to pray. Dunno whatta, need to say. But I’m gonna, try today.   You made me, a man of clay. You saved me, going astray. Gently mould me, make me your way. You change my clay, to DNA. You gave me music, to dance and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>You’re the Potter,</p>
<p>I’m the clay. Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p>Dunno whatta, need to say.</p>
<p>But I’m gonna, try today.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>You made me, a man of clay.</p>
<p>You saved me, going astray.</p>
<p>Gently mould me, make me your way.</p>
<p>You change my clay, to DNA.</p>
<p>You gave me music, to dance and play.</p>
<p>You gave me choice, I like reggae.</p>
<p>In my old days, when I decay.</p>
<p>Still show the way, you’re my YAHWEH!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>You’re the Potter, I’m the clay.</p>
<p>Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Nothing ventured, nothing gained.</p>
<p>Feel the centre, of my pain.</p>
<p>Am I meant to, go in sane?</p>
<p>You see my thoughts, inside my brain.</p>
<p>You hear me, when I complain.</p>
<p>You forgive me, for every stain.</p>
<p>Help me to retrain, gain sanity again.</p>
<p>Transform my brain, like a hurricane!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>You’re the Potter, I’m the clay.</p>
<p>Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Need to know, what is my purpose?</p>
<p>Why do people, try to hurt us?</p>
<p>What is my purpose, I’m just curious?</p>
<p>Feel like a clown, think I’ll join the circus?</p>
<p>When I feel down, am I just surplus?</p>
<p>Look at my frown, will you cure us?</p>
<p>You restore us, as you’re for us!</p>
<p>You paid the price, made the purchase!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>You’re the Potter, I’m the clay.  </p>
<p>Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Do you want me, to be unique?</p>
<p>Trace round my outline, on a sheet?</p>
<p>A cardboard cut-out, to follow the sheep.</p>
<p>Am I invisible, walking down the street.</p>
<p>Day after day, rinse, spin, repeat.</p>
<p>When you see me, am I just meat?</p>
<p>Out of time, missed a beat.</p>
<p>Speak to me, send a tweet!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>You’re the Potter, I’m the clay.</p>
<p>Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I’m a clay man, what is my fate?</p>
<p>When clay dries, it’s easy to break.</p>
<p>Have you tried, to break a plate.</p>
<p>So in my, dried out state.</p>
<p>Go easy on me, for my sake.</p>
<p>Please still mould me, it’s not too late.</p>
<p>There’s still time, to clean my slate.</p>
<p>Even for me, this reprobate!</p>
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<p>You’re the Potter, I’m the clay.</p>
<p>Know I gotta, try to pray.</p>
<p>Dunno whatta, need to say.</p>
<p>But I’m gonna, try today.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poetry… When I hear the word, It’s quite absurd, I think of the tree that Poets come from. The Poet Tree. But really? Do poets really grow on trees? Can the words of a poet cure disease? That seems a very strange thought ? But words do stir and some may cure, They mend a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Poetry…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I hear the word, It’s quite absurd,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I think of the tree that Poets come from.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Poet Tree.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But really? Do poets really grow on trees?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Can the words of a poet cure disease?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That seems a very strange thought ?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But words do stir and some may cure,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They mend a broken mind,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">open the eyes of the blind,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They set the captives free, those words of</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">poetry.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Grown on the Poet Tree.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Poets are born and then they grow,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">then some their seeds do sow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Their words are seeds, their words they</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">shout.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Their seeds they scatter all about.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Do you have doubt?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The scattered seeds one and all, they fall,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">without a sound.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fall silently, so quietly, then finally,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">they hit the ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Some fall on stone, some land in thorns</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and some the birds do eat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But those that land in fertile soil,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">will provide a treat and cause a heart to</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">beat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And then another tree does grow,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">from which abundant seeds do flow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Words a flowing, they flow with rhyme.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Write a poem that blows your mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And then you find, in amongst the forest,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">that special tree,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the Poet Tree. Release the blind,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the poet made a promise, the poet King</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Adonis.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Or Adonai, He is Lord, He first spoke the</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Word.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But the king of the poets, wasn’t grown on</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">a tree, didn’t come from the Poet Tree.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He was given to us as a gift from God,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">sent down from Heaven high above.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He was given to us like seeds in a pod,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">with grace, mercy and lashings of love.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Those lashings stripped the flesh from his</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">back, that greatest poet ever.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The lashings of love,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">nails hammered with a thwack,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">for you and the meekest beggar.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Didn’t grow on a tree, but on a tree He died,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">wept and cried, crucified.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The poet King did set me free, as He hung</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">upon that Poet Tree.<br><br></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1 Lord, I passionately love you. My strength is now in you! 2 You are my Fortress, my Deliverer and my Rock. Your protection over me is strong and never stops. You’re my refuge, my Shield and the Horn of my Salvation. I trust you, my High Tower of strength, you are my destination. 3 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><sup>1 </sup>Lord, I passionately love you.</p>
<p>My strength is now in you!</p>
<p><sup>2 </sup>You are my Fortress, my Deliverer and my Rock.</p>
<p>Your protection over me is strong and never stops.</p>
<p>You’re my refuge, my Shield</p>
<p>and the Horn of my Salvation.</p>
<p>I trust you, my High Tower of strength,</p>
<p>you are my destination.</p>
<p><sup>3</sup> All I need to do; is to call to you.</p>
<p>You are so worthy to be praised.</p>
<p>I’m saved from the enemy’s blaze.</p>
<p><sup>4</sup> In death’s entangled rope,</p>
<p>over-whelmed by torrent’s destruction.</p>
<p><sup>5 </sup>I fear I have no hope,</p>
<p>in the snare of death’s obstruction.</p>
<p><sup>6 </sup>I cried out to God in my distress,</p>
<p>“Save me from this mess.”</p>
<p>In his heavenly temple he heard me so clear.</p>
<p>My anguished voice, full of fear, softly filled his ears.</p>
<p>My deepest sob; to rescuer God.</p>
<p><sup>7 </sup>The earth trembled and shook,</p>
<p>rocked to the mountain’s foundation.</p>
<p>The mountains moved and quaked,</p>
<p>shaken by his angry indignation.</p>
<p><sup>8 </sup>Smoke bellowed from his nostrils flared.</p>
<p>His mouth spewed fire with devouring despair,</p>
<p> coals blazing, encircling him everywhere.</p>
<p><sup>9</sup> He descended out of heaven’s drawn back curtain.</p>
<p>To earth he came for certain.</p>
<p>Through thick black clouds no burden.</p>
<p><sup>10</sup> He charged in a thunderous chariot,</p>
<p>his steed a cherubim.</p>
<p>Soaring, swooping, on the wings, of the Spirit-wind.</p>
<p><sup>11 </sup>He made the darkness his secret place to hide.</p>
<p>Dark rain clouds of the skies, his mysterious disguise.</p>
<p><sup>12</sup> Brightness of his advance, so frightening.</p>
<p>Break through cloud, with his bolts of lightning.</p>
<p><sup>13</sup> His voice sounded as thunder,</p>
<p>amid flashes of wonder!</p>
<p><sup>14 </sup>With fiery arrows he did aim.</p>
<p>Enemy scattered in flaming rain.</p>
<p><sup>15</sup> You exposed sea beds and the earth’s foundation,</p>
<p> your mighty roar, a hurricane of devastation.</p>
<p><sup>16</sup> From way up high, he knew; what to do.</p>
<p>Reached out his hand, came to my rescue.</p>
<p>Pulled me from calamity, from despair to his pity!</p>
<p><sup>17 </sup>From my enemy he delivered,</p>
<p>from those so strong that I quivered!</p>
<p>Delivered from my wrongdoer,</p>
<p>he is my mighty rescuer.</p>
<p><sup>18</sup> When I was weak, I truly faced disaster.</p>
<p>When it was bleak, support came from my Master.</p>
<p><sup>19</sup> Because of his delight for me, he considered me.</p>
<p>Into a spacious, precious place, he delivered me.</p>
<p><sup>20</sup> He rewarded me, according my righteous integrity,</p>
<p>recompensed for my clean hands of sincerity.</p>
<p><sup>21</sup> I will keep his commands and never stop.</p>
<p>I’ll never sin, or turn from him; no matter what.</p>
<p><sup>22</sup> I’ve stayed focused on his decrees,</p>
<p>obeyed everything that he told me.</p>
<p><sup>23</sup> I’ve remained upright and blameless.</p>
<p>I’m uncorrupted and shameless.</p>
<p>Pure and secure!</p>
<p><sup>24</sup> According to my righteousness,</p>
<p>The Lord has recompensed.</p>
<p>Rewarding me with graciousness,</p>
<p>he sees my hands are cleansed.</p>
<p><sup>25</sup> To the faithful, you show you’re faithful.</p>
<p>To the merciful, you show you’re merciful.</p>
<p>To the blameless, you show you’re blameless.</p>
<p>To the upright, you show you’re righteousness.</p>
<p>How we live dictates what you do.</p>
<p>To the loyal, you are loyal and true.</p>
<p><sup>26</sup> You are pure to all, who are full of pureness.</p>
<p>To the devious and perverse, reveal your shrewdness.</p>
<p><sup>27</sup> To the humble and innocent,</p>
<p>you bring heaven’s deliverance.</p>
<p>The supercilious and proud, are not allowed.</p>
<p><sup>28</sup> You light my lamp, illuminate my sight.</p>
<p>God my champ; turns darkness into light.</p>
<p>Shadows are no more, I see the path before.</p>
<p><sup>29</sup> With your support, through a troop I advance.</p>
<p>Smash through a wall, given the chance.</p>
<p><sup>30</sup> God is perfection!</p>
<p>His Word, tried, tested with satisfaction.</p>
<p>Secure in the shelter of gratification.</p>
<p>There’s no other god like you.</p>
<p>You’re the God to worship, I know it’s true.</p>
<p><sup>31 </sup>You are my rock, my firm foundation.</p>
<p>My life secure, in every situation.</p>
<p><sup>32</sup> Filled in your strength, showered in perfection.</p>
<p><sup>33</sup> I climb high, with feet like a deer.</p>
<p>Stand strong and secure, with you near.</p>
<p><sup>34</sup> You have trained me for the fight,</p>
<p>with weapons of such might.</p>
<p>A bow of bronze I bend.</p>
<p>Into battle I descend.</p>
<p><sup>35</sup> You provide me with the shield of your salvation.</p>
<p>Your right hand gives sustentation.</p>
<p>With greatness, you made me,</p>
<p>inspired for victory.</p>
<p><sup>36</sup> You set me free, from captivity.</p>
<p> Now, I stand restored, set to fight some more.</p>
<p>On your path so wide, my feet will never slide.</p>
<p><sup>37</sup> I pursued my foe and never retreated,</p>
<p>didn’t give up until they were defeated!</p>
<p><sup>38</sup> I smashed and crushed them into the ground,</p>
<p>beneath my feet I did pound.</p>
<p>They fled and bled, as good as dead.</p>
<p><sup>39</sup> Your strength you did bestow on me,</p>
<p>humbled my enemy, below me.</p>
<p><sup>40</sup> My enemies turned their backs in flight,</p>
<p>silenced them in their plight.</p>
<p><sup>41</sup> They cried out for help, for deliverance.</p>
<p>Even God refused them a second chance.</p>
<p>He remained silent, in such defiance.</p>
<p><sup>42</sup> I pulverised them into wind-blown dust,</p>
<p>trampled them like dirt, in disgust.</p>
<p><sup>43 </sup>You granted me victory over every race.</p>
<p>Now, I’m head of the nations, in this place.</p>
<p>Even those I never knew serve and bow at my face.</p>
<p><sup>44 </sup>As soon as foreign rebels, of me heard,</p>
<p>they submitted and obeyed, my every word.</p>
<p><sup>45 </sup>They all lost their hearts.</p>
<p>The bunch of upstarts,</p>
<p>from strongholds now depart.</p>
<p>Their rebellion fades, as they crawl from their caves.</p>
<p><sup>46 </sup>The Almighty lives! My Rock is blessed!</p>
<p>God our Saviour, our exaltation be acquest.</p>
<p>The Saviour of my days; is worthy to be praised!</p>
<p><sup>47</sup> God is my Avenger!</p>
<p>All people come, surrender.</p>
<p><sup>48 </sup>Who saved me from my foe?</p>
<p>You lifted me from my enemy show.</p>
<p>The violent man, you brought low.</p>
<p><sup>49 </sup>Before the nations I acclaim,</p>
<p>and praise your Holy name.</p>
<p><sup>50 </sup>Victory and triumph he does bring,</p>
<p>to me David, his anointed king,</p>
<p>and eternally to, my off-spring!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1 Help me! Lord, my Rock, hear my plea! Listen! Give me your guarantee! If your hearing is depraved, I will go down to the grave. Without your reply, I might as well die! 2 Can you hear me crying out? For your mercy I do shout. I surrender before your mercy seat. I pray [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><sup>1</sup> Help me! Lord, my Rock, hear my plea!</p>
<p>Listen! Give me your guarantee!</p>
<p>If your hearing is depraved,</p>
<p>I will go down to the grave.</p>
<p>Without your reply, I might as well die!</p>
<p><sup>2</sup> Can you hear me crying out?</p>
<p>For your mercy I do shout.</p>
<p>I surrender before your mercy seat.</p>
<p>I pray Lord, hear me weep!</p>
<p><sup>3</sup> Don’t drag me away with the nefarious.</p>
<p>Those hypocrites are so iniquitous.</p>
<p>Talk sweetly to their neighbours, they’re such a farce,</p>
<p>while holding evil against them, in their rotten hearts.</p>
<p><sup>4</sup> Give them everything they deserve.</p>
<p>Don’t hold back, no reserve!</p>
<p>Pay back according to their deeds.</p>
<p><sup>5</sup> Since they don’t care or believe,</p>
<p>in you and what you have accomplished.</p>
<p>Flatten them like a building being demolished.</p>
<p><sup>6</sup> Praise God, who heard my plea! My call for mercy.</p>
<p><sup>7</sup> You’re my strength and shield,</p>
<p>protecting me from harm.</p>
<p>My heart trusts you, no need for an alarm.</p>
<p>I break into song, jump with joy,</p>
<p>in praise I raise my arms!</p>
<p><sup>8</sup> You will be my strength augmentation,</p>
<p>anointed stronghold of my salvation!</p>
<p><sup>9</sup> Save your bequest, let none ever fall.</p>
<p>Like a shepherd, carrying, leading, forevermore!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Brendan Conboy]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.redthreadpoets.com/?p=1773</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[1 When you live in the shelter, of the Most High. You rest in the shadow of, El Shaddai. 2 I will say of The Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress! He is my God of faithfulness.” 3 From the fowler’s snare, you will be saved. He’ll rescue you, from the deadly plague. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><sup>1 </sup>When you live in the shelter, of the Most High.</p>
<p>You rest in the shadow of, El Shaddai.</p>
<p><sup>2</sup> I will say of The Lord,</p>
<p>“He is my refuge and my fortress!</p>
<p>He is my God of faithfulness.”</p>
<p><sup>3</sup> From the fowler’s snare, you will be saved.</p>
<p>He’ll rescue you, from the deadly plague.</p>
<p><sup>4</sup> His feathers are your protection,</p>
<p>hide under his wings, to avoid detection.</p>
<p>His faithfulness will be your defensive deflection.</p>
<p><sup>5</sup> You will not fear the terror of night,</p>
<p>by day no fear of the arrow in flight.</p>
<p><sup>6</sup> No fear for disease, that comes under the moon,</p>
<p>nor the plague, that destroys at noon.</p>
<p><sup>7</sup> With many thousands dying and disaster all around,</p>
<p>nothing will harm you, as you remain safe and sound.</p>
<p><sup>8</sup> As the wicked face punishment and damnation,</p>
<p>you will look on, in observation!</p>
<p><sup>9</sup> Because The Lord, is your place to hide,</p>
<p>the Most High, lives right by your side.</p>
<p><sup>10</sup> You’ll sense no evil detection,</p>
<p>safe from plague infection!</p>
<p><sup>11</sup> For he will give his angels charge over you</p>
<p>and guard you; in everything that you do.</p>
<p><sup>12</sup> With their hands, they lift you, to the safety zone,</p>
<p>so you don’t strike your foot against a stone.</p>
<p><sup>13</sup> You will tread on the lion and rattlesnake,</p>
<p>trample and crush, without pain or ache!</p>
<p><sup>14</sup> Then God says,</p>
<p>“Because you acknowledge, I am, ‘I Am’,</p>
<p>I’ll always protect you, with my rescue plan.</p>
<p><sup>15</sup> I will always answer, when you call.</p>
<p>I’ll be with you, in times of trouble.</p>
<p>I’ll deliver and honour you all, without a fall.</p>
<p><sup>16</sup> I’ll bless you, with a long life of gratification,</p>
<p>and show you joy in my salvation!”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.redthreadpoets.com/?p=1879</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[CREATION   To see the making of creation Witness the breaking foundation Be present, when it begun Watch stars, be hung and flung Lasting impression What a session Perfection Sun, Moon BOOM!   FREEDOM   In the valley of the lost we stand Hearts of sadness, is this your plan? Darkness moves across the land [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<h2><span style="color: #808080;">CREATION</span></h2>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To see the making of creation</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Witness the breaking foundation</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Be present, when it begun</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Watch stars, be hung and flung</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lasting impression</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What a session</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Perfection</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sun, Moon</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">BOOM!</p>
<h2> </h2>
<h2><span style="color: #808080;">FREEDOM</span></h2>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the valley of the lost we stand</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hearts of sadness, is this your plan?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Darkness moves across the land</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pull me from this quicksand</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Rescue me, with might</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Shine light, give sight</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Escapee</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Set free</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Me</p>
<p> </p>
<h2><span style="color: #808080;">RISE UP</span></h2>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Rise up now, it’s time to shout about</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Answer your call, now shout it out</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Join God’s army, blazing fire</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Shake the curse of the liar</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Follow your desire</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Take you higher</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Creative</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Take aim</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fire</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
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