GIVE ME A REVELATION

My life, has led me down the road that's so uncertain

And now I am left alone and I am broken,

Trying to find my way, trying to find the faith that's gone

This time, I know that You are holding all the answers

I'm tired of losing hope and taking chances,

On roads that never seem, to be the ones that bring me home

Give me a revelation, Show me what to do

Cause I've been trying to find my way, I haven't got a clue

Tell me should I stay here, or do I need to move

Give me a revelation

I've got nothing without You

I've got nothing without You

My life has led me down this path that's ever winding

Through every twist and turn I'm always finding,

That I am lost again (I am lost again)

Tell me when this road will ever end

Give me a revelation, Show me what to do

Cause I've been trying to find my way, I haven't got a clue

Tell me should I stay here, or do I need to move

Give me a revelation

I've got nothing without You

I've got nothing without You

I don't know where I can turn

Tell me when will I learn

Won't You show me where I need to go

Oh, let me follow Your lead,

I know that it's the only way that I can get back home

Give me a revelation

LET ME BE THE LAST TO SAY

As far back as he cares to remember,

He used to see his old man lose the temper

And mama's pretty face would catch it all,

On a regular basis the nest would fall.

But he was always safe from dad's rage,

Cause mama sacrificed in his place

Two-dozen years of the blood, sweat, tears,

Avoid the mirror, losing her hair from the fear.

She never left him, stayed inside

He beat her (explicit) up until the day that he died

In fact, the biggest beating was the day that he died

Cause now it's too late for her to make a new life.

She gets to mourn for the touch of a punch,

Won't ever admit that she ain't clutchin it much,

Someday she'll die, it still won't be done

The anger lives on through their son.

Cause he saw, he caught it all

A childhood of watching ma and pa get raw

It's too bad for him, nah, that's half the truth

'Cause you're back with him now and he's smackin you

What happened to you? You don't have a clue.

Did your mama used to suffer accidents too?

I never knew that you would stand for abuse,

I guess I just assumed that you would pack up and move.

Think about when you left him last time,

Said out loud that you would never forgive past crimes,

Sunglasses, so dark, scarf around the neck to cover the choke marks.

And since you gotta justify returnin,

You convinced yourself that "he's just a hurt person."

You wanna blame that cross he bears,

But his pop's not there when he tosses you down stairs.

Let me be the last to say, Please don't stay.

Let me be the last to say, You won't be okay.

Please put your shoes on and step into that warm weather,

Go get yourself a more better forever.

Gotta put it down, you gotta leave it,
And don't ever come back again, you gotta mean it.

Just tear it all apart and build new,

Cause if you don't kill him, he's gonna kill you.

You can't hold hands when they make fists,

And I aint the first to say this.

But let me be the last to say, Please don't stay.

Let me be the last to say, You won't be okay.

Let me be the last to say, Please don't stay.