1 if by faith
lined up
next to none
talking about
chances found
rolling down
hill looking
for a way up
out of no way
1 if by faith
best intentions with
the devil over your shoulder
young bucks pray to get older
grannies pray they come home
mama’s pray when they gone
devils prey on & on
sometimes
living just holding on
dodging ducking left with
bucking
the system each other
anything trying cast a shadow
over the shine burning inside
trying to manifest
trying to live long enough to
be blessed confessing
to any means
with the devil
over your shoulder
held by the prayers
of others fully strapped
into the mission of
rising your bootstraps in
your hands can’t be soft
rather be a dead man
loaded fully intending
to hit the mark
even if the target
moves hidden in
the dark lion heart
blessed with more
than common sense
winning is in him
he intuits it
back bent into it
1 if by faith
held by invisible godz
bucking the odds
playing with mediocre cards
still shining even
in a crooked house
still writing the music
hypocrites and their
children dance to with
cotton on their breath
still breaking lynch steps
holding on to the last
dream left forward because
they built a fence on the
hill you came up you too
tall to go back you
were little when you walked
under the bridge
between could have been
and what you built
no way back only forward
motion spoken here
life is movement
movement is life
1 if by faith
the table’s set
refusing to be late
gotta collect a debt
1 if by faith
lined up
next to none
talking about
chances found
rolling down
hill looking
for a way up
out of no way
always on the 1
