This song, and video, changed forever Christian music, as well as hitting an ol' long haired atheist rather hard ta boot. I saw this when I was still between belief and unbelief; but I saw strength, integrity, dignity, and almost pride, in these three guys, taking what was once a mocking phrase (Jesus freak), and turning it into a banner that I would soon see raised high by hundreds of thousands of kids throughout American Christendom.....and that, regardless of your sonic preference, is a beautiful thing!
Separated I cut myself clean
From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I've divorced
I saw a man with a tat on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head
Jesus saves is what it raved in a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city and claimed he had adream
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
Kamikaze my death it is gain
I've been marked by my maker a peculiar display
The high and lofty they see me as weak
Cause I won't live and die for the power they seek
There was a man from the desert with naps in his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn't too much left in the upper room
With scabs on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
The Pharisee's tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus Freak
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they lable me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
People say I'm strange does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
People say I'm strange does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will poeple do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will poeple do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they lable me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
What will people think
What will people think
What will people do
What will people do
I don't really care
What else can I say
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
Jesus is the way
.
From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I've divorced
I saw a man with a tat on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head
Jesus saves is what it raved in a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city and claimed he had adream
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
Kamikaze my death it is gain
I've been marked by my maker a peculiar display
The high and lofty they see me as weak
Cause I won't live and die for the power they seek
There was a man from the desert with naps in his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn't too much left in the upper room
With scabs on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
The Pharisee's tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus Freak
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they lable me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
People say I'm strange does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
People say I'm strange does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will poeple do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak
What will poeple do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they lable me a Jesus Freak
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
What will people think
What will people think
What will people do
What will people do
I don't really care
What else can I say
Cause there ain't no disguising the truth
Jesus is the way
.
4 comments:
Yes, I remember that whole album being very very good. And mostly because it found DC Talk stretching out a bit, musically. It was much more mature.
Those lyrics are really good.
awesome in concert too
i love that album. saw them in concert when i was a senior in highschool doing this album. i miss them. even though toby mac still rocks by himself.
High School!, man I am so old...anybody seen my teeth? where's my walking stick?
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