The Message - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

This is who I am

Take it or leave it; my life's in your hands

I won't delay and hide

Remove this mask that's hiding what's inside

No more gimmicks, no more hyping it up

I'll step forth and show what I've got

It's time to face the music, or better yet

Let the music face it's life or death

Hype will fade, substance stays

Hype will fade, substance will stay

Hear me out on the words that I say

You've gotta give up this life to save your own life

To give yourself is to gain everything

To cut off the branches that won't provide

To die to yourself and be made alive inside

I've waited long enough

It's come time to put it all on the line

And if the road gets rough

Just know this dream will never die

Will never die

Hear me out on the words that I say

You've gotta give up this life to save your own life

To give yourself is to gain everything

To cut off the branches that won't provide

To die to yourself and be made alive inside

This is my message to the world

Yeah!

All I want if for you to see the life I live and to live it vicariously

Hear me out on the words that I say

You've gotta give up this life to save your own life

To give yourself is to gain everything

To cut off the branches that won't provide

To die to yourself and be made alive inside

Oh-woah-oh

Make me alive inside

Make me alive

Make me alive!

(Make me alive!)

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