(Intro)
Turn it up a little!
Take it down a notch
Turn it up a little!
(C.M.P.)
(Hook)
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
(Judgement starts first in the house of God! You know?)
(That's what the Word say.)
Yo
(Verse I)
It's either that we grow or we die
It ain't no half stepping. Yo, we runnin' outta time
I remember being lost, I was runnin' outta mind
I was stressed & depressed. I was runnin' outta mine
Talkin' weed & that money. Outta bounds, outta line
Trying to hold the world but I almost broke my spine
From the city of the gritty where they hustle & they grind
God told me had to change, "Choose Christ!" Said "Fine"!
Was more of a con that an artist
From that grace, I was farthest
Yo, I could have turn real heartless
Slept on couches & carpets
Blurred line in reality
Run away from the pain & the tragedy
Would you endure even if you fall & you crash?
You can get up & shake off all your past!
Our worth is beyond luxury & that cash
Our worth is beyond luxury & that cash
(Luxury & that cash...Aye!)
I can't challenge you...
And then forget about how...
God confronted me, you know?
But now, we finna get into it...
And this is all said in love tho...
(Hook)
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
(In the beginning...)
(Verse II)
Adam & Eve were told "Be fruitful & multiply"
Beyond bearing kids or a piece of the pie
We were made in His image for dominion & to thrive
Yet we live beneath our purpose so I asked God why?
God's promises are true & activatin' all in time
But the ax is at the root if we don't grow. Will you try?
God is about fruit! Holy Spirit is the guide
So, I challenge you to live though it's easier to die
Like a dog going back to it's vomit
We deny the God who made stars & comets
Every time we fall back into sin...Let me keep it Ben Franklin honest:
God wants all of you, not a piece! (100)
Mediocrity is not the wave
You gave the world all you had but when it comes to God, He gets below ave, ok?
You still bound to them old ways? You still living in fear?
You still just "go to church"? Ever listening but you can't hear
Ever watching but can't see
Ever speaking but don't speak substance
Just going through all the motions
In your process, best get accustomed
To the fact that we can't mingle holy with common, even if it's buzzin'!
The worldly wisdom given through television & radio will have you gone & rushin'
Chasing after wind, women, ends, & friends & men for satisfaction, touchin'
All our flesh desires expire in the fire. Without God's power, we are nothing!
(Aye)
Glory to glory...
Faith to faith...
Not by our power... or by our might...
But through submission to Jesus Christ...
Endure...and press on to the Promise Land...
Through the peaks & valley...
If I can grow, so can you!
Lay aside every weight & count it nothing in comparison to having Jesus!
A crown awaits you, fellow believer...
Press to the Promise...through the process...
Grow...
(Hook)
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
You only grow as big as your surroundings...
Being stagnant...is a form of drowning
Speak the truth in the mirrors...no lie
If you ain't growing...you die
If you ain't growin'...then you die...
If you ain't growin'...then you die...
If you ain't growin'...then you die...
If you ain't growin'...then you die...