Deconstruction

By Lecrae

On Church Clothes 4

Released on November 4, 2022

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[Chorus]

Find your way, find your way

Find your way, find your way

Find your way back home

No, time won't take too long, put it behind you

You can still find your way, find your way

Find your way, find your way

Find your way back home

When you feel too far gone

He can still find you


[Verse]

I deconstructed long before people knew what to call it

I know that's scary to some folks, so hold on, let me pause it

Take you back to how it started, maybe you relate

Maybe you ain't never met me, but you know my pain

Focused on Jesus in Atlanta, fresh from Tennessee

Wasn't legalistic, catch me with a cup of Hennessey

I would speak at churches, hang with leaders and such

You know, Judah, Piper, and Keller, Tony Evans was clutch

I was so involved, never thought that I could fall, y'all

Right before the fall of 2015, I was all off

It involved killing Michael Brown, had me feeling down

Tweeted 'bout it, Christians call me clown, I was losing ground

And Voddie was a hero of mine, met with him plenty times

This time, when he spoke, it cut me deeper than I realized

Doubled-down, spoke about my pain, I was met with blame

"Shame on you, 'Crae, stop crying, get back to Jesus' name"

Cut me deep, I was losing sleep, "God, ain't these Your sheep?"

Why they hate me like they do? Maybe grace is really cheap

Maybe this is all a lie, they don't really love me

They just love it when I say the things they wanna hear in public

They're like following they God mean turnin' on Black people

Is Black evil? Why do they hate and attack people?

I'm vulnerable and cautious, I'm reading Baldwin

Ta-Nehisi got me thinking, now I'm going all in

I ain't know if God was real no mo'

Every day we gettin' killed and I can't deal no mo'

I started slipping in the darkness, I'm feeling heartless

Christians got me traumatized, I don't know who God is

Drinking liquor for my therapy, and smoking Mary tree

Maybe I should get divorced, I don't know why she married me

What's the purpose? What's the point?

Nothing matters, I'm just matter, I'm just atoms

Ain't no Eve and ain't no Adam

Where the Xannies? Let me at 'em

I was floating in confusion until I dropped

Woke up in a clinical depression, then it all stopped

Sinnin' like Saul 'til I hit Damascus

God knocked me off the mule 'fore I hit the casket

Heard a faint voice calling me late, I couldn't sleep

It said, "'Crae I know you love Me, I need you to feed My sheep"

Tears streaming as I weep, felt I heard the Lord speak

I've been running from You, but You never ran away from me

It was people that hurt me, it wasn't God, though

I let the church trauma turn into a God wound

I learned the western world has twisted up the Scriptures, so when I re-enlisted

I learned the eastern context the way that Jesus meant it

My peace has been cemented, my soul has been re-lifted

My deconstruction ended, reconstruction is beginning

My peace has been cemented, my soul has been re-lifted

My deconstruction ended, reconstruction is beginning


[Chorus]

Find your way, find your way

Find your way, find your way

Find your way back home

No, time won't take too long, put it behind you

You can still find your way, find your way

Find your way, find your way

Find your way back home

When you feel too far gone

He can still find you


[Outro]

I'll never be the same

Be the same

I'm comin' back to you

Coming back