Lamentations - Intellectual

[Verse 1: S.O.]

Pops told me that no is no and slow your roll young so and so, That's the lesson that I'm getting from a brave man

Now his body's in a grave how low is low?

You get the message I ain't messing when I say fam

He died so every night that I cried waking up with wet sheets as tears fall from my eyes

Mother getting less sleep I'm near to my demise

Its clear it gets deep this caught us by surprise in a minute

Went from wife to widow in an instant do you get it

Hear my plight his pictures is a witness

Trying to scrimmage for hope hearing the minister quote

My mind's feeling so sinister diminished and broke

Oh my who can administer real life I never would have thought I would know what this feel like

This feel like darkness all over me, like its all over feeling hopeless Whose holding me hope is bleak

[Hook: Leah Smith & S.O.]

Lord, though you slay me, I will rejoice

I'm weak and weary but my body is Yours

I hope You hear me these tears are my voice

I see You clearly like I didn't before

You give and You take away but by Your grace I know that You make a way

[Verse 2: S.O.]

My sister crying she falling down on that work floor

Uncle wondering what its all for watch em as they all mourn

Dark storm brewing and what hurts more is all the flashes in my head

Trying to work out what had happened coz he's dead

Saw his body just laying in a coffin it was spread

It really got me it cut me so abruptly and it led to me being so flippant not wishing to live

How could I get so distant I wanna be hid

I am one of his kids who is fatherless

How do you prepare for this moment whose got the starter kit

Any second wishing and hoping he'll come charging in

Wrap me in his arms and tell me son it was all a myth

But that's the furthest from the truth the bearers of the news came to my home and they showed me all the proof

And I really was bemused wondering why God would take him and leave me saddened and confused

[Hook: Leah Smith & S.O.]

Lord, though you slay me, I will rejoice

I'm weak and weary but my body is Yours

I hope You hear me these tears are my voice

I see You clearly like I didn't before

You give and You take away but by Your grace I know that You make a way

[Verse 3: S.O.]

Man I really wanna trust in the Lord yo

And as it stands know my God has got a plan, demand nothing and also

I'm feeling like poor Job, my reprimand is never trusting in man but God's sovereign of all souls

Including my father's and so I rest in and try to invest in, deny and reject sin

I'm trusting in the words of the Lord blessed are people who mourn sons and daughters we are blessed kin

Them sleepless nights yeah I was wrestling

Satan's deception made blatant impressions

Had me wondering and why questioning why

Now I'm wandering not trusting in the Saviour who died

God is sovereign and I know it, grants hope the hopeless

The Father to the fatherless has grace for the chosen wipes tears and I know it

Keep me sane each moment

Grant joy cos I no longer wanna be groaning I cry

[Hook: Leah Smith & S.O.]

Lord, though you slay me, I will rejoice

I'm weak and weary but my body is Yours

I hope You hear me these tears are my voice

I see You clearly like I didn't before

You give and You take away but by Your grace I know that You make a way