Welcome To The Freak Show: Live In Concert

[what will people think
When they hear that i'm a jesus freak?
What will people do
When they find that's it's true?]

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 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 a dream

(chorus)
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
There ain't no disguising the truth

Kamikaze, my death 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 skins on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
The pharisees tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this jesus freak

(repeat chorus 2x)

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

(repeat chorus 2x)

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]
There ain't no disguising the truth
[jesus is the way]

[it's, it's too short, it's too short]
[i have lots of time]
[they say time waits for no man]
[all the time]
[waisted time, waisted time]
[wait a minute]
[this'll just take a little time]
[time out!]

Time is tickin' away, time is tickin'
[tick tock!]
Time is tickin' away, time is tickin'
Tick, tick, tick, tock, tickin'

Here we go again
Straight up rock-n-roll
All that hip hop... ???... is... ???
Don't forget

Let's go
Here we go, everybody
Let's go
Here we go, everybody
Let's go
Here we go, everybody
Let's go, check it out

You got a gift and you best start using it
Cause if you don't you're gonna wind up losing it
Just like the brother who buried it deep
The task was simple but the price was steep
We got a mission while we're on this earth
We need to tell people 'bout our second birth
Get busy like a school boy makin' an "a"
Cause time my brother is tickin' away

(chorus)
Time is tickin' away, tick tick tickin' away
Time is tickin' away, tick tick tickin' away
Time is tickin' away, tick tick tickin' away
Time is tickin' away, tick tick tickin' away

Right now is the time that we gotta get with it
The gift that he's given ain't just an exhibit
But a tool that he's given us to use for his sake
And just as he's given he can surely take
The signs of the times are dropping like flies
The cries of the people around us imply
They're lookin' for an answer that we already know
But time is definitely on the go

All the money in the world
Can never stop the hands of time
And a wasted day in your life
Is more than a crime

(repeat chorus)

Time is tickin' away, time is tickin'
Time is tickin' away, time is tickin'
You got a gift and you best start using it
Cause if you don't you're gonna wind up losing it
Get busy like a school boy makin' an "a"
Cause time my brother is tickin' away

(repeat chorus)

Time is tickin', it keeps on tickin'
Time is tickin' away (6x)

Whoa, wait a minute...

[in my mind, i can see your face
As your love pours down in a shower of grace
Some people tell me that you're just a dream
My faith is the evidence of things unseen]

In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
In my mind's eye, in my mind

You know what i'm going through
I know this is true
'cause you stood in my shoes
Desire's inside of me
But it's hard to believe
In what you cannot see

Can you catch the wind?
See a breeze?
Its presence is revealed by
The leaves on a tree
An image of my faith in the unseen

(chorus)
In my mind's eye
I see your face
You smile as you show me grace
In my mind's eye
You take my hand
We walk through foreign lands
The foreign lands of life

In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
In my mind's eye, in my mind

In my mind i'm where i belong
As i rest in your arms
And like a child i hold on to you
In my moment of truth, yes i do

We can ride the storm
Endure the pain
You comfort me in my hurricane
And i'll never be alone again

(repeat chorus 2x)

In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
In my mind's eye, in my mind

In my mind i can see your face
Love pours down in a shower of grace
Life is a gift that you choose to give
I believe we eternally live
Faith is the evidence of things unseen
People tell me that you're just a dream
But they don't know you the way that i do
You're the one i live to pursue

Can you catch the wind?
[can you see god, have you ever seen him?
I've never seen the wind
I seen the effects of the wind
But i've never seen the wind]
Can you see the breeze?
[there's a mystery to it]

(repeat chorus)

In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
[i see you there again]
In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
[i know you'll meet me there my friend]
In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
[i know you're there, i can touch you there]
In my mind's eye, in my mind's eye
[i want you there, i need you there, i see you there, i know you care]
[and i believe, and i believe, and i believe]

(chorus)
Some people gotta learn the hardway
I guess i'm the kinda guy
That has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hardway, father
I'm on my knees and i'm crying for help

Now i've been high and i've been low
I've been some places that you will not go
I never thought there would come the day
When i wished i never would've lived this way
But i've been searching for a long, long time
I thought the devil was a friend of mine
I turned my back on everything that was true
And wasted years that belong to you

(repeat chorus)

It took so long for me to see
That i'm a victim of nature and me
Left to myself i realize
I am the maker of my own demise

But you accept me every time and again
And never mention just how selfish i've been
Why must it always take me so long to see
That i have fallen but you will forgive me?

(repeat chorus 2x)

The warning signs are like flares in the night
Still i proceed my greed is in spite of the fire
I know that's bound to burn
Why is it that i always gotta learn...
The hardway, the hardway, i had to learn the hardway
The hardway, the hardway, i had to learn the hardway

[1, 1, 1, 1... 2, 2, 2, 2... 3, 3, 3, 3... 4, 4, 4, 4]

Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin
I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement
Cause i see the beauty in the tones of our skin


We've gotta come together
And thank the maker of us all

(chorus)
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place
We're colored people, and they call us the human race
We've got a history so full of mistakes
And we are colored people who depend on a holy grace

[1, 1, 1, 1... 2, 2, 2, 2... 3, 3, 3, 3... 4, 4, 4, 4]

A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart
By god's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope

We've gotta come together,
Aren't we all human after all?

(repeat chorus)

Ignorance has wronged some races
And vengeance is the lord's
If we aspire to share this space
Repentance is the cure

[1, 1, 1, 1... 2, 2, 2, 2... 3, 3, 3, 3... 4, 4, 4, 4]

Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones
As a part of our anatomy

(repeat chorus)

We're colored people, and they call us the human race
[oh, colored people]
We're colored people, and we all gotta share this space
[yeah we've got to come together somehow]
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted world
[red and yellow, black and white]
We're colored people, every man, woman, boy, and girl
[colored people, colored people, colored people, colored people, yeah]

[the greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is christians who acknowledge jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.]


What if i stumble?
What if i fall?

Is this one for the people?
Is this one for the lord?
Or do i simply serenade for things i must afford?
You can jumble them together, my conflict still remains
Holiness is calling, in the midst of courting fame

Cause i see the trust in their eyes
Though the sky is falling
They need your love in their lives
Compromise is calling

(chorus)
What if i stumble, what if i fall?
What if i lose my step and i make fools of us all?
Will the love continue when my walk becomes a crawl?
What if i stumble, and what if i fall?

What if i stumble, what if i fall?
You never turn in the heat of it all
What if i stumble, what if i fall?

Father please forgive me for i can not compose
The fear that lives within me
Or the rate at which it grows
If struggle has a purpose
On the narrow road you've carved
Why do i dread my trespasses will leave a deadly scar

Do they see the fear in my eyes?
Are they so revealing?
This time i cannot disguise
All the doubt i'm feeling

(repeat chorus)

What if i stumble?
Everyone's got to crawl when you know that
You're up against a wall, it's about to fall
Everyone's got to crawl when you know that (2x)

I hear you whispering my name [you say]
"my love for you will never change" [never change]

(repeat chorus 2x)

What if i stumble, what if i fall?
You never turn in the heat of it all
What if i stumble, what if i fall?
You are my comfort, and my god

Is this one for the people, is this one for the lord?

That's great, it starts with an earthquake,
Birds, snakes, and aeroplanes
You know i am not afraid.

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs
Feed it like an aux feeds, grunt, no, strength, no
Ladder starts with a clattered gear found high
Wire in a fire represents a seven gauge
In a government rage

(chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine

That's great, it starts with an earthquake,
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
Toby mac has never, ever, ever been afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs
Feed it like an aux feeds, grunt, no, strength, no
Ladder starts with a clattered gear found high
Wire in a fire represents a seven gauge
In a government rage

(repeat chorus 3x)

I feel fine

[take this... ??? for a ride]
Boom! burn! bip! yeah! pow! hey, ha ha.
Down with the dc talk, d- d- down with the dc talk
Are you down with the dc talk, d- d- down with the dc talk

Pullin' out my big black book
Cause when i need a word defined that's where i look
So i move to the l's quick, fast, in a hurry
Threw on my specs, thought my vision was blurry
I looked again but to my dismay
It was black and white with no room for grey
Ya see, a big "v" stood beyond my word
And yo that's when it hit me, that luv is a verb

(chorus 1)
Words come easy but don't mean much
When the words they're sayin' we can't put trust in
We're talkin' 'bout love in a different light
And if we all learn to love it would be just right

(chorus 2)
Hey, tell me haven't ya heard?
Luv, is a serious word
Hey, i think it's time ya learned
I don't care what they say
I don't care care what ya heard
The word luv, luv is a verb

Down with the dc talk, d- d- down with the dc talk
Are you down with the dc talk, d- d- down with the dc talk

Thinkin' of a way to explain-o
Cause ya' know when i'm flowin' like a bottle of drain-o
Simple and plain, l-o-v-e
Ain't all that junk that ya see on tv
Put soaps on a rope cause they ain't worth copin' with
It's a myth that there ain't no hope and
Luv is enough if it's unconditionally
Givin' now you're living out the great commission

(repeat choruses 1 and 2)

Back in the day there was a man
Who stepped out of heaven and he walked the land
He delivered to the people an eternal choice
With a heart full of luv and the truth in his voice
Gave up his life so that we may live
How much more luv could the son of god give?
Here is the example that we oughtta be matchin'
Cause luv is a word that requires some action

(repeat chorus 1)

(repeat chorus 2 x4)