Strangers

I've been outside really reading up

Back in the day, never read a book

But them red letters hit my dead heart

And I came to life and I changed up, now they wanna know

Tell me, who this stranger? (Who's this stranger?)

Dead men don't wake up (wake up)

I ain't goin' through phases

This right here the new way, the basics (yeah)

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Dead men don't wake up (wake up)

So tell me, who's this stranger?

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact (yeah)

Hollow the man I saw in the mirror

No sign of a heart, invisible tears

Then I met a saint who walked in the red

He opened the word, he told me

"If you don't encounter hope

I promise, the future look dark" (future look dark)

Deadly roots set deep in my soul

Six feet didn't seem very far

Suicidal thoughts in my heart lost

One look at the light, no MIB

No red pill, no blue pill

Just Christ-filled, found serenity

Broke out the jail cell built in myself

Michael Schofield energy

Yeah, Adonai got me looking right

Maybe it's makeup, nah, this ain't Maybelline

I believe God broke the curse

Now I'm teaching my babies to put on

The armor and watch for the arrows

Switching the script on the news for the good

'Til they cancel the Anchorman, Will Ferrell

Now I look like a stranger to the ones that I see in my rearview

'Cause God took my life from the pit to the palace

My wife and my twins, all my blessings show up when I hear You

I been outside really reading up

Back in the day, never read a book

But them red letters hit my dead heart

And I came to life and I changed up, now they wanna know

Tell me, who this stranger? (Who's this stranger?)

Dead men don't wake up (wake up)

I ain't goin' through phases

This right here the new way, the basics (yeah)

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Dead men don't wake up

So tell me, who's this stranger?

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact (yeah, uh, uh)

Hold up, I came out the grave

Hold up, they saying, "Behave"

Hold up, man, what did you say?

Give me some room, just get out the way

Get up out the throne, this a veteran

Watch us when we zone, ain't never settlin'

In '05, didn't have a purpose

'Til them red letters hit me, now I'm purchased

See me working (work, work)

Been in the game, two decades straight

Ain't ever hit a break, too much at stake

Seen the dead come alive all by grace

Power of the Gospel, hit 'em by faith

Share the stages with the famous ones

Ain't chasin' fame, just highly favored

Top the charts all for the One, glory to the Son

I been outside really reading up

Back in the day, never read a book

But them red letters hit my dead heart

And I came to life and I changed up, now they wanna know

Tell me, who this stranger? (Who's this stranger?)

Dead men don't wake up (wake up)

I ain't goin' through phases

This right here the new way, the basics (yeah)

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Tell me, who's this stranger? (Tell me)

Dead men don't wake up (wake up)

So tell me, who's this stranger?

Came through on the wrong side

But the Holy Ghost brought Him back

Woke up with a new heart, new mind, new purpose intact