Hall of Martyrs by Datin, S.O., Ruslan, Uncle Reece, Dru Bex, Jxhn Pvul

Living Room Sessions - Season 001 by Go! Records, Menace Movement

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Hall of Martyrs
by Datin, S.O., Ruslan, Uncle Reece, Dru Bex, Jxhn Pvul

Album: Living Room Sessions - Season 001

Verse 1: Datin
See if my options were
Deny the Father or I'm a goner
Then I'd be forced to choose and say goodbye tomorrow, it is sayonara
It's not because I wanna die, I wouldn't invite the horror
It's because I know to die a martyr is the highest honor
I don't know why you bother to threaten my life cause all you do is make it worse
See when our blood is shed the Bride is stronger
You can't divide and conquer martyrdoms of highest order
Dat will fan our flame, while the Father multiplying morals
His knights in shining armor, we die for ours
It's kinda-sorta like what Leonidas did in his fight for Sparta
We do not like the drama
But Christ has called us to follow Him, even if that means submitting our life to slaughter
So whether it's imprisonment and ball and chains
So I'm staring down the barrel of a .44 and bang
I understand to live is Christ
To die is more to gain for His name
I will gladly join the hall of martyrs slain

Chorus: Uncle Reece, Dru Bex, Jxhn Pvul
This is a lifestyle, more than making music
I lay my life down following the movement (Following the movement)
This is on faith because of His grace we can finish the race
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
We ain't never gonna stop
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
Even if it get us shot
We will praise the Lord (We will praise the Lord, praise the Lord)
We will praise the Lord
If you love Him make it shine

Verse 2: S.O.
Yeah
If I'm honest I got like a hundred flows
I go where the Son is low, huh
Came thru, dripping my clique, got a sudden low, gang business
You hitting a lick and we wanna go, we drip different
The blood of the saint stay on our toes
Hundred saints in Nigeria killed for there beliefs
Feeling grief, I intercede for my brothers who in the streets, man this is deep
How you sleep with a cutlass between the sheets
Not for the thief, but a wolf who got fur between the fleece
I can't deny it, man I'm standing by it
The standing bodies say I'm biased, 'cause the standing higher
One look in my eye you see the fire, that should energize ya
I'm hearing there cry, I'm seeing church robes and vandalizers, washed blood will sanitize ya
To die is gain, He took a blade to the diaphragm
All 'cause He calls Messiah's name with a die of shame
Now I'm way down feeling pain 'cause it's more than they
But the hall of the martyrs is where my brother's stay

Chorus: Uncle Reece, Dru Bex, Jxhn Pvul
This is a lifestyle, more than making music
I lay my life down following the movement (Following the movement)
This is on faith because of His grace we can finish the race
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
We ain't never gonna stop
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
Even if it get us shot
We will praise the Lord (We will praise the Lord, praise the Lord)
We will praise the Lord
If you love Him make it shine

Verse 3: Ruslan
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Flashback, I was thinking the little thoughts
Can't have that, never thinking I was a little off
Now abstract, carry my cross and die for my beliefs
Now realizing that the cost for Him was everything
Now we ain't getting slaughtered, but if we live as martyrs
Perhaps we should stop complaining about which choice is hardest
Stateside we the 1% if we talking wealth
Saying we die for the Gospel but we won't die to ourselves
I prove we lost already
What kinda martyr serves a God of His own flesh and belly
I know you wasn't ready
Trying to romanticize the idea of suffering for Him
Hypothetically, the little things we still ignore 'em
This is the new normal
I ain't tryna be forceful
Suffering from plenty, 2020 gluttony
Biggest preventable 'cause of death, I don't think that's what he meant when he said, "Die to self"

Chorus: Uncle Reece, Dru Bex, Jxhn Pvul
This is a lifestyle, more than making music
I lay my life down following the movement (Following the movement)
This is on faith because of His grace we can finish the race
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
We ain't never gonna stop
We will praise the Lord (Oh)
Even if it get us shot
We will praise the Lord (We will praise the Lord, praise the Lord)
We will praise the Lord
If you love Him make it shine

Bridge: Dru Bex
And fi' know
When I feel na' shot I know, when I feel na' stones
Won't deny my God, da fi' let da t'ing blow
Kill da body but dey can't kill de soul
Dis we know

Outro: Dru Bex
We will praise the Lord
We ain't never gonna stop
We will praise the Lord
Even if it get us shot
We will praise the Lord (We will praise the Lord, praise the Lord)
We will praise the Lord
If you love Him let it shine