Wednesday, December 7, 2016

NF - "Oh Lord"

Listen, yeah everybody wants change
Don't nobody wanna change though
Don't nobody wanna pray
Till they got something to pray for
Now everybody's gon' die
But don't everybody live though
Sometimes I look up to the sky
And wonder do you see us down here?


These words present a longing for God to do something. Yet, there is a recognition that the God is still there and always has been.

It's easy to blame God but harder to fix things
We look in the sky like, "Why ain't You listening?"
Watching the news in our living rooms on the big screens
And talking 'bout "If God's really real, then where is He?"
You see the same God that you saying might not even exist
Becomes real to us, but only when we dying in bed
When ya healthy it's like, we don't really care for Him then
Leave me alone God, I'll call you when I need you again
Which is funny, everyone will sleep in the pews
Then blame God for our problems like He sleeping on you
We turn our backs on Him, what do you expect Him to do?
It's hard to answer prayers when nobody's praying to you
I look around at this world we walk on
It's a smack in the face, don't ever tell me there's no God
And if there isn't then what are we here for?
And what are y'all doing down there? I don't know Lord

The song, though, is also and maybe even foremost a call to the people to pray. This song is a great reality check for people. Even though the song is pretty much all computer generated (it does start with a guitar intro though, which stays in the background for the first verse), the music presents a longing and NR sings/raps with such a heartache in his voice that the listener can't but feel along with him.

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