Phill Evans - Soapbox (Outro) Lyrics

I can barely manage
Life has been bananas
Every step I take it feels like I'm only doing damage
Trying not to break but it's too late for second chances
No time to play charades when these bills just will not vanish
I gotta find some answers
My baby needs some pampers
My toddler just keeps growing but his clothes are not advancing
My wife stay by my side down ride through all the strife
I just wanna honor her and build a better life and so I fight on
Do what I gotta do to keep these lights on
I know this pressure will soon make me a diamond
No settling I'll keep fighting to til the grave
Hope is never lost when you're already saved
This life is just a canvas let's see what God can paint
Can't wait to see the image He said we've all been made
For now I'll keep the faith
Each day won't go to waste
Every moment I get is a picture of His grace
Struggle well and fight on, don't lose hope
We all got a story but don't live your life in quotes
Enclosed by fears and lies you're just a ghost
We see your essence but presence remains unknown
Look
Rock more hoodies since Trayvon died
If they kill me in the streets know my soul gone fly
How you feel like you the man but can't face real life?
Living life in a trance watch the days go by
But I digress
Say more say less
The way that I was raised has got me ready for the tests
This third coast king screwed up and made a mess
The risen king made me clean and fixed my brokenness
Yes yeah
So I could never be ashamed
I'll tell the whole world to trust your word and lift ya name
Jesus Christ is the only way we will be saved
Be we keep on games until we standing in the flames
Dang!
But y'all don't hear me
Rather hear me talk about the struggle and not forgiveness
I can't deny what I've seen, so let me witness
I'm standing on a soap box crying for you to listen
No good deeds could ever fix this
Hopes not lost but if misplaced you'll have to serve ya sentence
I'm writing repentance in hope you turn this very instance and run away
Away from all the lies and away from all the pain
Away from all the guilt and away from all the shame
Jesus took the cross so he could wipe it all away
Live in the light
To be known is to be free
You done a lot of dirt
That don't mean you can't be cleaned
I was so lost in my sin I swear I couldn't see
Losing all my friends, destroying everything
Tore my Achilles and then he got a hold of me
Only girl I ever loved refused to let me be
She just kept on saying Phill one day you're gonna see
God gave you so much so for now just hold to me
And so I did
And now she is my rib
2 kids later as the story just begins
No longer chasing ends
I know how the story ends
Till then...
Every page can only point to how to win
Every chapter he forgives
Not shackled by my sins
I'm Phill Evans my life is proof that Jesus Christ still lives, boy
Yeah
We right here boy
Surrender all your sins boy
And find out that lives boy
Turn and follow Christ
Let's get it in boy
Yeah