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Anthem For The Off​-​Key

from What's Behind My Words by Jared Rhodes

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America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, has become a much different place in the past decade. This is for those who are tired of living in brokenness and lies. This is for those who are destined to be different.

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This is a song for the broken, an anthem for the off-key
This is a tune to listen to when the answer’s too tough to see
This is a melody for those who were in chains and are finally free
So if you want to be free, take the time to listen to me
Scratch that, don’t listen to me
Tap into what’s behind my words
The truth is there shining through and it’s just waiting to be heard
To those with built-up walls around them and feel so self-assured
I’d like to see your faces when your walls crumble from the power of this unstoppable Word
These words that you hear are not my own
It’s God’s spirit living within my dust-filled bones
My heart humbled and my sins atoned letting me live without any heavy burdens or loans
Most think He is up in space on his celestial throne
But He’s right beside me so I’ll never be alone
So to the intellectuals, to the politicians, kings and scribes
The ones who feed on confusion and disbelief to survive
No longer from the truth will my nation be deprived
We will take the sword to your symbiotic hive of lies
To show that God cannot be dead but is truly alive
Are you all too ignorant and proud to just open your eyes and see it?
Are you too stubborn and is your heart too hard to feel it?
Are there not enough facts to just submit, let go, agree to it?
It’s on the back of your money and in your allegiance and you still don’t believe it.
Some groups are suddenly intolerant because their opinion isn’t the same
You push acceptance and push away the antithesis, saying its outdated and lame
Free religion and being all you can be is why to this country we came
Worship God or whoever and work hard enough to make yourself a name
But today its not politically correct to pray in school but acceptable to cheat your way through this devilish game
Don’t get me wrong, this country is great, but it’s not the same. Things have changed
Its time for us to defame the falsehoods and patriotic chains
And reveal all of the hidden guilt and shame
Oh what a shame.
You sold a broken lie, you ran an unneeded race
We can see right through your political poker face
You can keep your forked tongues behind your mouths because the truth we will embrace
We will stand against you and the unseen principalities face to face
We will fight for our right down on our knees and blow the roof off this place
Singing
So here we stand, off-key anthem resonating through the sky
Worshiping the One True God until the day we die
Never will we stumble and never will we be skittish or shy
How can you lie to yourself when your True master cannot deny
The presence of my Jesus, even he has to comply
So when he rears his ugly head and look him in the eye
And not back down because of who I have as an ally
So the lonely, the broken, the downtrodden, with tears in your eyes
I pray you stand tall with the full armor of God, fist in the air, singing this war cry
Let Freedom Ring

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from What's Behind My Words, released July 8, 2014

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