Losing My Religion Lyrics - Losing My Religion - Kirk Franklin

I'm losing my religion 

Thank God 

I prayed about my decision 

How odd 

For the man with the mic 

To be the man all his life 

While Christ-like stipes did with REM 

Rev up the RPMs 

How do I begin to try to paint this sin, of rules? 

That divides God's people in two 

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In the beginning, religion created a mask 

The reformation helped but soon the patch didn't last 

I don't tell, you don't ask 

So we created a lie 

And for generations, church was where we went to go hide 

Or we no longer tried 

Because rules read our relationship was empty inside 

Leaves you bitter, dry 

Swift to cut like a razor 

Swift to call you a traitor 

Cause you're swift to love Taylor 

Now we got bad blood with our neighbor 

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Who's wrong, who's right 

Every Sunday we're divided 

Who's black, who's white, C'mon 

Now the man in the mirror never gets race right 

He'll never be Christ-like 

Never receive good pay 

So your faith never rises above minimum wage 

So when it's time to save the world 

You don't know what to say 

To your brother that you love when he tells you he's gay 

Do you push him away? 

Judge him down till he leaves? 

Give him a gospel he hears or a gospel he sees 

Love wrapped in truth is the gospel he needs 

There's room at the cross for everyone, even me 

Well my sins are now clean 

The loss now redeemed 

Religion is a prison but truth sets us free 

Helps us believe 

That the world we're in now is not the world that will be 

Terror, famine, disease 

Millions in poverty 

Hungry, can't sleep 

With all of this religion, why these babies can't eat? 

And if the middle class is gone, how can America see? 

How can America breathe? 

When the oxygen is gone from the American dream 

And these American streets listen close as they speak 

The next time you think America please include me 

Help the ones that are weak 

All they want is a piece 

Of the pie that you keep 

Is that too much to ask of those who lay the concrete? 

Still laying on concrete 

Pop, Pop by police 

See, they the foundation of the nation 

Not the 2% 

Not the ones that own the building that the middle class rent 

Because they make sense 

Tell me how do you feel? 

I'm the new Franklin and I have the new deal 

I fight and do right 

FDR for real 

One nation under God 

God, show us the way 

The science of opinion 

God is not a buffet 

You pick what you want so no God on your plate 

The preacher isn't God 

Religion's first mistake 

Serving stewards, shepherds, not kings 

Has to die to his flesh everyday like me 

One VIP 

All the other seats in church are free 

We're just groupies 

God's the celebrity 

Before 313 AD 

Before Constantine 

Before the council of Nacia 

Before Romans and Greeks 

Before Kalvin Alexander, Luther 

Before let there be 

Before history 

To the last century 

Before the death on the tree 

Before the fall of man 

Was a picture of me 

Now to his heart 

Right before the last three 

Words he would speak 

It is FINISHED 

Can you believe? 

I'm losing my religion 

Thank God 

Helping you lose yours, 

Is my job