devil's work (a response to joyner lucas)

joyner

i hear you're going through some things and it's getting tough

but

i see you got my word with you

it's a shame how the pain only thing make you pick it up

you complain when it rains just once but i never hear thanks for that hundred days with the sun

could've ran to me first

ran to the drink first

and now i gotta have this conversation with you when you drunk

see

before i even start addressing it

i don't owe you any answers

so don't get used to it

but i feel like you being genuine

but the truth is you can't handle the truth

lucas

but you kept it a buck and i love that

if i kept it a buck back

could you take what you stepping in?

i know there's other folk that feel like you

so first thing i'mma do is let you know who you questioning

i am the god who created the earth

i knew you'd start feeling yourself

so i made you from dirt

ain't no battery in your body

so who making it work?

i made the earth perfect

it's y'all making it worse

who put the seed in the fruit

put the fruit in the tree and that tree in another little seed but me

then turned around and made you the same way after that

but you was in your daddy's sack and this that daddy sack

i am the one that put breath in your lungs and created the same mind that you question me from

you are lost

i'm the way

i'm the potter

you're the clay

and now the clay got something to say

okay

you can never check me

so check this

your standard

for right and wrong is me

i am the checklist

i am right

wrong is whatever you're left with

i am life

you without me is what death is

i am the judge

you answer me

if i throw light

man

who throws it back at me?

and if all this falls

who can stand but me?

you go the cross but you cross-examine me

you say i made mistakes

you mistaking me

you made gods out of men who are clay to me

you put lives over lives that you ain't create

then feel a way 'cause all flesh the same to me

what if some of the people you naming to me

wasn't really everything that you made them to be

or worse

what if they are and i take 'em with me

you telling me there's any better place they could be?

no way

you don't know

you just gotta push through

'cause why you over here saying what i should do

somebody lost somebody last week and

came at me the same way

saying i should've took you

you ask why the good die young

but the truth is

none of y'all are good

not one

the only one ever been good's my son

so to answer your question

the good die once

what if i told you the truth when your mom died?

you think you can choose when your mom dies?

if you put it off twenty years away

twenty years later when that day came

would you not cry?

you couldn't be god

you are not i

my ways are not yours

your thoughts are not mine

you can't even deal with the pressure of your own life

when you're not high

try looking into god mind

see

i love them more than you ever did

more than you ever could

death doesn't lessen it

let my own son meet death as the evidence

that i love 'em all

rap star to the president

the real question is

what you living like?

if i punish every sin

would you live tonight?

so how you get mad when i give them other folks same chances i give you to get it right?

you got a son that one day'll be a man

you expect him to trust you when he don't understand

or even know what you up to

'cause he knows that you love him

right?

so trust that i love you