Now that I know
The way it goes
You gotta pay back every penny that you oweTwelve years old
In your mama's clothes
Shut the blinds and lock up every doorAnd if you hear
Someone's comin near
Just close your eyes and make them disappear nowYears away
Finds me here today
On my own, always on my way nowSo I send my friends
Gifts from where I've been
Something for the hand they're never there to lend
Better keep those eyes
Climbing paradise
And don't pretend you won't reach it in the end nowDearest dear
I know you been here
Why'd you run tell me why'd you disappear nowThat you're not
Here with me
Seems to be the only time that I can see you clearlyI may not know
How to treat or give you what you need
But I am a gentleman who says what he means nowAnd now I sing
Upon my knees
And praise the kindness of a gentle breezeI see it swell
Like a story in me to tell
Told years away and past my baby dying
So you raise them up
To heaven always hell
they're unaware, share, give a hand to help sonOh you give them away
But they'll come back to you someday
Wanna know why nobody was ever there to help themAnd no it ain't fair
And if God forbid you care
It's enough to get you in a whole lotta troubleOh realize
It ain't wise to idealize
Or put your life in the hands of any struggleNever renounce
Or ever claim to be
And never buy that freedom just ain't free nowElla sang
Sifting in the sand
Like a hymn within to help us understandHeaven awaits
We're making our stand
Glory bound and sparrow in our hand