The Code (feat. Thre & 22) Lyrics

[Verse 1: Jeremiah Bligen]

Too many Ls locked into our caps

I think we need a shift key

Bad blood sucks the life out us

I think I feel a tick (sheesh)

Real tock, sun might dial you out

Watching to clock you for a grip

We're letting tumors pass off as good growth

Boy, I think I see a cyst (swish)

We've been deceived to not believe the Trinity

Commitment missed her and her son

We are loyal to the foolish ones

To be trill OGs, like the Matrix was

There's more honor fixing chicken biscuits

Than a pistol clip in gripping, flipping birds

Before we dead a brother over dollars

Pray we'd rather live and die dead broke



Think it's about time that we take

Every lie and then break

And dismantle the mantle of pride to create

Set a standard of standing tall, let our faith

Be a candle to scandal, expose to dispose

Re-compose how we think

Let our talk be distinct

See that sister as sister, a mother and daughter

A soul to console, not a whore to export

Or abort or be bartered

A person to honor

Serve and empower, valued they all are

Precious, we ought to

Die to disguises

We buy just to hide

Take our minds to the sky

Let the spirit renew

Like he leasing a product

Self-control, saying no, sacrificing so

To take a hold of Christ, the flow

Of blood will cease

We have never gone so far, no cause too hard

That the arms of God is too short to reach



[Hook: Jeremiah Bligen]

Lights on, they burn bright

My whole life, take everything

Pressure's on, no weapon formed

Will flatten us, we box spring

Fight through every season and be

Salt, dash when the pepper spray

Pain up in my face

Lace with grace

I ain't trippin

I'mma run the race



I solemnly pledge (code)

Unto the throne (code)

Loving our neighbor and (code)

A servant to home (code)

And my community (code)

Honor and honesty (code)

Living a life worthy (code)

This is The Code



[Verse 2: THRE]



Before the code I was never opposed

It was a lane that we all took

We was all in them chains, all entertained

If I can keep it plain we was all hooked

Won't boast in it, no hope in it

I post in it, cause most did it

Mo' sinning, my nose in it, pinok'n it

All lies I switched up my note penning

So everything that I wrote I had a footnote with it

It's time we stop praising the streets, start praising our king

Stop raising our heat, start raising our seed

Frustrating indeed but amazing to me

How our hate should be love and embrace enemies

Take man and reclaim, reprimand every gang

We expecting a gain by demanding a change

Every plan that remains, we will stand and refrain

Let our stance be the same, and our land would be tamed



Be accountable to other brothers

When we see the beast and animals in one another

God's grace, indeed, bountiful enough to love us

Faith increase undoubtable the ones among us (what?)

Would be encouraged by the change

'Cause throughout their life they've been discouraged by the game

We're living our life as though the firmament had came

'Cause living for Christ, it ain't conservative or lame (nahh)

This more than a new leaf turned! More than a few feet firm!

Glory to you! True story that you return

In the morning the mood return, Joy is in you!

So we walk the narrow path 'cause we know the road

But we living what we knowing though

'Cause our feet gotta match what you speak if we know the code

Gone



[Hook: Jeremiah Bligen]

Lights on, they burn bright

My whole life, take everything

Pressure's on, no weapon formed

Will flatten us, we box spring

Fight through every season and be

Salt, dash when the pepper spray

Pain up in my face

Lace with grace

I ain't trippin

I'mma run the race



I solemnly pledge (code)

Unto the throne (code)

Loving our neighbor and (code)

A servant to home (code)

And my community (code)

Honor and honesty (code)

Living a life worthy (code)

This is The Code



[Verse 3: 22]

I done sinned once, I done sinned twice

Who could sin better?

I done sinned so much you can call me Sindy or Sinderella

I got Hell in my heart and it's dwelling

So much Hell in my heart, call me Hellen

We supposed to show love to our neighbors

But we hope they don't ask us for favors

And that's real talk but it pains me

I had loco motives, God trained me

We were born into darkness, born to be heartless

But Jesus decided to save us regardless

That's the love we should show others

But we love ourselves and love no others

It's a disgrace that we get grace

And when it's time to show it, it gets misplaced



That's a mistake, but we programmed

We exclude Christ from our programs

And we wondering why we got issues with pride

And we cannot admit it so {parts of us die?}

But I don't trip and I don't panic

My God, he walked the Atlantic

We need God in our plans, I mean

He did plan the whole planet, I mean

He did paint the whole canvas

He can draw clouds, he can draw crowds

You got more houses than Morehouse

But without Christ, that's a poor house

So please excuse my French

But oui, we need to repent

So I'm sticking to the Code 'cause it never gets old

To the blood-stained streets

Til the streets {?} God



[Hook: Jeremiah Bligen]

Lights on, they burn bright

My whole life, take everything

Pressure's on, no weapon formed

Will flatten us, we box spring

Fight through every season and be

Salt, dash when the pepper spray

Pain up in my face

Lace with grace

I ain't trippin

I'mma run the race



I solemnly pledge (code)

Unto the throne (code)

Loving our neighbor and (code)

A servant to home (code)

And my community (code)

Honor and honesty (code)

Live a life worthy (code)

This is The Code