They asked me who You were when the sun was shining bright

When my pockets had some money and my future looked alright

I said “You’re my convenient Christ, my Sunday morning high”

But I was just another hypocrite living out a lie

I thought I knew You like I know my own reflection

Thought faith was just another social media connection

Posted Bible verses while I’m rotting from inside

Playing church on Sunday, Monday crucified my pride

WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

When the storm is ripping flesh and crushing souls

WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

When you’re choking on your blood in midnight holes

Can’t really know Me till your bones are screaming BREAK

Can’t really see Me till there’s nothing left to take

WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

Then the hurricane hit harder than a freight train to the chest

Lost my job, lost every dream I once possessed

Daddy’s dying slowly, mama’s faith is wearing thin

And that plastic Jesus couldn’t wash away my sin

I’m bleeding on the steering wheel of this godforsaken road

Carrying more demons than my shattered spine can hold

The preacher’s words are poison when you’re burning alive

But that’s when you discover if your God can really thrive

THREE AM SCREAMING, FIST THROUGH THE WALL

“WHERE ARE YOU NOW?” I’M GIVING YOU MY ALL

THE WAVES ARE CRUSHING, LUNGS ARE FILLING UP

AND JESUS IS SILENT WHILE I’M DROWNING IN THIS CUP

But then He ROSE UP in my chaos and COMMANDED “PEACE, BE STILL”

Not the puppet I created, but the SOVEREIGN of all will

More than empty religion, more than Sunday’s fake parade

The One who BLEEDS through hell with you is the only One who’s stayed

Now I see You different since I’ve tasted death and flame

You’re not my comfortable companion – You’re the TERROR OF YOUR NAME

Had to lose my sanity just to find what’s real and true

That you can’t know the HOLY till the HOLY shatters you

Peter walked on chaos when he locked eyes with the Divine

But we all start drowning when we think Your power’s mine

It takes complete destruction to reveal we know NOTHING of grace

Till we’re gasping “SAVE ME!” from that godforsaken place

NOW I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

You’re the VIOLENCE in the thunder, the FOURTH MAN in the flames

NOW I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

The death-destroyer, bone-resurrector, breaker of all chains

Couldn’t see You in my comfort, but I SEE YOU in my pain

The One who saves the shattered, who makes beauty from the stain

NOW I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

Yeah, they say if you’re going to heaven

You’re gonna crawl through hell to get there

But the One who CONQUERED DEATH

Is dragging you through – I swear

So when He asks you that question

After the blood has cleared the air

You’ll know EXACTLY who He is

’Cause He met you in your worst nightmare

WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

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