Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
Kids as young as five
Getting caught in the drive-by
Blood in the streets
Been raining for days
But it won’t wash clean
The spot where children play
There’s no hell below us
It’s swirling in the air
No place to raise a family
At least if you care
It’s all around us and
It’ll swallow us whole
Run your little brains out
Far, far from she’ol
Burning up as punishment
Predestined to ash
Buy your way from purgatory
If your family has cash
Scaring us with fire
And threatening brimstone?
Welcome to the war-zone
That we call home
So where could we run to
That’s better than here?
Is there a place out there?
Where we don’t live in fear?
Find a place of rest
Even if we ain’t the best
Take the weight off my chest
Should we all head west?
And find a lotta comfort
In those big wide arms
There’s a city there
We ain’t living on farms
With his hand over us
And the angels all around
Kids playing in the streets
Can’t ever find a frown
Double Dutch on the sidewalk
Strike-em-out on the streets
Grandma sitting on the swing
Momma standing on her feet
No more homicide, genocide,
Or life on the edge,
Just sit here and romanticize
This place to lay your head
It’s the Kingdom calling
Screaming your name
There’s no judgment here
No opps killing your fame
The landscape changed
There’s gold on the streets
If you can walk on it
Won’t have to keep it on your teeth
You ain’t gotta save bread
‘Cuz there’s enough in the ‘hood
Everyone gets to eat
Ain’t going home without food
It’s a whole new life
Without all the pain
If we’re playing with fire
It’s a whole new game
Follow me there
As I follow the Messiah
The one who died by the cops
Caught in the cross-fire
He was preaching a new way
A new place to stay
Oh, it don’t exist?
Oh ye of little faith
It got him killed by the opps
The ones with all the violence
So that he could show the world
Where he kept his reliance
Then he came back strong
Busting out of hell
This new life created
And the empire fell
We can live without walls
We all can be together
We can fight for each other
Ain’t a storm we can’t weather
We run from Gehenna
As fast as we can
But where do we run to
Like the marathon man
We run from Gehenna
Just as fast as we can
But how can we run
Away from the Sandman
We’re the people of
This new way of living
No more taking
And a whole lot of giving
We love the creator
And we all can get along
If we learn how to die
And live like Allelon