READ THE LYRICS FIRST!
If you're not spiritually discerned?
You're going to have a stroke if you don't!!!
The devil met me half way
MMmmm I see'ya there boy
Ya'think the hardest part is confessin
It ain't
The hardest part
is what comes lookin' for you
after you decide to go home
The devil don't waist much time
on a man walkin' back to God
He'll meet you half way
"I been waitin on you"
MMmmhh YEAH Ya'Ha Ha HA HA
Woke up with prayer in my mouth
and the devil in my ear
Told the Lord I was commin' home
then the road disappeared.
everything from my chest
had to owe me in my heels
had the devil sayin turn around
God don't want what you reveal
I said he knows every lie
every name every scar
devil laughs and that's exactly why
you never get far
then he stepped in my path of my whole past in his hands
said you can walk toward heaven, boy
but you'll never walk
and he put every face I ever failed right there in the road
said you call that repentance
thats just guilt you learned to hold
I said I ain't sayin I'm clean
I ain't sayin I'm enough
but the blood that bought a man like me
I ain't scared of what I was
The devil met me half way
on my road back to the lord
Had my sins held like a weapon
had is boot aganst the door
I said you ain't gettin past me
you belong beneath this flood
I said you can drag me through the black water
BUT YOU CAN'T OUTBID THE BLOOD!
THE DEVIL MET ME HALF WAY
TRIED TO MAKE MY SHAME MY NAME
BUT I CAM UP FROM THAT WATER
WITH A FIRE HE CAN'T CLAIM!
He swung with every promimse that I made
and never cared with every person I bend
and every night I chose myself
he said look at all the dammage
look at all the prayers you fake
then he hit me with the years
that's been calling through my faith
I hit the ground but didn't baggem
didn't tell'em he was wrong
Said joke and tell the truth about me
without tellin' me I am gone
He dragged me by the collar
dragged me down beneath the tides
said you ran just like ol'e dronin
now this water is where you hide
roots wrapped around my ankles
every breath became a fight
he said God don't send a rescue
for a man who chose the night
then I heard a voice beaneath me
not a whisper not a sound
said I found you in the water
before the water found you
The devil met me half way
on my road back to the lord
Had my sins held like a weapon
had is boot aganst the door
I said you ain't gettin past me
you belong beneath this flood
I said you can drag me through the black water
BUT YOU CAN'T OUTBID THE BLOOD!
THE DEVIL MET ME HALF WAY
TRIED TO MAKE MY SHAME MY NAME
BUT I CAM UP FROM THAT WATER
WITH A FIRE HE CAN'T CLAIM!
Lord I ain't askin' you to hide me
I ain't askin' you to lie
I'm askin you to break these hands that keep pullin' me below
I ain't got a clean confession
I ain't got a perfect past
but I know the grave was empty
and I know your mercy lasts
then the water spread around me
like you knew who called my name
every whoop became a shackle
every shackle broken flame
I came up with the latern burnin' wide against the storm
devil backed up from the shoreline
I can see the man reborn
I said you can name my failures
you can count them one buy one
but you don't own what mercy carried
AND YOU DON'T OUTRUN THE SON!
The devil met me half way
on my road back to the lord
Had my sins held like a weapon
had is boot aganst the door
I said you ain't gettin past me
you belong beneath this flood
I said you can drag me through the black water
BUT YOU CAN'T OUTBID THE BLOOD!
THE DEVIL MET ME HALF WAY
TRIED TO MAKE MY SHAME MY NAME
BUT I CAM UP FROM THAT WATER
WITH A FIRE HE CAN'T CLAIM!
NO!!!
I didn't come back clean
I came back claimed!