GCC 2007 Year in Review Video Lyrics

Some people were asking for the Lyrics to the 2007 Year in Review Rap Video that I helped with at church. (The lyrics are posted below)

I received a ton of response from that video but let me just show you the power of team. (if you read my profile you'll find out that I really love TEAM.)

There were 4 people who played a hands-on part in that Video.

• Ben Sanders Produced it, made the everything that you saw with your eyes happen. He did the beat, that I was rhyming to as well.
• Dustin Maust did the audio so everything you heard he touched in some way.
• The one and only Kristin Baker wrote the script, she made sure that it had meaning and depth. She was the one responsible for taking EVERYTHING that happened in 2007 and making sure it would fit into one 4 min 50 sec video.
• I came in an tweaked some things so it worked well with the beat, and laid down the vocals and video.

THAT IS TEAM and because of everyone's collective effort we had a killer year in review video! So let God get all the glory for putting together a team of people who brings what they have to make a difference in the Kingdom!!!!

Here are the lyrics:

"Check it, 2006 had its kicks, like a perfect brownie mix it don’t get betta than this, RIGHT?

but let’s kick this into gear, the royal premiere, one calendar year
of bringin’ up there down here. YEP!

The new year came at us like a spinning wheel, a time to reveal what’s ideal vs. real, crazy life lessons in a TV show, 24 hours of seeds to sow, not just Sundays fadin’ into Mondays by midweek you’re callin’ it done days, but God in every second, every minute, and no matter how you spin it, He just wants to be in it. SO…

When dreams aren’t the same, as who we became, we stopped playing games and wrote three names, cuz we were too busy climbin’ the ladder to see there’s nothin’ sadder then people thinkin’ they don’t matter, so we started takin’ inventory as story after story pointed to His glooory.

Springtime gave us a front row seat, to a brand new beat, of a marriage complete. But it’s a sticky life when marital strife, begins to feel more like, the twist of a knife. honesty left us with intense raw feeling, but kept revealing, a chance at healing. When husband and wife started talking now and then, women and men learnin’ to love again. ( ONLY USE IF I NEED IT…And we all looked up and said an Amen.)

We looked backed down and suddenly found, a cartoon town but when we looked around, our proud thick skin started to wear thin when we realized we’ve been the enemy within. Bitterness, revenge, insecurity frustration, and gossip conversations, creeping temptation dangled, finding ourselves tangled, strangled in a sticky web that’s mangled. We were about to despair, at all the wear and tear but found there’s a God who cares and won’t leave us there.

Out of the web into a crazy game show, we say we want to grow, but then we don’t know, cuz you can’t tear apart the wallet and the heart, it all depends on who bends and spends so we looked through the lens of some little M&MS. We committed one time, to a dollar’s dime, but talk can be cheap but me so my peeps, took a big leap like wakin’ up from a sleep.

Taking part in something bigger pulled a trigger for God hellos, like a stained glass window, or a grand piano in the hands of a master who took disaster and turned into a pastor. When warm Thursday nights, illuminated lights brought us to new heights of knowing Him, new depths like a coal miner, getting’ out of our recliners into the fire of the refiner, the real Designer.

There were new beginnings at the summer’s end, when we invited friends, to really comprehend, a life worth dying for, too many choices in the candy store can leave us feelin’ like a prisoner of war but they found so much more when they walked through the big door. We cheered and cried at the man who died and took a little ride to see judgment repealed, on the unlikely spot of a baseball field.

But after home plate, there’s no time to wait, cuz Monday’s fate brings us straight . . . back to the office where sometimes jerks, drive us berserk, and the pressure to compete, leaves us somewhere between defeat and conceit. But just when we were feelin’ a little like a spinning fan, we had coffee with a man who gave us the real game plan.

Then we heard from another, how he learned to love his mother and really started thinking how to love one another, episodes of Tv shows with zeroes to heroes makin’ us think we were on the brink cuz you just might be the link to a bigger plan, so be a man, take a stand and just lend a hand.

From new TV’s to old movies, we learned from the best what a parent should be,
Feelin’ like a chauffer, or more like a gofer, suckin’ the life out, just wanna take my wife out, the kids complain with bulgin’ neck veins, drivin’ me insane, but we got to hear from a brain, I know its seems bizarre, he told me to take charge, now look at me now daddy’s livin’ large.

Then we took a trip to forty years ago, I say good bye and you say hello, but they’re askin’ the same stuff we still want to know, same stones hurled, same questions swirled, nothin’s gonna change my world, but there’s something to say for lookin’ back at yesterday, and here comes the sunny day when we can see solutions, hope redistribution, in a peaceful revolution. We stood still in the glory, new territory for an age old story, good news proclaimed and we will never be the same, when we all pass the flame, for the glory of his name, cuz can’t you see there would be no debris if we can all agree and just . . . let it be.

Wow, what a year, you’re here, the engineers, sincere pioneers. I’m a big fan, cuz it’s you and me man, and I realize we’re just part of His plan. And I know you can relate, when I say I can’t wait, to see what’s on His plate, for 2008! So there’s my rhyme, what a run, I may be done, but He’s only just begun."