Am I all I’m meant to be?
Where do I go and where am I from
What’s my size where do I belong?
Where am I at; and what’s to be?
Am I all I’m meant to be?
Take a look at my life now come along
What do you see; can you sing my song?
Read my rhyme apply the mind
Can you see or am I blind?
I was down in town the other day
Mindin’ my business just out to play
When up came a bloke as bold as brass
Looked in my eye, and spoke the gas.
‘Mind what you’re doin’, before it’s too late.
God’s got a plan that’s all yours mate,
Mend your ways clean up your act,
Are you ready for the thunder clap?’
‘Well strike me down.’ I nearly said
But thought I might just wind up dead.
Changed the words to make it better
But what I choose only had four letters.
‘Now what you mean’, I began to say
An’ just like that he’d fade away
I looked around but he wasn’t there
I’ll tell you this; I’d had a scare.
I have the feeling he knew my drift
What I need now is to get a lift
An inch of snort, and a role of grass,
An’ then a chick with lots of class.
I carried on to my usual pad
But the screws where there an it looked bad
I took a left then left again
Ended in the graveyard down the lane
Five men in black and one in white
So I joined the crowd an took my hat
The man in white read from some book
As he spoke those words the ground it shook.
‘A wooden box and a few red flowers
Is all that’s left, this could be yours.
In certain hope of the resurrection
You really have to make connection.’
You only get one chance at the open door
When death comes knockin’ there ain’t no more
What he said next was a bit of a blast
Looked in my eye, and spoke the gas.
‘Mind what you’re doin’, before it’s too late.
God’s got a plan that’s all yours mate,
Mend your ways clean up your act,
Are you ready for the thunder clap?’
I turned around and ran like… well
I made for the church and slammed the door
It was dark inside; couldn’t see the floor.
I just knew I didn’t know the score.
A creepy place and none too dry
Now tears were comin’ from my eye
I walked to the front and took a seat
I stopped to think… now that was sweet.
This ain’t like me I spoke up loud
I stood up straight and tall and proud
But what kept goin’ through my head
Were all those words that had been said.
So where do I go and where am I from
What’s my size where do I belong?
Where am I at; and what’s to be?
Am I all I’m meant to be?
A voice from the back where it was dark
Used my name and I don’t mean Shark
‘That’s from my shoes I had them made
I’m known for them’, that’s what I said.
I couldn’t see just who spoke then
The voice was kind yet sort of thin
A long way off yet in my head
What was it that white man had said?
I didn’t take the chance to think
What I needed was a drink
The bar was full, my bro was there
I couldn’t let him see me spare
Trouble was he wa’n’t alone,
The bloke from the street he had a clone
Pushing Alpha and it was free
I’ve lost the plot, was this for me?
Still I went along, just had to know
You guessed it right; so did my bro.
Didn’t tell him what had happened to me
The bloke from the street sat next to me.
It’s all a haze; so much went on,
I don’t remember for how long.
A burning question rattled my brain
Just who was it driving me insane?
Take a look at my life now come along
What do you see can you sing my song?
Read my rhyme apply the mind
Can you see or am I blind?
I’ve got to change is that a fact?
Loose my soul or not come back
My religion’s easy bro
It’s all for me that’s how I go.
I’ve never met this Jesus man
A fancy guy when time began
He had a hand in all I’ve done
Loves me still… now that’s some song.
Take a look at my life now come along
What do you see; can you sing my song?
Read my rhyme apply the mind
Can you see or am I blind?
Now I’ll tell you what I believe
This Jesus has some sort of seed
Planted in your brain it grows and grows
Until at last you know…He knows.
So mind what you’re doin’, before it’s too late.
God’s got a plan that’s all yours mate,
Mend your ways clean up your act,
Are you ready for the thunder clap?
Are you ready for the thunder clap?
Are you ready for the thunder clap?
This might sound best if read aloud in a West Indian accent.
