Gonna change my way of thinking
  Make myself a different set of rules
  Gonna change my way of thinking
  Make myself a different set of rules
  Gonna put my good foot forward
  And stop being influenced by fools.
    So much oppression
  Can't keep track of it no more
  So much oppression
  Can't keep track of it no more
  Sons becoming husbands to their mothers
  And old men turning young daughters into whores.
    Stripes on your shoulders
  Stripes on your back and on your hands
  Stripes on your shoulders
  Stripes on your back and on your hands
  Swords piercing your side
  Blood and water flowing through the land.
    Well don't know which one is worse
  Doing your own thing or just being cool
  Well don't know which one is worse
  Doing your own thing or just being cool
  You remember only about the brass ring
  You forget all about the golden rule.
    You can mislead a man
  You can take ahold of his heart with your eyes
  You can mislead a man
  You can take ahold of his heart with your eyes
  But there's only one authority
  And that's the authority on high.
    I got a God-fearing woman
  One I can easily afford
  I got a God-fearing woman
  One I can easily afford
  She can do the Georgia crawl
  She can walk in the spirit of the Lord.
    Jesus said, "Be ready
  For you know not the hour in which I come"
  Jesus said, "Be ready
  For you know not the hour in which I come"
  He said, "He who is not for Me is against Me"
  Just so you know where He's coming from.
    There's a kingdom called Heaven
  A place where there is no pain of birth
  There's a kingdom called Heaven
  A place where there is no pain of birth
  Well the Lord created it, mister
  About the same time He made the earth.