John Coffey - MuRli

We never talked about love in my yard

Everybody act real hard

Cuh we got a lot of pain in our hearts

My Daddy had been working too hard

And my momma ain’t the type for the vocal expressions

So we guessed the best of all emotions

They said she’s got a heart the size of an ocean

But I didn’t have a notion

I just wanted my portion a little more devotion to me

A few hugs would have done it for me

But I had none so I gave none to no one

Then it got awkward to get one

Remember the first time pops said he’s proud of me

It really felt like I won the lottery

Around the same time I smoked my first weed

To get a better feel of things around me

There was smoke in the air about me

Only took a few words to clear it

A new seed was sowed inside me

I never needed trees to be high since

I’m really tryna leave it all behind me

Take it as a part of history like the Vikings

No more Ill feeling, I guess I took it back Without Michael Duncan

John Coffey

The greener grass was on the other side

So we saved the laughter for the afterlife

But when I found out we were colour blind

I ran the green mile, and took it back John Coffey

It seems so lame to be following Jesus

You can be anything but a Christian

In our history many have deceived us

We were colonised with religion

I mean look at what they did to the children

I mean pause

Just a moment for the victims

The repercussions of a flawed system

Want to put us all in the same box since then

Saying pain marks our faces and makes us family

Independent of origin

But when your scars go deeper than a submarine

It scrapes the soul so you know it’s real

And we ain’t curing nothing with the morphine

I was stranded, feeling like an orphan

I needed something more than the ordinary

Same as everybody around here

I’m human I sin and I’m sorry

Because of my belief I ain’t gotta be the enemy

There are just some things that ain’t for me

Because of my faith, that don’t mean that I’m boring

I’m blameless, spotless, holy

Said I’m blameless, spotless through Him

In spite of my appearance

He took me back John Coffey