Gonna Change My Way of Thinking

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
Going to put my good foot forward
Stop being influenced by fools

So much oppression
Can't keep track of it no more
Said there is so much oppression
Can't keep track of it no more
Sons becoming husbands to their mothers
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?
Don't know which is worse
Doing your own thing or 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
Take ahold of his heart with your eyes
But there's only one authority
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 place called Heaven
A place where there is no pain of birth
Well the Lord created it, mister
About the same time that He made the earth