Rise With The Smoke

Verse

I cried in the kitchen, I smoked in the yard

Tryin’ to forget what left me scarred

Tears in my coffee, smoke in my hair

God didn’t flinch—He was already there

I lit up the pain, let it rise in the air

Each puff a prayer, each tear laid bare

Didn’t ask for this life, didn’t plan this song

But He tuned my sorrow to make me strong

Pre-chorus

I smoked two joints of silence, one for pain, one for rage

But You lit a fire in my bones, turned my prison into praise

Chorus

Rock me tonight, through the fire and the flood

Smoke risin’ from the ashes—I rise with it, for good

You negotiated my sorrow, designed me to stand

Every scream is a hallelujah, every scar is Your brand

Verse

O Mississippi, I’ll never come back

You failed my mama, truth under attack

Famous last words carved deep in my chest

I wish I’d never returned, but You knew best

Blinded by Your light in the middle of my plight

You poured fruit juice in me, turned wrong into right

I walked through the fire, baptized in heat

Still standin’, still singin’, still praisin’ at Your feet

Bridge

O Lord, change the words of the music of deceit

Let Your children rise up, sing truth in the street

Feed the hungry, shoe the bare feet

Hear their cries, Lord—it’s You we long to meet

Chorus

Rock me tonight, through your fire and your flood

Smoke risin’ from the ashes—I rise, stitched in love

You coded my sorrow, designed me to stand

Every scream is a signal, every scar is Your strand

Outro

So I cry in the kitchen, I sing in the yard

My voice is a weapon, my soul battle-scarred

But I rise with the smoke, I rise with the flame

And I praise through the pain,

and

I praise in Your name!