Redemption / Irredeemable

from Professional Development by Jigs

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lyrics

They sold their souls as clean but secretly had cheap intentions.
Misplaced my compass, so please pardon me, I need directions.
Relearn our history as means of seeking out redemption.
Cuz now I see that I was wrong…

Nobody wanna be written to play the villain or killer
But spend a minute in the mirror. Take a deep look.
Everybody is criminal to a certain village.
Every now and then we need to vision all that we took.
Know I’m cooking up to be a better person, better version of me. Learn before I speak, as so to precook.
Marinating on my listening. Envisioning my learning.
History is therapy. I need to read books.
Running research. Tryna relearn what they told me and always sold me. I want a return.
But they deterred and deferred me to the old seeds. But they don’t seem to dig em any deeper.
Gonna be served what they deserve while they coldly try to hold me down into a revert.
But the Teacher’s the Redeemer. And He taught me in between either or there’s a neither.

The more I learn the more I understand historic tension.
It’s egocentric to believe that I had seen the lesson.
I’m moving on improvements. No excuse or loaded questions.
Just wish I’d seen this all along….

The devil’s in the details… And my history book
wrote it heavenly, deleted all the details.
I’m not buying it, like a presale.
We’re the Target to their lies like it’s retail.
Read it and weep, their history still exists.
Start by digging in deep, don’t skim it cheap like an email.
LGBTQ, the influence of Black Lives,
Natives, the #MeToo resiliency of females.
Yeah. How bout the under-mentioned-represented, immigrant detention center history of non-Whites?
Ugh. Our nation’s got a reputation so notorious of hating a progression from the old times. Yeah.
See the trials of the broken-down and beaten have been cheated. Outrage should be outright.
It’s about time for redemption and correction. So we start by doing what is right. Like…

When the masses don’t know what happened
to the non dominant cultures back in the day
It’ll pass on to the next generation
And erase em, taking their place on the page.
Where we are right now’s where we came from.
Now in the name of doing what they should have in the first place
Start doing what is right. Stop tryna save face. Listen..

Start doing what is right. Stop doing what is easy.
Start doing it now… Imagine…

The last great American travesty
of fatally misidentifying the enemy is over.

After lifetimes of hunting the so-called “mythological hypocrisy,”
it has been seen and captured.
Millions reflect in realized disbelief.

Generations of hostile rivalries for those who support the opposite parent of purple,
disintegrate.
Laid to rest with polarizing yard signs and hateful Facebook comments.

The greatest truths to ever be shared by the masses:
Empathy over enemy.
Compassion over coercion.
Humility over pride
become the New law.

The identity of a common enemy
was named
but only after having tasted what is right and just
and having ventured beyond the curtain.

The smog clears over the wild, wild western world
and they pick their heads up,
seeing each other for the very first time.

The Redeemer smiles.

credits

from Professional Development, released February 3, 2024
Lyrics written by Matt Jurasewicz. Audio recording by Matt Jurasewicz. Composed and produced by Matt Jurasewicz.