Everything I Need - Jarrod Lawson

Remember after that great storm

and everything that we had was gone;

all of our worldly possessions laid to waste?

As we stood there and we stared

in that field of despair, I realized, I’ve got

Everything I need right here.

In the blink of an eye we’re here and then we’re gone

so little time that we’ve been given

Why would we waste that precious time

in pursuit of what is yours and what is mine?

So gather together my people, my friend and my family,

and I’ll have everything I need

You know, human kind, we seem to be

marked by the proclivity to covet things material

and disregard the spiritual.

Yes, idols do we make of all that we accumulate,

but they’ve re just a souvenir and nothing to be revered.

In the blink of an eye we’re here and then we’re gone

so little time that we’ve been given

Why would we waste that precious time

in pursuit of what is yours and what is mine?

So gather together my people, my friend and my family,

and I’ll have everything I need