Justin Bieber - STORY OF GOD

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[00:00.00]STORY OF GOD - Justin Bieber
[00:00.72]Lyrics by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton
[00:02.46]Composed by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton
[00:04.20]Produced by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin
[00:05.07]Before the first shadow touched our hearts there was only light
[00:08.84]I'm not just talking about the sunlight
[00:11.15]Though it filtered through the canopy like liquid gold
[00:14.54]Warm on my skin I'm talking about life
[00:18.10]The air itself tasted sweet like honey and rain
[00:22.77]Everything hummed
[00:24.60]The garden wasn't just a place we lived it breathed with us
[00:29.31]There was no fear here fear hadn't even been invented yet
[00:34.56]A lion this massive beautiful creation
[00:38.91]Would lean his heavy head into my touch
[00:43.48]Everything was connected
[00:45.59]Everything was exactly as it was meant to be
[00:49.88]And Eve when I look at her
[00:53.10]I finally understand what God meant when He said
[00:56.81]"Very good"
[00:59.02]And then there's Him
[01:02.80]It's the cool of the day that's when He comes
[01:07.45]You always know when He is near
[01:09.95]The air changes
[01:13.25]Expectant like the atmosphere itself is leaning in to listen
[01:18.57]We hear the sound first not heavy footsteps
[01:22.54]But a shifting of the atmosphere
[01:25.32]A weight of goodness moving through the trees
[01:28.83]And we run we run toward the sound
[01:32.36]His voice it isn't just sound
[01:35.86]It's the foundation of everything
[01:38.11]When He speaks it's warm
[01:40.55]Resonant it vibrates in my chest
[01:43.95]We talk about the colors of the water
[01:46.03]Why the monkeys chatter so much
[01:48.23]What it means to be us
[01:50.72]There's no gap between us
[01:52.85]No hesitation no hiding it's complete
[01:57.44]It's a feast right?
[01:59.69]Everywhere you look
[02:00.55]Tastes the explosion in your mouth
[02:03.11]We're completely free
[02:05.97]Except in the very center
[02:08.23]The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
[02:12.28]It's the only boundary line in a world without walls
[02:16.22]God is very clear "Don't touch it
[02:18.52]The day you eat it you die"
[02:20.77]Die?
[02:22.18]The word just hangs in the air
[02:24.40]It means nothing to us
[02:26.30]We trust Him of course we do
[02:29.60]But I find myself near it more often than I admit
[02:33.40]It's stunning
[02:34.87]The fruit looks different
[02:38.24]Doesn't just look delicious it looks wise
[02:42.73]Eve
[02:44.60]One day I'm by the tree and there's this voice
[02:47.58]Smooth like polished stone
[02:50.56]It belongs to the serpent the most clever
[02:53.86]The most beautiful of them all
[02:56.61]He doesn't shout he doesn't threaten
[03:00.01]He just asks a question
[03:02.57]"Did God really say you can't eat from any tree?"
[03:06.57]It's a simple question but it shifts the entire world on its axis
[03:11.54]Suddenly the God who gave us everything sounds restrictive
[03:17.29]The serpent tells me I won't die
[03:19.94]Tells me my eyes will be opened
[03:22.30]That I'll be like God that's the lure
[03:26.00]It's not rebellion it's ascension
[03:29.43]It's the promise of more
[03:31.86]He makes it sound like God is holding out on us
[03:35.23]The fruit is heavy in my hand
[03:37.72]Its skin is smooth cool to the touch
[03:42.20]The tension is unbearable I bite
[03:47.46]The taste isn't just sweet or bitter
[03:49.86]It tastes like everything at once the world tilts
[03:55.50]She brings it to me her eyes are wild
[04:00.66]My gut screams that this is wrong
[04:04.04]My partner my reflection she is still standing
[04:08.05]I trust her more than I trust the voice of God
[04:11.44]I eat and instantly the light fractures
[04:16.34]It's like a mirror shattering inside my soul
[04:20.55]The air turns cold
[04:22.62]I look at Eve she looks at me
[04:25.12]And for the first time I mean really for the first time
[04:28.68]I see we are exposed vulnerable naked
[04:34.90]This is shame
[04:37.53]We scramble panicked
[04:38.69]We grab these big rough fig leaves stitching them together
[04:42.87]They scratch my skin they cover nothing
[04:46.25]And then we hear it His footsteps
[04:49.00]The sound that used to mean love that used to mean safety
[04:52.58]Now means dread absolute dread
[04:55.29]We run we hide in the thickest
[04:58.15]Darkest brush we can find holding our breath
[05:03.00]And then His voice it's not angry not shouting
[05:07.84]It's worse it's heartbroken "Where are you?"
[05:12.07]He knows exactly where we are physically
[05:16.13]He's asking where we've gone relationally
[05:18.86]Where we stand trembling covered in itchy leaves
[05:21.95]The question comes gentle but firm
[05:24.22]"What have you done? Did you eat the fruit?"
[05:27.66]Is this where the fracture deepens?
[05:29.56]The break spreads?
[05:31.49]I look at the woman I love and I I point
[05:33.85]"The woman You gave me" I blame her
[05:36.34]I blame Him
[05:38.44]And I point to the serpent "He tricked me"
[05:41.48]The blame shifts faster and faster
[05:43.12]We throw responsibility anywhere but ourselves
[05:46.93]And the verdict comes down the world is broken now
[05:50.08]Because we broke it
[05:51.95]The ground will fight us birth will be a battle
[05:55.45]Relationships will be complex painful and death
[05:58.69]That word we didn't understand now has a shape
[06:02.99]It has our shape
[06:05.46]But then the strangest moment
[06:07.48]He kneels down He takes an animal
[06:09.88]One of the creatures Adam named
[06:13.06]It's the first death we witness and He makes clothes for us
[06:15.58]Skins that are heavy and they smell of loss
[06:20.76]And they cover the shame the fig leaves were our idea
[06:24.60]The covering is His
[06:26.84]It's this terrifying tender moment
[06:29.84]He's judging us yes but He hasn't abandoned us
[06:35.22]But we can't stay we've chosen knowledge over intimacy
[06:39.13]He walks us to the edge of the garden
[06:41.38]The air gets thinner out here
[06:43.18]The ground is hard under my feet
[06:46.86]As we take that final step out of Eden
[06:49.47]We look back and it's overwhelming a celestial being
[06:53.54]An angel blazing with light and fire
[06:55.97]Holding a sword that spins like a whirlwind
[06:59.82]The gate slams shut with a sound that echoes across the universe
[07:04.02]We're outside it's cold
[07:06.19]The sun is setting we lost paradise
[07:09.52]We lost the unbroken connection we broke the world
[07:13.70]And that's how the silence began the separation
[07:18.14]But as we walked away into the dust and the thorns
[07:20.84]We carried a strange promise with us
[07:22.85]A whisper from God about a coming savior
[07:25.96]Someone who would crush the serpent's head
[07:29.07]The door to the garden was closed
[07:31.03]But the Story of God?
[07:32.62]It was just beginning