I can't sell You that " I love You". You won't buy it.

Christon Gray I Attributes I Even With Evil With Me. feat. Canaan Miller

Some songs just hit you. This is one of them.  Thanks for the help, Canaan.

If for no one else, we wrote this for each other.

Here it goes, verse 1:

I can't tell you that I love you ( love you)

I can't sell you that "I love you" (love you)

Cause' you can see through my matrix (matrix) 

And you can read my body language (language) 

And I know that it's impossible to justify myself,

But I'm so addicted, all this evil just to find myself.

I don't mean to be ungrateful

But you know I gotta plateful

If Im not eatin' of Your Word then,

Who am I to be a servant?

And I wont admit it, pride won't let me own the lies I bought

But the truth is all this time I've never known You like I thought.

Pre chorus

So can we go back to the start,

When You came into my heart?

I would be remiss if I continue

To go another day not knowing You.

Chorus

So, I'm running after You 

And this time, I'm not looking for Your Attributes

I'm running after You, and I'm not just looking for attributes.

I'm running after You, and I'm not just looking for attributes. 

I'm running after You...

Verse 2:

Now, everybody has a story

But, they don't always get to tell it

Precious moments feel like heaven...

But, it's like you never felt it. 

So, what do we make of this temporary state of bliss?

If I can't have it all the time, then why even exist?

So, what if I could introduce you

To a Man that knows your mayhem?

It's not the attributes that make Him,

No, He's the One that made them.

That love, that joy, that peace that you could never give yourself

It's yours to have, but in return you have to give yourself.

Pre

So let me take you to the start

Say, "Jesus, will you come into my heart"?

Cause' I would be remiss if I continue

To go another day not knowing you!

Chorus

So, I'm running after You

And this time, I'm not looking for your attributes

Ay, I'm running after You

And I'm not just looking for attributes

Ay, I'm running after You

And I'm not just looking for attributes

I'm running after You....

....Then there's this real Dwele-ish bridge type vamp where the arrangement changes to a complete neo soul groove. Word Perfect (Elevationists rapper), more affectionately known as Taelor, is shedding his heart on this part while Canaan and I are doing the backgrounds... 

You have to picture it in your mind...until I can show you. 

Attributes is made of experience. Been walking with God for about 8 years strong now and have gotten to know His character, but finally getting to know Him, now. We find God's attributes all over this earth. His Love, His joy, His peace, His kindness, His mercy, His patience, just His beauty period. Yet, alot of us don't know Him. Some have never met Him. And, that hurts my heart to realize that, but it's the truth. It's so surface... It's so based on OUR understanding, which is so limited, so distracted by what we see and hear. While if we'd just seek His Kingdom first AND His righteousness- not just His Kingdom- but His righteousness too....then all the other things get added. I don't just want the gift, I want the giver. I can't live without You.

So, yea.... there it is, for the time being.

SAP- Smile And Persevere,
Christon