Ever felt like no one understands you? Ever felt alone in a crowded room?
This political season has left me feeling so outside of the norm. No party gets me. No candidate aligns with my politics. It brings me to recognizing that this is because my view of how my faith interacts with the world is not such a mainline and common one.
It leaves me feeling more and more like a Christian misfit.
This song is for all of those that feel like Christian misfits too.
LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
I feel like a misfit that’s running into a tempest
Not sure where in standing but I know where my faith is.
Rarely speechless but it’s hard to even speak this
Not sure where I belong
as I embrace my uniqueness
The thing is…
I’m still figuring it out
As get to know the Lord and the world
There’s no doubt
I wanna bring a change
But my theology’s strange
Too left for the right and
right for the left
Feel like their picking teams and I’m the last geek left
The theft of my identity happened many years ago,
Been taking back what the fool enemy stole but even so
There’s a lot of thoughts that leave me like I don’t know
I got nothing but room & hopefully time left to grow
but wait a minute bro
But Am I way off track based on the knowledge I lack
I see spiritual debates take place and don’t know how to react
Or what’s the exact response that best glorifies my maker
Yep God almighty he’s the heavenly baker
I think I smell what he’s cooking
And trying to share u a plate
If you down low and forsooken
Just know I relate
This life is so hard
But harder alone
That don’t have to be you
Just pick up the phone
Or hollar out before you bout to just quit
Just know that there’s another of you— a misfit
[Hook]
Misunderstood in the mystery
A misfit At home in misery
Feeling trapped in a place you don’t belong
All my misfits sing along
[Verse 2]
Like a jagged piece of the puzzle I feel like I don’t fit
broken like glass from a painful past that I wish
I could change, now I let the Lord rearrange
my position but still wishin I didn’t seem strange
Like I speak a new language Orr different lexicon
In a world of squares and circles I feel like a hex a gon
No hex cuz my curse is gone, my hurts live on
till healing comes But I feel beat like the bass drum
Hope it comes soon
Like a monsoon, Lord rain on me and wash me out the fitting room
The pants too tight the shirt too baggy
A misfit
I used to keep changing gladly
But then I met the Trinity changed my identity
So I’mma be me even if that leaves me lonely
Do you even know me White and Black America?
Watch ya label cuz its libel to be a barrier
What’s even scarier is the judgment in you,
If you looking with those eyes there’s no budgin’ with you,
I would apologize if I even smudged up the truth
But truth is with lies I see u lugging a few
And a few logs that’s stuck all up in ur pupils
And they call u a teacher cause I know u got some pupils.
With eyes on you, so please keep your scruples
No loop holes
Cuz My ministry is on lock
You misfits like me are unique Yeah u Rock,
And there can never be another oh brother,
They’re out of stock
We didn’t break the mold that might come as a shock
Created by Daddy just chips off the ole block.
[Bridge]
No more sideline living
taking advantage of what’s given
no longer an outcast
Taking my life of fear,
leaving it packed here,
in the luggage of my past
Sometimes I’m living in a desert with no rain
But Like a wild beast I can’t be contained
I don’t even have a word for quit…
RELEASE THE MISFITS!
[Hook]
Misunderstood in the mystery
A misfit At home in misery
Feeling trapped in a place you don’t belong
All my misfits sing along