Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Esperanza Spalding
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Esperanza Spalding
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Esperanza Spalding
Producer
Matthew Stevens
Additional Producer
Justin Tyson
Additional Producer
Fernando Lodeiro
Recording Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'm at the house of worship, rife with pride, rife with doctrine
Rife with sin, now my laptop or device is where I shop for wisdom
At my very fingertips, so much more than some holy man
Could ever hope to comprehend, so maybe now the Holy Spirit is
Simply a mighty network, anchored in accumulated knowledge
Now encompassing the globe, zeros and ones no one can touch
You must behold
[Verse 2]
So, have you prayed to your phone today?
Atoning for all ignorance, we bow our busy heads to
Seek immortal wisdom from the clouds
Rolling down the social mountain to the tablet in each hand
Eight billion new commandments
At my command, and some I post too
Google humanity, but while you do
[Verse 3]
Guard the animal in you
God's the animal in you (In you)
No pride, no greed, no sin (In you)
Guard the animal in you, in you, in (In you)
Guard the animal, God's the animal in you
[Verse 4]
But when you ask the web anything
It's always there for you
Though the answers may not be true
Searching an engine for the ghost of truth
[Verse 5]
While the animal in you
Guards the tangible in you (In you)
Your heart, your guts, your skin (In you)
Guards the tangible in you, in you, in
Guard the animal, guard the tangible
[Verse 6]
Amazing grace, I miss you badly
I had to search the meaning (Of the word)
So little of it sadly with all this forward leaning (Grace)
If it's in me, what good is all this reading? (Of the word)
Open attachments eating into my time for living (Grace)
[Verse 7]
If there is a God out there (Of the world)
Once You've ended famine and warfare (Grace)
If You would just make these endless emails disappear (Of the world)
Oh, and show us how to fix the climate while You're here
[Verse 8]
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[Verse 9]
Accumulated knowledge now encompassing the globe
Zeroes and ones no one can touch, you must behold
To understand (The burden of evolving man)
But may you not become a stranger to
[Verse 10]
Guard the animal in you
Guard the tangible in you (In you)
No service, page, or PIN (In you)
The program you came in with
[Verse 11]
(In you)
(In you)
(In you)
[Verse 12]
Guard the animal (In you)
Guard the tangible (In you)
Guard the animal (In you)
Guard the tangible in you (In you)
In you
In you
Written by: Esperanza Spalding