I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself while expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

A lot of times I feel not y'all the mood to write a song

Cause everything I've kicked around in my head it feels wrong

I grab a chair a quiet spot a pen an empty beat

And play it in dire straights to inscribe this loose leaf

I flip back in my notes to parts I wrote but never finished

And sew those together in desperate need for compositions

And for known reasons they never feel too tasty

My word usage is all off and my rhyme pattern is all janky

Whatever merry idea I started with then I'll divorce it

Then a light bulb pops on is it God or verbs tryin to force it

I wanna tune into a song and know it's God without a doubt

And keep my tank full on Christ when my self is emptied out

My job is not to think a million just to scribble out a verse

Even in the Bible belt you hear pants when souls thirst

If I were more commercial than a break in a UPN sitcom

I'd still be held accountable for every line that you hear my voice on

For a car to run at all it must stay gassed up

And for me to write at all I need to take the daily task up

Of doing what I need while staying rolled in what I read

Ain't no harvest to collect if no farmers will throw no seed

Although my soul may still say yes

It's a daily thing to wake and knock the mess out the flesh

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself while expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I plans to ride shotgun with my Lord in one accord

There's transportation in His name like Chevy Chase or Harry Ford

I'd be plain out of luck banking just on what I know

Cause my mind can draw some blanks like karate champs with Tae Bo

I exercise His ways I'm fonder how things work out

His foolishness has been wiser than our strongest of routes

So I surrender all and use the cross as leverage

Tryin to scratch the surface of service being poured out beverage

To change my will it cost my life period end of story

Do great things in His name so only He receives the glory

To the pessimist an empty glass is just good for no use

An optimist will leave it there prepared for full on juice

Obedience keeps you from tickets in zones of speed traps

So keep His word close and snug tight like wave caps

His sovereignty is like a baby during terms bet your pregnant

Cause you learn to wait on Him then you feel it and expect it

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself while expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself while expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself for expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

I drive not on my own understanding

Getting, getting, getting gassed up for advancing

I deflate myself while expanding

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty

Vehicles we want we will ride full on empty