Producer:Kanye West Writers:Rhymefest/Kanye West Samples:Ode To Billie Joe(1968)—Lou Donaldson (Don't Worry)lf There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go(1970)—Curtis Mayfield Walk With Me(1997)—The ARC Choir We at war We at war with terrorism Racism But most of all we at war with ourselves Jesus walk God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down Jesus walk with me You know what the Midwest is? Young and restless Where restless (N!ggas) might snatch your necklace And next these (N!ggas) might jack your Lexus Somebody tell these (N!ggas) who Kanye West is I walk through the valley of the Chi where death is Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless *Gasps* Try to catch it *Gasps* It's kinda hard Getting choked by detectives, yeah, yeah, now check the method They be askin' us questions, harass and arrest us Sayin' "We eat pieces of sh!t like you for breakfast" Huh? Y'all eat pieces of sh!t? What's the basis? We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases A trunk full of c0ke, rental car from Avis My mama used to say only Jesus can save us Well mama I know I act a fool But I'll be gone 'til November, I got packs to move I hope Jesus walk God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down Jesus walk with me The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now Jesus walk And I don't think there's nothin' I can do now to right my wrongs Jesus walk with me I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid 'cause we ain't spoke in so long Jesus walk God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down Jesus walk with me The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now Jesus walk And I don't think there's nothin' I can do now to right my wrongs Jesus walk with me I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid 'cause we ain't spoke in so long So long So long Jesus walk with me To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers, even the scrippers Jesus walks for them To the victims of welfare feel we livin' in Hell here, hell yeah Jesus walks for them Now, hear ye, hear ye, want to see Thee more clearly I know He hear me when my feet get weary 'Cause we're the almost nearly extinct We rappers is role models: we rap, we don't think I ain't here to argue about His facial features Or here to convert atheists into believers I'm just tryna say the way school need teachers The way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that's the way I need Jesus So here go my single, dawg, radio needs this They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, s3x, lies, videotape But if I talk about God my record won't get played, huh? Well if this take away from my spins Which'll probably take away from my ends Then I hope this take away from my sins And bring the day that I'm dreamin' about Next time I'm in the club, everybody screamin' out Jesus walk God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down Jesus walk with me The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
[00:00.013]Producer:Kanye West [00:00.562]Writers:Rhymefest/Kanye West [00:01.215]Samples:Ode To Billie Joe(1968)—Lou Donaldson [00:01.842](Don't Worry)lf There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go(1970)—Curtis Mayfield [00:02.521]Walk With Me(1997)—The ARC Choir [00:05.447]We at war [00:07.929]We at war with terrorism [00:11.116]Racism [00:12.787]But most of all we at war with ourselves [00:17.307]Jesus walk [00:18.717]God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down [00:22.453]Jesus walk with me [00:27.599]You know what the Midwest is? [00:29.610]Young and restless [00:30.786]Where restless (N!ggas) might snatch your necklace [00:33.372]And next these (N!ggas) might jack your Lexus [00:36.167]Somebody tell these (N!ggas) who Kanye West is [00:38.910]I walk through the valley of the Chi where death is [00:41.600]Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless [00:44.396]*Gasps* [00:44.944]Try to catch it [00:45.728]*Gasps* [00:46.250]It's kinda hard [00:46.903]Getting choked by detectives, yeah, yeah, now check the method [00:49.960]They be askin' us questions, harass and arrest us [00:52.572]Sayin' "We eat pieces of sh!t like you for breakfast" [00:55.576]Huh? Y'all eat pieces of sh!t? What's the basis? [00:58.319]We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases [01:00.748]A trunk full of c0ke, rental car from Avis [01:03.648]My mama used to say only Jesus can save us [01:06.234]Well mama I know I act a fool [01:08.924]But I'll be gone 'til November, I got packs to move [01:11.511]I hope [01:12.059]Jesus walk [01:13.757]God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down [01:17.336]Jesus walk with me [01:19.243]The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now [01:22.822]Jesus walk [01:24.650]And I don't think there's nothin' I can do now to right my wrongs [01:25.826]Jesus walk with me [01:30.188]I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid 'cause we ain't spoke in so long [01:33.976]Jesus walk [01:35.413]God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down [01:39.409]Jesus walk with me [01:40.611]The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now [01:44.138]Jesus walk [01:46.750]And I don't think there's nothin' I can do now to right my wrongs [01:50.381]Jesus walk with me [01:52.209]I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid 'cause we ain't spoke in so long [01:57.695]So long [02:00.490]So long [02:01.431]Jesus walk with me [02:06.185]To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers, even the scrippers [02:10.678]Jesus walks for them [02:11.880]To the victims of welfare feel we livin' in Hell here, hell yeah [02:15.876]Jesus walks for them [02:17.444]Now, hear ye, hear ye, want to see Thee more clearly [02:20.552]I know He hear me when my feet get weary [02:23.112]'Cause we're the almost nearly extinct [02:25.907]We rappers is role models: we rap, we don't think [02:28.702]I ain't here to argue about His facial features [02:31.341]Or here to convert atheists into believers [02:34.162]I'm just tryna say the way school need teachers [02:36.748]The way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that's the way I need Jesus [02:39.726]So here go my single, dawg, radio needs this [02:42.260]They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus [02:45.029]That means guns, s3x, lies, videotape [02:47.693]But if I talk about God my record won't get played, huh? [02:51.560]Well if this take away from my spins [02:53.440]Which'll probably take away from my ends [02:55.504]Then I hope this take away from my sins [02:57.411]And bring the day that I'm dreamin' about [02:59.031]Next time I'm in the club, everybody screamin' out [03:01.695]Jesus walk [03:03.471]God show me the way because the Devil's tryna break me down [03:07.129]Jesus walk with me [03:09.036]The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now