Buy The Truth

Preface: I saw Cool Hand Luke last night. I have lots of opinions on the music and the band...but bottom line...great guys. Love them. Mark has a heart for God like I've never seen matched. His lyrics have always reflected a really thoughtful relationship with Christ. Every show he spends a great deal of time just talking and challenging and I'm always left deep in thought about something. He as well as the other band My Epic, gave me a lot of things to think about that I want to comment on here. But for the time being I'll comment on the new album The Sleeping House which I purchased last night and have been listening through today. Again, a lot I could say about the direction of the music. But this album even more than others, each song is rooted in an idea and verses that Mark had been sorting through and they are fantastic and thought provoking. He played this one last night and I read through the lyrics today...and I just can't help but share them. They are powerful to me.


"Buy The Truth" - Cool Hand Luke

If I had a dime for every dollar I’ve wasted trying to be happy
I could retire because I would be miserably wealthy
Then I’d have the time to see that I’d thrown out my life like the paper
And maybe the time by God’s grace to start it all over and

Buy the Truth
Though it costs all you have (Proverbs 4:7)
Buy the truth
Don’t ever sell it out
What good is a tool in the hand of a fool if you don’t buy wisdom?
(Proverbs 17:16)

If I sold You out, I could make enough money to live for a while
Walk in the room and important people would smile
Hold my head proud, and know I had made the best business decision
Wave at the crowds who give me their money like it was religion

Buy the Truth
Though it costs all you have
Buy the truth
Don’t ever sell it out
What good is a tool in the hand of a fool if you don’t buy wisdom?

Please, don’t make yourself at home
Please, don’t make yourself at home
Please, don’t make yourself at home
Please, don’t make yourself at home
The Land of opportunity
And superficiality
Syncretized theology
A compromised reality

God, touch our eyes
Expose the lies
That waste our lives
And block the light
A future hope (Proverbs 24:14)
That we’ll wake up
And see the Truth for what’s it’s worth

Buy the Truth
Though it costs all you have
Buy the truth
Don’t ever sell it out
What good is a tool in the hand of a fool if you don’t buy wisdom?