This song is about people who endure the dual-oppression of racism and homophobia. The song is titled "The Stoned", because there are some specific communities that we, as Christians, have to do work to correct our cultural posture towards. The LGBTQ community being very high on that list. If homosexual activity is a sin, our posture in communicating with the LGBTQ community should highly keep in mind, if not lead out of, the acknowledgement of Jesus telling those who would stone someone for a specific offense, "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone." Our God said that. There's no impotence in that, so take heart, all. I also wanted to help contribute to what I hope will be a future plethora of songs by many different artists dispelling the myth that it's ok to marginalize queer people in the Black community.
lyrics
"The Stoned"
You will never cage me.
I will break free of eighty
ways and means
to stay unseen
you've made for me.
You will never waste an opportunity to faithfully
chase after both my communities' safety.
Here, I say and mean
you'll never call me crazy.
I'm unashamedly
as black and gay as the way I was favorably made to be.
You will never cage me.
Beyond you, there's a way for me.
Beyond you, there's a god you love who loves and gives me bravery.
Beyond you, there's a god you love who love's my friends contagiously.
Beyond you, there's a god who's tempted like me, not mistakenly.
And if I don't believe in him, I don't want you to pray for me.
I want you to respect me and I want you unafraid of me.
I'm people.
You will not say that's not legally so.
I am equal.
So unspeakably so.
You unleash in me a fever with a heat
that vehemently
melts the secrecy
of what my freedom means to me.
Who needs you to know
that I can love him?
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