Heart Problem - Trip Lee

Trip: Money, sex, and power are good

Woman: What?

You want me to listen to who?

I don’t know.

I used to like Trip Lee when he first came out

But I be feeling like he be acting like money is a sin or something

I don’t know.

What’s he talking about now?

Let me get this off my chest

I know some folks are gonna be mad

Ain’t trying to start no mess

But I know how folks are gonna react

Felt like I got to strive and press

Tell them what I mean until they see that

They think I got a problem with dollars and making green cash

But money really ain’t the problem

Every grand is a grant from the Father

When I said, «We can’t serve both God and cash,»

Many folks thought I meant, «Don't bother.»

But I ain’t saying making money ain’t right

I’m just saying that your money ain’t Christ

So please don’t bow down to those greenbacks and let them stacks rule your life

Ain’t trying to say we shouldn’t get paid

Ain’t trying to say that we should stay broke

But money don’t mean you got favor

And being broke don’t mean that you don’t

Money is a gift that’s good

Give it to the Father, to the Giver

I’ve been misunderstood

But I trust in the God who delivers

Please don’t miss the problem man

It is not the God who reigns

It is not the gifts he gave

This is what I gotta say, say (What you got to say?)

Don’t exalt them over the God of grace

You can’t really enjoy them until your heart’s in place

The gifts and the Giver are good (Hatred)

The gifts and the Giver are good

The gifts and the Giver are good (He done lost his mind.)

Your heart is where the problem’s at

Let’s get that understood

I got something on my mind, bro

Some folks might not like that

I feel like it’s about that time to

Hit them with the truth where the light’s at

But still some folks want to fight that

His hand that feeds, want to bite that

Cause they think pleasing is making demons

A vow that he made with us despite that

He grants good gifts like sex

I ain’t trying to start no mess

And I don’t want to get graphic with all the facts

Cause he gave it so that we could be blessed

Please don’t, act like I’m gone

Please don’t, just say I’m wrong

Just take a couple looks in the Word

You’ll see, this he condones

Sex ain’t the problem

It’s sinners who just forgot Him

Distorting, corrupt, like Sodom

The gifts, they want them without Him

It’s beautiful in it’s proper place.

(Marriage)

Until we pop it up and turn our footsteps from His face

And then we problem

Please don’t miss the problem man

It is not the God who reigns

It is not the gifts he gave

This is what I gotta say, say

Don’t exalt them over the God of grace

You can’t really enjoy them until your heart’s in place

The gifts and the Giver are good

The gifts and the Giver are good

The gifts and the Giver are good

Your heart is where the problem’s at

Let’s get that understood

(You got to explain.)

Last verse, still gotta be real

Submit my thoughts under His will

Even if it ain’t really what I feel

Got to let him take that, take that wheel

Last thing to talk about

Before end of discussion

I heard power corrupts

No, it just shows our corruption

But power’s really a blessing

To men in the resurrection

And wield it to help this mess

Of a world in which we’re resting, man

Our heart’s the issue so submit it to the good Lord

He will replace it

What do you think we call him good for?

Please don’t miss the problem man

It is not the God who reigns

It is not the gifts he gave

This is what I gotta say, say

Don’t exalt them over the God of grace

You can’t really enjoy them until your heart’s in place

The gifts and the Giver are good

The gifts and the Giver are good

The gifts and the Giver are good

Your heart is where the problem’s at

Let’s get that understood

Okay, okay

I think I got it now

It ain’t that money, power, or sex that’s the problem

Its that something is wrong with my little, my own little heart

I don’t know, we’ll see

I still think that man’s tripping