Interlude 1

I'll tell you, um

Every single one of these songs, um, is about me first

Me first, um, it was like, you know

There was a period of time where I was just out

You know, just, just gone from the public, and, uh

I came to terms with the fact that

I had created this, uh, public persona, this public illusion

And it became, it, it held me hostage

Like I couldn't be a real person because

You're too afraid of, you know

Of, of what your, your public will say

And at that point I just, I had to do some dying

And really accept the fact that, look

This is who I am, and I have to be who I am

And all of us have a right to be who we are

And whenever we submit our will

Because our will is a gift, it's, it's given to us

Whenever we submit our will

To someone else's opinion, you know

I mean, a part of us dies

You know, and so it's been, um... it's been

It actually hasn't been a long time

It feels like a long time

But it hasn't been a long time

Some miraculous things have happened

In a, in a short amount of time, and uh

I'm just very blessed to be able to be here today

And to share with you some of the things I've learned

I know some of it sounds almost cryptic

And I been really, you know, just, just really, uh

Waiting for the, the patience

And, and really just articulate where I'm coming from

As simply as possible, so I'm working on that

But um, you know, I know

That you know that there's, uh

You know I, I know that, that God doesn't lie

And I know that He knows how to talk

To the hearts of people better than anybody else

So I don't worry about that

'Cause whatever He relates to whomever is listening

That's what supposed to be understood at that time

So it's all good

But, um, this is a song called "Oh Jerusalem"