Run This Town-Jay-Z

This entry is a little different. It’s about David & Goliath. Usually I use the passage of scripture to explain a song, but here, I think the song explains the passage. So I placed the lyrics between the scriptures. Jay-Z is narrating in green. Personally, I face "Goliaths" everytime the odds are stacked against me. Racism, sexism, classism and bad service at Starbucks are all issues that I channel David in order to deal effectively.

Feel it coming in the air/Hear the screams from everywhere I’m addicted to the the thrill/ It’s a dangerous love affair Can’t be scared when it goes down/ Got a problem, tell me now Only thing that’s on my mind/Is who gon’ run this town tonight Is who gon’ run this town tonight/We gon’ run this town

David and Goliath - 1 Samuel 17 (abbev.) David reached the army as it was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. Feel it coming in the air Hear the screams from everywhere. Goliath, the Philistine champion, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear. Can’t be scared when it goes down/ Got a problem, tell me now. David asked the men, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine? Who is [he] that he should defy the armies of the living God?"Only thing that’s on my mind/Is who gon’ run this town tonight. David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him." Saul replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth."

But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this [man]will be like one of them. The God who delivered me from the lion and the bear will deliver me from this Philistine." I’m addicted to the thrill/It’s a dangerous love affair.

Life's a game and but its not fair,/ I break the rules so I don't care, So i keep doing my own thing,/Walking tall against the rain, Victory's within the mile,/ Almost there don't give up now, Only thing thats on my mind is who's gon run this town tonight, Who's gon run this town tonite?

Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. So I keep doing my own thing, Walking tall against the rain. "I cannot go in these," he said to Saul, "because I am not used to them." So he took them off.

Goliath looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. Life's a game and but its not fair, I break the rules so I don't care. David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword, but I come against you in the name of God, whom you have defied. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

Victory's within the mile, Almost there don't give up now. As the Philistine moved closer, David ran to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown. So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. We gon’ run this town.