Michael Knowles REACTS To ＂Fear＂ By NF
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Summary
A new song from Oof featuring Chance the Rapper Oof explores the complicated relationship between fear and grace, and how to deal with it in a world where fear is everywhere and grace is not. Michael Knowles' new album Other Words For Smoke is out now, and it's out on all of your favorite streaming platforms.
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Hey everybody, it's your hip-hop cultural maven wonder Michael Knowles, and I'm here with a new
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song by OOF. This song is called Fear. OOF has just come out with it. Take it away.
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Now, usually I'd be strong enough to lock the doors and keep them shut.
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But even writing, this is making me begin to spiral.
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Made a promise to myself I wouldn't let the fear back in.
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I thought I'd finally have finally made a breakthrough.
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Lost the keys, lost my hope, lost my will, lost my joy.
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Lost a friend, lost my hope, lost my faith, lost my voice.
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Standing back watching my mansion burn to ash while I hold the gas.
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You know, it's kind of a happy little folksy song.
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But done in a, I don't know, like a folky Mumford and Sons-y kind of way.
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He says, you know, usually I lock the doors to keep the darkness out.
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And he's tempted to go back to his drugs and his pills.
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And, you know, he thought he finally had made a breakthrough.
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You know, sin is still there crouching in the corner waiting to devour him.
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But you're getting another image, too, which is gasoline.
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Or is it the gasoline that's going to burn everything down?
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He's standing back watching his mansion burn to ash while I hold the gas can,
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asking God if he started this fire, which at first glance seems ridiculous.
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It seems as if he's pointing out, no, no, no, my problems are my own fault.
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I need to take responsibility for my own actions.
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The reality of the concepts of your question are just as questionable as what you're questioning.
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Why do you make a world in which Adam and Eve had the free will to abuse their freedom
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and to kick us out of the garden and to leave me right here?
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And the answer is no, but when you let the darkness in a little bit and you really face
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There's a couple of mysteries in that question.
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What's the relationship between will and grace?
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Not the 90s sitcom, but what's that relationship?
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A recent Danish study found something deeply concerning.
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Just one year after an abortion, women were 50% more likely to need psychiatric treatment
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and 87% more likely to experience personality or behavioral disorders.
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They represent real women facing real struggles.
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That is why preborn takes a different approach.
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When a woman walks through their doors uncertain and afraid, she finds something she may not have
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Make all my hopes and my dreams come to life just to lay them to grass.
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Give me a false sense of peace just to show me what peace really is.
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what is this wow yeah it's really quite good for a pop song it's quite good you can get that image
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at the end you know the image at the beginning is am i going to start popping my pills again
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and then you go on this whole journey and he's in the church and he's trying to wash his hands
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in the water but then there's the the flip image of the gasoline he burns it all down and he himself
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catches on fire and then he he ends up stumbling and crashes onto the rug and you think oh he's just
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he just did a bunch of drugs that's it's all been a kind of a weird trip and the final question that
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we have pertains to god's active will and his passive will because god creates everything he
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sustains everything in a certain sense you know he he wills the bad things to happen but he doesn't
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actively will the bad things to happen because he gives us free will and so we play a role in
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creation and he passively wills that for that to be the case but he actively wills our good so he
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doesn't create evil evil's a privation of the good and it's it's uh it's very good it's this song i
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don't listen to a lot of pop music but this song is without question a kind of work of christian art
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and it's much much better than like any modern christian music
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it's uh it's quite good actually oh yeah good job good job okay i'm michael noel see you next time