STORY OF GOD - Justin Bieber
Lyrics by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton
Composed by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin/Justin Bieber/Judah Smith/Wes Halliburton
Produced by：Carter Lang/Eli Teplin
Before the first shadow touched our hearts there was only light
I'm not just talking about the sunlight
Though it filtered through the canopy like liquid gold
Warm on my skin I'm talking about life
The air itself tasted sweet like honey and rain
Everything hummed
The garden wasn't just a place we lived it breathed with us
There was no fear here fear hadn't even been invented yet
A lion this massive beautiful creation
Would lean his heavy head into my touch
Everything was connected
Everything was exactly as it was meant to be
And Eve when I look at her
I finally understand what God meant when He said
"Very good"
And then there's Him
It's the cool of the day that's when He comes
You always know when He is near
The air changes
Expectant like the atmosphere itself is leaning in to listen
We hear the sound first not heavy footsteps
But a shifting of the atmosphere
A weight of goodness moving through the trees
And we run we run toward the sound
His voice it isn't just sound
It's the foundation of everything
When He speaks it's warm
Resonant it vibrates in my chest
We talk about the colors of the water
Why the monkeys chatter so much
What it means to be us
There's no gap between us
No hesitation no hiding it's complete
It's a feast right?
Everywhere you look
Tastes the explosion in your mouth
We're completely free
Except in the very center
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
It's the only boundary line in a world without walls
God is very clear "Don't touch it
The day you eat it you die"
Die?
The word just hangs in the air
It means nothing to us
We trust Him of course we do
But I find myself near it more often than I admit
It's stunning
The fruit looks different
Doesn't just look delicious it looks wise
Eve
One day I'm by the tree and there's this voice
Smooth like polished stone
It belongs to the serpent the most clever
The most beautiful of them all
He doesn't shout he doesn't threaten
He just asks a question
"Did God really say you can't eat from any tree?"
It's a simple question but it shifts the entire world on its axis
Suddenly the God who gave us everything sounds restrictive
The serpent tells me I won't die
Tells me my eyes will be opened
That I'll be like God that's the lure
It's not rebellion it's ascension
It's the promise of more
He makes it sound like God is holding out on us
The fruit is heavy in my hand
Its skin is smooth cool to the touch
The tension is unbearable I bite
The taste isn't just sweet or bitter
It tastes like everything at once the world tilts
She brings it to me her eyes are wild
My gut screams that this is wrong
My partner my reflection she is still standing
I trust her more than I trust the voice of God
I eat and instantly the light fractures
It's like a mirror shattering inside my soul
The air turns cold
I look at Eve she looks at me
And for the first time I mean really for the first time
I see we are exposed vulnerable naked
This is shame
We scramble panicked
We grab these big rough fig leaves stitching them together
They scratch my skin they cover nothing
And then we hear it His footsteps
The sound that used to mean love that used to mean safety
Now means dread absolute dread
We run we hide in the thickest
Darkest brush we can find holding our breath
And then His voice it's not angry not shouting
It's worse it's heartbroken "Where are you?"
He knows exactly where we are physically
He's asking where we've gone relationally
Where we stand trembling covered in itchy leaves
The question comes gentle but firm
"What have you done? Did you eat the fruit?"
Is this where the fracture deepens?
The break spreads?
I look at the woman I love and I I point
"The woman You gave me" I blame her
I blame Him
And I point to the serpent "He tricked me"
The blame shifts faster and faster
We throw responsibility anywhere but ourselves
And the verdict comes down the world is broken now
Because we broke it
The ground will fight us birth will be a battle
Relationships will be complex painful and death
That word we didn't understand now has a shape
It has our shape
But then the strangest moment
He kneels down He takes an animal
One of the creatures Adam named
It's the first death we witness and He makes clothes for us
Skins that are heavy and they smell of loss
And they cover the shame the fig leaves were our idea
The covering is His
It's this terrifying tender moment
He's judging us yes but He hasn't abandoned us
But we can't stay we've chosen knowledge over intimacy
He walks us to the edge of the garden
The air gets thinner out here
The ground is hard under my feet
As we take that final step out of Eden
We look back and it's overwhelming a celestial being
An angel blazing with light and fire
Holding a sword that spins like a whirlwind
The gate slams shut with a sound that echoes across the universe
We're outside it's cold
The sun is setting we lost paradise
We lost the unbroken connection we broke the world
And that's how the silence began the separation
But as we walked away into the dust and the thorns
We carried a strange promise with us
A whisper from God about a coming savior
Someone who would crush the serpent's head
The door to the garden was closed
But the Story of God?
It was just beginning