Our Pride

Because of our bent toward justice, we have built a number of alliances with activist organizations that are doing amazingly good work around the country. One of these organizations is Live Free USA, captained by Pastor Mike McBride. We did a recent tour with Live Free, rehearsing at Pastor Mike's church building in Berkeley CA, and decided to package the final dress rehearsal as a BTS product. Our Pride had been written a few months prior in response to a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo.

OUR PRIDE
Written by Terrell Wilson (BMI)
© 2023 Common Hymnal Digital (BMI), The Wilson Songbook Publishing (BMI) (admin by IntegratedRights.com). CCLI 7218773.

VERSE 1
I see the way that the healer made
We’d rather have the disease instead
It’s bleak but it don’t have to be this way
Our pride will be the death of us
If we brake then we won’t need the crash ahead
We’d rather give it the gas instead
But these are the words that the master said
Our pride will be the death of us

CHORUS 1
Oh Jesus
Are you still showing mercy?
Our homes and our schools are burning
Will you still hear our prayer?

VERSE 2
Wisdom is begging us to repent
We scoff at the loss of the innocent
Where has our love for the voiceless went?
Our pride will be the death us
The bleeding, the grieving, the tears mean what?
The thoughts and the prayers are they all for naught?
If we really want change we would count the cost
Our pride will be the death of us

CHORUS 2
Abba is your patience growing shorter
With careless sons and daughters?
Will you still hear our prayer, hear our prayer?
Kyrie Kyrie
Eleison Eleison
Have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on us
Kyrie Kyrie
Kyrie Eleison
Son of David, have mercy
Have mercy on us

VERSE 3
But if we would turn as your prophesied
You would derail from our demise
But if we fail to unveil our eyes
Our pride will be the death of us
Our pride will be the death of us