Ruslan - Mandela lyrics

[Hook 1: Elijah Fig] I just wanna be released I'm holding you a prisoner But it's holding on to me I'm letting go of everything That keeps you here inside of me So I can be set free [Verse 1: Ruslan] If we could travel back in time to where it all started And I'll stop to take a personal audit And my stop, an inventory of my soul In the root of my offense, what I'll find I suppose You ain't even know the way that it affected me Impacted my life's trajectory That's why I'm messed up, feel like I'm less of a man Was there ever a time you respected me? I don't even need the answer right now These are just some things I had to write down I'm grown up, I'm married, I got a wife now People that love me, I got a life now And perhaps the bitterness that I'm harboring Inside my heart towards you in me is causing sin Of epic proportions despite the distortions You probably have moved on, this ain't even important And I got all this hate inside of my heart still Carrying all this weight is making my heart ill Me holding you a prisoner is keeping me a prisoner It's time for me to let it go so we both can be risen up And moving past the pain, I repeat the pastor saying We may never laugh the same but I'm giving up All this hate inside of me kept k**ing life Forgiveness got me feeling like... [Hook 2: Elijah Fig & Ruslan] Mandela, Mandela I just wanna be released I'm holding you a prisoner But it's holding on to me Yeah, I was the one still in chains Mandela, Mandela I'm letting go of everything Letting it go That keeps you here inside of me Right here this moment So I can be set free [Verse 2: Beleaf] I thought this verse would come off corny But then my heart started to warn me How much this is more for me then for you Then I see what these motions just left alone what they do And my heart gets a little more dense when I'm thinking of you It's intense cause in my dreams you seem to creep through And it's clear that your imprint is on my life When I look in the mirror I hate it, I love it But it's becoming clearer that you are just like me A child of God that needs forgiveness That don't wanna be blamed for the same thing, can I get a witness? And though I struggle with this epiphany It's hard to let go of the things stuck in my memory And I know now that these things are apart of my identity And I know I got a hole in my heart, but it feels like a dent in me And when I get down on my knees and I try to repent I need my heart softened so I see the beauty of being free [Hook 3: Elijah Fig & Ruslan] Mandela, Mandela I just wanna be released I'm holding you a prisoner But it's holding on to me Yeah, we gotta release to experience freedom Mandela, Mandela I'm letting go of everything Let's let it go That keeps you here inside of me So I can be set free Let's let freedom reign [Verse 3: John Givez] I struggled with the unconditional since 'bout 11 years ago When times were pivotal and unconventional Seed had been planted in my brain In that living room was where my view of you had changed I still be trapped there I still be trapped up in that mirror when I look at my reflection I'm confessing I been wrestling with the thought of really letting Go from my protection all this weight upon my chest at times I feel I was selected and elected to project this I'm never gon' regret this freedom in my soul When I look at you and say I love you just so I can be for sure And yes it's true the scars are still apart of me they helped me grow And no my heart is still an open wound it's healing with the hope I can feel the chains are broke, I'm free to roam around the earth Tell the world about forgiveness how I learned just what it's worth By the stream of living water I am planted like a tree When I think about the way that true forgiveness set you free [Outro: Elijah Fig] (x2) His love light, it's alright Feel it all day and all night He's able My God is able His love light, it's alright Feel it all day and all night He's able My God is able Yeah, He's able