“Give Up De Ting”

Give up de ting call hatred

That we have for one another

Give up de ting call vengeance

With brother fighting brother

Whether of the B’s or the D’s

We are one and one means unity

Give up de ting call jealousy

For we are one big family

What touches you touches me

So give up de ting!

Harvey and Irma didn’t care

So they had their destructive fling

Give up de ting I am pleading

I mean all this disruptive fighting

Give up de ting I repeat

And let us all be about uniting

For at the end of the day or before

We all will feel the pain

So give up de ting my brother

All this infighting is a “no brain”

Give up de ting that’s breaking us

The guns, the cutlasses and the knives

Give up the spite and the blame game

And as a people let us thrive

It is no use all this destruction

Since none of us can win this fight

So give up de ting, this foolishness

And let’s come together and unite

Across all of our churches too

We really need to give up de ting

Churches fighting to maintain turf

Even though of salvation they sing

Sending mixed signals to the unsaved

As confusing as they can become

Give up de ting about competition

And preach about God’s coming kingdom

 
  

Give up de ting, yeah, the sin

That’s at the heart of every crime

Without Christ there is no turn around

Not now, not in the future or anytime

You will most likely call this simplistic

It’s downright foolishness you will say

But give up de ting that’s holding you

And let the Saviour have his way

The heart of our trouble is the heart

What we need to give up is inside

So give up de ting, the heart I mean

And let Jesus come in to abide

I know it doesn’t sound intellectual

That to give up de ting could mean this

But sincerely give your heart to Jesus

And in God’s service enlist

The guns would become extinct

And this violence would go away

No need for all this consultation

Just give up de ting and God obey

So give up de ting; let’s praise the Lord

Give up de ting; let’s mind His word

Give up de ting: the selfish heart

And soon you’ll see this is not absurd.

Stewart Russell © September 2017