Mandela
[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 killing 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
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 killing 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