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Outsiders

By Christafari

1,364 views Sep 26, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Christafari spends this one drawing a hard line between religion and faith rather than between believers and unbelievers. "I'm not religious, I just love Jesus, it's not about traditions, I just love the Lord" repeats like a thesis statement, aimed at "committees" and "boards" as much as at outright unbelief.


The verses name real friction, not a hypothetical one: "you kill me with committees, and you bore me with your boards, you take a good idea then you pick it apart." Being called "persona non grata" for reggae worship music is treated as a badge rather than a wound — "unconventional with no apology, unorthodox with dreadlocks."


The direct address to "Sadducees and Pharisees" borrows its target from the gospels themselves — Jesus reserved his sharpest words for religious leaders who looked clean on the outside while missing the point entirely, and elsewhere said he came to call sinners, not people who already had it figured out. "Whom the Son sets free is free indeed" backs up the song's refusal to be kept "in a box." Being an outsider, here, isn't a complaint; it's the position the song is proud to hold.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Wayo oh oh

This one’s for the fringe

To those who don’t fit in

We’re on the outside looking in 


And this one’s for us fools

For breaking all the rules

Because your rules are not of Him


They call us victims of tradition

We’re on the outside looking in

Yet we’re surrounded by suspicions

Accused of being sin


Yes we are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in

We are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in


This ones for the crew

Who are trying to break through

But none of you will let us in


And this one’s for those rebels

Who would turn over all the tables

And unleash the zeal of the Father within


We’re victims of tradition

We’re on the outside looking in

Yet we’re surrounded by suspicion

Just because we don’t fit in


We are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in

We are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in


I’m not religious

I just love Jesus

It’s not about traditions

I just love the Lord


I’m not religious

I just love Jesus

I’m not about your traditions

No, I just love the Lord


We are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in

We are the outsiders (outsiders)

On the outside looking in


They’re calling me

Persona non grata

Because I sing this reggae music for the Father

Yes indeed 

Persona non grata - woy - yeah!


Well I just wanna be a blessing

I just want to serve the Lord

But you kill me with committees

And you bore me with your boards

You take a good idea then you pick it apart

How do you judge me without looking in my heart

So Sadducees and Pharisee

No bother try judge me

I’m unconventional with no apology

Unorthodox with dreadlocks

(You) can’t keep me in a box

But I’m reaching to the fray

In a way that you cannot no way

Oh yeah!

Persona non grata

And so I’ll use my music to reach another

Yes Indeed

Persona non grata woy - yeah!


I guess I am an outsider (outsiders)

On the outside and I’m proud

I am an outsider (outsiders)

On the outside reaching out

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