Gimme Gimme
Song Meaning
Altar-call energy runs through "Gimme Gimme," which starts with a question aimed at the room: "What cha here for," do you want to feel the Lord or did you come for the show? The hook promises "Breakthrough is in the building / Deliverance is here" and ends with hands in the air and a shouted "Gimmie Gimmie!" marked for eight repeats.
Verse one turns the lens on the speaker's own hunger, leaving "the way I came" and wondering whether he will ever change, then criticizes a church "busy shouting raising offering" that has stopped paying attention to the lost. Verse two moves into combat. Citing "the Kingdom suffereth violence," he says "we are at war" and then "God is on my side," naming God as Shield, Guide, and Sword. The short bridge, "take it / By force," compresses the whole call into one demand.
Scripture sits close beneath it. Matthew 11:12 is the source of the violent taking the kingdom by force, Romans 8:31 supplies "if He be for me," and Ephesians 6:10-17 gives the armor-and-warfare picture behind the Shield and Sword.
[Hook:]
What cha here for
Tell me what cha came here to do
You wanna feel The Lord or did u come because of the show
Either way u good because we know what we came to do
We on a mission and we here to get you
Get cha out the fire
Get cha get cha
Rescue you from the snare
Snatch you outta hell
Cus we know u don wanna go there
Breakthrough is in the building
Deliverance is here
And if u need it
Put cha hands in the air
And yell yea! Gimmie Gimmie! [x8]
[Verse 1:]
I'm tired of meeting up
Feelin one way
Beatin broken down
And I'm needin
And I'm hungry
And I'm wantin
And I leave the way I came
Will I ever change
The church is busy shouting raising offering
And they never ever pay
Attention to the needs
Of the lost anymore
Preaching to themselves and the light
Not the dark anymore
Thus sayeth the Lord
Victory is yours!
[Hook]
[Verse 2:]
The enemy is cold
He kills with no remorse
But in the Bible tells
Me that the Kingdom suffereth violence
But the violent (taketh)
Taketh it by force
We are at war
War in my members
In my mind
Yea we're fighting all the time
God is on my side
And if He be for me
Tell me who can stand against me
So I let Him be my Shield
I let Him be my Guide
I let Him be my Sword
Victory is mine!
[Hook]
[Bridge:] take it
By force
Take it
Gimmie!