Beat The System

The lyric sheet begins with a note, "based on Romans 8:37, Mark 10:31, Matthew 10:39," and the song is built on those three verses. The first picture is of someone "caught in the undertow, being swept downstream," where "going against the flow seems like such a dream." Pressure to compromise "comes from every side," and the instruction in the pre-chorus is blunt, "wise up, rise up."

The hook is Romans 8:37 in a sentence: "you can be more than a conqueror, you will never face defeat." The next line draws on the paradox of Matthew 10:39, "you can dare to win by losing all," meaning that losing your life for Christ's sake is how you find it. The title phrase, "dare to beat the system," follows.

The second verse goes to the "assembly line" and the idea of breaking the mold, "time to throw the wrench that will stop it cold." The underdog image echoes Mark 10:31, that the first will be last and the last first. The closing lines say "you can go for broke, you can turn the tide around," and the song finishes on "if you dare to hold your ground."