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Sep 30, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Steven Malcolm turns the number forty into a battlefield metaphor, pairing the wilderness testing of Scripture with the valley of the shadow of death. The opening lines set the scene: forty days and nights of trial, a spirit tested while God guides the steps. The song quickly shifts into a war footing, with the singer declaring readiness to go where demons reside, armed with truth and surrounded by renegades. The chorus repeats the valley imagery, adding that the harvest is plentiful but many will slide on the rise. Verses confront the reality of backsliding, hardened hearts, and the lure of death, while the singer names personal scars and refuses to settle or link with Jezebel. The bridge is a defiant chant: we don't fold, we don't bend, got the rock, lock and load. The tone is gritty and determined, blending spiritual warfare with streetwise resilience. The song doesn't promise an easy path; it acknowledges that stepping forward for a decade doesn't get easier, but the focus stays on armor, truth, and the One who holds the answers.
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40 days
40 nights
Walk through the valley of death I
Test my spirit
He guide my steps
40 ways
40 fights
Renegades
By my side
Harvest is plenty but many will slide on the rise
Wide road
Been too
Meant to
Get through
Test my
Spiritual
Physical
Mental
Compute
Digital
My type
Love through
Dark knight
Hard fight
Strap right
Wit the truth
This what it come to
I'm ready war
I'm going where the demons reside
Know who got the answers
He told me be ready
Cuz only the strong gon' survive
Cross up I done seen the end of many cleaned up
Climbing to the top n get to falling way too geeked up
Welcome to the land where you get to really see
What the man in mirror really made of
40 days
40 nights
Walk through the valley of death I
Test my spirit
He guide my steps
40 ways
40 fights
Renegades
By my side
Harvest is plenty but many will slide on the rise
Many felt back in they ways
N forgot the basic principles
N the face of they Father
Road of the wicked who hardened they heart
Put they self in that place forgot to put they guard up
Loving what leading to death
They go taking the steps to they grave
That lead to the set up
Stepping a decade I promise don't easier
I got scars reflecting the let up
Traveled too far to jus settle and
What I look like sneaky linking
With jezebel
Left me laughing felt like SNL
Focus feeling like Blessing now
Foot on they neck
Make 'em feel just how we stepping out
Every weapon armored and wit me
I'm letting out
Every weapon formed against me is getting a round
(We don't fold we don't bend)
(Ain't for play)
(Don't pretend)
(From beginning)
(Ain't no end)
(Got the rock)
(Time to roll)
(Where the ops)
(There they go)
(Lock n load)
40 days
40 nights
Walk through the valley of death I
Test my spirit
He guide my steps
40 ways
40 fights
Renegades
By my side
Harvest is plenty but many will slide on the rise