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Paranoia

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Tenth Avenue North names a very specific temptation before rejecting it — being pulled into "enemies" over disagreement, absorbing "the hate on TV" until suspicion becomes a habit. They credit a source for resisting it too: "my momma taught me to think differently."

Their chorus treats division itself as something corrosive rather than protective: "all this paranoia, man ain't no good for ya, don't let it destroy ya." The band names what they're choosing to see instead of suspicion — not just tolerance, but shared belonging: "a fellow kingdom citizen."

Paul writes in Galatians 3:28 that in Christ there is "neither Jew nor Greek," identity markers that used to divide dissolved into one family, and Ephesians 2:14 calls Christ himself "our peace," the one who breaks down the dividing wall of hostility. Tenth Avenue North's repeated refrain — "paranoia, get away from me" — treats suspicion of others as a spiritual threat worth actively resisting, not a reasonable defense worth keeping.

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[Verse 1]

A lot of people they don't think like me

They try to make enemies of us

But I will not listen to the hate on TV

I'm gonna fight this prejudice

Yeah, prejudice

[Chorus]

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

[Verse 2]

My momma taught me to think differently

And see more than color of someone's skin

And see past the politics and how we disagree

To see a fellow kingdom citizen

We're all citizens

[Chorus]

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

[Verse 3]

Free at last is still the dream

On this earth to help others breathe, oh-oh-oh oh

Every blessing will be ours

When we learn to share our power

[Chorus]

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

All this paranoia

Man ain't no good for ya

Don't let it destroy ya

Paranoia, get away from me

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