Let me take you back in time, just climb in my DeLorean
Nashville '99, we stood in line and started pourin' in
That concert in the dark off Rosa Parks, that auditorium
Was church for me, yeah I believe
The first time I was born again
Was Killing In The Name, Bulls On Parade
GA packed in the pit
Me and all those people people called nothing but troubled kids
If there was ever a fire in me, yeah that's the night I got it lit
I knew who I was born to be when he said

Everybody get your hands up
Everybody put your hands up
If you ain't perfect but you try
Put 'em way up to the sky
Touchin' heaven kinda high
Ain't that where we wanna go when we die
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Just put your hands up
Everybody put your hands up

Let's take it down there, south of town
I'm 22, up to no good
Dressed in black, I broke the glass to take back the bag of grass they took
That story end's against the fence right in that dead end neighborhood
Cop's told me what I told them, when he said boy

You better put your hands up
Everybody put your hands up
If you ain't perfect but you try
Put 'em way up to the sky
Touchin' heaven kinda high
Ain't that where we wanna go when we die
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Just put your hands up
Everybody put your hands up

Our last stop's that little cross I came across some years ago
Comin' down and hidin' out back there in that ol' sinner's row
The devil on my shoulder finally found him somewhere else to go
I never did believe in ghosts 'til the holy one told me to throw my hands up
Oh Lord, I threw my hands up

Put your hands up
Everybody put your hands up
If you ain't perfect but you try
Put 'em way up to the sky
Touchin' heaven kinda high
Ain't that where we wanna go when we die
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Just put your hands up
Everybody put your hands up

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"I was a Correction Officer/Deputy at the same sheriff department where jelly roll was locked up. I always tried to treat inmates how I wanted to be treated. I would talk to them (when they let me) with equal of importance. But even more than that, I enjoyed giving them motivation and inspiration to do better in life. I'd literally let them out of their cell just so they can talk to me about what's going on in their life. Now I was still strict with certain things because I had to be plus I had to maintain control. I was being monitored by my leadership on the cameras also. Not everyone in those walls are good people, but it was depressing seeing the people in there who were capable in life. I remember driving home in the morning and feel kinda bad thinking about how the inmates I kinda got to know were in there for like a year or longer for crimes like drugs. I would think about what that did to their mental health. I could relate in a way because I was in the Army and deployed a couple times where I was isolated overseas. People in jail for drugs should be in rehab, not jail. I would do my best to help them while I was in there. Sometimes because I had to obviously, but I was very adamant about taking notes for their needs and helping to resolve their disputes.."

"Shout out to those bettering their lives, behavior, and attitude towards life. ~"

"Been a fan since 10 minute free style use to party to his music and the same man leading me closer to God"

"My husband got clean because of your music! I hope one day we get to meet you. So that I may say I have already thanked God and now I can thank you!"

"A modern day revival song!! I saw Jelly on his amphitheater tour a few years ago. Amazing how broad of an audience was there. Your songs truly speak to all!!"

"Amen lord! No one is impossible to save for the grace of God!"

"Not sure about anyone else. But I put my HANDS UP!!! what a great song/video 🙌 up!!"

"Been listening to jellyroll most my life before he got famous before the new crowd came around. Glad God Made away for him."

"Pastor jelly roll the holy spirit has great great plans for you sir AMEN"