Lyrics
Verse 1
Now there's a banquet feast (banquet feast)
And everybody's been invited there (and everybody's been invited there)
Will you come to the banquet
Even the kings and queens (kings and queens) they have an invitation
You know it's a gala affair
Yeah, but the problem is (the problem)
Everybody's busy in their own way
Gotta rush, gotta hurry
No room (no room), no place (no place) and
No time (no time) for us to spare
We've got a lot to achieve (got too much to bare)
'Cause He said:
Chorus
Go out quickly to the streets
And lights of the city
Go out quickly and spread the news
Verse 2
Well everybody's been invited (everybody)
It doesn't matter (it doesn't matter) who they think they are
They could be broke or a banker
Tell 'em there's something there (there's something there)
There's food there for everybody you see
They can't afford to miss this
Tell it everywhere you go (everywhere you go)
'Cause all the time you've got is but a vapor
Not a week not a day
No we don't have time to delay
Get up, get out and show the hungry the way, today
We gotta give an invitation of hope
Today to the world (they need it)
They need a spiritual alternative and
A better way (you better believe it)
We've been commissioned as ambassadors
Let's go to the lost
We are His voice (sing out)
We are His hands (reach out), let's go
Chorus (Repeat)
Vamp (Repeat)
Go out (go out), go out (yay)
Go out (spread the news), go out
Go out (go out), go out (go to the street)
Go out (go to the), go out (gotta go to the avenue)
Go out (go out, gotta go, gotta gotta), go out (yay)
Go out (go out, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta go), go out
Go out (go quickly, yeah), go out (quickly)
Go out (go out), go out (go out)
Go out (go out), go out (hey)
Go out, go out (yeah)
Go out, go out
Outro
Go out quickly
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Go Out Quickly" opens by describing an open banquet, everyone invited regardless of status, before naming the obstacle keeping people away, busyness, no time, no room to spare in crowded lives. That contrast, generous invitation against distracted refusal, frames the entire song around urgency rather than casual announcement.
Its chorus borrows a specific command nearly word for word, going out quickly to streets and city lights to spread news of that same banquet. A second verse widens the invitation further, naming broke and banker alike as equally welcome, before describing time itself as but a vapor that cannot be delayed.
Rooted in contemporary gospel's commissioning style, the song functions as an urgent call to evangelism modeled on a parable of banquet invitation, its closing vamp repeating the single command, go out, as the song's entire, distilled instruction for anyone who has already received the invitation.
Related Scripture
- Luke 14:21-23 Describes a master commanding servants to go out quickly to the streets and compel people to a banquet, directly echoed in the song's chorus.
- James 4:14 Describes life as a vapor that quickly vanishes, directly echoed in the song's description of time as but a vapor.