Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. -Meister Eckhart
One of my favorite bands apart from Anime and J-Pop music is Jars of Clay. They're a Christian Rock band who I was 'introduced' to by my Computer teacher back in the Grade School. Anywho, I've gone to downloading their songs off the net and burned some CDs. Here, I'll post the lyrics of the songs. After buying their latest album 'Redemption Songs', I was mildly impressed! Anyway, they'll be divided by album. Enjoy! You can visit their official website for more information: . : : JARS OF CLAY : : .
Images on the sidewalk speak of dream's descent Washed away by storms to graves of cynical lament Dirty canvases to call my own Protest limericks carved by the old pay phone In your picture book I'm trying hard to see Turning endless pages of this tragedy Sculpting every move you compose a symphony You plead to everyone, "see the art in me" Broken stained-glass windows, the fragments ramble on Tales of broken souls, an eternity's been won As critics scorn the thoughts and works of mortal man My eyes are drawn to you in awe once again In your picture book I'm trying hard to see Turning endless pages of this tragedy Sculpting every move you compose a symphony You plead to everyone, "see the art in me"
In open fields of wild flowers, she breathes the air and flies away She thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses in no simple language Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens As close a heartbeat or a song on her lips Someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him Someday He'll call her and she will come running and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and she'll pray, "I want to fall in love with You" (4x) Sitting silent wearing Sunday best The sermon echoes through the walls A great salvation through it calls to the people who stare into nowhere, and can't feel the chains on their souls He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens As close a heartbeat or a song on our lips Someday we'll trust Him and learn how to see Him Someday He'll call us and we will come running and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down in the rain, "I want to fall in love with You" (4x) She wants to pray.. It seems too easy to call you "Savior", Not close enough to call you "God" So as I sit and think of words I can mention to show my devotion "I want to fall in love with You" (13x)
Don't try to reach me, I'm already dead The pain when it grips me, for things that I've done Well I try to make you proud, but for crying out loud Just give me a chance to hide away Exhaustion takes over, will this someday be over? [Chorus:] Fearful tears are running down The pain you've laid don't speak a sound Don't take my heart away from me And they think I fell down ..again Daddy, don't you love me? Then why do you hit me? And Momma don't you love me Then why do you hurt me? Well I try to make you proud, but for crying out loud Just give me a chance to hide away Exhaustion takes over, will this someday be over? [Chorus] And I fell down again.. (17x) [Chorus] A teardrop falls from up in the heavens Drowning the sorrow of angels on high For the least of the helpless, the hopeless, the loveless My Jesus, His children, He holds in His eyes He loves you He sees you He knows you Protects you He needs you He wants you He knows you He sees you He loves you He needs you He knows you He sees you He wants you He knows you Protects you He loves you He needs you He loves you He sees you He loves you He wants you Protects you He needs you He knows you He loves you He loves you
Arms nailed down, are you telling me something? Eyes turned out, are you looking for someone? This is the one thing, The one thing that I know. Blood-stained brow, are you dying for nothing? Flesh and blood, is it so elemental? This is the one thing, The one thing that I know. Blood-stained brow, He wasn't broken for nothing. Arms nailed down, He didn't die for nothing. This is the one thing, The one thing that I know.
Dear God, surround me as I speak, the bridges that I walk across are weak Frustrations fill the void that I can't solely bear Dear God, don't let me fall apart, you've held me close to you I have turned away and searched for answers I can't understand [Chorus:] They say that I can move the mountains And send them falling to the sea They say that I can walk on water If I would follow and believe with faith like a child Sometimes, when I feel miles away and my eyes can't see your face I wonder if I've grown to lose the recklessness I walked in light of you [Chorus] [Little girl:] "I've got joy like a fountain!" "Be kind one to others" "In Jesus Christ Your son" They say that love can heal the broken They say that hope can make you see They say that faith can find a Savior If you would follow and believe with faith like a child
The marionetter has your number Pulling your arms and legs till you can't stand on your own Dragging your conscience on the stage and your heart gets rearranged and you cannot tell your mentor from your Maker Look at the crowds bleeding with laughter Over the way you entertain at beckon call They don't see behind the lights, or the painted backgrounds They just like to see you fall But you don't really mind Cause you're just wasting time You can't feel anything You're a boy on a string I feel a sadness like Gapetto watching the life that he created run away Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion, and holding the remains of puppets that had rotted away One day the curtain will not open And all of the crowds will go away Someday those strings will choke you, but until that day But you don't really mind Cause you're just wasting time You can't feel anything You're a boy on a string
Rain, rain on my face It hasn't stopped raining for days My world is a flood Slowly I become one with the mud [Chorus:] But if I can't swim after forty days and my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves Lift me up so high that I cannot fall Lift me up Lift me up - when I'm falling Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying Lift me up - I need you to hold me Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again Downpour on my soul Splashing in the ocean, I'm losing control Dark sky all around I can't feel my feet touching the ground [Chorus] Calm the storms that drench my eyes Dry the streams still flowing Cast down all the waves of sin And guilt that overthrow me [Chorus] Lift me up - when I'm falling Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying Lift me up - I need you to hold me Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again
It's not hard to know what you're thinking When you look down on me now Your trance of love is seeking To turn this world around But in my state of blind confusion No God can pull me out I see your love is willing To turn me inside out And then I see you there The lonely tears I cry I wish they'd release me It's in despair that I find faith Summon the night to bow down to day When ignorance is bliss Save me from myself [Chorus:] And then I see You there With Your arms open wide and You try to embrace me These lonely tears I cry They keep me in chains and I wish they'd release me Cold is the night but Colder still is the heart made of stone, turned from clay And if you follow me You'll see all the black, all the white fade to grey Fade to grey Fade to grey [Chorus x 2]
Convinced of my deception I've always been a fool I fear this love reaction Just like you said I would A rose could never lie About the love it brings And I could never promise To be any of those things [Chorus:] If I was not so weak If I was not so cold If I was not so scared of being broken Growing old I would be... I would be... I would be... Blessed are the shallow Depth they'll never find Seemed to be some comfort In rooms I try to hide Exposed beyond the shadows You take the cup from me Your dirt removes my blindness Your pain becomes my peace [Chorus] ...frail
It's not my problem anymore You see it never really was So you can stop 'caring' as you call it and I'll be fine right here You see that I can play a pretty convincing role So I don't need you, I don't think I need you [Chorus:] But you see through my forever lies And you are not believing And I see in your forever eyes That you are forever healing You can't hear what I'm not saying And I can hold out long enough Treading water I keep from sinking I'm not one for reaching You see that I can play a pretty convincing role So I don't need you, I don't think I need you [Chorus] Deny myself, deny my heart Deny your hand, deny your help and you offer me eternity but why should I buy that? You see that I can play a pretty convincing role So I don't need you, I don't think I need you [Chorus x2]
I am the only one to blame for this Somehow it all adds up the same Soaring on the wings of selfish pride I flew too high and like Icarus I collide With a world I try so hard to leave behind To rid myself of all but love to give and die To turn away and not become Another nail to pierce the skin on one you love more deeply than the oceans, more abundant than the tears Of a world embracing every heartache Can I be the one to sacrifice Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow *To love you - take my world apart To need you - I am on my knees To love you - take my world apart To need you - broken on my knees All said and done I stand alone Amongst remains of a life I should not own It takes all I am to believe In the mercy that covers me Did you really have to die for me? All I am for all you are Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart And I pray Repeat * On my knees I look beyond the empty cross forgetting what my life has cost and wipe away the crimson stains and dull the nails that still remains More and more I need you now, I owe you more each passing hour the battle between grace and pride I gave up not so long ago So steal my heart and take the pain and wash the feet and cleanse my pride take the selfish, take the weak, and all the things I cannot hide take the beauty, take my tears the sin-soaked heart and make it yours take my world all apart take it now, take it now and serve the ones that I despise speak the words I can't deny watch the world I used to love fall to dust and thrown away I look beyond the empty cross forgetting what my life has cost so wipe away the crimson stains and dull the nails that still remain so steal my heart and take the pain take the selfish, take the weak and all the things I cannot hide take the beauty, take my tears take my world apart, take my world apart I pray, I pray, I pray take my world apart
Cynical, just your way You play the doubting Thomas Feel the scars and wipe the stains So you fight, and retreat And talk yourself out of believing in any peace that you can't see Blind words you call Blind words will fall You're logical, you can't find any reason to believe in love you are blind Crucify, and deny, pass the blame and burn the mission Till dust remains and wash your hands Blind words you call Blind words will fall
We have this treasure in earthen vessels to show that this power is from God, and not from us
God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ the Savior was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's pow'r When we had gone astray [Chorus:] O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy! O tidings of comfort and joy! From God our Heav'nly Father A blessed angel came And unto certain shepherds Bro't tidings of the same How that in Bethlehem was born The Son of God by name [Chorus]
Come, they told me (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) A newborn king to see (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) Our finest gifts we bring (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) To lay before the king (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum x 3) So, to honor Him (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) When we come Little baby (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) I am a poor boy too (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) I have no gifts to bring (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) That's fit to give a king (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum x 3) Shall I play for you (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) On my drum? Mary nodded (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) The ox and lamb kept time (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) I played my drum for Him (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) I played my best for Him (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum x 3) Then, He smiled at me (pa-rum-pa-pum-pum) Me and my drum
You name me Who am i That I should company with something so divine? Mercy waits, overjoyed Prospect of finding, freeing Freeing me [Chorus] Love is the thing this time I’m sure And I couldn’t need you more now The way that you saw things were so pure Overjoyed You name me Entertain Thoughts of peace can overcome anything Mirror spins Wicked tales Here lies reflections of Deceptions of [chorus] Missing the me from you you gave to me I don’t like the one I have created today Crossing nameless from the one I’ve earned To be the one, the one you gave to me You name me Name me Finding, freeing me [chorus x 2] Overjoyed, overjoyed
Fare thee well Trade in all our words for tea and sympathy Wonder why we tried, for things that could never be Play our hearts lament, like an unrehearsed symphony Not intend To leave this castle full of empty rooms Our love the captive in the tower never rescued And all the victory songs Seem to be playing out of tune But it's not the way That it has to be Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy 'Cause it's not the way That it has to be You begin And all your words fall to the floor and break like china cups And the waitress grabs a broom and tries to sweep them up I reach for my tea and slowly drink in [Chorus:] 'Cause it's not the way That it has to be Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy 'Cause it's not the way That it has to be Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy So fare thee well Words the bag of leaves that fill my head I could taste the bitterness and call the waitress instead She holds the answer, smiles and asks one teaspoon or two [Chorus x 2] Don't trade us for tea and sympathy Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy We can work it out Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy We can work it out Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy We can work it out
You’re cold that way And that’s why you say The things that you say You can’t attract The things that you lack You’re trying in vain [Chorus] It seems it’s always the crazy times You find you’ll wake up and realize It takes more than your saline eyes To make things right You spiral down You’ve broken your crown You don’t feel like a queen You’ve seen the proof But you’re still crying wolf You’ll never believe [chorus] You try to climb a broken ladder Grip the missing rungs And fall down, down, down Seems sometime ago you said This wouldn’t last And now you sit here crying Beside your bed You feel left for dead You kneel in the dark... It takes more than your saline eyes To make things right [chorus]
A promise or a dare I would jump if I knew you'd catch me Staring over the edge I can't tell if you'll be here for me I close my eyes and make a wish Turn out the lights and take a breath Pray that when the wick is burned You would say that it's all about love [Chorus:] You were there when I needed you You were there when the skies broke wide, wide open You were there when I needed you You were there when the skies broke wide, wide open You were never here I remember you said Love was more than your good intentions Empty boxes on the floor Things I never asked you for I pray that when the wick is burned You would say that it's all about love [Chorus] I can't see the promise of Excuses you fall upon I pray to God not holding on To things you've left undone [Chorus x 2] You were there when I You were there when I You were there when I needed you
Light of the world Are you still here? And are we illuminating? When love becomes a delicate display So weak, dissolved by anything Love lies here waiting all alone Can a king be a king Weighed down? Our hearts, a bubble maker's dream Moved on by winds of everything As we deny that love is still the king Not as weak as we make him out to be Love lies here waiting all alone Can a king be a king Weighed down? Weighed down Weighed down Weighed down Weighed down
Look what I've done This picture I've painted It looks like my heart Or what still remains Convinced of the weight Your interpretations Are not what I see I wish they could be I remember it much redder I remember it much brighter [Chorus:] Can you stay for a while Try to imagine this Could you be for a while I can't remember it Could you fall for a while I can't escape from this I'll try to explain The way that the frame Doesn't quite fit the image Or surround the edge It stands on display What do you see? Behold all the new grey What's become of the old me I remember it much redder I remember it much brighter [Chorus] Calling, crying, ashamed of what I am not Really failing, falling into this cage and I can't escape I can't escape Look what I've done This picture I've painted Doesn't quite fit Or surround the edge I remember it much redder [Chorus] I can't escape, I can't escape, I can't escape
Faultless in the eyes that I could never open wide enough to see me through. Much to my surprise it never orbits around the things you should hold me to. And i stand here wondering. And i am waiting. My ear is twisted in all the thoughts. A glimpse of truce just because. And it's always almost never close. I close my eyes to hide the distance. Enchanted by the face of peace and when it turns to sunken eyes and waterfalls. Unsatisfied with simple things entangled in the chords I can't take any calls. And I stand here wondering. and I am waiting. And my ear is twisted in all the thoughts. A glimpse of truce just because. And it's always almost never close. I close my eyes to hide the distance. Waiting around for some kind of peace. Hoping you'll find me in my needs. My ear is twisted. A glimpse of truce just because. My ear is twisted in all the thoughts. A glimpse of truce just because. And it's always almost never close. I close my eyes to hide the distance.
Empty again Sunken down so far So scared to fall I might not get up again So I lay at your feet All my brokenness I carry all of my burdens to you [Chorus:] All of these things I've held up in vain No reason nor rhyme Just the scars that remain Of all of these things I'm so much afraid Scared out of my mind By the demons I've made Sweet Jesus, you never ever let me go Oh, sweet Jesus, never ever let me go So happy to love Yet so far to go You lead me on to where I've never been before [Chorus]
Oh refuge of my hardened heart Oh fast pursuing lover come As angels dance 'round Your throne My life by captured fare You own Not silhouette of trodden faith Nor death shall not my steps be guide I'll pirouette upon mine grave For in Your path I'll run and hide [Chorus:] Oh gaze of love so melt my pride That I may in Your house but kneel And in my brokenness to cry Spring worship unto Thee When beauty breaks the spell of pain The bludgeoned heart shall burst in vain But not when love be pointed king And truth shall Thee forever reign [Chorus] Sweet Jesus carry me away From cold of night, and dust of day In ragged hour or salt worn eye Be my desire, my well sprung lye [Chorus x 2] Spring worship unto Thee Spring worship unto Thee
A flower for your vanity, a penny for your thoughts About the world's insanity and how we've gotten lost Strike up the band to play a song as we go waltzing by And fake a smile as we all say goodbye Goodbye, oh goodbye Say a prayer for recognition, kiss the ones you love Gather up the ammunition, sigh for all the lost Strike up the band to play a song as we go waltzing by And fake a smile as we all say goodbye Raise a glass for ignorance, drink a toast to fear The beginning of the end has come that's why we all are here Strike up the band to play a song and try hard not to cry And fake a smile as we all say goodbye Goodbye
I never minded calling You a King If that meant that I could count on You To give me everything I never thought to ask You I always thought You knew It was never my intention to question You You never minded calling me a child Well, I guess that's how I acted all the while But You live through every tantrum, You see through every lie Though they seem to be more common I just wanted You to know why oh why Unforgetful You, unforgetful Unforgetful You, so unforgetful You never minded giving us the stars Then showing us how blind and unaware of You we are You painted me a picture and showed me how to see Though I just won't behold it Unless it pertains to me...
Open up your box of sunshine And smile as confetti comes raining down on you You feel a lot like the good guy, but do you know why Everything's so blue Well, love is fire and the coals are barely burning Cold fills the emptiness that fills this empty place I taught you to walk but then you ran away from me And that's not how it's supposed to be [Chorus] I, I, I collide, with love as an elusive state of mind I know there's something else it's supposed to be I, I, I collide with love as an elusive state of mind Something's killing me! Tearful confessions have watered down and broken down The chance for unrequited love to finally reach its wall You're waiting for the axe to fall But Can't you see it lying on the ground? [Chorus] You could be the best one at cleaning up this mess Be the best one, be the best one, be the best one [Chorus x 2]
Collapsing was much softer Still falling always hurt Only after sensing your love For always ever burned You justified my folly My affluent disguise Removed revealing nothing Yet nothing unforgiven lies Unforgiven lies No one loves me like you No one loves me the way you do No one loves me like you No one loves me the way, the way that you do To touch the rose unfearful Is to meet the thorn And pierce the heart's emotion And feel the emptiness no more Emptiness no more Took some time to realize I've fallen
You say you heard every word, but I watched you turn away Your eyes grew colder than winter "Love is so intrusive," I thought I heard you say And laugh so unconvincingly Famous last words, "I'm not ready yet" "I won't be gone a minute" Narrow is the road and too high a price to pay When loneliness is such a sanctuary Empty are the musings and wasted are the days When you say you were only waiting And famous last words, "I'm not ready yet" "I won't be gone a minute" and I won't forget Famous last words If tomorrow never comes, will I ever know that I was in love? I was in love In love You say you heard every word, I watched you turn away You were only waiting
Say how's the weather, so I look out the window To brighten my soul, but I can't control the rain That keeps falling Smile on the outside that never comes in A comedy, mystery, irony, tragedy So I scream "let the show begin" You break me open, turn on the light Stumble inside with me, with me Do I entertain you? Do I preoccupy you with my wit to cover this lie? Are you mesmerized? Do you think me faithful, do you think me a clown? I picked out this shirt, I put on this hat I wore all this paint just for you
I'm here waiting for something new to break my heart So callous laden, I can't feel a thing at all Will You catch my fall? From lost and not found, to run and not hide My hand inside... (Your hand) Fear is keeping time with the beating of my heart Doin' way too much thinkin' And it's tearing me apart But I, I feel You reach for me From lost and not found, to run and not hide My hand inside... (Your hand) Losing my grip falling so far My hand inside Your hand I hear Your voice and follow So hard to believe, and still I go
It was the fear of God that led me to you And it's the fear of you that takes getting used to I've never been one to hang my heart on a thread But you spun me around and you loved me instead I know I could turn to something other than you 'Cause I don't understand you and why you're after me I've never been the saint you wanted me to turn to And I can't see the view from the eyes you look at me through, oh no But I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright So cut below the surface and try hard not to notice That I could be so foolish thinkin' I'm alright I've got no one to hold me, I've got no one to carry Everything inside of me that I won't let you see
God, I admit I haven't changed Playing card houses still covering my landscape I never expected You to stay When I'm grabbing for these crumbs and cold loose change I feel Your grace come running over every road I love the way You're calling overflow I feel Your grace come running over every road You break the floodgates down and carry all God, I admit that I've loved these chains And crawling around this cage sometimes has its advantages I know someday this could get old And I'll need Your healing water to find my home
Follow the crowd and love everybody now 'Cause love is the best thing for you now But you changed your mind, you let everybody down But down is the best place for you It's easier that way, you know it's So wrong, can't embrace it Wish sometimes for any other you But you can't erase it, and you won't escape it Don't waste your time Your words only confine you To all of the things you've buried now Don't ask them why Their wisdom will leave you blind But blind is the best thing for you It's easier I know, you know it's So wrong, can't embrace it Wish sometimes for any other you But you can't erase it, and you won't escape it How long will you face it Till the weight comes crashing down on you 'Cause you can't erase it, and you won't escape it
River Constantine Carry me, Your love is wider than my need could ever be Come to me, and I will walk along Your shore Feel Your crashing waves sing in time with the music of my heart Come down, pour out on me Come down, pour out on me River deep, could I know You as well as You know me Constantine, will we travel faster, farther than these Legs could ever trustworthy be Come, down, pour out on me Come down, pour out on me Come down, pour out on me Come down, pour out on me
I watch you smile You steal the show You take a bow The curtain falls in front of you You're magical, on display I gaze into your eyes and You turn to look the other way [chorus] But I'd really love to know I'd really love to climb My way into your heart And see what I could find I'd walk into your skin Swim through your veins See it from your eyes I'd really love to try...yeah Standing still, but in my mind Trying to escape Looking for a place to hide Well it's not safe but I'm so near Invading every place you go To disappear [chorus] I'd really love to know I really want to climb Into your soul Walk into your skin Swim through your veins See it from your eyes I'd really love to try I'd really love to try Yeah...yeah...yeah...try [chorus 2x] Yeah I wanna get inside the you You're hiding from Yeah I wanna get inside the you You're hiding from I wanna get inside the you That you are hiding from
If you put your arms around me Could it change the way I feel I guess I let myself believe That the outside might just Bleed it's way in Maybe stir the sleeping past Lying under glass Waiting for the kiss That breaks this awful spell Pull me out...of this lonely cell [chorus] Close my eyes and hold my heart Cover me and make me something Change this something normal Into something beautiful What I get from my reflection Isn't what I thought I'd see Give me reason to believe Never leave me incomplete Will you untie this loss of mine It so easily defines me Do you see it on my face? And all I can think about Is how long I've been waiting to feel you move me [chorus] Into something beautiful Into something beautiful And I'm still fighting for the Word to break these chains And I still pray when I look In your eyes, you'll stare right Back down into something beautiful [chorus] Into something beautiful Into something beautiful Into something beautiful
Peace takes a taxi To the underground I wanna love the world But I don't know how Blame it on the d.j. Playin' all the fast songs Ain't spinnin' anything That I can sing along [chorus] So if you know the words Then try to sing along And when you get the beat Grab a hammer, bang a gong Cuz you don't got to fight Or make yourself belong To be a revolution, yeah To be a revolution If you wanna learn To play the rock guitar Then thrown down your guns And come be a star You got to begin With who you know you are To be a revolution Cuz the time is right To cross that line To let love find a way [chorus]
Be still Let your hand melt into mine The part of me that breathes when you breathe is losing time I can't find the words to say I'll never say goodbye [CHORUS:] And I'll fly with you through the night So you know I'm not letting go I'm not letting go My tears like rain fill up the sky Oh, my love, I'm not letting go I won't let you go I saw the host of silent angels waiting on their own Knowing that all the promises of faith Come alive when you see home Hold still and let your hand melt into mine [CHORUS] Shed your heart and your breath and your pain and fly Now you're alive Now you're alive Now you're alive Now you're alive I won't let you go I'm not letting go I won't let you go I'm not letting go I won't let you go
Strangely out of place There's a light filling this room Where none would follow before I can't deny it burns me up inside I fan the flames to melt Away my pride Do I want shelter from the rain Or the rain to wash me way? [chorus] I need you, I need you, I need you I need you, I need you, I need you You're all I'm living for I might sound like a fool But I think I felt you moving Closer to me Face to the ground To hide the fatal cut I fight the weight I feel you lift me up You are the shelter from the rain And the rain to wash me away [chorus] Face to the ground To hide the fatal cut I fight the weight Feel you lift me up Can't deny it burns me up inside I fan the flames to melt away My pride Only had a second to spare But all the time in the world To know you're there You are the shelter from the rain And the rain to wash me away [chorus]
Take Take till there's nothing Nothing to turn to Nothing when you get through Won't you break Scattered pieces of all I've been Bowing to all I've been Running to Where are you? Where are you? Did you leave me unbreakable? You leave me frozen? I've never felt so cold I thought you were silent And I thought you left me For the wreckage and the waste On an empty beach of faith Was it true? [chorus] Cuz I...I got a question I got a question Where are you? Scream Deeper I wanna scream I want you to hear me I want you to find me Cuz I...I want to believe But all I pray is wrong And all I claim is gone [chorus] And I...I got a question I got a question Where are you? Yeah....yeah And where...I...I got a question I got a question Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?
If I was your love I would want only you I'd lay at this altar Give all I am, all that is true And this old scarlet letter won't keep me from holding you And there is nothing you can do Nothing you do Nothing you do For love I have scaled the face Of these kingdom walls So let down your hair Let our kiss make, fools of them all And this old scarlet letter won¹t keep me from holding you And there is nothing you can do Nothing you do Nothing you do Nothing you do Nothing you do Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing And this old scarlet letter won't keep me from holding you And there is nothing you can Oh, there is nothing you can do No, there is nothing you can do Can't do
All her wants to fill a need She wants to save you with Her bandages after she makes You bleed Like a vampire, a parasite Stretch the necks of her victims She finds her prey in broad Daylight So when you're up, she's down You're down, she's up It whips around, it's the ride The way that she needs it [chorus] Whatever she wanted For whatever you need Speechless and silent While she takes everything Kryptonite underneathe You used to be her superman But now you're fading Now you're weak Never how or why It worked to play the big lie To dim the truth From causing her wet eyes [chorus 2x] Everything...yeah [chorus] She takes everything Whatever she wants It's everything
Trace the shape of my heart 'Til it becomes more familiar to your eyes I've been lost without you Cold without your love It's taken days and nights to make me realize CHORUS: Rescue me from hangin' on this line I won't give up on giving you The chance to blow my mind Let the eleventh hour quickly pass me by I'll find you when I think I'm out of time Take the place of my heart 'Til I become a stranger to my life I've been down without you Wrong without your love In time will I be what you're thinking of? [CHORUS] I've been down without you Cold without your love In time will I be what you're thinking of? [CHORUS] x 2 Time Time Time
Not much for conversation I still find need to pray Sometimes I get tired of walking Through these ordinary days If nothing else I get to see you Even if we never speak The harm of words is sometimes we don't Quite know what they really mean [CHORUS:] I don't know where I don't know how I don't know why But your love can make these things better Let me lay down in this field And stare up at the sky I hope the days and clouds turn into something As they pass us by And maybe you could settle For a skyline faded blue I hope that you might settle For this love I have for you [CHORUS] x 3 Your love can make these things better Your love can make these things better Your love can make these things better
Have you ever been haunted The way I've been by you? And have you ever felt The measure of the days That I've spent waiting Pining for you? [chorus] I can't see the sun for the daylight I can't feel Your breath For the wind I don't want to step from Thes shadows Till you're comin' back again I've dammed these emotions To keep my lanterns lit Shaken by this longing Coursing through my veins In my mind, I can't make sense of it [chorus] Can't see the sun for the daylight I can't feel Your breath For the wind I get so used to these shadows Are You comin' back again? Do we give up the search And turn out the lights? And give up this Holy Ghost That rattles through the night? [chorus] Can't see the sun for the daylight I can't feel Your breath For the wind I don't to step from these shadows Till you come back again Can't see the sun for the daylight Can't feel Your breath For the wind I get so used to these shadows Will You chase away these shadows When You come back again? When You come back...again When You come back...again When You come back...again When You come back When You come back...again
Sunny days keepin' the clouds away I think we're coming to a clearing and a brighter day So far away. Still I think they say The wait will make the heart grow stronger or fonder I can't quite remember anyway So if you're waitin' for love Well it's a promise I'll keep If you don't mind believing that it changes everything Then time will never matter Winter, Spring... is what love can truly bring Ice turns to water, water flows to everything You can lose your mind, maybe then your heart you'll find I hope you won't give up what's moving you inside If the car won't start, when you turn the key When the music comes on, all your cold, cold heart can do is skip a beat It's a promise I'll keep When you're waitin' for love If you don't mind believing that it changes everything Then time will never matter
I grew this heart into a drifter I never felt the roots I bare I sold my sight, oh brother, sister For a mountain of fool's gold, it's gone Only God knows, God knows where My soul was restless for redemption My feet were lookin' for a place to stand Well, I ain't got no life And you know I ain't got no money Just the faith of an empty hand Amazing grace, I feel you coming up slowly now Like the sun is risin', heat on my face Oh love that keeps on shinin', don't let the shadow come Ya know I gotta feel your healin' rays I hitched a ride, I was a beggar I had murder on my hands I neede water to rinse these stains But only blood could remove what's spillin' And pardon me the blame
This is for all the lonely people Thinkin' that life has passed them by Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup Ride that highway in the sky This is for all the single people Thinkin' life has left them dry Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup You'll never know until you try 'Cause, I'm on my way, yes, I'm on my way Yeah, I'm on my way back home This is for all the lonely people Thinkin' that life has passed them by Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup She'll never take you down or give you up You'll never know until you try
I'm a fair weather friend I'm a colorless view but I'm willin' to make a deal If you think you can make some faith here inside I'll drive off and marry you I'm only alive with you I can't get by and I won't get through So put me in the river and let me say I do I'm only alive with you You're a sight for sore eyes and a newborn cry In a year where there are so few If you throw me a line, I'll show you in time I'm fallin' in love with you I'm only alive with you I can't get by and I won't get through So put me in the river and let me say I do I'm only alive with you Though my heart has been torn by loves I have worn And I'm tempted by them ever still I tremble inside when you walk in the room You hold my affections at will I'm only alive with you I can't get by and I won't get through So put me in the river and let me say I do I'm only alive with you
My wings don't sail me to the sky On my own these wings won't fly Jesus told me so Still I'm not so sure that I know Can't find no rest for my soul Can't find no rest on my own Jesus told me so Still I'm not so sure that I know Man, the trouble is We don't know who we are instead Man, the trouble is We don't know who we are instead I'll keep runnin' the other way My heart ain't built to stay My heart ain't built to stay And the world just ain't that way Man, the trouble is We don't know who we are instead Man, the trouble is We don't know who we are instead We don't know who we are instead My heart ain't built to stay My heart ain't built to stay Jesus told me so
The ice is thin enough for walkin' The rope is worn enough to climb My throat is dry enough for talkin' The world is crumblin' but I know why The world is crumblin' but I know why The storm is wild enough for sailing The bridge is weak enough to cross This body frail enough for fighting I'm home enough to know I'm lost Home enough to know I'm lost It's just enough to be strong In the broken places, in the broken places It's just enough to be strong Should the world rely on faith tonight The land unfit enough for planting Barren enough to conceive Poor enough to gain the treasure Enough a cynic to believe Enough a cynic to believe It's just enough to be strong In the broken places, in the broken places It's just enough to be strong Should the world rely on faith tonight Confused enough to know direction The sun eclipsed enough to shine Be still enough to finally tremble And see enough to know I'm blind And see enough to know I'm blind It's just enough to be strong In the broken places, in the broken places It's just enough to be strong Should the world rely on faith tonight Should the world rely on faith tonight
Speak- say the words that no one else will ever say Love- love like the world we know is over in a day I'm gonna show you a love in every language I'm gonna speak with the words that need no form I'm gonna give you what you never had before You're beautiful and I am weakened by the force of your eyes So shine bright to separate the truth from the lies I'm gonna show you love I'm gonna show you a love in every language I'm gonna speak with the words that need no form I'm gonna give you what you never had before So tie me to a tree and let the smoke and ash collect No, I won't regret to let love do what love will let We can drown in mixed emotions or walk across an angry sea This is the cost of being free
It looks a lot like givin' up Peace we bring is a bitter cup Set our bodies down like offerings While we pray to the god of the lesser things If the wind should shake this house apart The cradle hits the ground with a broken heart Will we say we never knew a thing? While we pray to the god of the lesser things Is there grace for a wayward heart Is there grace for a wayward heart Grace, Grace Ash to ash and dust to dust Steel on steel or rain to rust What mortal breath blood money brings Forth from the altar of the lesser things Is there grace for a wayward heart Is there grace for a wayward heart Is there grace, grace Is there grace for a wayward heart Is there grace for a wayward heart Grace, Grace
You sit and stare out at the sky And think of ways to fake a smile But life is never what it seems Sometimes it only takes a while Chorus: I'm in the way of fallin' down I won't let you go that far now I'm in the way of fallin' down I won't let you go that far now I won't let you go You think that hope was left behind I picked it up a mile ago I am running close behind So don't give up and don't let go [CHORUS] I'm in the way I'm in the way I'm in the way I'm in the way I won't let you go now [CHORUS] I'm in the way of fallin' down I won't let you go that far now I'm in the way of fallin' down I won't let you go now I'm in the way I'm in the way I'm in the way
Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood won't fail me yet Won't fail me yet Won't fail me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet This one thing I know That He loves me so Jesus' blood (won't fail me yet) Blood (won't fail me yet) His blood (won't fail me yet) Jesus' blood (won't fail me yet) His blood (won't fail me yet) Won't fail me yet (won't fail me yet) Jesus' blood (won't fail me yet) His blood (won't fail me yet) His blood won't fail me (won't fail me yet) This one thing I know That he loves me so
I built another temple to a stranger I gave away my heart to the rushing wind I set my course to run right into danger I sought the company of fools instead of friends [Chorus:] You know I've been unfaithful With lovers in lines While you're turning over tables With the rage of a jealous kind I chose the gallows to the aisle Thought that love would never find Hanging ropes will never keep you And your love of a jealous kind Love of a jealous kind Tryin' to jump away from rock that keeps on spreading Solace in the shift of the sinking sand I'd rather feel the pain all too familiar Than be broken by a lover I don't understand 'Cause I don't understand [CHORUS] Love of a jealous kind, yeah Love of a jealous kind Love of a jealous kind One hundred other lovers, more, one hundred other altars If I should slow my pace and finally subject me to grace And love that shames the wise Betrays the hearts deceit and lies And breaks the back of foolish pride [CHORUS] Love of a jealous kind Love of a jealous kind Love of a jealous kind
I love the way I love the way you carry on You make me wanna say You make me wanna sing another love song Sing another love song Sing another love song Sing another love song To you Bury my head full of shame You pick me up and say I look like you Though it makes no sense to me You make me believe that I could trust someone That I could ever trust someone I could ever trust someone I could ever trust someone I could ever trust someone Sing another love song Sing another love song Sing another love song Sing another love song I walk through flame, I touch the fire You know that I still burn for you Flood water rain crash down Soak the ground Still I thirst for you Still I thrist for you Nah-nah's Sing another love song Sing another love song Though it makes no sense to me You make me wanna sing Make me wanna sing Nah-nah's
Let the wind fall wild across my path Even though we barely move, there's no turning back There is a river; there is a road Place of holy riches untold It's where I'm s'pposed to be Where I'm s'pposed to be My heavenly, mmm-mmm I know it never feels right To let go of the safety we're used to holding so tight But there is a lion underneath these skies Though love cries (though love cries) Though love cries, love will rise My, my, my heavenly So fly me higher, higher Hope fill me, keep me here Love lion, my, my... So when I'm lonely or when i'm old Life is more behind me All the stories have been told I can fix my gaze up through the clouds Where I'm gonna be Where I'm gonna be My heavenly My, my heavenly My heavenly
God be merciful to me on Thy grace, I rest my plea Plenteous in compassion Thou Blot out my transgressions now Wash me, make me pure within Cleanse, oh, cleanse me from my sin My transgressions I confess Grief and guilt my soul oppress I have sinned against Thy grace And provoked Thee to Thy face I confess Thy judgment just Speechless, I, Thy mercy trust I am evil born in sin Thou desirest truth within Thou alone my Savior art Teach Thy wisdom to my heart Make me pure, Thy grace bestow Wash me whiter than the snow Gracious God, my heart renew Make my spirit right and true Thy salvation's joy impart Steadfast make my willing heart Steadfast make my willing heart Broken, humbled to the dust By Thy wrath and judgment just Let my contrite heart rejoice And in gladness hear Thy voice From my sins, oh, hide Thy face Blot them out in boundless grace
I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord No tender voice like Thine can peace afford I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby Temptations lose their power When Thou art nigh I need thee, oh, I need thee, every hour I need Thee I need thee, I need thee, I need Thee every hour I need Thee every hour in joy or pain Come quickly and abide or life is in vain I need Thee, oh, I need Thee, every hour I need Thee I need Thee, I need Thee, I need Thee every hour I need Thee, I need Thee, I need Thee every hour Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee I need Thee every hour, teach me Thy will And Thy rich promises in me fulfill I need Thee, oh, I need Thee Oh I need Thee every hour I need Thee, I need Thee, I need Thee every hour I need Thee, I need Thee, I need Thee every hour Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee
Give to the wind your fear Hope and be undismayed God hears your sighs and counts your tears God will lift up, God will lift up, lift up your head [Chorus:] God will lift up your head God will lift up your head God will lift up your head Lift up your head Leave to His sovereign sway To choose and to command Then shall we wandering on His way Know how wise and how strong How wise and how strong [Chorus] Through waves and clouds and storms, He gently clears the way Wait because in His time, so shall this night Soon end in joy, soon end in joy Soon end in joy, soon end in joy Soon end in joy, soon end in joy Soon end in joy, soon end in joy Soon end in joy, soon end in joy (3X) God will lift up your head Soon end in joy (3X) God will lift up your head Soon end in joy
I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away When I die, hallelujah by and by, I'll fly away Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away To a land on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away When the shadows of this life have grown, I'll fly away Like a bird from these prison walls, I'll fly away I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away When I die, hallelujah by and by, I'll fly away Oh how glad and happy when we meet, I'll fly away No more cold iron shackles on my feet, I'll fly away I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away When I die, hallelujah by and by, I'll fly away Just a few more weary days and then, I'll fly away To a land where joy will never end, I'll fly away I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away When I die, hallellujah by and by, I'll fly away
What can wash away my sin What can make me whole again For my pardon this I see For my cleansing this my plea Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood of Jesus Nothing can for sin atone Not of good that I have done This is all my hope and peace This is all my righteousness Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white as snow And no other fount I know Nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood of Jesus Nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood of Jesus Now by this I'll overcome Now by this I'll reach my home Glory, glory, this I see All my praise for this I bring All my praise for this I bring All my praise for this I bring Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood of Jesus Nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood of Jesus
Let us love and sing and wonder Let us praise the Savior's name He has hushed the law's loud thunder He has quenched Mt. Sinai's flame Let us love the Lord who bought us Pitied us when enemies Called us by His grace and taught us Gave us ears and gave us eyes He has washed us with His blood He has washed us with His blood He has washed us with His blood He presents our souls to God Let us wonder grace and justice Join and point to mercy's store When through grace in Christ our trust is Justice smiles and asks no more He who washed us with his blood He who washed us with his blood He who washed us with his blood Has secured our way to God Let us praise and join the chorus Of the saints enthroned on high Here they trusted him before us Now their praises fill the sky He has washed us with his blood He has washed us with his blood He has washed us with his blood He has washed us with his blood He will bring us home to God
O Come and Mourn with me awhile O come near to the Savior’s side O come together, let us mourn Jesus our lord is crucified Seven times he spoke Seven words of love And all three hours, his silence cried For mercy on the souls of men Jesus our Lord is crucified O Love of God O sin of man In this dread act your strength is tried And victory remains with love Jesus our lord is crucified O break, O break hard heart of mind My weak self love and guilty pride His Pilate and his Judas were Jesus our lord is crucified O love of god o sin of man In this dread act your strength is tried And victory remains in love Jesus our lord is crucified O Come and mourn with me awhile A broken heart a fount of tears Ask and they will not be denied A broken heart love’s cradle is Jesus our Lord is crucified Jesus our Lord is crucified Jesus our Lord is crucified Our Lord is crucified And victory remains with love Jesus our lord is crucified O love of God o sin of man In this dread act your strength is tried And victory remains with love Jesus our lord is crucified
Amidst the sorrows of the way Lord Jesus, teach my soul to pray Let me taste Thy special grace And run to Christ, my hiding place You know the vileness of my heart So prone to act the rebel's part And when You veil Your lovely face How can I find a hiding place Hiding place, hiding place Lord, guide my wandering feet Draw me to Thy mercy seat I've nought to trust but sovereign grace Thou only art my hiding place How unstable is my heart Sometimes I take the tempter's part And slight the tokens of Thy grace And seem to want no hiding place Hiding place, hiding place But when Thy spirit shines within Makes me feel the plague of sin And how I long to see Thy face 'Tis then I want a hiding place Lord Jesus, shine and then I can Feel sweetness in salvation's plan And as a sinner plead for grace Christ, the sinner's hiding place And as a sinner plead for grace Christ, the sinner's hiding place
When sins and fears prevailing rise And fainting hope almost expires Jesus to Thee I lift my eyes To Thee I breathe my soul's desires Are you not mine, my living Lord And can my hope, my comfort die Fixed on the everlasting word That word which built the earth and sky Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I breathe my soul's desires Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I lift my eyes Here let my faith unshaken dwell Immovable the promise stands Not all the powers of earth or hell Can e're dissolve the sacred bands Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I breathe my soul's desires Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I lift my eyes Here oh my soul Thy trust repose If Jesus is forever mine Not death itself that last of foes Can break a union so divine Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I breathe my soul's desires Jesus, I lift my eyes To Thee I breathe my soul's desires
When peace like a river attendeth my way When sorrows like sea billows roll What ever my lot you have taught me to say It is well, it is well with my soul Though the devil will ruin, though trials may come Let this blessed assurance control That Christ has regarded my helpless estate And He shed His own blood for my soul It is well, with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought My sin not in part but the whole Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul It is well, with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul And Lord haste the day when my faith shall be sight And the clouds be rolled back as a scroll The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend Even so, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie All o'er those wide extended plains Shines one eternal day There God, the Son forever reigns And scatters night away. I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land No chilling wind nor poisonous breath Can reach that healthful shore Where sickness, sorrow, pain and death Are felt and feared no more I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land When shall I see that happy place And be forever blessed When shall I see my Father's face And in His bosom rest I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land
Thou lovely source of true delight whom I unseen adore Unveil Thy beauties to my sight that I might love Thee more Oh that I might love Thee more Thy glory o'er creation shines yet in Thy sacred word I read in fairer brighter lines my bleeding, dying Lord Oh my bleeding, dying Lord 'Tis here whene'er my comforts droop and sin and sorrows rise Thy love with cheering beams of hope my fainting heart supplies My fainting heart's supplied And ah too soon the pleasing scene is clouded over with pain My gloomy fears rise dark between and I again complain Oh and I again complain Jesus my Lord, my life, my light, oh come with blissful ray Break radiant through the shades of night and chase my fears away Won't you chase my fears away Then shall my soul with rapture trace the wonders of Thy love But the full glories of Thy face are only known above They are only known above Oh come let us adore My bleeding dying Lord
We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord And we pray that our unity will one day be restored And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love Yeah they'll know we are Christians by our love We will work with each other, we will work side by side We will work with each other, we will work side by side And we'll guard each man's dignity and save each man's pride And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love Yeah, they'll know we are Christians by our love.
Just in case I will leave my things packed So I can run away I cannot trust these voices I don't have a lot of prospects That can give some kind of peace There is nothing left to cling to That can bring me sweet release I have no fear of drowning It's the breathing That's taking all this work Do you know What I mean When I say I don't wanna be alone What I mean When I say I don't wanna be alone Empty spaces Shadows hit by streetlights The warning signs and wait Of tired conversations In the absence of a shoulder In the absence of a beef On the brink of this destruction On the eve of bittersweet Now all the demons look like prophets And I'm living out Every word they speak Every word they speak Do you know What I mean When I say I don't wanna be alone What I mean When I say I don't wanna be alone I have no fear of drowning It's the breathing It's taking all this work
January One, I got a lot of things on my mind I'm looking at my body through a new spy satellite I try to lift a finger but I don't think I can make a call So tell me if I move 'cause I don't feel anything at all So carry me I'm just a dead man Lying on the carpet Can't find a heartbeat Make me breathe I wanna be a new man Tired of the old one Out with the old plan I woke up from a dream about an empty funeral But it's better than a party full of people I don't really know Well, they've got hearts to break and burn, dirty hands to feel the earth There's something in my veins but I can't seem to make it work Won't work So carry me I'm just a dead man Lying on the carpet Can't find a heartbeat Make me breathe I wanna be a new man Tired of the old one Out with the old plan Can you find a beat? Inside of me? Any pulse, getting worse Any pulse, getting worse Inside of me In front of me Carry me I'm just a dead man Lying on the carpet Can't find a heartbeat Make me breathe I wanna be a new man Tired of the old one Out with the old plan Carry me I'm just a dead man Lying on the carpet Can't find a heartbeat Make me breathe I wanna be a new man Tired of the old one Out with the old plan
When I go, don't cry for me In my Father's arms I'll be The wounds this world left on my soul Will all be healed and I'll be whole. Sun and moon will be replaced With the light of Jesus' face And I will not be ashamed For my Savior knows my name. It don't matter where you bury me, I'll be home and I'll be free. It don't matter where I lay, All my tears be washed away. Gold and silver blind the eye Temporary riches lie Come and eat from heaven's store, Come and drink, and thirst no more It don't matter where you bury me I'll be home and I'll be free It don't matter where I lay All my tears be washed away So, weep not for me my friends, When my time below does end For my life belongs to Him Who will raise the dead again. It don't matter where you bury me, I'll be home and I'll be free. It don't matter where I lay, All my tears be washed away.
I whisper,"You don't have to worry, we'll survive" Forced smiles underneath the brittle, frozen light No proof that you're alive Cold fingers find the curve below your tired eyes No comfort in familiar places, not this time You hold it deep inside Oh sister, if you wake up in the night Walls are falling, letting in the light No need to worry Baby, even angels cry No flood warnings, still the waters rise Flowers through asphalt, Diamonds in the pockets of your eyes Turn your face and hide I saw a woman with ribbons in her hair Old and lonely, so beautiful I had to stop and stare The well will not run dry Oh sister, if you wake up in the night Walls are falling, letting in the light No need to worry Baby, even angels cry Oh sister, if you wake up in the night Walls are falling, letting in the light No need to worry Baby, even angels cry Cry Sister, if you wake up in the night Walls are falling, letting in the light It'll be alright Baby, even angels cry Baby, please don't worry Not tonight
There is a river that washes you clean There is a tree that marks the places you've been Blood that was spilled, although not your own, For all of your tears, are the wages for things you have done And all of those nights Spent alone in the darkness of your mind Give it up, Let go These are things you were never meant to shoulder There is a river that washes you clean There is a tree that marks the places you've been Blood that was spilled, although not your own For all of those tears, love will atone So, give up the right To control the waves that empty out your life Above wild skies Are the rays that break the shadows we design Give it up, let go These are things you were never meant to shoulder Give it up, let go There is a river that washes you clean There is a tree that marks the places you've been Blood that was spilled, although not your own For all of those things, love will atone I know the world can turn in different ways Most of the time, we're simply hanging on And under the signs of how we all behave We might find the place that we belong There is a river that washes you clean There is a tree that marks the places you've been Blood that was spilled, although not your own For all of these things, love will atone For all of those nights, that you cried all alone All of your tears, love will atone
All the good monsters open their eyes To see the wasteland where the home fires rise And the people shouting, "Why, why, why" Do you know what you are? Do you know what you are? All the giants wake from their sleep And roll outside of safety's keep And the pain makes them feel so alive Do you know what you are; do you know what you are? We are bored of all the things we know Do you know what you are; do you know what you are? Not all monsters are bad But the ones who are good Never do what they could, never do what they could All the good monsters rattle their chains And dance around the open flames They make a lot of empty noise While all of the bright eyes turn away As if there wasn't anything to say About the justice and the mystery Do you know what you are? Do you know what you are? We are bored of all the things that we know And we are forms of everything we love, we love.. If good won't show its ugly face, Evil won't you take your place? Nothing ever changes, nothing ever changes By itself We are bored of all the things that we know Do you know what you are? Because we are so in love with ourselves We are forms of all the things we love.
Oh my God, look around this place Your fingers reach around the bone you set the break and set the tone For flights of grace, and future falls In present pain all fools say, "Oh my God." Oh my God, why are we so afraid? We make it worse when we don't bleed There is no cure for our disease Turn a phrase and rise again Or fake your death and only tell your closest friends Oh My God Oh my God, can I complain? You take away my firm belief and graft my soul upon your grief Weddings, boats, and alibis All drift away, and a mother cries Liars and fools, sons and failures, theives will always say Lost and found, ailing wanderers, healers always say Whores and angels, men with problems, leavers always say Broken hearted, separated, orphans always say War creators, racial haters, preachers always say Distant fathers, fallen warriors, givers always say Pilgrim saints, lonely widows, users always say Fearful mothers, watchful doubters, Saviors always say Sometimes I can not forgive and these days mercy cuts so deep If the world was how it should be, maybe I could get some sleep While I lay, I'd dream we're better, scales were gone and faces lighter When we wake we hate our brother, we still move to hurt each other Sometimes I can close my eyes and all the fear the keeps me silent Falls below my heavy breathing, what makes me so badly bent? We all have a chance to murder, we all have the need for wonder We still want to be reminded that the pain is worth the thunder Sometimes when I lose my grip, I wonder what to make of heaven All the times I thought to reach up, all the times I had to give up Babies underneath their beds, in hospitals that cannot treat them All the wounds that money causes, all the comforts of cathedrals All the cries of thirsty children, this is our inheritance All the rage of watching mothers, this is our greatest offense Oh my God Oh my God Oh my God
Shoot a dream in your arm and sleep away It's not the stuff that kills you, that keeps your life at bay Every crash pulls you in reach Of a watershed of signal flares that cover your beach These are just placebos to make us feel all right Illusions in our pockets make our feather float us high For a second I thought I saw you eyelids rise A moment, something restless caught you by surprise, Surprise, surprise We are so beautiful when we sleep Hearts of gold and eyes so deep, deep, deep But love won't cure the chaos And hope won't hide the loss And peace is not the heroine that shouts above the cause And love is wild for reasons And hope though short in sight Might be the only thing that wakes you by surprise Surprise, surprise Dream little one See the world just begun Love is wild for reasons And hope feels short in sight Might be the only thing that wakes you by surprise For a moment I thought I saw your eyelids rise Surprise, surprise, surprise…
It took a lot to turn away Blood and water from one side It took your eyes to stare me down It took the truth to set me free, to set me free Looking for place to hide Waiting for the wind to rise My soul is waiting Looking for a place to hide I need a little peace tonight Take me higher than the sun You are the only one Take me higher than the sun Around the ceiling of the heart Is where we feel the things that send us away To where the blind can see the stars So do you see the stars, do you see the stars? Looking for a place to hide I need a little peace tonight Take me higher than the sun You are the only one Take me higher than the sun Take me higher than the sun You are the only one You are the only one Take me higher than the sun Take me higher than the sun Take me higher than the sun You are the only one You are the only one You are the only one Higher than the sun Take me higher than the sun You are the only one Take me higher than the sun You are the only one You are the only one You are the only one…
I'm feeling older than my years I'm feeling pain inside my chest It's love that keeps me silent It's my silence that you detest Rivers flow into the oceans And oceans never fill I want to kiss your lips, but I know I never will Love's a hard decision to risk impending choke But love will keep you wishing And my heart will keep me broke I blew flowers, gave you candy to even out the guilt I sent you greeting cards with messages that I could never write Rivers flow into the oceans And oceans never fill I want to let you know me But I know I never will Love's a contradiction Many mirrors and smoke Love will keep you wishing My heart will keep me broke You will always want me And I'll always want to leave Even though I cut your wounds You still deny they're real Rivers flow into the ocean Oceans never fill I want to lay my life down But I know you never will Love's a strange condition With all the doubts it can invoke You love keeps me wishing And my heart keeps me broke Baby, don't you cry, 'cause I got it all figured out You always make me sad But that's what true love is all about Rivers never fill the oceans But oceans always feel The waters reaching deep inside them I guess they always will Love's a constant mission to a world you never spoke Love, it keeps you wishing My heart, it keeps me broke … Mirrors and Smoke
Catch the rain empty hands Save the children from their lands Wash the darkness from their skin Heroes from the west We don't know you, we know best This is not a test You treat me like I'm blind Setting fires around houses on the hill But light gives heat You segregate my mind Burning crosses from your fears The light gives heat It's not the way to light their way Boys in holes in empty fields Oh, how good it feels Lower-class, and understate Empty promise, empty plate You treat me like I'm blind Setting fires around houses on the hill Light gives heat You segregate my mind Burning crosses from your fears, your fears But light gives heat, gives heat You treat me like I'm blind Setting fires around houses on the hill Light gives heat You segregate my mind Burning crosses from your fears But light gives heat Will you teach us how to love? To see the things you see Walk the road you walked Feel the pain that you feel At your feet I kneel, I want to see you shine See your light not mine 'Cause light gives heat Your light gives heat
I do not love you the way I did when we met There are secrets and arguments that I haven't finished yet It's only that grace has outlived our regrets We're still here Maybe we can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge We can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge There are times meant for breaking And words to ignore And a bent to our souls When our skin is at war If leaving were freedom Well, we'd both walk right out of that door Maybe we can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge We can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows And the years roll by And you hold my hand While the shadows stretch over the land Crumble and fall in my arms And we'll struggle to hold on Waters, they rise And they carry our hopes and our dreams away Baby, we can stay, stay And the years roll by And you hold my hand And the shadows stretch over the land Baby, we can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge We can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge We can stay 'Til the last drop of water flows under the bridge
There's more that rises in the morning than the sun And more that shines in the night than just the moon There's more than just this fire here that keeps me warm In a shelter that is larger than this room And there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiments And a music higher than the songs that I can sing Stuff of Earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the Giver of all good things So if I stand let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through And if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You So if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home And there's more that dances on the prairies than the wind And more that pulses in the ocean than the tide There's a love that's fiercer than the love between friends More gentle than a mother's when her baby's at her side And there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiments And a music higher than the songs that I can sing The stuff of Earth competes for the allegence I owe only to the Giver of all good things So if I stand let me stand on the promise that You will pull me through And if I can't let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You And if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home So if I stand let me stand on the promise You will pull me through And if I can't let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You And if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for home
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art Thou my best thought by day or by night Waking or sleeping Thy presence my light Be thou my wisdom and Thou my true word I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord Thou my great Father, I , Thy true son Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one Riches I heed not nor man's emptly praise Thou mine inheritance now and always Thou and thou only first in my heart High King of heaven my treasure Thou are High King of heaven my victory won May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun Heart of my own heart whatever befall Still be my vision O Ruler of all
He picked her up some flowers On a sunday afternoon They sat out on the porch swing Underneath the cresent moon A life timeseemed to pass Staring at the skies And on the swing he gave her the ring There were tears in her eyes He said I pray I'm not alone In my dreams about forever That you and I could become one And always be together We'd grow old and wise Through all the days For worse or for better And now be true inside of you Even now more than ever And my lifetime flies but we'll fly farther Into the night where the eyes of loneliness can never bother All our dreams of together uneclipsed by never never And my time flies it's in your eyes, but we'll fly farther Fifty years have ridden off into the sunset And the tears that we have cried have overflown Here we are counting scars, wounds of life's ending upset You're with me and I with you and I will never forget And my time flies but we'll fly farther Into the night where the eyes of loneliness will never bother All our dreams of together uneclipsed by never never And mytime flies it's in your eyes, but we'll fly farther He picked her up some flowers On a sunday afternoon He rode the Greyhound bus past the house they used to swoon He knelt beside the grave, hung his head, a teardrop fell And on the stone epitaph show the words he knew so well... And my time flies but we'll fly farther Into the night where the eyes of loneliness will never bother All our dreams of together uneclipsed by never never And my time finds it's in your eyes, but we'll fly farther And my time flies but we'll fly farther Into the night where the eyes of loneliness will never bother All our dreams of together, uneclipsed by never never And my time finds it's in your eyes, but we'll fly farther We'll fly farther We'll fly farther
Yea...ohhh... Na na na na na na na na-na Over the mountains and the sea your river runs with love through me And I will open up my heart And let the healer set me free I'm happy to be in the truth and I will daily lift my hands for I will always sing Of when your love came dowwnnnn... yea.... I could sing of your love forever... (girl)Oh yea.. Na na na na na na na na-na ohhh... (girl) Over the mountains and the sea You river runs with a light through me And I will open up my heart and let the healer set me free I'm happy to be in the truth and I will daily lift my hands for I will always sing of when your light came doowwwnn.. (both) I could sing of your love forever (guy) I could sing.... I could sing of your love forever (girl) I could sing yea yea.. (both)I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your love forever (girl) I could sing yea yea.. I could sing of your love forever (girl) I could sing yea yea.. I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your loooovveee.. (both) Oh I feel like dancin' yea..yea.. It's foolishness enough.. But when the world has seen the light They will dance with joy like we're dancin' noooww... I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your love forever I could sing of your love forever I will sing of your love forever I will sing of your love forever I will sing of your love forever I will sing of your loveeee... Singa' singa' singa' with you.. oh...
Must have thought I was so strong Might have ever thought I was the one for this all along But I can't even dream Or imagine how it seems To carry the weight of this crown [Chorus:] It's not as easy as it seems To carry the weight of your dreams Hiding in the shadows It's not as easy as it seems With Pharaoh and angel and everything in between (counting on hope) I might have come to a similar conclusion Only mixed up in the wake of confusion That the glamour was mine Though the power divine To carry the weight of this crown I don't know why I see your fire Carry me over Stay this way...
