The Other Side

At the edge of the ledge
you stand on is a view
A chance to surpass
and leave the life that you knew
Over the edge is world full of green
so many pieces of life you've only seen
from a distance
casting lots
throwing wishes to the wind
now your life can begin
But you're afriad and your scared
cause your scarred heart's unprepared
this side ripped it from your chest
and threw it down
you watch tears, salty and blessed
splash to the ground

I need this
I need this life I've never had
I'm alone on this side
Eyes black
wishing I could have died
what is this place
who is that face
Beyond this ledge
On the other side
Will I see Death
or will I come face to face with Love
and Light

Is life on that side you wonder
You want to reach out but afraid to blunder
you pull back your soul
and your sinking under
Hear him call you, sister, brother
His arms are open wide
He'll carry you to the other side
if your ready to be alive
the wind might cut your face
but you'll never be safe
until your deep within His arms
close to His heart
and He'll never tear you apart

LoveSong

You're beginning to see, yeah
there's a sky above
Earth is under your feet, yeah
and you might be loved

Just that hope
extends the end of your rope
maybe you don't have to be alone

Cause your eyes have been so dark
all this time
Hidden from you was the truth
Now see the Light
These chains just might break
any day now
so hold on tight
Your eyes were so dark
but the beat in your heart
Tells you the lovesong of life

Yeah theres a song you've gotta echo
and every time you breath
embrace His covering
and let go
Cause every beat of your heart
is a shot in the dark
He's whispering something
Come on, come alive
Put your hands in my wounds
Come see my torn side
The song is playing out inside your veins
Just let go of this world
and stop playing games!

My Place

Jesus,
I'm feeling a little lonely today
I just don't fit in the world in anyway
Jesus,
I think I'm just a little homesick
I just really want to see your face
and I've been thinkin' bout my place

You said you were going
to prepare our places, prepare our spaces
you said you'd be knowing
the things of our hearts, the tiniest parts
of our souls
but this one thing I know
I'll find my place
when I fly to your arms
and you wipe the tears from my face

Jesus,
I long to see you soon
Please don't be long in making our rooms
We just want to be with you
forever always
with the angels and saints to
forever sing your praise

You said you were going
to prepare our places, prepare our spaces
you said you'd be knowing
the things of our hearts, the tiniest parts
of our souls
but this one thing I know
I'll find my place
when I fly to your arms
and you wipe the tears from my face

We Just Don't Know

Can't believe it
I try to see it
but it just doesn't make sense
why did you do it
you knew it wouldn't
make us recompense
you for your death and glory
but you say you're making a story
a story of our lives
the writing is in your eyes

I'm sitting on my couch so still
watching you surrender your will
the tv screen
makes me scream
inside
and I cry
to see your blood run all over the place
makes remember my scarlet stains
and I try to remember why you endured
why you lived why you died so that we could be cured


We're all dying to live
and living to die
the one thing that were living for
is the fight for the reason not to cry
or to just go numb and not feel any more
if we could just know what you have in store
we'd leave the world behind just like so
but we, well, we just don't know

A Morning With The Angel Choir

Wake up the lids are lifting slowly from my eyes
Take up the day unfolding quickly with sunrise
And I'm trying to take it step by step
But eternity is calling out "do you see me yet"

Cause when I wake up
I wanna wake up to the angels singing
hallelujah, good morning, hello
Please hasten the one
day when I'll see your glory face to face
singing
Hallelujah, good morning, hello
hello, good morning, hallelujah

You catch me at the breakfast table
thinking about the feast
I find this world is just not able
to ever compare with my King

Cause he's oh just so marvelous,
oh just so, glorious,
Oh I just can't take in this
hallelujah

Cause when I wake up
I wanna wake up to the angels singing
hallelujah, good morning, hello
Please hasten the one
day when I'll see your glory face to face
singing
Hallelujah, good morning, hello
hello, good morning, hallelujah

Its So

I look around
I try to find a soul
within the consolation
of a hundred eyes so cold

I hear a sound
but no one turns, instead
Seems I'm alone
while this tune plays through my head

Its just that this is who I am
I've learned to swim deep waters
Because He made me understand
But I don't understand it all at all
but I know its so uncommonly

When I hear the wind rush through the trees
she rushes through my heart and brings a wave of peace
because the master sent her like fingers to rustle up my hair
I smile at the sky because he's there
When I see all of creation
When I hear its tune and song
I find the consolation
of his arms and it wont be long

And when I walk through deserts
feeling nothing and bone dry
I know he'll leave me never
and so I pick up again to try


Its just that this is who I am
I've learned to swim deep waters
Because He made me understand
But I don't understand it all at all
but I know its so uncommonly

Were Flying/ Music Box

She's finding the light
the hard way
He's dying to find
what he just can't ever seem to place
and were all trying to fight it out
and were all flying to the spout

We need it,
its life it is air
hit the ceiling
with not a moment to spare
were all flying and say we don't care
but we'll fly to the corners of the earth to see
if He's there.
Well he's there
See life flare
take in air
He is here


Don't try to hide it
your wings are fluttering
don't try to fight it
you're a music box made to sing
you can't deny the finger prints on your face
they're deep within your eyes He's something you can't erase

Closer than near
He whispers in heartbeats
Holding you dear
Listen as His sparks speak
He is here

Apathetic Apologetic

Just because the key lies on the table
doesn't mean that your able
to unlock the mystery
Just because the key lies on the table
doesn't mean you are capable
of understanding the unseen

A little apathy
has gotten beneath your skin
you've crawled inside the bars
and caged yourself in,
inside its arms
the world holds charms
swallow them whole and wake up to scars

And its scaring me
what have you got yourself into
don't say to me
that that's just what you do
cause you know now
you're not really living at all
locked up in the downside of the fall

Just because you knew once how to breath
doesn't mean it comes with ease
at least not anymore
Just because you once could see
doesn't mean you kept trying
to open up the door


A little apathy
has gotten beneath your skin
you've crawled inside the bars
and caged yourself in,
inside its arms
the world holds charms
swallow them whole and wake up to scars

And its scaring me
what have you got yourself into
don't say to me
that that's just what you do
cause you know now
you're not really living at all
locked up in the downside of the fall

Forever Always

Its time I told you what was on my mind
to tell you what I fight through inside
how I wish I could rewind and take you through those nights
and you would wipe the tears from my eyes

Its time I told you how my spirit fell
to the bottom of that well
so many stories I could tell
so many secrets I could sell

To you I turn it over right now
cause you'll mend it somehow
turn my world upside down
to make it better
forever always we'll be together
Your love and mercy is light
The world can't hold me down alright
cause I left the world forever always to make a right

Forever always you will never leave me
even when my eyes are blind and can't see
your loving arms will be holding me
despite myself and in spite of me
you carried my cost and delight in me

All I can do is weep
and ask to serve, bowing at your feet
I'll never deserve your love so sweet
but I give you all I have, I give you all of me

To you I turn it over right now
cause you'll mend it somehow
turn my world upside down
to make it better
forever always we'll be together
Your love and mercy is light
The world can't hold me down alright
cause I left the world forever always to make a right

How Many Diamonds

I've been thinking about motives
why we do what we do and to hold it
When we stand before that throne
when we truly see the good and bad alone

Li da di Li da di di oh

I don't believe he'll be judging me
but how will I feel as he's loving me
if I did not do what I was supposed to
What will become of me, and what had ever come from me
When he burns away all the hay and stubble
when he removes all the rubble and pulls me out of the wreck
will I only see a burning mess
how many diamonds for his glory
without a thought of my own story
Li da di Li da di di oh oh
Li da di Li oh oh

I do not want to be ashamed
when he calls forth my name
I want to be complete in humility
and then forget and not be proud of me
its such a hard thing to forget the face in the mirror
no matter what you do it won't disappear

Wither I Go

Maybe I look misty eyed
but its not from any tears that I've cried
I just can't wait
my spirit shakes

I diligently watch the skies
not wanting to miss the sight of your eyes
when you come back for me
I'm willing and waiting

When I see the sunsets
and the birds fly away
I know that my heart's set
for you on that day
and wither I go I care not as long as I'm with you
When I see the clouds roll
and thunder rush on high
I sigh within myself
it could be tonight
and wither I go I care not because I'll be with you

I want to look into your eyes
for a thousand years
I want to see the hands
that swept away my fears
I want to dance in the arms of my mighty God
I want to weep at the feet of my Father

And though my heart will tremble with sighs
I'll stand face to face with the Light giving Life
It could be today it could be tonight
And if you come to take me when my life is to depart
I'll close my eyes, and care not, I'll fly straight to your heart


When I see the sunsets
and the birds fly away
I know that my heart's set
for you on that day
and wither I go I care not as long as I'm with you
When I see the clouds roll
and thunder rush on high
I sigh within myself
it could be tonight
and wither I go I care not because I'll be with you

Come Home

Come to me all who are weary
weary of this world
Come to me all who are teary
eyed
Come to me all who are dreary
dingy colors unfurled
Come to me all who are nearly
mine

Come home children
come home
this world has nothing new
it shines up its throne of old old chrome
its time for a brand new thing
cast off the old
on with the new
the thing you've been told
but knew that was true
You've ignored me long enough
now I'm waiting here for you to come

Come to me sinners and saints
you are all the same,
yet I know each of your eyes, and your name
Dear one you are loved
yes you, and I'm your father above
you are not lost any longer
for here I stand, I AM I AM

Come home children
come home
this world has nothing new
it shines up its throne of old old chrome
its time for a brand new thing
cast off the old
on with the new
the thing you've been told
but knew that was true
You've ignored me long enough
now I'm waiting here for you to come

I'm Better

The rain is pouring fast
down my window pane
The lights are going out
down the quiet lane
I guess its morning now
I guess I stayed up late
But I feel better now
that you know...

I just couldn't fall asleep
those demons were keeping me up
Those thoughts rushed through my brain,
I felt I'd go insane
I'd felt I'd enough

It was time to come clean
it was time to tell you what I'd seen
myself become
And I cried, cause I saw the nail scars that I'd caused
it cost you so much so dearly

But you said Dear
dont let it get you down
I am here now
I am here now
I've been here all along
singing you this song
but you couldn't belong
but I knew it wouldn't be long

The rain is pouring fast
down my window pane
The lights are going out
down the quiet lane
I guess its morning now
I guess I stayed up late
But I feel better now
that you know...

Break Feathers

I step out on the water
I step out of the boat
But I begin to falter
And fall apart from float
I can't see your hands
But I need them now
I'm past the understand
and on the underside of clouds

Crows and vultures gather round
But I am no better
look at the ashes of my soul
chained up with fetters
Jesus wont you please come help me now
I am sinking down
Broken feathers on the ground
Cause I always break feathers

You call out, keep your eyes on me
Even though you can't see
focus your heart and mind
on the side of light
on the side of my might

Sara's Song

Draw me nearer, oh so near
I want to hear you, oh so near
I want to feel you, but oh my dear
oh dear God, why aren't you here

I didn't ask for much
just one thing
I wanted to touch
Your love and sing
I wished to sing of you forever
but ever didn't come
can I be ever sure you are the one

Break these walls
I know there here
I'm trying to find a proof of you that disappears
Make them fall, cause I hear your voice
its calling me, come while you have a choice
I want to come, I want to run into your arms
so break down everything,
and let me witness your scars

I'm so familiar only with my stone cold ways
I have no understanding of forgiveness and grace
I cannot leave my past behind me, but throw it away
though I look behind me show me your face
I know I'm undeserving, I nailed your hands and feet
so break me of this world returned for peace so sweet

Break these walls
I know there here
I'm trying to find a proof of you that disappears
Make them fall, cause I hear your voice
its calling me, come while you have a choice
I want to come, I want to run into your arms
so break down everything,
and let me witness your scars

Every Good Thing

Its a brand new morning with the sun in the sky
the breeze is brightly blowing catching the tune in my eye
and I fly over every trouble
over the wreck and rubble
because I know just this
with you there is nothing I'll miss

Every good thing comes from you
and if trouble's on the rise you'll see me through
whatever comes my way
has passed your test
and so through love and hate
you'll do what's best

I've put my trust in you
I won't take it back cause you will see me through

Another day is done
we say farewell to another sun
hope to see it again
but if I don't well then my friend
I'll see you in that place
where I can see your face
and life will begin
cause the end is not the end

Every good thing comes from you
and if trouble's on the rise you'll see me through
whatever comes my way
has passed your test
and so through love and hate
you'll do what's best

I've put my trust in you
I won't take it back cause you will see me through

Life From Death

A flower falls to the earth unnoticed and dies
with no one to weep, it neither hungers or cries
As it sinks into the soil
the seed begins to toil
and as death comes so does life

While it was alive, death was inside
now as death comes to steal,
the life breaths and heals
maybe to live is to die
and to die is to have life

My heart longs to be seen as I pass by
to not sink to the grave as common on the fly
But to take up my cross is the bring Heaven close
and to die is to be with the One I love most
When he breaths my spirit alive
My heart and will, will die

While it was alive, death was inside
now as death comes to steal,
the life breaths and heals
maybe to live is to die
and to die is to have life

Tied Out

Oh I'm a little busy girl,
in a great big busy world
it's so easy to forget I'm leaving this old place behind me
cause sometimes worry finds me out
as I step through my ring of doubts
I sense deja-vu, and I smile at you
will I ever learn now,
taking the same turn now

And I try to hide
behind peace that comes from inside
but it runs out dry and leaves a thirst behind
cause I just got started in my day
but oh heavens forgot to pray
I've got a burden Dear God,
you smile and say how odd
so I smile back and let you unwind
my busy mind and the knots I've tied

And so many times my breath rushes back
and you catch my hand and say just relax
you gave that thing to me, now sit and practice peace
at my feet
your worry won't do anything
please trust in me

Awaken Hey

They look into his bleeding face
and say he's getting blood all over the place
what does he mean by coming in this way
does he know who we are
is he some dignitary from afar
well maybe we'll hear what he has to say

you cold hearted stones
you children who grow old
now is the time
to wake up and change your mind
He's not just a bleeding man
he burst at the heart
was pierced at the hands
when this world falls apart
He'll be the last thing, the only thing that stands

Hey you weary people
come here to the steeple
here we'll weep and here we'll die
it's not about being good
if you thing that your lost for good
its got to be shown and understood
the only way not to die
is to give up your very life
if you don't you'll perish like light extinguished, alright

Hello Robot

We're born into chaos, joy, love and strife
we find out this race is something called life
but life aint a race or all that it seems
and twenty years later we all are machines

We're born here to die
as some of them said
but the stars in the sky echo straight through our head
theres gotta be a meaning to this being alive
but the ends and the means wont meet tonight
hello
hello

and we all try to find the ends of the means
and twenty years later we all are machines
we still haven't found what our hearts desire
maybe our hearts are charred stone and not fire
we've been burnt and busied by frivolous things
all the time missing the fact we've got wings
we didn't see the face through the muck and the mire
cause we're all just machines now metal and wire
hello
hello

Maybe the means will finally have ends
when our hearts begin melting and beating to bend
maybe one day we will understand
that the beauty of choas is peace in His hands

and we all try to find the ends of the means
and twenty years later we all are machines
we still haven't found what our hearts desire
maybe our hearts are charred stone and not fire
we've been burnt and busied by frivolous things
all the time missing the fact we've got wings
we didn't see the face through the muck and the mire
cause we're all just machines now metal and wire
hello
hello

Look at all the busy work
like worms we crawl around in the dirt
but we don't have to crawl
we've got wings after all
but we busy ourselves
in our robotic shells
to keep the truth away from our space
cause we just don't want the truth of His loving face
hello
oh hello
im man not machine
as I look down below
hello
hello
come join in the sunset
a sky of His meadows
hello

and we all ingore the facts of the ends of the means
and twenty years later we all are machines

Sucess and Failure Both Lose or Win

A man in a sweater steps off the airplane
He's arrived in Paris to see the sights, and all the pretty lights
And he's just trying to escape the pain.
He's lead a good life, but it's empty like
the can that the little boy holds in his hand
he's tried everything in life, and it all broke down tonight
the cops came and busted up the party, he's lead a bad life, and he can't even say sorry
to himself the man in the sweater says whats the point
and the boy with the can says forget this joint
I've tried to be good
and I've been real bad,
but there's gotta be something I haven't had yet

The man in the sweater sits down on a park bench,
and the boy with the can on the curb
see theres something they both missed,
there's something they both haven't learned
and its love
the only kind you get from your father Above
and a remembrance of a story comes back to remind
of a man who hung by three nails for loves sake and died
and then came back alive

Jesus loves me
this I know
for the word of God tells me that its so
and when I stumble and when I crawl
his nail scarred hands will catch me no matter how far I fall

And that's all I've got to say
you can have success or give everything away
but if your heart has not found rest,
come to know your Father's love and ask forgiveness

To the man in the sweater and the boy with the can
Jesus is calling you home, saying Yes I am
I am ready to forgive you,
I'm your healer and your friend
I will never leave you or forsake you
I'm everything you want and need, for I am

Oh Heavens

Oh heavens
is that my pride again
Oh heavens
is that my mind again
my own might again
And oh I'm so sorry for the things I've done
And oh I'm so sorry cause just when I think I finally got it down it comes undone

Oh heavens, its not much fun to think that all of this was me,
yeah there's no point in shifting the blame so please why don't you just stop trying
it was my pride that did, did me in this time
Wish I could learn my lessons and refrain from the same crime
you'd think that I could let it go but oh, oh, oh, oh no
Heavens

Oh heavens I'm my only point of shame
Oh heavens My soul is the only one to blame
Oh heavens My shade follows me like a past from the grave
Jesus put my soul to rest, and resurrect me

Around The Shadows

Theres a face in the mirror but it doesnt feel like me
theres a shadow that i fear cause it looks a lot like me but
but the face and the shadow don't hold my soul
theres something I can't get to in this place thats not my home

this me is not the real thing
this place is not my home
so when I feel alone and so unlike me
the spirit is willing but the body is weak
oh Lord strengthen my soul
so that this bone weary place that encases me
will never be called home

Don't let this world get you down
it will turn around it will turn around
don't let this world get around you
don't let it surround you
don't let it get you down

A Walk In The Air

I breath in something new
and different than routine
I can't quite make it out
Its something I know that is Unseen
And wherever I am,
the thing takes me away
and oh my God, its more than I can say

I find myself
in the presence of your holiness
I find yourself chipping away at my loneliness
Your carpenter hands are making things out of light
through the night, out of air,
beyond my stare
are the lights
whatever it is
its a heavenly feeling of sight

You give me eyes inside my soul
slowly awaking my spirit to whole
My lungs and heart aren't yet big enough to take it in
so I'm here once again
swept away past the fray of my mind
theres something there, theres something right

The Newness Sting

Maybe you feel like your all alone
maybe you feel theres no final home for you
You travel around in your car night to night
theres no telling where you'll end or who'll pick the fight
but your off to somewhere
see you just can't stay there
so you pack up your bags
you feel kinda sad
but its a bitter sweet goodbye

your heading off into the world
so go on spread your wings and fly fly away
into the day
we all can't say goodbye
dont forget
you can always come home
and remember with Jesus your never alone
so long so
long ago
we wernt so old
but today spread your wings and fly fly away

Well you head out on the highway
your tears blurring the lights
then you start laughing though home is miles away
See your starting to know no matter how far you go
home is here to stay
and its somewhere in what we say
Maybe its time to let you know
you've started to grow
and know its time to go
go ahead and cry
you got a long drive ahead of you
go ahead its alright
the newness will sting for only a time

Almost Full

I try to quiet my soul
the moon is almost full
I attempt to write a song
to sing out strong
but somehow everything
just comes undone

and no matter how hard I try
I just can't climb a light beam
I reach and cry
but its slips right by like lightning
when will the beauty cease to decrease
as my proximity increases
cause no matter how hard I try
the fullness of the wonder seems to come down and die

and every time it happens I die a little inside
weary from the world and my thoughts and my pride
my worries and anxieties seem to get the best of me
and when I try to think of you
all that comes from me is a broken tune

Joe's Song

The house is empty
inside and out
you say everyone's left me
and you reach for it now
it promises hope
it promises peace
at the end of your rope
you give into the least
likely thing
that will ever make your heart sing

Please take a second thought
don't you know you were bought with blood
please take a second thought
don't you know you were caught by love
He saw you since the beginning of time
and if you will have him he says, dear one you are mine

You cannot earn this favor or grace
it has nothing to do with the face
that you see in the mirror
cause all those disguises disappear
this is the real reality
can you feel it coming on
its the song you want to sing
its coming up through your lungs

Please Carry the Light

A yellow bus comes up to tell us
its time to start another day
ok
we climb aboard
walking the halls with the crowd
you get pushed around and its too loud

Oh I want to drown it out
but then in mass of people now
I see faces
and in those faces I see eyes
and in them are the places
and their questions why
and the tears they cry
but no one ever sees
please tell me you will carry the light
in these dim dark dingy desperate hallways

And maybe that face that laughs
is really trying to get its life back
and maybe the ones that seem so set to do wrong
would crumble into soft words, tears,and songs
when they see that they are loved
by the best and dearest love from above

Forest Peace

Oh, where is the forest green
the places so uncommonly seen
I want to be lost in the cool deep
To sing in the place between wake and sleep

the name of the place is peaceful
the hope that I carry when sleeping
and dreaming of a the piece that the world is missing
everyone else is dismissing
the only one who can bring this love
the king of the forest, and the sweetest dove

Here he takes me when I doubt
when my mind is weary inside and out
when everything seems to blur the lines
he takes me away inside deep sighs
where waters cry
and to die is to die and to be reborn
no longer living like a stranger forlorn

Go Here

You have no place to go
home is not your home
anymore
than the hotel room you just left before the show
whats left to show
you feel alone
worn to the bones
youre feeling old
the flames have turned cold

But there is still a warmth from somewhere outside
a heavenly promise from tears you've cried
He is here
He is near
Have no fear
of the heartache
He knows every inch of all heartbreak
the sun of sorrows
has waked the tomorrow
he stands in front of you
really what have you got to lose

Strum Like A Stranded Sailor

Blue sky
true eyes
Honest ways
slower pace

Strum on your guitar
home is not to far
is just an airplane ride away
and couple trains
and a big subway
and a long stretch of highway

We wait
no fear of fate
See the sunrise
the song and reprise
of the day
when we'll away
I'll say it again
and then

Strum on your guitar
home is not to far
is just an airplane ride away
and couple trains
and a big subway
and a long stretch of highway

Stare into space
hear my heart race
the sky is upturned
all our hopes have turned
this is simplicity
join in the mystery


Strum on your guitar
home is not to far
is just an airplane ride away
and couple trains
and a big subway
and a long stretch of highway

Im Gone

The wind sweeps down
and around
barely touches the ground

Its sound
resounds
with the waves and they shout
together now
as my heart pounds

Ooooh oh ooh oh
I'm alive
I was made to live
but soon I died
so strange
to be back to life
What might and power
and glory
to pen down such a story
we're alive
more than the planet in sight

The waves collapse
the moon relapses
and the tide laps at my hands
in the sand
My soul comes to stand
the band of angels are singing
and all of heaven is ringing
with the joy's of the song
so long
so long
I'm gone
I'm gone

Permenant Undo

I fell down again
feels like the ground is my closest friend
I don't mean to complain
but self you are the biggest pain

What I wouldn't give to take it all back
then I could take what broke your back back

What I wouldn't give to erase
all my stupid and foolish mistakes
I feel like my time is up
someone should be saying hey that's enough
What I wouldn't give to give this up to you
I want permanent, permanent undo

Wash away
my stain
drown me with
your rain
cause I keep
getting in my way
your love is true
my permanent permanent undo

Perfect

Here I am in such a painful state
in myself are all the things I hate
I cannot bear to look into your face
it hurts like a wound that you love me anyway

Cause I want to be beautiful for you
but I fail
I fail so miserably
and I want to be used by you
but I'm frail
I'm frail and miserably
wanting nothing more than to be perfect

Loving you hurts worse than anything
but I'd rather die loving you
than waste away with no love song to sing
Loving you heals more than anything
and I'd rather die crying blue
than not ever knowing your beauty

One day when I am free from myself
I will run to your arms whole and well
Father let my forget myself
because the loving wounds are a life giving well

Cause I want to be beautiful for you
but I fail
I fail so miserably
and I want to be used by you
but I'm frail
I'm frail and miserably
wanting nothing more than you so perfect
you were perfect
you are perfect

These Lonely Shores

Standing on the lonely shores
overlooking the roaming sea
Uncanny how the storms
of the ocean find a home in me
And I can't help wondering
if I'm losing it all
but then I wonder is that so bad
is that so bad after all

I just wanna learn my lessons
I just wanna leave the right impressions
upon this sand
wont let this land get me down
cause its not home even now
And I won't let it wear me out

Behind me the world screams
But I've turned my soul away
Lies rip at the seams
But the truth is here to stay
And I can't help wondering
as I stand facing the sea
if I'm losing it all
but then I wonder is that so bad
is that so bad after all

I just wanna learn my lessons
I just wanna live in new redemption
upon these sands
won't let this land get me down
never was a part of it anyhow
and by these shores to you alone I bow

Rise And Fall

A heartbeat rises
a breath falls
a hope surmises
death isn't the end of all

A tear wells
and turns down
Music swells
and here comes the sound

Its the rise and fall of everything surrounding me
inside of me the dying tree the strength found not in myself to revive
not just surive
the knowledge I am human
the hope that youre improving and moving me
closer ever closer
to your heartbeat

We're not steady
we're steady oh
we're not ready
our ground in unsound
oh we're ever changing
while you're paging
our story
penning down
the rising glory

Its the rise and fall of everything surrounding me
inside of me the dying tree the strength found not in myself to revive
not just surive
the knowledge I am human
the hope that youre improving and moving me
closer ever closer
to your heartbeat

We change like the seasons
but your lungs are breathin'
life into our lungs
that's how songs are sung
We change like the seasons
have no excuses or reasons
from life unto death
but you have not finished yet

This is Where You Are

Here you are

so far from the stars

that you stare up into

I see your scars

and how you've fallen apart

you know you can't see this through

kinda wonder what you got yourself into

but child this is life

and here's the wonder

I'll never let you slip asunder

Dear one don’t give up

You are loved and that’s enough

your burning low

Forgot the morning star

But I don’t care

Cause this is where you are

I'll never leave you because you are mine

and I cannot deny who I am

how can I make you understand

that I'm for you

Dear one since the day you arrived

I have never left your side

the days you fell and bled

I was right there holding your head

I know that it can be hard to believe

among many who live to deceive

but I never tell anything but truth

let my broken heart be your proof

Hold On

Here we are
feels like aim
is for the stars
and for the grave
old and young
all born into one
we fill our lungs
with the oceans you've sung
we drown our human side
in your holy tide

We don't understand
your marvelous plan
but we comprehend our need
so we take a stand
and hold your scarred up hand
marred up by our brutal creed

Help us now to stand up straight
we weave in and out of the Way
we long for the Truth and the day
when you'll say
its all done
its finished
kids we've won
evil's diminished

For now we wait
we must be patient
the day will come
but we can state
that the whole worlds fate
will be overcome
we will overcome

Hand Over The Minute Hand of Your Clock

The sky is yawning
its waking up
a cup of tea would be nice but I've got stuff
stuff to do,
no time for you

I'm really sorry but the bed needs to be made
the kids have gotta be fed
what do you know this shirt has a stain
its seems one day is never enough
time, time, time and I've got stuff
to do
no time for you

Theres just no room in my scheduale
for the King of kings
I'm too busy with the perpetual
state of things and things
just get in my way
and eat up the time
away
I've got stuff to do
and theres just no time for you

Oh Father
is this what you see inside my soul
I'm repenting
and turning from it all
I'll say I'm sorry and then I'll take some time away
in my day
when I'm all by myself
so busy in my own mind
I'll just look in the window of my heart and gaze into your skies
into your eyes
and there I'll laugh and there I'll cry and give you
time
before my day is through
theres gotta be time for you

Au Revoir Babylon (2)

I tried to close my eyes
but the red shined through my lids
The Darkness burned bright
and I begged the Light to rid
of this feeling I couldn't shake
it hung on the bottom of my lungs
like an earthquake

Finally I pulled out the weapon
that had inflicted the wound
it was my own prejudice
and the Light made all things new

au revoir Babylon
I've traveled with you too long
the day is almost gone
and so is my life song
so with every last ounce of me
no matter how much it hurts to sing
I will go on
so long
Babylon

I never knew how deep this would take me
I didn't know how healing could break me
I had no idea how magnificent the love
I'd been living on shallow surfaces like a water bug
But no more

Epicenter

in the interim of our life
inside the interminable divine
where is the point in time
when humanity will realize
that what we need is the Light
to burn the scales off our eyes

I think we've fallen far enough
its time to return to the house of love
its time we let our hearts remember Above

Lets remember
the epicenter
the reason we breath
bite at the teeth
get a shock
now unlock
the mystery
that was nailed into loving hands and feet
The whole worlds waiting with burning lungs
the anticipation rises as this song is sung
its rising through the earth that remembers something better
drop what you got get a shock
cause he's the Epicenter

Every eye will one day see
that at his scarred up side is the only place to be
one day everyone will bow down at his feet
and all his soldiers will taste a victory so sweet
let the Target Mark make his home in your heart

Lets remember
the epicenter
the reason we breath
bite at the teeth
get a shock
now unlock
the mystery
that was nailed into loving hands and feet
The whole worlds waiting with burning lungs
the anticipation rises as this song is sung
its rising through the earth that remembers something better
drop what you got get a shock
cause he's the Epicenter

Unjaded

Jaded
world-weary, tired, worn out, bored,
cynical, lackluster and mistrusting
just another overused word in the modern vocabulary
We fell in love with a fiction family
only to find it wasn't true with broke boned hearts we sing

I've become so very numb,
so cold in spirit went undone.
No fire left in my eyes to see
there's something amiss in me.
one, two, three
my eyes see shifting
shadows and I move away

Won't you take my hand
and we'll hold our breath
we'll be moving forward
stepping off the depth of death to
become unjaded
free, less faded
spirit filled and closer to
the Maker of all things new

Its easy to get fed-up
when they shove it down
Its easy to get worn with
the way they scream it out
they use our souls
as surplus
leave dark holes
that hurt us
the ache of the human plight
could be ended this time
if we give ourselves for whom they were created
hold our breath, count to three, soften and become unjaded

Lets trust Him this time
Lets keep it in line
the pain will bring out the fine
soften our spirits and make them Thine

Maybe I'll Not be New Without You

One more square
another number
Take the dare
give it to another
I couldn't care less about the new year
all I want to do is cry the new tear

Cause this year doesn't feel new
I have no feeling anymore
I can't even tell you
I can't wrap numb words around the floor
of the way I feel
it has no words
it disappears
I don't care about the new day
I just want you to make my way new
I just hope you're making something new

Its not about making fly by resolutions
giving rise to deaths that have no solutions
Its about the steady heartbeat of every moment
its about the motion of my every breath

Cause this year doesn't feel new
I have no feeling anymore
I can't even tell you
I can't wrap numb words around the floor
of the way I feel
it has no words
it disappears
I don't care about the new day
I just want you to make my way new
I just hope you're making something new

I wanna walk side by side with you
I wanna talk tide by tide with you
I don't care about the month date or year
I all I know is that I want you near

It doesn't have to be new
just filled with You

Cause this year doesn't feel new
I have no feeling anymore
I can't even tell you
I can't wrap numb words around the floor
of the way I feel
it has no words
it disappears
I don't care about the new day
I just want you to make my way new
I just hope you're making something new