Oh, my soul, sometimes we don't know what to do
We work so hard being tough on our own
But now it's me and you
Let's get up sad bones
'Cause we are fall on hard times
But you don't have to stand up all alone
Just put your hand in mine
Climb on a back that's strong
Yeah, you can get what you want
Climb on a back that's strong
If you could save me a place in heaven
With a clean well-lighted room
I'd muscle up to Armageddon
And wave to you darling, be home soon
If you could show me the story of love
I would write it again and again
And then you could be the woman you need
If you would just let me be the man that I am
Oh, I don't know
Sometimes we try to hard to see
But we've got one down and one more to go
That's when you say to me
Back to "#title2#" AlbumFaith My Eyes Lyrics
As I survey the ground for ants
Looking for a place to sit and read
I'm reminded of the streets of my hometown
How they're much like this concrete,
that's warm beneath my feet
And how I'm all wrapped up in my mother's face
With a touch of my father just up around the eyes
And the sound of my brother's laugh
But more wrapped up in what binds our ever distant lives
Pre-CHORUS:
But if I must go
Things I trust will be better off without me
But I don't want to know
Life is better off a mystery
CHORUS:
So keep 'em coming, these lines on the road
And keep me responsible, be it a light or heavy load
And keep me guessing with these blessings in disguise
And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes.
Hometown weather is on TV
I imagine the lives of the people living there
And I'm curious if they imagine me
'Cause they just wanna leave; I wish that I could stay
Pre-CHORUS:
But I get turned around
I mistake some happiness for blessing
But I'm blessed as the poor
Still I judge success by how I'm dressing
CHORUS
So I'll sing a song of my hometown
I'll breathe the air and walk the streets
Maybe find a place to sit and read
And the ants are welcome company
CHORUS
Back to "#title2#" AlbumPetrified Lyrics
This old heart's been left
Upon on my sleeve
And I have paid as it's been rent
Into pieces
Seems everyone I've loved has
Taken a bit of my insides
I'm scattered as the woman whose body
Was torn for the twelve tribes
When did my heart get so petrified
When did it get so hard to feel
When did my heart get so afraid to love
When did it get so hard
And the easy-living Gnostic proud
Use their knowledge
Like a wreking ball to tear me down
Flooding me with their fallacies
I can't walk on this water
I'm starting to drown
Strike this rock with your rod
I'll take the blows
Till Your living water begins to flow
As it flowed from the Man of Sorrows' side
On that day when His body
Was torn for the twelve tribes
Back to "#title2#" AlbumPetrified Heart Lyrics
This old heart's been left
Out on my sleeve
and I have paid as it's been rent
into peices
Seems everyone I've loved has
Taken a bit of my insides
I'm scattered as the woman whose body
Was torn for the twelve tribes
When did my heart get so petrified
when did it get so hard to feel
when did my heart get so afraid to love
when did it get so hard
And the easy-living Gnostic proud
Use their knowledge
Like a wrecking ball to tear me down
FFlooding me with their fallacies
I can't walk on this water
I'm starting to drown
Strike this rock with your rod
I'll take the blows
Till your living water begins to flow
as it flowed from the man of sorrow's sides
on that day when his body
was torn for the twelve tribes
Back to "#title2#" AlbumShifting Sand Lyrics
Sometimes I believe all the lies
So I can do the things I despise
And everyday I am swayed
By whatever is on my mind
I hear it all depends on my faith
So I'm feeling precarious
The only problem I have with these mysteries
Is they're so mysterious
And like a consumer I've been thinking
If I could just get a bit more
More than my fifteen minutes of faith
Then I'd be secure
CHORUS:
My faith is like shifting sand
Changed by every wave
My faith is like shifting sand
So I stand on grace
Stand on grace
I've begged You for some proof
For my Thomas eyes to see
A slithering staff, a leprous hand
And lions resting lazily
A glimpse of Your back-side glory
And this soaked alter going ablaze
But you know I've seen so much
And I explained it away
CHORUS
Waters rose as my doubts resigned
My sand-castle faith, it slipped away
Found my self standing on Your grace
It'd been there all the time
CHORUS(2x)
Stand on grace...
Back to "#title2#" AlbumSomewhere North Lyrics
It's a muggy night in Houston
And all the intersections are like full service stations
I'm on my way to a familiar place
It's cold in Kansas City
And you can no more hear me than I can see your face
How I wish it was just you and me
We wouldn't have to talk above the crowd
We wouldn't have to talk so loud
I give you my life and all I am
But what I have to give
So I hand you a candid photograph of this little boy
'Cause I have nothing to my name
But I can give you that
I don't miss the driving
Seems like forever
And I'm always driving in my mind
And wearing out the road that gets me there
And I'm driving till my eyes just can't see straight
But I suppose that it's getting late
I may never find the sleep
I've lost all feeling in my hands and
Feet may touch the ground but
My mind's somewhere north of here
Back to "#title2#" AlbumTable For Two Lyrics
Danny and I
Spent anther late night over pancakes
Talkin' 'bout soccer
And how every man's just the same.
We made speculation
On the who's and the when's of our futures
And how everyone's lonely
But still we just couldn't complain.
And how we just hate being alone.
Could I have missed my only chance,
And now I'm just wasting my time
By lookin' around
But ya know I know better,
I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothin'.
Cause if the birds and the flowers survive,
Then I'll make it okay.
Given a chance and a rock;
see which one breaks a window.
See which one keeps me up all night and into the day.
Because I'm so scared of being alone
That I forget what house I live in.
But it's not my job to wait by the phone
For her to call.
Well this day's been crazy
But everything's happened on schedule,
from the rain and the cold
To the drink that I spilled on my shirt.
'Cause You knew how You'd save me
before I fell dead in the garden,
And You knew this day
long before You made me out of dirt.
And You know the plans that You have for me
And You can't plan the end and not plan the means
And so I suppose I just need some peace,
Just to get me to sleep.
Back to "#title2#" AlbumThankful Lyrics
I ran across an old box of letters
while I was bagging up some clothes for Goodwill
you know I had to laugh that the same old struggles
that plagued me then are plaguing me still
I know the road is long from the ground to glory
but a boy can hope he's getting some place
but you see I'm running from the very clothes I'm wearing
and dressed like this I'm fir for the chase
no, there is none righteous
not one who understands
there is none who seek God
no not one, no not one
Chorus 1
I am thankful that I'm incapable
of doing any good on my own
'cause we're all stillborn and dead in our trangressions
we're shackled up to the sin we hold so dear
so what part can I play in the work of redemption
I can't refuse, I cannot add a thing
'cause I am just like Lazarus and I can hear your voice
I stand and rub my eyes and walk to you
because I have no choice
Chorus 2
I am thankful that I'm incapable
of doing any good on my own
I'm so thankful that I'm incapable
of doing any good on my own
it's by grace I have been saved
through faith that's not my own
it is the gift of God and not by words
lest anyone should boast
- Chorus 2 (2x) -
Back to "#title2#" AlbumThere You Go Lyrics
Is this the strange feeling
Of You working all to good
'Cause I am so confused
I don't even ask for what I should
When I asked for and deserved stone
You broke and gave Your body as bread
And even the stone that dropped down and rolled away
Spoke of the One who bled
There You go working good from my bad
There You go making robes from my rags
There You go melting crowns from my calves
There You go working good of all I have
Till all I have's not that bad
When I asked for and deserved a serpent
You gave a net full of fish
And even the serpent that told the lie
When lifted high foretold the gift
For You so loved the unlovable
That You gave the ineffable
That who so believes the unbelievable
Will gain the unattainable
Back to "#title2#" AlbumWhere I Began Lyrics
The grass looked greener on the other side
So I tried to snatch myself from Your hand
Caught a boat to anywhere but Nineveh
And, well, you know, I got spit back on dry land
Give me purity and give me continence
But oh no, not yet
Like a coin hiding in the corner
Trying not to be swept
I was trying not to be swept
Kicking off against these goads
Sure did cut up my feet
And didn't Your hands get bloody
As You washed them clean
And You washed them clean
CHORUS:
Here I am again, back where I began
Try as I may, I can't get away from You
And all these roads that lead me to roam
Bring me back home
Here I am again, back where I began
So You have Yourself ninety-nine
Isn't that enough for You
Still You followed me to the shadowed valley
Carried me on Your shoulders too
I've done the work of Sisyphus
Thinking that I could get over this hill
But the one thing I can't get over now
Is the force of Your will
CHORUS(2x)
Where I began... Where I began
Where I began
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