thought about what you said and i'm not sorry for a thing you do not understand this or what it means to me cannot discard this as emotion this is more than another passing stage you'll have to prove it's just opinion in defense of everything this is my everything could it be that you have stumbled tripped and fallen over something more than faith could you prove yourself this is a matter of life and death would you step up to the line but please don't just talk this time i want what you ask of me i want what you ask of me this time step up to the line action begs reaction what is left to be said anything less has all been done before to put to rest what you've been wondering if you could take my life would you still ask for more I though about what you said something occurred to me you wouldn't ask me to turn my back on anything if you believed that I believe truth is I would love to show you take "faith & works" to another higher stage so there is little time for words you've heard life and death are only steps, I'm not afraid of what comes next what is enough in your opinion perhaps my death would bring some substance to my claims vanity of vanities this life, love, art & sex each breath you breathe is grasping at the wind He is my everything we cannot both be right about right and wrong and God and man right and wrong and God and man i want what you ask of me this time please step up to the line He's my everything action begs reaction what is left to be said anything less has all been done before so put to rest your wondering if you could take my life you'd still ask for mor

like a favorite slave, who's learned to hide behind the chains your presence sickens me, i'm trying to tell you something born into your bonds, played the puppet all along but so quick to dismiss me, do you even know what's out there? cast this world aside, they'll bleed you till there's nothing left, no limits to their lives, their end is never changing all that you can see, kneels at His feet in sovereignty. time is complete, all that you can know will praise his name as you will. little finite minds, masters of their finite lives but always seem to come up empty needing kingdoms built from birth but death reclaims them all to earth dust to dust and memories and this orchestral masterpiece can only end in tragedy. can you hear God laughing deep unto deep all creation braces for the passing of this time

the sun, the air, the faithful crashing of waves carefree comforted knowing eyes watched over me even now i taste the salt on my lips being dried by the sun an ocean limitless, taking me back to better days seems so far away. somehow, somewhere i've lost a part of me got caught up in this twisted place and lost simplicity the things i've seen have tainted everything i think i gave up living. when life is stained can it be cleaned? want to know... if i can set aright a life that's gone so wrong in a way, start again. if not what is left? i can do it on my own, i could long ago i'm sure that i have tried the sun, the air, the faithful crashing of waves remind me of a child that i'd love to be again only now finding comfort and peace in trusting a God i'd even more that i might see and even more than better days to trust agai

i'm crawling out of my skin i hope i get under yours so many times before but you still wanna know why i won't just lay down and die what did you expect i think that i could guess but this weight is lifted and i'm like back from the dead and i'm feeling kinda strange i'm not the same, and i think i like the change nothing lost, just cut away nothing left to hinder me pushing on, stronger every day leaning into the wind that used to carry me (nothing left to hinder me)(*backing vocal) the last shot nearly killed me eternity lifted me again (nothing left to hinder me) oh, how i want to be an offense, an unsettling presence in this life why'd you try to take me out why try to keep me down? to get my eyes off me down each ugly street too many needs, too many souls on their knees and where have i been? too much is me and mine too much is wasting time with the cares of this life and now i understand and i'm i'm on my way i feel like a man and i, i think i like the change nothing lost, just cut away nothing left to hinder me pushing on, stronger every day leaning into the wind that used to carry me (nothing left to hinder me) the last shot nearly killed me eternity lifted me again (nothing left to hinder me) oh how i want to be an offense, an unsettling presence in this life why'd you try to take me out, why try to keep me down

a careless leper too comfortable in his own world to notice the the older wounds have new infections with new intentions darkness settled in behind me tapped me on the shoulder singing shivers to my spine from the corners of my mind "i've been wanting to remind you of everything you've left behind and wouldn't you, shouldn't you remember me should you forget, i haven't yet remember when we... almost stepped right off between the two heavens one above and one below one last flight all stars and city lights one last goodbye one last goodbye..." she's there when i'm alone and she always seems to know the stories that'll take me back to where my comforts sleep a caress with velvet paws that hide her sharpened claws along the walls that time has built high searching for the blemishes and i know she's breathing murder that it is folly to endure her but there is sweetness in her whisper "when you've had enough, i'll be waiting wouldn't you, shouldn't you remember me should you forget, i haven't yet you know that we can always step right off between the two heavens one above and one below one last flight all stars and city lights one last goodbye one last goodbye..." i've never known a life without her at every turn she's there her comfort i despise but there's a coward in me, fearing any changes for the trial hopeless is a hideaway familiar escape i've never known a life without her at every turn, she's there yesterday's a siren singing memories so inviting sometimes reaping takes a lifetime but i'm pushing on, with living life renewed in mind, i say goodbye to yesterday, the siren singing memories so inviting sometimes reaping takes a lifetime but i'm pushing on, with the mind of Christ i say goodbye and watch her di

and in the dark the same old scars wake me up to bleed again when it's done will the new day sun burn what's left of me to mend will you know my name or will i hang my head in shame will you take this tired skin that i've been dying in will someone hold me to the light and if i die tonight then take this broken man and wrap me tight within this brand new ski

the pain will come with the morning sun will the night betray the day blistered skin withered from within scratch to shed this shell away will you know my name or will i hang my head in shame will someone take this tired skin that i've been dying in will someone hold me to the light and if I die tonight then take this broken man and wrap me tight within this brand new skin watch me fly freedom like wings and i will use them freedom like wings and i will spread them wide watch me fly... freedom my wings... freedom my wings... and rise one day my ashes will return to earthly slumber spread far and wide across the desert and the sea until then i will live each day in awe and wonder look forward to each sunris

near the gateway to mojave i saw a place both beautiful and blistering and cruel and cold the same the sun was like a lion bearing down upon its prey death valley stained in crimson for the moon to wash away and i envisioned rows of gallows for the world to look upon one step too bringing order to a planet tempting chaos can you feel it coming down the righteous wrath of God revealed from out of heaven for the innocent blood crying from the ground while the wicked seem to prosper and glory in these days as if their ways were hidden as if they had escaped we have lost our sense of justice smearing lines of right and wrong despising any standards we blindly stumble on bleeding hearts may scream compassion what of those that cannot cry a life is worth a life justice...merciful and blind innocent blood is crying from the ground it's coming dow