Friday, April 23, 2010

"Should I"

You've seen the flaw in the armor
And now I'm hoping you won't rip it open
This new vulnerability
Feels like a single word could leave me broken

Does a broken heart ever fully mend
Can it ever love the same way again
Should I just pick up the pieces
And get out with what I have left

I'm trying to give you all I can
But you don't seem to understand

I am dying to be heard
Should I run, should I run away
There's nobody beside me
Is there anyone behind me
At all

And I don't know if it's too much I'm asking
But I can't deny this pain I'm masking

Brothers and sisters of the light
Could you bear with my plea tonight

I feel so alone
And I hope
The feeling doesn't grow
Because I know
That I can't stand here on my own

Should I run, should I run away
When it feels like there's no reason to stay

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

"Hunger Pains"

I want every song to sound like this one
One that fits in to your rhythm
I want every day to end like this
With breath inside these lungs and fists
Escaping through the cracks of joy
That you built in this little boy
Long ago, from time to time
Every day he's ever been alive

There's a soul inside this jar of mud
Sometimes it feels you've given up
But even with my faulty sight
Fire still burns in the dead of night
The brightest of all hope shines out
Even in the midst of my darkest doubts
And I can't change a single line
That's been drawn in all of space and time

[chorus]
You give me just a taste of hope
Enough to make me want the rest
I can't hold all you can give
But I can do my best
You leave me with a hunger still
One that never disappears
I can try to ignore the hunger pains
But they always find me here

Keep erasing all I know
Fill the gaps within my soul
Reinvent the things I feel
Until your heartbeat's true and real
Pulsing over sounds and waves
And all the things this body craves
It's only when my heart's a mess
That I feel I truly know what love is

And I can hear you
[chorus]
You give me just a taste of hope
Enough to make me want the rest
I can't hold all you can give
But I can do my best
You leave me with a hunger still
One that never disappears
I can try to ignore the hunger pains
But they always find me here

On the brink of all I am
It's when I find that maybe I'm just a simple man
With one essential need
To be loved and to love somebody
Yeah, to love somebody

Sunday, April 18, 2010

"Hold Me"

I'm trying hard
To see life through Your eyes
But when I catch a glimpse
It hurts sometimes

I've got no sense on my own
I need You here
I'm so afraid of the truth
And it's all I need to hear

I've got nowhere to run to
This is it

[chorus]
Hold me
I can't feel the world around me
I've gone numb
From all I've done
Hold me

Lose myself for the cost
Of all I'm meant to be
But I still carry this weight
Alongside me

I'm looking for a sign
To help me move
When all you want
Is my trust to be in you

[chorus]
Hold me
I can't feel the world around me
I've gone numb
From all I've done
Hold me
I can't win this race I'm running
And I'm so scared, what I'm becoming
Just hold me

[bridge]
You make me free
You make me free
You make me clean
When You hold me

Look into the mirror
What do you see?
Is it just a broken picture
Of a lovely thing?

I've seen you run all over
Trying to find peace
I know that you would find it
If' you'd just hold me

Thursday, April 15, 2010

"Learn From It"

What is it that we don't understand?
What is it that we've failed to grasp?
We can't go back and change the past
But we can learn from it

Let's not and just pretend we did
Turn our cheeks away and say we did something
We can't justify why we act stupid
But we can learn from it

[chorus]
So we try to paint the past
In our own light
We try to win the war
With the same fight
We try to claw our way
Up to new heights
Let's stop and see
Just what we have done

How can we get up again
After all the failures settle in
We can't run from consequence of sin
But we can learn from it

We ridicule the lost each day
But we don't have to go our brothers' way
We ridicule them for their mistakes
When we can learn from them

[chorus]
So we try to paint the past
In our own light
We try to win the war
With the same fight
We try to claw our way
Up to new heights
When we need to stay down
For now

Stay down, for now
Stay down, just for now
The future's open wide
You'll have to set it aside
Just for now

We can make it through this race
We can make it through this race
With just a little bit of grace, I know
We can make it through this race

Monday, April 5, 2010

"You're Always Mine"

Let's just
Stop and remember
All we've
Been through together
You took my
Hand and pulled me out of the dark

Let's stop
Think of forever
A heart that
Longs for surrender
To give it all
I want to follow after Your heart

But where do I start
Where do I start?

I'm still
Calling the shots now
When You want
For me to lay it down
I'm still
So afraid of letting it go

But where will I go
Where will I go?

[chorus]
Father be here
And Father be kind
Make my heart clean
Renew my whole mind
'Cause all that You want
At this present time
Is for me to be still
And know You're always mine

Let's put
It all on the table
In Your hands
My whole world is stable
So why do I
Feel so unable to move

Please keep
Pushing me forward
I know I
Won't be rewarded
Until I
Finally meet the face of Truth

[chorus]

[instrumental]

[chorus]
Father be here
And Father be kind
Make my heart clean
Renew my whole mind
'Cause all that You want
From me in this life
Is for me to be still
And know You're always mine
For me to be still

Saturday, April 3, 2010

"Time To Move"

I'm not buying it anymore
You can't hold me down
(Can't hold me down)
I'm not lying on the floor
You can't hold me down
(Can't hold me down)

Now I can see
All the lies from between your teeth
The subtle manipulating
And I'm not buying it

I'm not dying anymore
You can't hold me down
(Can't hold me down)
I'm not prying for the shore
You can't make me drown
(Can't hold me down)

Now I can see
All the lies from between your teeth
The subtle manipulating
And I'm not buying it

[chorus]
You can let it flow
From your lips, but it drips
With pure lonliness
You can let it flow
Out, from your mouth
A fountain of bitterness
Or you can let it go
Start to heal, do you feel
The weight now as it lifts
Off you
It's time to move on
It's time to move

I always thought of myself as a thinker
But before I took your bait, hook, line and sinker
And now I'm moving away from the pain
Of the scar that still remains
It isn't easy
But letting go is all it takes

[chorus]
So you can let it flow
From your lips, but it drips
With pure lonliness
You can let it flow
Out, from your mouth
A fountain of bitterness
Or you can let it go
Start to heal, then you'll feel
The weight now as it lifts
Off you
When you choose to move on
When you choose to move