1. |
Waiting
02:54
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up here in the city there's a pressure to keep moving
and i feel like i am falling behind
like i'm standing still
if silence is a virtue, i've been saving all my sinning
bottled up for this moment when speech is wearing thin
aren't you yearning
aren't you longing too
a new beginning
all things to be made new
oh quiet come the hours as they steal into the daylight
time passes so much slower with you
an aching pace
if memories are chords then all these synapses and nodes
are calling out in chorus with you
in major fourth
aren't you yearning
aren't you longing too
a new beginning
all things to be made new
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2. |
Stay Awake
03:44
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watermark on the glass
i have found you at last
tracing your shape with my thumb
silhouette on the wall
i am nothing at all
just an outline for a shadow
as sorrow lies waiting so near
i say, lord, don't go anywhere
stay awake
stay awake with me
gethsemane night
head bowed in the moonlight
for the cup that is yours to drink
"pray with me, my friends"
as we nod off again
such courage within your sheep
and oh again we desert you
though you cry out for us to cling near you
stay awake
stay awake with me
oh, am i so unloyal
that i'd leave you out in the cold
am i so ungrateful
to sleep through each call to be bold
stay awake
stay awake with me
cuz i keep on falling asleep
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3. |
Peace Over Me
04:56
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all of my friends are pacing the floor
searching for answers and asking for more
all of us striving to be at our best
still playing our cards right, close to the chest
but i want freedom
and i want to believe Him
when He speaks peace over me
hour by hour
healing by hurt
the closest companions
some cyclical curse
to never be reached, to never be whole
i break from my neighbor and i break from my lord
but i want freedom
and i want to believe Him
when He speaks peace over me
i come to the garden
all on my own
the dew on the roses, and the dew on the thorn
walking beside me in the cool of the day
the joy set before you leads me on my way
and i have freedom
and i believe Him
when He speaks peace over me
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4. |
West Coast
03:35
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a storm rolls and i take cover
sheltered from the wind and the thunder
and i listen to the rain fall on the hill
they say i could be greater
but i listen for the voice of my maker
this too shall pass, the swelling of the tide
so this is life
must not be doing it right
just waiting to die
i took my woes and headed for the west coast
i left no number, left no place to post
you never felt to me as someone close
i'm at it alone
oh your heart well it seems farther
than the seaside there which fathered
the wanderlust brewing in my soul
and the beauty that surrounds me
the ideas that confound thee are a muse
in the valley of my mind
no way to try and snare me now
i'm blind to the way, the know-how
cuz i took my woes and headed for the west coast
i left no number, left no place to post
you never felt to me as someone close
i'm at it alone
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5. |
Darker Shade of Blue
02:19
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baby i can hear your thoughts like their my own
thinkin bout the way it'd go if we were all alone
we could let the moment pass and then just play it safe
leave all the maybes for another day
but i ain't lying when i say i'm living for the moment
and i ain't wrong when i say i'm still searching for the truth
and in the night when i lay my head there on the pillow
i'll admit i'm just a little darker shade of blue
honey i can feel the fever break us down
raging like a wild fire through this desert town
if we were to start it over would it end the same
oh honey i'm tired of the game
but i ain't lying when i say i'm living for the moment
and i ain't wrong when i say i'm still searching for the truth
and in the night when i lay my head there on the pillow
i'll admit i'm just a little darker shade of blue
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6. |
Recursion
04:44
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you move too slow
i can see you when you're running out of control
searching for a frame of mind
you pulled a ten of swords
thought it was bad luck
but you didn't know what the cards were thinkin' of
it works good for a while
if you can lose yourself
hit the pause and hang your pretty dreams up on the shelf
oh but then one evening, staring in your eye
i see it all unravel like ribbon and twine
poured out like a river on a fault line
and recursion
is finally making sense to me
there's a lot of losing you gotta do just to find what you seek
and i've been learning things
like how to pay attention, savor the moment
honey i'll take my time
it works good for a while
if you can lose yourself
hit the pause and hang your pretty dreams up on the shelf
oh but then one evening, staring in your eye
i see it all unravel like ribbon and twine
poured out like a river on a fault line
i'm gonna run til i find it
i'm gonna seek til i lose it again
i'm gonna hold it when i have it
and i'm gonna have it til i lose it again
i'll lose it again
i'll lose you again
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7. |
Prayer of Your Love
02:49
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some days in the prayer of your love
it's an easy sort of talk in the morning
other nights it's more like job
groanings too deep for words
good hours in the prayer of your love
gleam like diamonds in my memory's eye
passing the time with you has always felt like
the heat of a summer july
oh i've got the faith for it
and maybe i am a fool for it
caught in the prayer of your love
long years in the prayer of your love
am i always gonna be a beginner
seems it always takes a push and shove
to get me walkin back home
do i still have the faith for it
maybe i am a fool for it
caught in the prayer of your love
honey when you pray with me at the end of the day
when we two go together we find the way
looks like we're caught in the prayer of our love
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8. |
True Dream
03:58
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thinking too much about it
gotta let it go
can't live in sepia
can't live in rose (psalm 16:5-7)
you are the only true dream
the end of desire (charles williams, many dimensions)
sufficient unto the day (matt. 6:33-34)
at the end of the day
i'll play at surrender
so you better take control (heb. 12:2-3)
nothing is certain, nothing is sure
but this mystery of love (romans 8:38-39)
you are the only true dream
the end of desire
sufficient unto the day
at the end of the day
all is one
dualities are done (rev. 21:23)
a sacred cord, a trusted sword (ecc. 12:6-7, heb. 12:6-7)
coursing through this blood (2 cor. 5:17)
because you are the only true dream
the end of desire
sufficient unto the day
at the end of the day
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