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Sometimes it's sink or swim
And I've been treading water I should have expected the flood But floating never has been easy for me You caught me carefree And you called me like you saw me: Oh, a sinner And I said five wits, looks and strength I don't think are much in the way of companions And good deeds couldn't pay my account Not kinsmen nor knowledge stand The trial of every man Don't call me every man Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian I've looked on the evergreen And I've seen it constantly grow and show us life And I want to live eternally I want to be an imitation of Christ I want to be a little Christ Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian As a boy I'd put my steps In my bigger brother's tracks To match his stride And just like that I'll follow Jesus Jesus is my guide Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian Call me Christian |
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Test this gold for its worth is the same as testing me
And the fire burns easily today The net is the good that's left after the metal is refined As I melt, look at what I've got and Separate it all from what I need I'll take anything, anything genuine. Looking up from where I went I could take whatever I get I'll take anything, anything genuine More interesting is my faith than the fear of what I'll miss And those things are temporary anyway Still on this side getting fit for a faith that's been tried And I smile more believably while getting just enough to know I need I'll take anything, anything genuine Looking up from where I went, I could take whatever I get Falling from Your hands or falling from Your lips As long as it's from You, I know that I can take it, I can take it And I'll rejoice. |
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Growing more uneasy
With every question asked It seems you're jealous of my interests And the graven things I've cast Waking resolutions of twenty years or more That I would disallow golden cows My favorite anymore Your wishes set in stone I broke the first of ten I cleared this temple out Come take your place again There is only You There is only You Tiptoe from an akward scene Not fooling anyone Am I dumb enough to kneel with my accusors Or brave enough to run Petty daggers bounce weakly off my back I'm leaving breathless gods and secrets in my track Your wishes set in stone I broke the first of ten I cleared this temple out Come take Your place again There is only You There is only You Believe me There is only You There is only You To a thousand generations Of faithful men You have shown your favor Lord |
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Singing Gloria
Living Gloria And the light so shines that everyone will see Glory to God I want to make what I've been feeling show And I've been living with specific boundary lines Been given warning signs It comes down to me CHORUS: Singing Gloria Living Gloria And the light so shines that everyone will see I'm bringing Gloria Giving Gloria And to the Father may the greater glory be And once again I start the day Part of the mystery of overcoming sin While feeling less than meek and gentle And knowing what's new testamental Let them see me Knowing this that my redeemer finds me free The best that I can do is live what I believe Use my gifts and all my opportunities To let my words and deeds agree |
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Been to 48 states and a few different worlds
Beheld the blind tour guide and a pig wearing pearls I've seen grace under foot people fall in the street Or use it to wipe their feet Never the righteous man forsaken Never the righteous man Been to 48 states I remember a few Having higher skylines and a wide angle view I've seen green lands and the natives stay in one place Peace falling on their face Where could I be And stay happy I hear Hawaii is greener I hear Alaska is cleaner Whether here or there the righteous have joy to spare Been to 48 states and few different worlds I've seen dithered men leave boys, women and girls Found the church roll full and they're current with dues To pay for the empty pews Never the righteous man forsaken Never the righteous man |
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This is the hard part
Stopping to ask for directions Sketching with these dirty colors just where I am You might have heard me Artfully dodging the buzz words Scoffing at your insinuation Of just where I am I'm a long long way From where I left to begin this refrain From where Your mercy and grace remain From where you sit is it true It's not that far to You It happened slowly Feet falling hard on the pavement Eyes reaching into the distance Toward empty sunsets Didn't I need to break out, want to be king Wouldn't I face the gallows if I return Or is a man freely pardoned As I have heard Precious Jesus Where can I flee from Your Spirit You know me too well. |
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It's the choice of a lifetime & I'm almost sure
I will not live my life in between anymore If I can't be certain of all that's in store This far it feels so right I will hold it up & hold it up to the light, Hold it up to the light, hold it up to the light The search for my future has brought me here This is more than I'd hoped for, but sometimes I fear That the choice I was made for will someday appear And I'll be too late for that flight So hold it up & hold it up to the light, Hold it up to the light, hold it up to the light I said God, will you bless this decision? I'm scared. Is my life at stake? But I know if you gave me a vision Would I never have reason to use my faith? Now as soon as I'm moving & my choice is good This way comes through right where I prayed that it would If I keep my eyes open and look where I should Somehow all of the signs are in sight If I hold up the light It's too late & to be stopped at the crossroads Each life here & each a possible way But wait & and they all will be lost roads Each path's growing shorter the longer I stay I was dead with deciding & afraid to choose I was mourning the loss of the choices I'd lose But there's no choice at all if I don't make my move And trust that the timing is right I will hold it up hold it up to the light Hold it up to the light, hold it up to the light. |
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Eye is to the body as a thought is to the soul
They're both a lamp whose sharpness I control Beauty lingers 'bout as long as flattery my friend That door doesn't let out but lets back in I was full of everything, my eyes put on this plate Full of joy I'm needing, less of late I can return love to You the best that I know how I believe my worth has been redeemed And I can be a new man now Flatterers can fill a room as readily as this The devil goes to dinner amidst their bliss Following the need will lead me farther from truth's well Then only to be filled with what I miss I'm a new man, I'm a new man Like I said, there's always room where one keeps all things dear I'll shrink away from sight and thought and evil that appears I'm a new man, I'm a new man. |
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There must be something else that
all of this revolves around I appear so small and barely make a sound Still mysterious these frequencies they draw you out Looking for some light, see what I'm all about CHORUS: The rest of them are stars I'm a quasar Passed constellations where so many wishes have been caught There you can find me incubating thought Did you get consolation from a diamond in the sky Or did he let you down don't stop there tonight The rest of them are stars The rest of them are stars Can they know for certain what I can become I may let down a few or off and surprise some And as the sun outshines it seems like I've disappeared Yet there are these sounds anyone can hear You'll find me, you'll find me Moving fastly to illuminate And brightly and brightly For the effort from so far away From the rest of them CHORUS |
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Won't you be a good boy
Listen closely and enjoy All the benefits that getting wisdom brings Give her esteem She is priceless and supreme She will crown your head with more honor than kings Get her boy and let yourself surrender Run alone with her and never fall She is wisdom and the most praiseworthy trait of all, of them all Embrace her and the love she brings will save you To the Father's justifiable ways She is wisdom waiting with her prize Garland of grace Do you have none Do you cry out for the One Would you offer anything to understand (Listen closely to her) Study her well And in time the truth will tell How it's wisdom that completely makes her man And she will now so With her garland of grace… |
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When time shall slip its cog in place
And spin its line of lovely lace Then love and peace come face to face One of these days When sorrow can nowhere be found And greed shall lay its weapons down And hate give up without a sound One of these days When love by tender instrument Through circumstance and incident Shall peace and joy again invent One of these days To see this from within the soul We must be patient and consoled To know the joy that's ours to hold One of these days And so with earnest inward eyes We man the post where duty lies And seek to win the precious prize One of these days One of these days… |
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