Daddy never cried He just turned away Never showed the side That was soft as clay What a weak reply You live inside a blanket of blame
Why would you need a gift of pardoning Until your sin becomes your own Soon comes inevitable reckoning Then you'll understand Just how much true love can change a man
Daddy never cried Will not work today Put your pride aside We all need grace Somwhere deep inside What you love is what you need to hate
When will you stop blaming somebody else You make decisions on your own You chose to leave the truth for nonsense Do you understand Just how much the truth can change a man
Daddy never
Why would you need a gift of pardoning Until your sin becomes your own Soon comes inevitable reckoning Then you'll understand Just how much true love can change a man
Standing over my garden I look down And disappointment overcomes me The tears that formed are now falling from my eyes And watering the ground around me Lost inside this dissolution I hear you say my name
I hear you calling I hear you calling to me I hear you calling
Faith, like a flower, needs water and room to grow Placed in sunlight, not in shadow Hope that the seed htat is hidden will rise and bloom From the heart of one forgiven Love runs in the living Water I've heard you say my name
Let me go back And do it all over again What I know now I wish I knew then There's a pain That just will not die
Let me hear you say it's okay Let me hear you say it's alright I could really use some words of comfort So I won't be alone tonight So I won't be alone tonight
Let me move on I've said I was sorry Help me look out And see the sun agian 'Cause there's a pain That someday must die
Let me hear you say it's okay Let me hear you say it's alright I could really use some words of comfort So I won't be alone tonight So I won't be alone tonight
His petty problems now left behind No hesitation, purely devine The first revalation Was that he would be free His second was he'd drown in grace His frowning face replaced irresistibly The floor meets his knees
He's come and everyone In the kingdom wears a smile Because he's won Oh, he's come and waves of joy Spread accross the kingdom Smile because he's won the battle
All the excuses that you have brought No explanation was ever sought To stand before the King of Kings To taste a kiss of life beyond No expectations just your barren self That's how he sees you anyway Life is yours today
You've come and everyone In the kingdom wears a smile Because he's won Oh, you've come and waves of joy Spread accross the kingdom Smile because he's won the battle
You've come and everyone In the kingdom wears a smile Because he's won Oh, you've come and waves of joy Spread accross the kingdom Smile because he's won the battle
You've come and everyone In the kingdom wears a smile Because he's won Oh, you've come and waves of joy Spread accross the kingdom Smile because he's won, the battle is won
And the band marches on and on and on without slowing And their leader leads them on and on and on without knowing Never looking back to see the mess that they had left behind
The media mediates between the masses and the myth it creates But it never knows the damage grows the more it bends the truth
They tell us what they want us to hear They patronize our aching ears
It's all too clear the wealths of violence and sexual perversion Offer more than just some innocent psychological diversion They have left so many bleeding needing help from Christ the king
We don't have to watch what they want us to see Yet we've let them bind our hands and feet
How can you say, "let's all remain unaffected," when No lines were drawn, the band just marches on And they forget you when you fall down
For so long we walk in darkness Hoping to find the way But without something or someone to guide us We stuble blindly day after day
So he lights candles in hopes that we'll see Glimpses of him in this mystery That we'll leave shadows and more toward the flame As we move closer we'll see his face
To face with the one who made mountains Who hung the stars in the sky He is love and loved us so much That He was willing to die
Die for the man on the corner Who sold his soul years ago And now knows of only regret To trade his life for the woman Who doesn't think mercy Is something that she'll ever get
Hope to all who are hopeless Who've never known kindness He has not forgotten your ame You are loved by the One who With his own hands has made you And loves you forever the same
So he lights candles in hopes that we'll see Glimpses of him in this mystery That we'll leave shadows and more toward the flame As we move closer we'll see his face
She wallows in her misery What made her think that this would be That this would be any different From the first mistake she made Still she dove without a care For the second time around she'll pay
And wallow in her misery The first to fail the last to flee She thought she'd figured out the answer To some long forgotten page From some long forgotten book On how to get her own way
I've tried and tried to tell her It's not what you do It's what you've done With what you did I've tried to tell her
She wallows in her misery A failure at failure she fails to see That this overacted part From this never ending play Is just her substitute For reality anyway
I've tried and tried to tell her It's not what you do It's what you've done With what you did I've tried to tell her
Have you always been the same my friend You don't have to be alone and lonely my friend Will you always be the same my friend I'm wondering, I wonder will you see...
On this, an ordinary day There's an extrodinary Savior Waiting, wanting you to know him On this, an ordinary day
Do you even recognize your need How can you build an argument from nothing my friend Can you feel Him plandt the seed my friend It's happening, I wonder will you see...
On this, an ordinary day There's an extrodinary Savior Waiting, wanting you to know him On this, an ordinary day Creation's author waits for You who happened to need him More than he needs you On this, an ordinary day
It was an ordinary day When he died once for all And he'll still be the same
She takes the six o'clock train It's off to work and then home again She wonders if this will ever change Clutching her pillow she hides in a dark Room in her heart
How long has it been Since love touched her and she let it in Chased out the shadows, filled emptiness With her head in her hands She cries, "Come back again, I need you my friend"
We fight on our knees But don't often see The battles that rage being won But fight on we will And tarry until Love comes to carry us on To kneel with the broken in spirit And call upon the Son
So many holes here within Torn apart and then blown by the wind Hell and high water come crashing in Pride says to fight but he cannot defend This means to an end
The truth cuts like a blade Bleeding all of the plans that he made Nothing but faith in the one who came Can ever bring peace to the spirit again Will he understand
We fight on our knees For those who might see The battle is over, it's won Not by our hands By the Son of man He who is has overcome Death and the grave hold no power To those who call upon the Son
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We fight on our knees But don't often see The battles that rage being won But fight on we will And tarry until Love comes to carry us on To kneel with the broken in spirit And call upon the Son
Nothing I can say Will matter anyway Just a faint display With me in the middle No more empty words Will anymore be heard All my minds and verbs Mean very little Like whispers thrown against the wind Empty phrases caving in
It doesnt mean anything without you Just a nice melody without you Without your spirit to sing Of the hope and the joy that you bring Without you it doesn't mean anything
Nothing I'll ever do Could ever hold a candle to The love displayed when you Said you forgave me And what I know of love Is that I'm not deserving of The one you called your son The one sent to save me Like love holding the hand of hate You choose to love me anyway
It doesn't mean anything without you Just words that I say without you Without your spirit to sing Of this change of the heart that you bring Without you it doesn't mean anything
here i am once again pleading to the sky kneeling to the sands shedding my regrets knowing You'll forget everything
Chorus why didn't i go to such great lengths to try to please You instead i tried to please myself in the end when your heart is broken i see the folly of trying to please myself
i have not yet arrived seeing anything quiet my desires till they die until they die or align with Your will
Never imagined that you'd be here again Yet another season of doubt has set in The warm september rains have gone, gone away The trust that you held in your heart isn't there Now you're fighting your fears but they never fight fair Gone are all the endless summer days
(chorus) I believe that they're still there Though the storms will surely So let me ask you can you look to the sky And strain to see the sun again
You harbor the hurt and you shelter the pain
Too proud to confess that you'd fallen again But don't you long for mercy's tender embrace Remember the works you spoke from your heart It's a pity those phrases have fallen apart Gone is every promise that you made
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Will you keep fooling yourself How long will you run till you're gasping for air You ran when the shadows grew long You thought the sun fell from the sky But i tell you you're wrong
The roof caved in and the walls crumbled and there i stood exposed clutching my chest in fear how'd i end up here bad decisions one right after the other moved like waves pulled by the moon like a puppet who's tugged on by string like water tumbling down stream i was lost
Chorus A blind man, deaf boy and the Lover of me and were did it lead to i fought for air as i was drowning in that rushing stream as the water poured over me
off the bridge i threw my heart as if it didn't matter i walked the edge so fearlessly blindfolded by my lustful eyes deafened by a string of lies but You saw me there in my same condition Your eyes held me in Your stare You gazed into my empty soul spoke the words the burned a hole in my heart
Chorus B blind man, deaf boy now see and hear did you think that I'd not find you don't you know that I'm the lover souls and I came to be near from this very earth I made you
some of us like sheep have gone astray some of us like fools live for today and then it's gone and you're left with nothing you fight to hold it all inside your hands somehow we think we'll understand what no eye has ever seen and no mind comprehended
He's brought me here where things are clear and trials turn to gold He's shared with me His victory He won in days of old oh Lord, i don't deserve the riches of Your world but You changed my filthy rags to linen white as snow
the view from here is nothing near to what it is for You i've tried to see Your plan for me but i only acted like i knew oh Lord, forgive the times i've tried to read your mind cause You said if i'd be still then i would hear Your voice
my Lord, my King my urge to sing and praise the things above now words could say the glorious way You've changed me with Your love He's brought me here where things are clear and trials turned to gold
