You’ve been tarnished And you’ve been stained And all the varnish you’ve used to cover up with is peeling away Yet even now, return to me with nothing less Than your wounded, broken heart And cling to me, your gracious king Be shattered glass of empty jars and rend Rend, rend, rend Rend your hearts […]
I’ve never seen anything like your fountain Comin’ down from the tip of the mountaintop And it goes, never stops, only overflows I’ve never met anyone with the power To make a desert bloom like a flower Up and it goes, where it stops, only heaven knows Never known anyone as wonderful as you are
O to be delighted by you And to see the colors of your train And to be freed by you That would be that would be That would be my claim to fame So rejoice my friend because my friend You’ve got a friend and friend indeed It is for freedom he set us free
How could you see what you see and not totally Want to discontinue me for all eternity and then some It bothers me so that i could be so Completely unaffected when connected to the holy one And so i sit here and stare at this page and wonder At what age it will become
I said you gotta leave, you gotta promise me It’s the beginning of my end, you gotta promise me How can a holy god renew a wicked pharisee I’m saying i’m like peter in the boat, so just depart from me It seems i’m destined for doom like ancient prophesy And in the dark i’m
Never turning back to the way things were I’m stronger now than i was before I hear the sound that freedom brings It’s ringing loud Now i am free to lift my eyes For grace is alive You are the hope that broke the dark in me You are the light that shines when i
I thought i’d win them all with words I’d say a smooth little line to win the room every time And they’d be moved by what they heard My tongue as empty as my heart It’s not enough to play the part O jesus give me more than words We pass out paper facts all
The gospel, the gospel Fragrancing words The sea of my soul Is calmed when it’s hurt Peace to the broken The captive set free May the gospel of jesus wash over me The gospel, the gospel My freedom explained No more shall these garments I’m wearing be stained The old man is missing The new
It is finished, it is finished Tetelesti The beauty of the double meaning phrase He ceased from his labor and so have i Now resting only in his grace It is finished, it is finished Tetelesti The son of man succeeding where i failed The wrath of god now satisfied In jesus, my emmanuel It
I remember it was later in december when we got the call Dead of winter cut deep like a splinter from the weight of it all When the news came, for me the hardest part of all Was to see you sitting there so brokenhearted I’d forgotten how it felt to hit the bottom when
Where do you hide Where do you go? Why are you running from me? And why do you fear when you know i am near to thee Someone come Someone come Someone come fill the divide Fill the divide Colorless life, not even grey Oceans apart and miles and miles away O, being deceived and
This here’s the story of tossed by the wind Who went out on his own with deceptions of men He was warned by his mama ‘son, don’t listen to them’ And here’s what she said to our friend Be sure that no one takes you captive By deceptions of men ’cause you will find it