You’ve Got A Home
Mountains melt into valleys and
you suddenly find yourself in shadowlands
where all of life seems out of your hands
don’t think you’ve got no one left
Here’s a key to my front door
got a pillow if you lost yours
you got a seat at my table
you got a home
Here’s somebody who believes you
let truth remind you
you’ve always got a place to go to
you’ve got a home
Rain has come for all of us
pours out a different tune for everyone
there’s rhythm and rhyme inside the dissonance
we’ll listen for it side by side
Chorus x2
Here’s a key to my front door, my front door
All The More
Clear as the cloudless sky
were the countless reasons that I
fell in love with the boy from a small town
that I’d never heard of
It was first the great span of your grin
that caught me and reeled me in
I was raised not to ask to be kissed
otherwise I would’ve
‘Cause you were perfect in so many ways
I thought surely one of these days
some skeleton’s gonna come callin’
After a while I came to see that your humanity
only made me want you all the more
All the more, All the more
I have loved you
All the more
For the many things you don’t realize you do
I have loved you
All the more
The beauty of loving through time is the intimate knowledge of lines
and of creases that tell all the stories we’ve written together
You’re in love with the truth about me
all those scars that no one else sees
and that vision you hold
speaks louder than a thousand love letters
Chorus
‘Cause you were perfect in so many ways
I thought surely one of these days
some skeleton’s gonna come callin’
After a while I came to see that your humanity
only made me want you all the more
Chorus x2
For the many things you don’t realize you do
I have loved you
All the more
My Best Remedy (Amazing)
Thank you for making me laugh today
you took me by surprise
Thank you for catching me down at the mouth
You ambushed me with delight
Amazing amazing
I’ll take your medicine anytime
you are my best remedy
Thank you for standing outside my head
‘til I came out to you
You forced me to wash my face in the fresh air
and step my feet in the dew
Chorus
Be here tomorrow when I awake
come running for a dance
Mischievous angel you’ve taken your place in my heart
at last
Chorus x2
I’ll take your medicine anytime
You are my best remedy
A Thousand Things
You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep
Your’re gonna soak the pillow
for many weeks
You’re gonna cry
Why?
Why me?
But in spite of the ache
that doesn’t go away
You’ll be sharing your story
one rainy day
And at the next table somebody catches your words
He hear’s a truth that he’s never heard
He takes it back to the marriage he’d given up on
Hands it down to his daughter
who writes it into song
You didn’t know
A thousand things are happening in this one thing
Like a thousand fields nourished by a single drop of rain
So honey, wrap yourself in promise
while you wait the morning light
A thousand things are happening tonight
You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep
‘cause for the moment all that you can see
Is what you’ve lost , lost
Why me?
But in the midst of the most exquisite pain
you’re drawn into a peace that You cannot explain
and the praises you sing of a sovereign God
reach the girl whose last hope is gone
she never thought there was purpose in anything here
now the seed has been planted and it’s taking root there
You didn’t know
Chorus
A thousand things are happening tonight
You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep
A thousand miracles you’ll have to wait and see
Life Costs So Much
Death is easy you don’t know you’re a ghost
The fee is taken out nice and slow
While you’re walking around with your cardboard crown
We think we are kings
We think we are kings
Wisdom warned us but our flesh is strong
we’ll find our own way we’ll get along
Who knows what we need
We want everything
we’re living like kings
living like kings
But
life costs so much
Life costs so much
Someone paid for the damage
the damage we’ve done
How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got
Someone must have paid
‘cause life costs
A law of justice was long before
and all the people here in this world
We hid our souls in shame
how could we be saved?
send us a king, send us our king
Chorus
How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got
How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got
Don’t Call it Love
I’m tempted to sit back in my overstuffed chair
with a gavel in hand and a tired-eye stare that says
I’m not surprised you’ve messed it up again
I’m tempted to sigh, I’m tempted to yawn
if you’d only do life the way I’ve told you all along
It could be so easy
If you would only be more like me
But oh, that’s the beast that brings us down
It’s the devil in a satin gown
So don’t, don’t call it love (don’t call it love)
love wraps herself around the wound
and weeps while she speaks truth
So don’t call this love
Too much to say, not enough time
you’ve got so much to learn it’ll hurt for a while
but you know that I’m only concerned
I- only want to help
You got what you gave
I said that you would
I guess it must be really hard to be so unsure,
but it could be so easy if you would only be more like me
Chorus
Oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh oh oh
(Repeat)
Come along beside me
I’ll come along beside you
and I will wash your hands in my tears
I’ll take your boots to the river
and we can sing
where love makes music
love makes music
Oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
(Repeat x3)
I Want To Know That Man
If there’s a man with a vision to recognize beauty in places and faces the rest have passed by
If there’s a man who can meet with the queen and stay warm with a beggar the very same night
a man who would pour himself out for a stranger for years for no kind of pay
let me know his name
I wanna know that man
I wanna know that man
I wanna know that man
If there’s a man without a wallet or looks to explain why these masses of people wanna follow him around
if there is something compelling
if he’s saying something they know they’ve gotta know more about
a man who could love like a mother and die for a world instead of saving himself
I wanna know his name
Chorus
Oh, I’d be a fool to go on acting like it’s unimportant
it might take a little more faith to imagine him away
to walk the other way…….Oh Oh
If he came
if he lived
if he came
if he lived
If he died
if he lived
If he IS
if he IS
If there’s a God who would enter humanity
to capture the love of a rebel like me
I want to know his name (I want to know his name)
I wanna know that man
I wanna know that man (I want to know that man)
I wanna know that man
I wanna know that man, Oh… yeah
Weightless
Nothing scalds like the memory of wrongs I did when I was young
how could I
How could I
I’m sorry
I see the eyes of the ones that I so carelessly abused
how could I
how could I
I’m sorry
Well, I’ve carried this a long time
in a well hidden bundle on my back
but I’ve realized repentance is weightless
so I’ll leave my burden on the tracks
And then I face the yesterdays that disappointed
misunderstood by a cruel world
and I’m angry
You might suppose
the years would close the curtains on a scene
from such a time
but this was mine
to harbor
Well, I’ve carried this a long time
in a well hidden bundle on my back
but I’ve realized forgiveness is weightless
so I’ll leave my burden on the tracks
Its gonna be like delivery that’s overdue and getting too heavy
Then suddenly
I’m weightless
Chorus
‘Cause I’ve carried this a long time
in a well hidden bundle on my back
but I’ve realized forgiveness is weightless
so I’ll leave my burden on the tracks
I’ll leave my burden on the tracks
On The Mountain
I’ve been climbing my whole life
and I’m only at the bottom of the mountain,
at the bottom of the mountain
Rising up from my feet
in the daylight
rising up into the clouds and out of my sight
is the height of that mountain
Well my hands cannot reach it
and my mind can’t comprehend it
but my soul is gonna get there one day
Well my hands cannot reach it
and my mind can’t comprehend it
but my soul is gonna get there one day
Lord, these shoes are gonna need some help
so we can make it to the top of the mountain
to the top of your mountain
Many feet have gone before us
with a habit of faith and courage
they’ll meet us at the road’s end
Chorus
Yes, yes I think I will
Oh Yes I know we will
Yes yes I know we will
Oh yeah, I know we will
I’ve been climbing my whole life
and I’m only at the bottom of the mountain
at the bottom of the mountain
All along this road
when it feels so far to the top
you say, just hold on to the mountain
Chorus x2
Well my soul (oh, my soul) is gonna get there one day
Frame the Clouds
Oh friend what a great listener you are
You sit across the table with your coffee long gone
And I am talking about the books that I’ve been reading
when the house is dark and still
All the words, all the words
all the words, they are my fingers on a face
oh the words
looking for patterns in the shapes
You’re so good
to be a witness to my sounds
trying to frame the clouds
My feet are stepping on new earth all the time
discovery lights the fraying wires of my mind
for every one good answer, two more questions
and it all feels incomplete
‘til the words,’ til the words
Chorus
Well I wish I’d more to show for the years I’ve been alive
there’s more to learn before I go than there is time
So friends don’t take me wrong on those days when I sound too sure
of the things I say, I say
Chorus
I’m trying to frame the clouds
Fly
Ten years have brought us here
ten years have gone
ten years have made us parents
told us who we are
My mother seemed older at my age
but I’m just a baby
‘cause the years behind me are a handful of days
I’m 26 and 17
and I’d like to hold those moments again
turn them over
like stones in my hand
before they fly
I wanna know grandma back at age 35
I wanna know the mystery woman that she carries inside
Her world moved slower than mine does
but passed as quickly
‘cause the work and the wars and her life’s love
are hard- to-catch memories
and she’d like to hold those moments again
turn them over
like stones in her hands
before they fly
Ooh, I miss the flowers on the walls
I used to trace them ‘til I could fall asleep
Ooh, I miss the welcome we’d come home to
when we gathered under one roof back then
Ooh, I miss my baby on my chest
and the downy top of his head
Try to hold those moments again
turn them over
like stones in my hand
before they fly