Repentance (poem)

I have left your arms time and again
To go seek out a perfect friend
I've let the wolves come entertain me
I gave to those who can't contain me
I put my hope in mortal men
A pattern of again, again
Abandon ship, find someone else
But each is taking for themselves
Then broken, battered, beaten, bruised
I ask you why I'm always used
Eventually there's no one left
Who isn't guilty of this theft
And so I cry against these charms
And empty, come back to your arms.

Jesus I love You.

Sun Comes Up

I'm gonna worry about the next day when I get there
That might not be the best way, but right now I don't care
cuz livin' in tomorrow didn't get me nowhere
nowhere fast

I could live on dreams and lovely things that I've pulled from my head
draggin' them around with me when I leave my bed
Stifling reality to walk in clouds instead
but it won't last

I'm waitin' for the sunset just to stay my course
I'm feeling like a cowgirl who's lost her horse
Oh if I had only taken it by force...
but it'll be alright
Sun comes up at the end of the night

It seems like there's so many things that I have never done
I'd like to say I'd try it all, but I'd probably run
I guess the risk that a plan might fail always outweighs the fun
Ain't that the way

I'm waitin' for the sunrise just to carry on
I'm feelin' like a wishing-well with the water drawn
Oh if I could get back all the time that's gone
but it'll be okay
Sun goes down at the end of the day

I could talk myself outta anything, oh yeah, talk is cheap
So will I really, could I maybe, or am I gonna keep...

Waitin' for another day just to pass by me
Cuz in the night I find it's not where I wanna be
Oh one thing you can trust is uncertainty
but it'll be okay
Sun comes up the same either way
Sun goes down the same either way

Sun comes up...

...the same either way

Yeah...

Yeah...

One of these times
I will defeat
blankness of page

Them sheets with lines
They come and meet
to build a cage

Oh, I'm right on some kind of brink
Oh, but then I pause or I blink and
all I can think is...

yeah...

One of these chords
found their way in
when I was gone
and then some more
started playin'
Mmm-hmm, along

Oh my words are robbing me blind
Oh, I'd lend a piece of my mind but
all I can find is...

yeah...

Where did this come from?
I thought I was numb
to the music that's suddenly making me move
I do not approve
oh, but whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do, oo
...yeah...

Oh, give me something to play
Oh, and make it quick, like today, cuz
all I can say is...

...yeah...

...yeah...

I don't know

I don't know if certain ones are right or wrong
These words I try to use to explain what's going on
It's like a familiar song comes on
and it sweeps over you
and you relearn a phrase you already knew

It feels like waking up and I like it
ya know it sounds like a folk song when you mic it
it looks like I might just long-haul it
even if I don't know what to call it

I don't know if I'll ever know my way around
but every street and store I have needed you have found
A familiar song comes on
and I sing with you
of green eyes, grey T-shirts, yellow flowers too

It feels like waking up and I like it
ya know it sounds like a folk song when you mic it
it looks like I might just long-haul it
even if I don't know what to call it

Oh no I've got a secret and I just might shout it
I don't know what it is but I know some things about it:

It feels like waking up and I like it
ya know it sounds like a folk song when you mic it
looks like I might just long-haul it
even if I don't know what to call it

I don't, no I don't know what to call it
I don't know what to call it

Rainy Day Song

Another rainy day
Makes its way
Down from the sky
And the shivering trees
Swung by the breeze
May wonder why
But soon will be their gain
When green their leaves are made
Then they're not afraid
Of a little rain

Another rainy day
Finds its way
Into my heart
And it cries and pleads
But as it bleeds
Is set apart
And through and past the pain
I find I just want more
And I'm better for
A little rain

Another rainy day
Melts its way into my soul
And as the water swarms
It forms
The smallest hole
And there it plants a grain
I know that I am claimed
No I'm not ashamed
Of a little rain

So when a dry day
Spreads its way
Across the land
With lifted eyes
I search the skies
To understand

Land, don't dry out in vain
Cry out that you might live
Oh what I wouldn't give...

For a little rain

Spent

I note the things warn out and eye the things costly
as I'm sifting through the lost and found
all of these paths that I'm treading softly
lead me around around around

I'm trying to answer a yes or no question
that's requiring all the words in my mouth
my internal compass to find my direction
keeps pointing south south south south south

leaves change colours on my window sill
meanwhile I inside am standing still
oh, but I pay the bill

And I'm spent...
I'm spent...

Check yes or no baby, the page is inviting
but all of my pens have run out of ink
from all of the words I haven't been writing
or had time to think, to think, to think, to think

leaves change colours on my window sill
and my tired eyes, they get their fill
oh, cuz there's time to kill

And I'm spent...
I'm spent...

I've spent all of my time fixing all of my watches and shining them to look new
I've spent all of my money on money collections, to my recollections it's true
I've spent all of my time fixing all of my watches and shining them to look new
I've spent all of my money on money collections, to my recollections it's true

leaves change colours on my window sill
just like they have done over every hill
oh, and they always will

And I'm spent...
I'm spent...
spent...
spent...

Show Me How

Spirit, lead me, I will follow
Father, speak and I will listen

I want your love and your glory to reflect in me
Oh father, open my eyes, let me see

Show me how your will can be done
Show me how to worship the Son
Can't you tell, I'm desperate for you
I'm desperate for you
For your love and your glory to reflect in me
Oh father, open my eyes, let me see
Show me

Father, whisper, my heart to soften
Jesus, change me, restore and fill me

I want your spirit to move me every day that I live
I want to rest in the promises you give

Show me how your will can be done
Show me how to worship the Son
Can't you tell, I'm desperate for you
I'm desperate for you
For your spirit to move me every day that I live
I want to rest in the promises you give
Show me

Father of Love

(four part men's chorus)

The Father of Love
He reaches down from above
to show the world He is love,
My Father

The Father of Love
He reaches down from above,
shows the world He is Love,
My Father

The father of love
sings over his children
filling the world with His song
The father of love,
He cares for the broken,
loving the right and the wrong

And who is like Our God?
And who is like Our God?

The Father of Love
is moving and breathing,
giving back life to the dead
the Father of Love,
knowing we were wounded
gave up His Son in our stead

And who is like Our God?
And who is like Our God?

The Father of Love
He reaches down from above
to show the world He is Love,
My Father

The Father of Love
He reaches down from above,
shows the world He is Love,
My Father

Aeroplane

Why this long anticipation?
These technicalities are getting in my way
It's a strange infatuation
With the day after today
With the day after today

I'm waiting for my aeroplane
I already have the sky
All I need is my aeroplane
And not to wonder why
And not to wonder why

It's the strangest situation
When you find you're wanting anything but this
It's the simplest information
But the point is so easy to miss
The point is so easy to miss

I'm waiting for my aeroplane
I already have the sky
All I need is my aeroplane
And not to wonder why
And not to wonder why

I wonder why
I wanna leave the crowds and get in the sky
I wonder when
I look again
Will I just see the clouds and think as I behold the hush
What was my rush?
Oh, but what a rush!

So I sign my resignation
Giving up on getting ahead of me
I let go of my frustration
For what is yet to be
For what will surely be

I'm waiting for my aeroplane
I already have the sky
All I need is my aeroplane
And not to wonder why
And not to wonder why

Home Away From Home

My home away from home
Net beneath my leap
Pillow for my head
Sandals for my feet

Keep knocking on my door
Keep calling on the phone
Keep never leaving me alone
My home away from home

I belong where you are
You're my song, mmm
So far so good, my friends
A melody that never ends

My home away from home
Like a ship without a dock
Being sung to by the waves
In a lullaby they rock

I belong where you are
You're my song, mmm
So far so good, my friends
A melody that never ends
Home away from home

Like a cabin far from many
Being lost but for the trees
that keep it company

I belong where you are
You're my song, mmm
So far so good, my friends
A melody that never ends

So keep knocking on my door
Keep calling on the phone
Keep never leaving me alone
My home away from home

I belong where you are
You're my song, mmm
So far so good, my friends
A melody that never ends
Home away from home
Home away from home
Home away from home

Turn To You

You, you are the light
You are my love, my life, my everything
I, I give it all
I give my love, my life, my everything

Though winter may come
I will make it through, cuz...

Everything I want, Lord, I just turn to you
Everything I need, Lord, I just turn to you
With everything I am, Lord, I just turn to you
And you, you are faithful

You are leading my heart
You are the promise for tomorrow
You, you are my strength
Holding me up, guiding my path

Uncertainty may rise
But I will make it through, cuz...

Everything I want, Lord, I just turn to you
Everything I need, Lord, I just turn to you
With everything I am, Lord, I just turn to you
And you, you are faithful

Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him
How I've proved him o'er and o'er
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus
Oh for grace to trust him more

Praise Song

Whom shall I fear?
Whom shall I fear?
I stand unashamed and unafraid
For I know my God is here
How can I bleed?
How can I bleed?
When my father's arms surrounding me
is all I'll ever need

And I praise you for this love that I own
And I lift my hands to Abba on his throne
And I lift up
my hands to you alone
Whom shall I fear?

Amazing grace
Amazing grace
When I seek love of a perfect kind
I find my father's face
How sweet the sound
How sweet the sound
As the angels join with the redeemed
That I hear all around

And I love you for this gift of praise
I lift my hands to God of eternal days
And I lift up
my hands to you always
Amazing grace

Amazing grace

Small House

I have a small house
by the river
When the wind blows too strong
I feel it quiver

I have a garden
that doesn't cut it
Cuz when the waters grow high
They come and flood it

And I could have a home that's void of this fear
But anywhere else wouldn't be here

I have a tree to
a robin I rent
but when the rain's coming down
My bird is silent

And I could have a home that's void of this fear
But anywhere else wouldn't be here
There's nowhere else with morning rays so bright
Or where the stars all sing to me at night

And when the water
is getting higher
It's true, I wish for a place
Where it is dryer

Cuz I could have a home that's void of this fear
But anywhere else wouldn't be here
There's nowhere else with morning rays so bright
And where the stars all sing to me at night

When all is done and said
I see the storm clouds overhead
The waters come and take my bed
And leave me with remorse instead
And now the rains have come and gone
So has my house it seems
And now I have to close my eyes
To see in my dreams...

I have a small house
By the river...