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[Verse 1]
Pulled off the highway in Missouri
And lo, our hearts were heavy laden
Made for the chapel with some spray-paint
For all the things we'd held in secret
Lord, lift up these lifeless bones
Light cascading through the windows
All the rainbow's heavy tones
[Chorus]
He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised me from the pit and set me high
[Verse 2]
Left that place in ruin
Drunk on the spirit and high on fumes
Checked into a Red Roof Inn
Stayed up for several hours and then slept like infants
In the burning fuselage of my days
Let my mouth be ever fresh with praise
[Chorus]
He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised me from the pit and set me high
[Bridge]
Each morning new
Each day shot through
With all the sharp, small shards of shrapnel
That seem to burst out of me and you
[Verse 3]
Head down toward Kansas
We will get there when we get there, don't you worry
Feel bad about the things we do along the way
But not really that bad
We inhaled the frozen air
Lord, send me a mechanic if I'm not beyond repair
[Chorus]
He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised from the pit and he will set me high
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[Verse 1]
House up in Clearlake
Where I used to live
Picked the lock on the front door
And felt it give
Touch nothing, move nothing, stand still
Keep my ears open for cars
See how the people here live now
Hope that they're better at it than I was
[Refrain]
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
[Verse 2]
Pictures up on the mantle
Nobody I know
I stand by the tiny furnace
Where the long shadows grow
Living room to bedroom to kitchen
Familiar and warm
Hours spent starving within these walls
Sounds of a distant storm
[Refrain]
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
[Verse 3]
Fight through the ghosts in the hallway
Duck and weave
Stand by the door with my eyes closed
When it's time to leave
Steal home before sunset
Cover up my tracks
Drive home with old dreams at play in my mind
And the wind at my back
[Bridge]
Break the lock on my own garden gate
When I get home after dark
Sit looking up at the stars outside
Like teeth in the mouth of a shark
[Refrain]
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
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Verse 1]
The path to the awful room that no one will sleep in again
Was lit for one man only, gone where none can follow him
Try to look down the way he had gone
Back of the closet whose depths go on and on and on
[Chorus]
And nice people said he was with God now
Safe in his arms
But the voices of the angels that he heard on his last days with us
Smoke alarms
[Verse 2]
Well, the path to the palace of wisdom that the mystics walk
Is lined with neuroleptics and electric shocks
Hope daily for healing, try not to go insane
Dance in a circle with bells on, try to make it rain
[Chorus]
And nice people say he had gone home to God now
Safe in his arms, safe in his arms
But the voices of the angels singing to him in his last hours with us
Smoke alarms, smoke alarms
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[Verse 1]
Masks hanging on the tomb walls
Where the coven grieves
Witches hiding in the brambles
Ground level down where the dry leaves
Blow, and burn slowly
No ground is ever gonna hold me
White candles in the manor, where the curse takes hold
Bodies reassembling down where the worms crawl
Make your own friends when the world's gone cold
[Chorus 1]
It gets dark and then
I feel certain I am going to rise again
If not by faith then by the sword
I'm going to be restored
[Verse 2]
Build fires to keep the beacon flashing
Where the earth lies flat
Blood calls to blood as the hours draw down
Invent my own family if it comes to that
Hold them close, hold them near
Tell them no one's ever going to hurt them here
Steal the treasure and try to leave town
Fight my way back down, don't want to hurt anyone
Probably gonna have to before it's all done
[Chorus 2]
Take to the hills, run away
I'm gonna get my perfect body back someday
If not by faith then by the sword
I'm going to be restored
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5. |
Fox North - Genesis 30:3
03:40
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[Verse 1]
For several days the visitors were here
We saw them turned down and we watched them disappear
Talked about the days they’d said were sure to come
Had a hard time believing
I remember seeing you, my tongue struck dumb
When you first came here from wherever it was you came from
The power in your voice, your rough touch
You keeping care of me, keeping watch
[Chorus 1]
Open up the doors to the tent
Wonder where the good times went
I will do what you ask me to do
Because of how I feel about you
[Verse 2]
I saw his little face contract as his eyes met light
Try to imagine anything so bright
You only see it once then it steals into the dawn
And then it’s gone forever
For several hours we lay there, last ones of our kind
Harder days coming maybe, I don't mind
Sounds kind of dumb when I say it, but it's true
I would do anything for you
[Chorus 2]
Open up the promise of the day
Drive the dark things away
I will do what you ask me to do
Because of how I feel about you
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[Verse 1]
Wake up sixty minutes after my head hits the pillow
I can't live like this
And in the shower I am a sailor
Standing waiting, ready for the ship to list
Everything looks burned up
I'm too scared to look around
Don't feel like going on but
Come on, make a joyful sound
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
[Verse 2]
Try to think of ways to fix myself
But everything ends in a cul-de-sac
The beast broke from the barn while we were
Sleeping, face it, face it, he's not coming back
Don't see what the point is
In even trying to fight
Look for the bigger picture
When I close my eyes real tight
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
[Bridge]
Look for the sign of Daniel
Consider the clues
Wait as long as I have to
For good news
[Verse 3]
Wake and rise and face the day
And try to stop the day from staring back at me
Busy hours for joyful hearts
And later maybe head out to the pharmacy
Won't take the medication
But it's good to have around
A kind and loving god
Won't let my small ship run aground
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
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[Verse 1]
In the holding tank I built for myself, it's feeding time
And I start to feel afraid cause I'm the last one left in line
The endless string of summer storms that led me to today
Began one afternoon with you, long ago and far away
[Chorus]
And someone leads the beast in on his chain
But I know you're thinking of me cause it's just about to rain
So I won't be afraid of anything ever again
[Verse 2]
In the cell that holds my body back, the door swings wide
And I feel like someone's lost child as the guards lead me outside
And if the clouds are gathering, it's just to point the way
To an afternoon I spent with you when it rained all day
[Chorus]
And someone leads the beast in on his chain
But I know you're thinking of me cause it's just about to rain
So I won't be afraid of anything ever again
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[Verse 1]
They'd hooked you up to a fentanyl drip
To mitigate the pain a little bit
I flew in from Pennsylvania
When I heard the hour was coming fast
And I docked in Santa Barbara
Tried to brace myself
But you can't brace yourself when the time comes
You just have to roll with the blast
[Chorus 1]
And I'm an eighteen wheeler headed down the interstate
And my brakes are going to give and I won't know until it's too late
Tires screaming when I lose control
Try not to hurt too many people when I roll
[Verse 2]
Find the Harbor Freeway and head south
Real tired, head kind of light
I found Telegraph Road, I'd only seen the name on envelopes
Found the parking lot and turned right
I felt all the details carving out space in my head
Tropicana's on the walkway, neon red
Between the pain and the pills trying to hold it at bay
Stands a traveler going somewhere far away
[Chorus 2]
And I am an airplane tumbling wing over wing
Tried to listen to my instruments, they don't say anything
People screaming when the engines quit
I hope we're all in crash position when we hit
[Verse 3]
And then came to your bedside
And as it turns out, I'm not ready
And as though you were speaking through a thick haze
You said hello to me
We all stood there around you
Happy to hear you speak
The last of something bright burning, still burning
Beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy
[Chorus 3]
And you were a presence full of light upon this earth
And I am a witness to your life and to its worth
It's three days later when I get the call
And there's nobody around to break my fall
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The sun above me and a concrete floor below
Scratch at the chain links, maybe bare my teeth for show
Fed twice a day, I don't go hungry anymore
Feel in my bones just what the future has in store
I pace in circles
So the camera will see
Look hard at my stripes
There'll be no more after me
Laze by the shoreline while the sailors disembark
Scratch out a place to sit and rest down in the dark
Smell something burning downwind just a little ways
They set up camp and sing and sweat and work for days
I have no fear of anyone
I'm dumb and wild and free
I am a flightless bird
And there'll be no more after me
In Costa Rica, in a burrow underground
Climb to the surface, blink my eyes and look around
I'm all alone here as I try my tiny song
Claim my place beneath the sky, but I won't be here for long
I sang all night
The moon shone on me through the trees
No brothers left
And there'll be no more after me
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If my prayer be not humble, make it so
In these last hours, if the spirit waits in check, help me let it go
And should my suffering double, let me never love you less
Let every knee be bent and every tongue confess
And I won't get better
But someday I'll be free
I am in my body imprisoned
I read the magazines somebody brought
Hold them to my failing eyes until my hands get hot
And when the nurse comes in to change my sheets and clothes
The pain begins to travel, dancing as it goes
And I won't get better
But someday I'll be free
I am in my body imprisoned
If my prayer goes unanswered, that's alright
If my path fills with darkness and there's no sign of light
Let me praise you for the good times, let me hold your banner high
Until the hills are flattened and the rivers all run dry
And I won't get better
But someday I'll be free
I am in my body imprisoned
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11. |
Evan Diem - Enoch 18:14
02:19
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I saw some old friends as I came to the city gate
They asked me where I'd been of late
I hadn't been anywhere but what was I going to say?
Two hopeful people looking at me that way
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
You can't comprehend what it's like
We stood in the sunlight and they asked me where I'd been
Held the gate open, told me to come on in
I saw the damp green grass so nice on the other side
Couldn't explain myself to them but I tried
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
So you can't comprehend what it's like
Ground was dry but giving, the sky was nearly black
Saw some old friends when I looked back
Remember my old home, haven't forgotten yet
What happens on the day when I forget
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
So you can't comprehend what it's like
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12. |
Ben Wilder - Romans 10:9
02:36
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[Verse 1]
Wake up sixty minutes after my head hits the pillow
I can't live like this
And in the shower I am a sailor
Standing waiting, ready for the ship to list
Everything looks burned up
I'm too scared to look around
Don't feel like going on but
Come on, make a joyful sound
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
[Verse 2]
Try to think of ways to fix myself
But everything ends in a cul-de-sac
The beast broke from the barn while we were
Sleeping, face it, face it, he's not coming back
Don't see what the point is
In even trying to fight
Look for the bigger picture
When I close my eyes real tight
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
[Bridge]
Look for the sign of Daniel
Consider the clues
Wait as long as I have to
For good news
[Verse 3]
Wake and rise and face the day
And try to stop the day from staring back at me
Busy hours for joyful hearts
And later maybe head out to the pharmacy
Won't take the medication
But it's good to have around
A kind and loving god
Won't let my small ship run aground
[Chorus]
If you will believe in your heart
And confess with your lips
Surely you will be saved one day
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Try to hide down in the darkness
Get accustomed to our shapes
Rained in 'til next week at the earliest
Go through an old box full of Betamax tapes
Pull the blankets up to my neck
And the screen began to glow
I cried real tears when they beat Chuck Norris down
Wait here in the shadows 'til the shadows let me go
And treat each crushing moment like a gift
And wait for the fog to lift
Pretend I'm waiting for a notice
From someone somewhere far away
Sit here and break things while I'm waiting
As day gives way to day gives way to day gives way to day
But though I try to let the shadows mask my movements
They're never gonna hide me like they used to
I watch the Delta Force save everybody from that plane on fire
I was watching wishing I had not lost track of you
I treat each crushing moment like a gift
And wait for the fog to lift
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He who casts the stone can't ever do so on his own
It takes a crowd to drown a witch
So he said to us when he wriggled free and got the gun from me
Standing before us, his cracking voice rising in pitch
And then the blood that's been spilling from his eyes
Soaks through the bandages that are wrapped around his face
And just before he walks backwards through the wall
He pivots 45 degrees to face us all
And he says
"Let him who has eyes to see
Take a good look at me
I'm a Mylar sheet hanging in the sun"
Claude Rains in all his glory
Is not arrayed like these
Who have come to walk before us
Rising from their knees
Fighting back against their captors
Calling down the curse
Like this man whose substance is malleable
Screaming out chapter and verse
And then the blood
That's been spilling from his eyes
Soaks through the bandages that are wrapped around his face
And just before he walks backwards through the wall
He pivots 45 degrees to face us all
And he says
"Let him who has eyes to see
Take a good look at me
I'm a Mylar sheet hanging in the sun"
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