Life: Here & Now II

a wind was raging, waves were high a storm of weakening fear going down, turning 'round swamped by a sea of tears a voice was speaking, nature listened a calm of strengthening grace calling me out showing me how to live in the peace of this place This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Cold stone walls, cobbled steps Leading my thoughts away Looking down a way of no regrets At least it seems that way I'll wander here till I find my rest Like others have done before Looking down a way of no regrets And through hope's open door This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

cut it here feel it bleed it's the pain that I need Watch me drown in my sin No one cares all is gone no one left to forgive watch me die once again This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

stepping off my prayers to you walking a well worn line finding out what it means to be a part of this Zion coming soon at long last trouble's virulent tolls will be redeemed with a price anointed with Jehovah's oil This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Falling crashing to the ground Weeping is the only sound Collateral damage all around And the beast rolls on Nothing stopping as he moves Watching as he's sawn in two But nothing like what's done to you And the beast rolls on watch him, see him devour like the falling World Trade tower the beast rolls on snarling across the hot sands searing memories on his hands contemplating new demands and the beast rolls on pulling down everything else gasping from tightened belts spilling from the black hole wells and the beast rolls on watch him, see him devour like the falling World Trade tower the beast rolls on This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

is there any way to say it better than it's been said is there room to play with these ideas running here in my head? will it come to this that the opportunity has passed? will it be there again and this time will it last? could a friend like you be just the friend I need? is it ever true what they say about friends indeed? can you help me find just a little quiet and peace here in my mind and make this turmoil cease a friend like you can stick around through times like this, and I've found that's what it's going to take of all the things I really need what I need the most is a friend who sees yeah, I need a friend like you what happens at the other end when things start getting better all around? when we sit down with friends and lay all these troubles down? the sweetest kindness shown comes when it's the hardest thing to give and more than what I own I need friends like you to really live a friend like you can stick around through times like this, and I've fou...

Oh, the day I first saw you yeah, the day you first saw me A day we'll both remember a place in history just like that it happened kinda took us by surprise one word started the spin and I realized there's no doubt it was auspicious it was a day that ended with a movie-like kiss where we're headed now all started right then give us another chance and we'd do it again a day for you and me yeah, a day in history we filled that day up we gave it our best not really sure if it all was going to last and every day since has been just as fine let's make some plans to do this all the time there's no doubt it was auspicious it was a day that ended with a movie-like kiss where we're headed now all started right then give us another chance and we'd do it again a day for you and me yeah, a day in history This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

On the road of disappointment On the way to a town without hope retelling all the happenings of these final days Can't believe what's been happening Can't understand what went wrong Gone over it so many times Nothing more to say here on the road to Emmaus the road out of what might have been we'll find our answers if we stop looking within listen to the words of the sages and see with opened eyes here on the road to Emmaus on the way to surprise sometimes we're all clueless sometimes we just don't comprehend what the real plan has been when it happens try to figure out the karma, find the wheel that comes back around expect the stars to tell us what we should know here on the road to Emmaus the road out of what might have been we'll find our answers if we stop looking within listen to the words of the sages and see with opened eyes here on the road to Emmaus on the way to surprise then it all becomes so clear with the breaking of the bread the fellowship aro...

I'm thinking all about it Not sure I can shake this constantly contemplatin my time with you Can't wait for it to happen It has my head spinnin heavily distracted because of you you're got me feeling like this again my head is reeling I know when we're together everything can end I won't mind we'll be fine I'm writing it all down I'm thinking I've found the secret sound of lovin you it happens every time it's here in every line of songs I write because of you you're got me feeling like this again my head is reeling I know when we're together everything can end I won't mind we'll be fine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

call me a fool yeah tell me it's true it's simply a matter of time before I find out what's going down and just like a fool, I'll cry wasn't that long ago when you said "mister, you're what I'm waiting for" but I had to go you had to resist and then you closed the door call me a fool yeah tell me it's true it's simply a matter of time before I find out what's going down and just like a fool, I'll cry some people call it a heartbreak story others just call it sad that I'm still sittin not gettin over the best thing I never had call me a fool yeah tell me it's true it's simply a matter of time before I find out what's going down and just like a fool, I'll cry and just like a fool, I'll cry This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

what make me smile in the mornings when there's no good news on the radio? what keeps me going through the rest of the day even when I'm tired and worn out? I've been told it's my personality, I've been told I'm just wired that way But I don't think that is entirely true It's not me; no, it's you who makes me laugh at the simplest things that make no one else crack a smile? who gives me something deeper to think about than what's on the sports page? I've been told it's my personality, I've been told I'm just wired that way But I don't think that is entirely true It's not me; no, it's you yeah, it's you who fills me up with this longing for a song on a quiet day it's you who has me wishing that when I'm leaving, I could stay I've been told it's my personality, I've been told I'm just wired that way But I don't think that is entirely true It's not me; no, it's you This work is lic...

Went to see the doctor To tell me all that's gone wrong Ran late, n by the time I got there That doctor had been long gone There's just no excuse for that! found myself on the outside when everybody else is so "in" And now I'm here wonderin why I wanted to go home again There's just no excuse for that! don't need an excuse, no I'm past the excuses in my life I'll do it just because I want to I'll do them just because they're right if you ever see me startin to get a bit out of whack reach right out and tell me There's just no excuse for that! Everybody's talkin Everyone has to say yackity yack When they ought to be straight walkin And puttin all the hot goods back There's just no excuse for that! There's no excuse for feeling blue no excuse of things tasting flat There's no excuse for not lovin you no, there's just no excuse for that no, there's just no excuse for that don't need an excuse, no I'm past th...

let's crank up the music put the bratwurst on get some cold drinks hey the Dr. Pepper's gone at our summertime, summertime bar-b-Q

the morning songs are starting as the birds greet the morning and cats start to wander the neighborhood across the street, they're backing out headed off to work labor that's hard, honest, and good I get to lay here with you and talk about the day feel your feet on mine a few minutes more The coffee pot is automatic smell's pulling me awake and I just heard the bathroom door there's something sweet about breakfasts with you the tater-tots and eggs the way you mix together juice it's the way heaven starts it's mornings the way the world wishes it could but I am the one who really gets to know what it's like to have breakfast with you the toaster oven has just popped up the muffins into the air though they're buttery, I want more yeah, my hair is pillowed yours is quite the mess the dog is whining there at the back door Don't worry 'bout the dishes the kids can do them may I have this dance as I go back to bed? there's something sweet about bre...

I never thought I'd see the day but I did It always seemed so so far away here it is I really didn't know what to say to you kid When the day finally came Goodbyes are always a little rough on everyone But this one will be especially tough on me, son Though you'll be close enough you'll be gone It will seem so far You became a man a while ago and I saw I would simply have to let go of it all trying to tell you everything I learned from grandpa But my time is done I have just a few dozen more things left to say But not enough time to tell you 'fore the day And most of it I really don't need to say Cos you know it well Be a kind man in your word and deed Give your love to those who are in need You don't have to be right, only freed From the fear of being wrong I hope all I have been as a Dad Has done some good, and not much bad You know you're the first son I've had And I stumbled some So this blessing comes st...

Friday night's here I'm sitting all alone Watching TV Playing with my cell phone It vibrates, it sings with my favorite ring tone You tell me you're gonna come by Just finishing my hair when you show up at my door Sweet of you to bring me flowers Some pizza and Coors Put in the chick flick you picked up at the video store I'll give you this one kiss But I know you're wanting more it's going to be one of those kiss and tell nights just one kiss tells me you're one of those guys You want me on your arm but not in your life Well get this story straight and get my meaning right I'm not that kind of girl and you're not, not my kind of guy Walking through the mall see you hangin with some friends Was gonna say hello to you But you're paying more attention to them It's not like you can't see me as I wave at you again Hey what you're doing to me Has got to be some kind of sin it's going to be one of those kiss and tell nights just one ki...

oh yeah watch the tide getting higher pullin you close to my side the sun is brighter there's no need to explain this here feeling or the loco motion of my brain that sets me reeling cos you're making raising everything better lighter in my dreams There is something you should know baby, you float my boat stuck on the sand gravel crunching reaching out to hold your hand when you touch me there's no need to explain this here feeling or the loco motion of my brain that sets me reeling cos you're making raising everything better lighter in my dreams There is something you should know baby, you float my boat This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

they say the blues are going around they say that it's a common thing and that the important thing is laying them down before your troubles make you scream but some things are too hard to let go some things don't just disappear like rabbits in the hat at the magic show or like December 31st every year ever since I was just a little child I've always heard my momma say don't go walkin on the side that's wild or there will be a piper to pay And now I hear the music playin Gettin louder all the time Drummer has a good beat goin bass man layin down the bottom line the brass boy makin my nerves twitter when he takes those notes up high and the ivory is moving my soul the 'lectric strings make me cry the piper is someone I know and he want's everything that's inside preacher's telling me there's a path to walk says to tread where He has trod and those glowing footprints there on the path were made by the sandals of God don...

Every summer we'd head past Rolla Where the Current ran fast Put our oars into the river for a few days Hot bulwark, bright sun, cold water And a sand bar on which to camp But the memory of the river's now a haze We knew where we were goin We know how long they said it'd take And what was gonna be at the end And like fools we always tried to show 'em We could paddle faster, without breaks and get there twice as fast once again But now I want to float on the river I want to take it all in I want to take time to discover What's coming up 'round the bend As I am on this journey To a final resting place I want to remember the scenery Don't want it all to be a race I think maybe there were eagles I'm sure someone once saw an otter splash As in our canoes we were racing by I wish I could remember clearly I didn't then but now I understand why stars are always brighter on a silent night But now I want to float on the river I want to take it all in I want to...