My heart forever aches and yearns / Constantly, my stomach jumps and turns / one handpicked day in the month of may / I'll come to finally know your full name / You were mine before there was time / Your home was known before the snow / Your hairs counted, your last name picked / and I was chosen to call you mine

There will never be / Never be one thing in this world / There will never be / Never be one thing I cherish more than you

I've thought through the names a thousand times / each with special meaning, depth and insight / but the eyes of your heart will speak loud / the heart of your soul will reveal the truth / the truth about deep majestic love / the truth of His inexplicable tangibility / the truth of intense richness / that is His open-handed love

the day could never come too soon / when I will know the curve of your nose / my patience tested by passing moments / as I await the arrival of your / your sweet, your joyful, iridescent opulence

There are no two alike / only one in all time / breathtaking and silly, intense and lovely / I know it sounds selfish, but your mine, all mine

He loved you before time was time / and I'll love you as mine, all mine

Home

Voices in the distance / bells on the door / Steam fills the air / he says ‘anything more?’ / Colours that bleed to love / floors like solid stone / waterfalls on the walls / you’re healed before the throne

Home is where my heart lays rest / Home is where peace begins / Home is never, ever too far / My home, is where you are

Bubbles in the air / butterflies next door / The sign says ‘where friends gather,’ / but it’s so much more / You’re picked up and not forgotten / held on so tight / You’re cared for and cherished / made shiny with light

The sign says open, there’s a fire inside / The sign says open, there’s a fire inside / And it burns so bright / There’s a fire inside, and it burns so bright

Long talks in the back room / healed with love / Like I’m heard for the very first time / like ears from up above

But First

You chose her from within / Blameless in your eyes / What a beautiful child / She’ll fill you with pride / But first, / You hold her awhile

You watch him on the waves / He’s too scared to see / One day he’ll put his trust / In you, who sets him free / But first, / You say, it’s Me

He’s brought here every day / People keep passing by / You lean down and take his hand / Sit with him awhile / But first, / You look in his eye

Dragged here all alone / Scared and tired she waits / Dust flies as stones drop down / Freedom / Freedom / Freedom / says the one who stays 

But first, / But first, / But first, / But first

I forgave you first / I loved you first / I gave my son first

BrushStrokes

You look to find yourself / and all you find is me / you look to find yourself / and all you find is me

I knew this time when I unwind / I search inside and try to hide / From things behind, behind my mind / They seem to remind of another time

All I can say is look another way / Today is no day to search and stay / Don’t rummage around you’ll hit the ground / Fall further down, wanna scream so loud

Love creates me / With brushstrokes it paints me / Lovingly remakes me / Into what you see

If I one day knew / Unfailing truth / A love to unglue / Tangled tears so blue / What would I do / Once He chose to woo / My eyes read His truth / My heart knows it too

We Believe

Here I lay in my bed awake til dawn shines on my face / my eyes left stained with tears that haven't learned how, how to fear / the thoughts swirling round and round my head, killing hope of a life more than this / dreaming all the bigger dreams of life seems only possible if...

You're always here for me and them / You never leave / We'll look for You all day and night / We'll believe, believe

Walking up and down these streets, seeing life played out in black or white / One flies high while another drowns in the deep, while SUVs pass by / choices fog my rose coloured glasses when children are dying at my feet / Can separate lives collide in the midst of war or peace... I believe

We look to ourselves and all we find / are hopeless hands and tear-filled eyes / We look inside where Kingdoms lie / And peace, joy, hope and love abide

Take My Life

I come before your throne, before you / I am small so small and scared / You lay your hand before my face / I can't be here, be here in this place /  I call out to no one in particular / I can't hear an answer / Turning turning turning so much I fall / My heart is deaf to your call / Like an hour with no minutes / A butterfly with no colour / Like a book without pages / something's missing from inside me

(chorus)  I need you / I want you / Gotta have you / I long for you / I'm in love with you / Where are you / I'll wait for you  / come and find me / come and save me / come and take my life /

I continue to grow year after year / I experience new things everyday / But what what have I learned / I'm still empty, alone without a  friend / When will I accept your offer / Does that moment exist / When will I see / That your life was just for me / The wind blows and I feel / The people love and I see / The music plays and I hear / You want me and I can't see 

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That I could be remembered in someone's prayers / That I could be loved so much / That someone would thank You for me / So many blessings that I can't see / I'm humbled

(chorus) Humbled, I fall to my knees / Humbled, I cry out to you / Hold me in your arms, Lord / Hold me close to you / I'm humbled

 Can I dance for you / Can I sing for you / Can I praise you Lord / In all that I do /

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 Will you smile for me / Will you cry with me /Will we be together / Could it possibly be

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Reflection

One after another, they never end / So many thoughts / You might not believe / I'm drowning, I'm sinking, I can't breathe / Looking in the mirror I see / a different woman looking back at me /

(chorus) who are you? / where are you going? / Who are you? / why aren't you moving? / Who are you? / Where are you going? / when will you look and see / when will you look and finally see?

I stand and stare at a woman no longer there / Is this a game? Is this a joke? / Could someone possibly want someone who’s so / confused, battered, empty, lost? / when did I become this figment / a mirage is all I dream / when will you disappear and reveal / when will you give in and believe?

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do you even understand / how much you've grown? / I close my eyes and dream back the tears / I close my eyes and dream back the tears / I close my eyes and dream back the tears / I can't even look for fear...for fear...for fear... / I'll open my eyes and finally see / the woman who's been looking back at me she looks so / confused and battered, empty and lost…she’s so / confused and  battered, empty and lost / look deeper, look deeper / what's going on behind those green eyes? / what's going on behind those green eyes? / I'm reaching and straining to find / in my grasp these words to which I'm apparently blind / almost full / wisdom / and oh so beautiful / friend /

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breathe, just breathe / when will you look and see? / when will you look and finally see? / when will you look and see? / I’m finally looking and I see me. / It’s me / It’s you and me

Ready

I love to hear your voice / Especially when you whisper / Squeeze so tight I feel nothing but you / Love so much I become you / Can you show me / Will you ever show me? / I know, you show me everyday / Why am I so stubborn and stupid? / I know you’ll always stay /

(chorus) does he feel this way / so these feelings stay / will I be ready? / Will he? / <Repeat>

Will he ever understand / Just how much I need the both of you? / Will he get the things I’ve done? / Has he ever… / Screamed at you for over a year / Shut you out completely / Closed the book on all your truth / And still, and you still… /

You hold me / You know me / You hear me / You love me / <Repeat>

Will you ever show me your love through him / Will I be so blessed / Will I ever get the chance / To be you to him

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I want to hold him in your arms / I want to know him with your truth / I want to hear him with your ears / I want to love him with your love

When you’re ready, in your time / When you know we’ve grown / Bring your Holy hands so close / And shine down /

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yes he feels this way / yes these feelings stay / I’m so ready / Is he / Now when will we meet

Who I am

I look to the sky / Wondering why / Why did you choose me / Why, from all that you see / Confidence is imaginary / Boldness is a lie / Trust is unheard of / Love, what’s love / Then you came

(chorus) You know, and always will know / Who I am / Where I am / How I am / And why I am

I’m surrounded / I’m all alone / What’s the point / Why this story / Cliffs are all around / Terrifying heights abound / Sandy ground so fast / I’ll never last / And then you came

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(bridge)  I just need more time / I just need more time / I just need more time / more time /

(chorus) / …how I am/ who I am / where I am / how I am/ and why I am

Blinded

Why do I walk, walk away / To find myself, in the blinding dark / Alone, scared, and cold / There’s no switch, on the wall / No match, to be found / Life is louder over here, but I’m happy / I think, I think, I think, it’s all I do / These thoughts, have taken me captive / How could I ever know / I can’t even find the road, to follow /

(chorus) / Come to me, He says / Love me, He asks / He says He loved me / Before anything else

 Days weeks and months pass by, maybe years / This is all there is, there’s nothing left / I’ve blinded myself, to the possibilities / Happiness wanes, and I can’t see / I can’t see what’s in front of me /

(chorus)/ He’s the blinding light / Before every step I take

Can I open my eyes and see / Can I open my eyes and see / Can I open my eyes and see / Can I open my heart and let Him see / Can I open my heart, and let Him see me

Set Us Free

I knew this girl named Sue / She was short and cute and really into you / Everyone laughed and stared and called her names / It wasn’t her fault she couldn’t play their games / I know this kid named Tyler Bloom / When his dad gets home he runs for his room / It’s in the safety of this place / He can keep from getting’ bruises all over his face

(chorus) And oh… / Open our eyes / And set, us free

I knew this man named Blair / He went to the bar cuz no one knew him there / He would drink and drink until he felt / He could pretend to be somebody else / I know old gramma Brenn / It’s just so sad cuz she’s at her end / You can see it by the look on her face / She’s got cancer spread all over place /

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I knew this family the Clarke’s / The divorce ripped them all apart / But when their father died / They were there at each others side / They couldn’t afford a priest to speak that day / Besides, he wouldn’t have to much to say / So the Clarke’s grabbed each others hands, and they / Prayed to God to take their daddy in His hands

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Set us, free / Set us, free

Sun Kissed Hands

Dancing through the night sky / Your fingers stroke my heart / I sing for you a lullaby / You know exactly where to start / I think I’m ready / I’m sure this time / Sighing to the mountains of my love / For You and Your grace / Nothing on earth to the heavens above / Could humble me more than this place / You’re always with me / You never let go

(chorus) Reach your sun kissed hands / Down through the clouds / Wrap me up inside all of you / And always help me see / That You love me / Ohh, that You love me

Climbing every step of the journey / The slope changes everyday / Can it be or do my eyes deceive / You’re with me all along the way / You loved me from the start / I’m ready to trust your heart

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You loved me right from the start / You loved me with all your heart / That you loved me / Mmm, that you loved me

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All these things…

(chorus) Darkness / From raindrops / Your jacket hangin’ there / From the smell of those damned flowers / In all these things / You’re everywhere / Everywhere

I said my best good-bye / The last tear fell / I’m emptied out, emptied out / You can’t expect / my world to wait / When you decide, / When you decide / To miss me / Is that real / The lines were drawn / And I’m the one who missed / The one who missed

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We never got to say it / Face to face / Then you left us / Confusion in your wake / I can’t move from / Day to day to day / Still wondering / If my walls have fallen away / Did you want to go / Had you had enough / Will time bring peace / Or will memories waste / Will memories go to waste

Darkness / From raindrops / Your jacket shoved over there / From the smell of those damned flowers / In all these things / You’re everywhere / Everywhere

Did you see them leave me / It’s your fault, I was alone / It’s your fault, fading to the unknown / Where I, where I

Couldn’t find my place / Couldn’t hide my face / Losing all my faith / Using up His grace / (x2)

I lost you / I lost you / I lost you

From bright starry skies / Your jacket around me / The smell of your room / In all I can’t see / You mean the world to me / You’re everywhere / You’re everywhere / You’re everywhere / You’re everywhere