When justice, it comes down
Injustice, gets thrown down
A clamorous sound
There's no peace in violence
There's no peace in silence
How long will we live as one
Life and death speaking the same tongue
How long till we see the sun
Fire falling from the Holy One
The burden of freedom
No boundaries, still bleeding
Are we waiting for healing
No love where no action
There's a war to rid my soul of sin
How long will we live as one
Life and death speaking the same tongue
How long till we see the sun
Fire falling from the Holy One
There is a light
The darkness wants to hide
We hide in darkness all our lives
A brute force of love I can't understand
Wat can restrain these self-inflicting hands?
Kicking and screaming to the holy land
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
2. "Cathedrals"
Walls are high
Adorned inside
Etched from wood and stone
Curtains built
Of steel and silk
Concealed by flesh and bone
Your stained-glass eyes are shining
Blinding patterns of light
Hard to see you behind
Hard to see you behind
Together kept
By brick and breath
Life spun from hated gold
They'll cast and bury
Us sanctuaries
Not knowing what they've sold
Your stained-glass eyes are shining
Blinding patterns of light
Hard to see you behind
Hard to see you behind
When you're so beautiful in grace
When you're so free and full of life
Hard to see you behind
That glow divine
Holy, lowly
Holy, lowly
We are weathered buildings
Gleaming glory
Adorned inside
Etched from wood and stone
Curtains built
Of steel and silk
Concealed by flesh and bone
Your stained-glass eyes are shining
Blinding patterns of light
Hard to see you behind
Hard to see you behind
Together kept
By brick and breath
Life spun from hated gold
They'll cast and bury
Us sanctuaries
Not knowing what they've sold
Your stained-glass eyes are shining
Blinding patterns of light
Hard to see you behind
Hard to see you behind
When you're so beautiful in grace
When you're so free and full of life
Hard to see you behind
That glow divine
Holy, lowly
Holy, lowly
We are weathered buildings
Gleaming glory
3. "Fire Choir"
Burn fire in my lungs
The gasoline I've sung
Is long overdue to all-consume
This flesh and tongue
Don't let me get away
Grant me no fire escape
Neverending all-condeming
Human fate
The heat of your breath
Can melt all of this death
Swallowing in endless seas
Of endless depth
Singing, calling
Out of the ashes falling
Around me all this dead
You're glowing red
That white-hot light
Can show me right
Once was burning turned to yearning
Purified
The cinders settle in the hearth
My heart is still so far
From ever changing, ever-changing shades of dark
But burn me down to the foundation
If burning is what it takes to stand apart
The gasoline I've sung
Is long overdue to all-consume
This flesh and tongue
Don't let me get away
Grant me no fire escape
Neverending all-condeming
Human fate
The heat of your breath
Can melt all of this death
Swallowing in endless seas
Of endless depth
Singing, calling
Out of the ashes falling
Around me all this dead
You're glowing red
That white-hot light
Can show me right
Once was burning turned to yearning
Purified
The cinders settle in the hearth
My heart is still so far
From ever changing, ever-changing shades of dark
But burn me down to the foundation
If burning is what it takes to stand apart
4. "Crucify"
Crucify me for not being what you want
Crucify me for not fitting in your box
Of religious rules and regulations
Statutes, precepts, limitations
I'm trying to find what lies at the foundation
The heart behind it all
Crucify them for not looking how you want
Crucify them for not "representing God"
There's still a stranglehold on our brothers' sin
A plank in the eye clouding our vision
We don't see what lies at the foundation
The heart behind it all
Cruficy Him for not saying what you want
Or let Him have a say in everything you've got
Do we stop up our ears not to hear perfection
Dismissing the need for His correction
We all need to stand on a firm foundation
The heart behind the law
Crucify Him for not saying what you want
To hear
Crucify me for not fitting in your box
Of religious rules and regulations
Statutes, precepts, limitations
I'm trying to find what lies at the foundation
The heart behind it all
Crucify them for not looking how you want
Crucify them for not "representing God"
There's still a stranglehold on our brothers' sin
A plank in the eye clouding our vision
We don't see what lies at the foundation
The heart behind it all
Cruficy Him for not saying what you want
Or let Him have a say in everything you've got
Do we stop up our ears not to hear perfection
Dismissing the need for His correction
We all need to stand on a firm foundation
The heart behind the law
Crucify Him for not saying what you want
To hear
6. "Church History"
We all have a history of hurts
Broken bonds of brotherhood
And what's worse
Is we were promised penitence
And left there in a hearse
Better off not going in the first
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Praying, staying
In the same place that we've been
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Has it ever been for Him?
We all have a history with church
Either seeing or receiving
Face to face or in a blur
And we've heard of the hypocrisies
We've lived them out as well
We've felt hell while skies are winding in reverse
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Praying, staying
In the same place that we've been
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Has it ever been for Him?
Our devices desecrate it all
There's no sanctuary
When there's demons in the walls
So lift your hands
And cleanse your palms
From the past
And every pastor who was false
The Good Shepherd knows your heart
Broken bonds of brotherhood
And what's worse
Is we were promised penitence
And left there in a hearse
Better off not going in the first
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Praying, staying
In the same place that we've been
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Has it ever been for Him?
We all have a history with church
Either seeing or receiving
Face to face or in a blur
And we've heard of the hypocrisies
We've lived them out as well
We've felt hell while skies are winding in reverse
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Praying, staying
In the same place that we've been
Standing, sitting
Kneeling, singing hymns
Has it ever been for Him?
Our devices desecrate it all
There's no sanctuary
When there's demons in the walls
So lift your hands
And cleanse your palms
From the past
And every pastor who was false
The Good Shepherd knows your heart
7. "Blood Vessels"
Strung up inside me
There to remind me
The cadence my heart keeps
With millions of heartbeats
These tables are turning
The oceans You're churning
Make rivers run upstream
The course of my bloodstream
I am alive
For the first time
More alive
Than the first time
Lost beyond reason
The coldest of seasons
Cuts off my breathing
And slows down the bleeding
Stir up the seas when
These breaths come uneven
I'm falling apart
To be where you are
I am alive
For the first time
More alive
Than the first time
You are beating life
Into a cold wasteland
Sifting through time
And my bloodline
Keep on bleeding
Till the blood runs true
The only thing that keeps me running
Is You
There to remind me
The cadence my heart keeps
With millions of heartbeats
These tables are turning
The oceans You're churning
Make rivers run upstream
The course of my bloodstream
I am alive
For the first time
More alive
Than the first time
Lost beyond reason
The coldest of seasons
Cuts off my breathing
And slows down the bleeding
Stir up the seas when
These breaths come uneven
I'm falling apart
To be where you are
I am alive
For the first time
More alive
Than the first time
You are beating life
Into a cold wasteland
Sifting through time
And my bloodline
Keep on bleeding
Till the blood runs true
The only thing that keeps me running
Is You
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