Poetry & Lyrics
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With You
For so long I've tried To be a better man And show You I was worth the time Striving to make a difference Working to change the world And doing everything I can I did what I did What I thought was for You . . .
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Just as Yesterday
Today is just as yesterday, different though the sameThe sky is bluer, the trees more greenNights often brighter than the daysWe’ve been together longer than ever we’ve been apartTrudging through the thick, reveling in the thinWrapped around each other’s heart We were made for this, you and I, since long before we could dreamWe looked ahead to a life together and there we were, you and me We could not imagine the lives we’d shareNor the journey we might takeThe joy of our children each step of the wayAnd the pain as each heart would breakBut we made a choice, just as yesterday, to always do it togetherTo laugh, to…
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Worth Loving For
Through victory and tragedyWe can find the very bestWith selfish hearts and greedy waysWe must contend with all that’s left Our hearts search the arid placesFinding sorrow and despairOften stumbling through the forest treesWe must contend with the tiger and bear Yet one day we surely discoverSomething worth living forA purpose that drives and consumes usPushing towards something moreWith passion and pride we pursue itBut pain and heartache subdue usUntil we’re not living anymore Then our hearts align with justiceOur eyes opened to the widow and slaveWe rush to bring the promise of hopeBut push aside the pitied and depraved On that day we surely discoverSomething worth fighting forA purpose…
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I Can Do This on My Own
I don’t need anybody elseI don’t like everybody’s rulesI just want to do what pleases meThe things that fill the voidI’m the one in controlThe one in chargeSo don’t tell me what I can’t doI don’t need your guidanceAnd I don’t need you Some things have happenedAnd there’s things I’ve doneThey hurt me so but I don’t careI’m carving my own pathDoing it my own wayJust trying to forget the thingsThat got me hereSo don’t tell me what I can’t doCuz this works for meAnd I’m gonna see it through You think you know betterBut you don’t know meYou think you know the answersBut you can’t hear what I’m askingThe…
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Beautiful
You are Beautiful, my childAnd I know that you are scaredThings are not as you’d hoped they would beBut I want you to knowAlthough you feel aloneI am with you and am working to set you free This is not the life I want for youOr a pain I want you to endureBut this world is not what I intendThough it all has gone astrayThe plans for you I’ve madeWill bring your sorrow to an end Take my hand and follow meAnd I will show you something newI will show you something trueLet me put my arms around youThat you may know that you are lovedThat you may know your…
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Overflowing
Psalm 16:5-6 Life sure can be overwhelmingTo the point I feel so sick insideThe world appearsTo feed on my fearsAnd it seems I have no place to hide Lord, I don’t know where I’m goingThough I certainly know where I’ve beenCan you guide me alongThis path that seems wrong?Let me fall back in your arms once again The days just seem harder and harderAs if nothing I do makes a changeMy steps seem to falterAs I fall at the altarOf the world I’ve tried to arrange Some say that their cup is half emptyBut mine seems to be way too fullI struggle to carryThis cross that’s so heavyIf I set…
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In the Middle
I want to be in the middle of the battleSo that I can see your victoryI want to be lost in the middle of the oceanWhere your power washes over me I want to stand in the middle of the fireSo that my heart can be purifiedKeep me in the middle of humiliationThat I would not know pride
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I Was There
I was there in the garden early that dayTo bring you and your companions to courtWhen the one you called “friend” had kissed your cheekI wondered what I was really there for I was there when they brought you before the governorWhen they said you claimed to be a kingBut I saw in your eyes there was something moreA strange but wonderful thing
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It Was Me
Luke 22:47-23:34 I watched him in the garden Greet his friend there with a kiss Silent as he was led away Though the soldiers had much to say Against him I watched him in the courtyard Afraid they’d take him too With fear he denied he was a friend On his courage he could not depend Anymore I watched them in the temple courts As they accused and lied and screamed They cursed him for all the right he’d done I watched them as they beat him And put thorns upon his head “Crucify Him! He says he’s his father’s son!” I watched them as they led him Up the…
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What Have I Done?
Matthew 26-Present What have I done? This man has done nothing wrong Yet I’ve betrayed him into the hands of men He stands condemned though he was innocent all along I can’t live with the pain What have I done? I claimed not to have known you I did just what I promised I wouldn’t do What kind of friend is concerned only for himself? My Lord, please forgive me You’ve done nothing wrong! Except be a friend to those who needed love You took a stand to show the world the truth they never knew You took the burden of our sin and you gave us all A chance…
