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| "Lyrics should reflect life--complicated, interesting, serious, funny, revealing, honest, and challenging. The job of the writer is to take the fragments present in this scattered life and use them to construct meaning and point to truth." A.A.T. And the least of these look like criminals to me So I leave Christ on the street Too Tender, My Calm//Your Storm, 1994 If I were as Smart as Christopher, I'd find a closet If I were as weak as Samson was, I'd make a prophet Too Tender, My Calm//Your Storm, 1994 You say you want a living sacrafice Well I am a burnt offering Crawling off the altar and back into the fire Coming Home, My Calm//Your Storm, 1994 When I asked for and deserved a serpent Your gave a net full of fish And even the serpent that told the lie When lifted high, fortold the gift There You Go, 40 Acres, 1999 And like a consumer I've been thinking if I could just get a bit more More than my fifteen minutes of faith Then I'd be secure Shifting Sand, 40 Acres, 1999 Kicking against these goads Sure did cut up my feet And didn't your hands get bloody As you washed them clean Where I Began, 40 Acres, 1999 Your spirit's hanging in a bottle out on a tree You say that you're the black sheep I say you're still family So throw that bottle to the waves They'll bring you in to me 40 Acres, 40 Acres, 1999 You found me cynical and jaded You lifted my mask and you lightened me up And when my black eyes finally faded I found that they were not gouged I had your coal for my mouth I never saw the old age new--then there's you The Only One, Long Line of Leavers, 2001 The prince of despair's been beaten Oh, but the loser still fights And death's on a long leash Stealing my friends into the night Love Alone, Long Line of Leavers, 2001 My shadow's my only companion And at night he leaves me too Valley's Fill First, Long Line of Leavers, 2001 I'm a bumper sticker I'm shallow and bold I Can't HIde, Unreleased, 2002 I heard you say that you're depraved But even the demons believe in that And they laugh Don't Be So Scared, Unreleased, 2002 I'm a bit too old to find idealism easy But I'm too young to give up the dream Pass the Peace, Unreleased, 2002 Well Melchizidek he was just your type Like the arks and Jonah's three-day night 'Cause all of history, like the mysteries Is threaded up with light Made for You, Unreleased, 2002 And like the three-in-one Know you must become What you want to save Take to the World, She Must and Shall Go Free, 2003 |
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