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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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