Words and Music by John Cooper
Looking on the sad times, the guilt and all the shame
I have learned to submit my existing hurts and pains
All the grief I've learned to set aside 'cause
I am, I am, I am
Feeling underooted feeling undermined
Can this grace of God cover me this time?
When I feel the pain I know why I feel strange,
When I hear the rooster crow I am ashemed
Jesus on the cross and the cross upon my back
I have learned to submit then I whine about my lack
Sometimes I drop my cross, deserve a little rest
That's when I run to You and I nail Your feet and Your wrist
I'm feeling underooted feeling undermined
Can this grace of God cover me this time?
Do You really love my soul, even after I hated You?
Do You really know my name, can I really come to You?
Are You really more faithful than changing of the seasons and
morning sun?
Do You really know my name, can I really come to You?
I can
I don't care if the rooster crows
I can
Words and Music by John Cooper
I'm sitting with my heart out on the table
I'm doing a face to face with God
He picked up my heart and said,
"What do you want me to do with this?"
I just blinked my eyes no smile, no laugh, no tears, no shrugging
my shoulders
It crossed my mind, yeah I got an idea
You could take my heart and put it in a padlocked box
What if they grab it too hard or smash it, or throw it down
I'm scared of being hurt, I just want to live, live a happy life!
You want to, You want to
Soak my heart in gasoline
Light a match and consume me
Soak my pride in gasoline
All of you and none of me
I was reminded when my hearts reeks of gasoline
It bears the mark of a slave committed for life
Anyone who wants it will have to grab it from a real big God
Try to touch me, you'll be consumed, you'll be consumed
I want to, I want to
Soak my heart in gasoline
Light a match and consume me
Soak my pride in gasoline
All of you and none of me
I'm sitting with my heart out on the table
Next to a bloody mess that was once a man's heart
I looked at God and said, "What you want me to do with
this?"
He said, "Already done, already done, already done"
That heart was Jesus...
Words and Music by Ken Steorts
I ask Him when will I be free He said I am
Asking Him when will I change he said
No matter now no matter now
Saturn has a ring around it
You can never see it with your eyes
Saturn has a ring around it
Many moons know this to be true
You ask Him how can you be real He said you'll be
Knowing Him how you do now He says rest in this rest in this
Saturn has a ring a ring around it
You can never see it with your eyes
Saturn has a ring around it
Many moons know this to be true
Heaven has ring around it
The angels sing a song over you
Heaven has a ring around you
If you don't see it know that it's true
Words and Music by John Cooper
I want to pleasure in Your sight
I want to subscribe to Your delight
So hold on and see what I can do for You
Oh by the way, did You see me dressed in my beautiful robe?
My head was bleeding so red
But of all the thorns in my crown, the roses blended
Instead with my beautiful robe carries on, I'll carry on
I cut down a tree said,
"Man would you look at me"
I stuck my head in thorn bush
Man was I deceived
Oh my brother, your hands are full of sores
But God bless you brother, my nails are longer than yours
I was crucified with Christ but how come I'm not dead
God gave me a cross but I made my own instead
My beautiful cross carries on, I'll carry on
I cut down a tree
I nailed myself to the wood
I screamed in agony
'Cause the glory wasn't so good
I fell to my knees and I remember
The words of God pierced so hard,
"Your righteousness is like filthy rags"
And I fell to my knees and said,
"God, my filthy robe"
Words by Ken Steorts
Music by John Cooper
When I was a young boy I saw a vision of Your face
I made my first promise to you
Yeah ya know it took some time
But I love you now I realize
I am a promise maker
I am a promise breaker
On the road to faithfulness I sometimes forget Your name
But I can still see Your face
And time after time I hear You calling my name
I gotta name for me, I gotta name for me, I gotta for me, I gotta
name
I am a promise maker
I am a promise breaker
On my knees for the last time I could rip my heart out every
day
I made my last promise to You yeah I could cry
I could cry a million tears a day
And all I would hear You all I would hear You say is
You are the promise taker
You are the promise taker
You are the promise taker
Put them in Your promise blender
You took me, and You own me and You bought me, and You love me
Promise keeper, keeper, keeper
Words and Music by Ken Steorts
We take a walk in the garden
We share the fruits of life
We lie beneath this canopy
Why did we take that bite?
We cover up our shame
We walk in black and white
We turn the ground for hunger
Why did we take that bite?
Paint me with and endless sunrise
Paint me
Paint me, open my eyes
Paint me with the color of love
You took a walk on the planet
You gave us shade and light
You created mood and substance
How can I take a bite?
Paint me with an endless sunrise
Paint me
Paint me, open my eyes
Paint me with the color of love
Paint me, mark me up,
In these frail dot-to-dot lines
Color me from one red stream
From which all others flow
Take my black and white and yellow
Brown and pink and pain and sorrow
Take my black and white and yellow
Brown and pink and hate and sorrow
Paint me with an endless sunrise
Paint me
Paint me, open my eyes
Paint me with color of love
Words and Music by John Cooper
Learning inside
I will be safe with you tonight
You cause the smile and the
Teardrops in my eyes
Locked inside your every movement
Will I stand or will I fall?
Trapped inside your walls of glory
I am just as the dead fall
Chaos in my head
The whole universe is at rest
When I'm in your arms is when I feel the best
Locked inside your creative being
Whirled about in your unfailing love
Salvation alone belongs to You
Lifting up my voice
To the God who really sees
The God who is consumed with loving thoughts of me
The screaming winds and crashing of the oceans
Shifting sands and the changing of the seasons
As I stand in awe and wonder
Nothing world has prepared me for You!
Jesus, Jesus, I'm safe with You
Words by John Cooper
Music by Ken Steorts and John Cooper
You try to answer slow
You put your head down low
C'mon take your time
Try to choose the most believable lie
You try to walk away
And tell me everything's okay
You think you're saved by words
But you're drowning in the absurd
But to me it's no big surprise
You thought I never saw your eyes
Departed with a smile
Just like walking down the aisle
You shook the preacher's hand
But your smile can't hide your sin
Your eyes tell me what you feel
Your eyes tell me what is real
Nobody's perfect is your prediction
You life is proving your conviction!
To me it's no big surprise
I saw the emptiness in your eyes
Words and music by Ken Steorts
I stand here in closed and open
Praying for the summer rains
Reaching in to pull back the curtains
Ruling in this desolate land
I will let me go
My walls melt away
You have no boundaries
You cross my borders
You have no boundaries
You crash my borders
I lie here clothed and naked
Dam bursts to cool ocean waves
Black water cleans the highway
Resting in the washing away
I will let me go
My walls melt away
You have no boundaries
You cross my borders
You have no boundaries
You crash my borders
You are more than all that is outside of me
You are more than that which is inside of me
You have no boundaries
I have no borders from You
You have no boundaries
I have no borders
Words and Music by Ken Steorts
Here I life again inside this broken body
Wrestle against the tree, my muscles aching
To get up now is death, to die is to really live
Flesh is restless, twisting, spasms in my back increasing
Splinter me, splinter me
My heart, my head splinter me
Here I think again to try to solve this puzzle
What is not your I don't want,
My mind is aching to reconstruct my thoughts
Or let it blow away
You are all-knowing, changing,
Yeah you're killing me
Splinter me, splinter me
My heart, my head splinter me
Jesus whispered softly, Jesus shouted it out
His kingdom body coming
But we nailed him up and hate each other
Splinter me, splinter me
My broken body splinter me
Produced and recorded by: Paul Ebersold and
Skidd Mills
Mixed by: Skidd Mills except *
Mixed by: Skidd Mills and Paul Ebersold
Executive Producers: Dana Key and Patrick Scholes
Recorded and Mixed at: Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN;
Additional Engineering by: Ken "D" Steorts
Mastered by: Larry Nix for L. Nix & Co.;
Design: Jess Kratschmer, Kratch Creative, Memphis, TN;
Photography: Troy Glasgow; Skillet play Epiphone Guitars
All Songs © 1996 Photon Music (BMI) All rights reserved.