To Dry Bones
copyright Seth Irby 2002
Verse 1: God I'm a knot on a log/a fog has covered my will and my brain/and again I'm sitting here dazed and confused/used every excuse I know/as to why I ain't in the flow/Is it just as simple as go *Chorus: Hey now blow me out of my woe/O breath of God be the death of my cautiousness/and let me be a child again/unashamed of where I've been/unafraid of where I'm goin'/and not too introspective. Verse 2: God I'm and old jelly roll/a hole exposes my crystallized heart/and the part not bitten off's already stale/they tell me I used to cry/help me remember why/guess passion will come when I try. * Verse 3: I'm not quite the picture of Christ/the white and blue eyed Jew with Golden locks/well that sucks! No wait! Wasn't he Nazarene/I mean I want the real McCoy/not just the Action toy/so maybe I'm closer than I thought before. *
*Chorus 1: I took your love for granted(3x)/please forgive my foolish ways. I wanted you (to be) a sit.-com./I could turn off I could turn on/where nothing ever went so wrong/It wasn't solved in thirty minutes/I was wrong life is a drama if you live it/and there ain't no script for this one just forget it. **Chorus 2: Help me my blood is running cold/I fear I will be just fine/unless your love's dark fire takes a hold/and scorches this heart of mine/bring on your fire bring your rain/I want your wild love/'cause life is love and love is pain/bring on your wild love. * I wanted you (to be) a buffet line/where I could pick and chose and dine/for only $5.99/I could eat all I ever needed/I was wrong life is a hunger if you feed it/and it cost you all you got/but Lord knows I need it. **
Verse 1: Just tryin' to be a little spiritual/but I get doped by Sunday haze/Just want to be a little mystical/but I always end up in a daze/I can't seem to put my faith/in the latest email craze/I'm just tryin' to find how to be spiritual/I tell my friends they just console me/I want to scream/that there must be something that will hold me/that's not a dream *Chorus: But you say I will be your friend in rain or shine/in hell or high water oh my lord/And I know you'll stand by me in pain or strife/and weather the seasons of my life. Verse 2: Well I'm just tryin' to find how to be myself/but I packed that with my G.I. Joes/I know I'm free to just be me/but who is that seems I'm the only one who doesn't know/The advertisement said it found my soul/and I could buy it back while the price was low/Well I'm just tryin' to find how to be myself/But the doctors who have never seen me/diagnose my self-esteem/they say here's some prozac/I hope you get back to a place you've never been. * Bridge: This separation anxiety/I feel between you and God and me/Has got me up against my angst again/and that's when I really need a friend(3x). * Verse 3: I'm lookin' for some good relationships/but sometimes I wonder if those exist/I'm looking for something deep and strong/but they usually end up more like a pop song/A little shallow and repetitive too/then I get bored does that happen to you/Well I'm just lookin' for some good relationships/I tell my girlfriends it don't quite sink in/but they love my sensitivity/And guys aren't much better they just want to play games with leather/or eat and watch T.V. *
*Chorus: Lord show me your grace help me to understand it/Teach me your truth help me to comprehend it/Lift me off the floor and show me to the door/And send me out so much stronger than...Before...I ever knew You/You showed my your grace/Help me to live a life/that brings others to your face/Don't let me ever forget/what the gospel is/grace and truth brought by the one/who died to make us His. * Before...I go and bang my Bible/against those sinners' heads/Help me to remember/that I was once dead/Let me see them/though your love your everlasting love/as lost and blind men/who just don't have the eyes to see above. Bridge: Cause there's no surrender there is no turning back/Take my future you have already taken my past(3x) *
*Chorus: Mellow/Mellow/Cool as ice baby/You got to be cool as ice/You gotta feel it, feel it when the time is right/And be Mellow. Verse 1: Superman/He never blinked an eye/even when he was shot by the bad guy/he always wore tights but he was cool like that and * Verse 2: James Bond/He always had a lady friend/even if she had to die in the end/James Bond who cares if he was a jerk/He wore a tux and had lots of little toys and was * Verse 3: There's some boy out there/walkin' through the mall with his girlfriend/They are so concerned with the latest trend/there some boy out there and I wonder/does he have his own personality/or was it something he saw on T.V. but he Mellow. Yeah Baby.
A: My soul cries out a song of praise/but there?s no rhythm that been made/that is this fast or strong/'cause this is not my song/My soul cries out a song of praise/but there?s no volume that's been reached/that can shake the very earth and sky like this/and do you know why?(repeat)B: I'm just dry bones till He breathes new life into me and I can give it back/I'm just dry bones till He pours Himself into me and just like gravity It comes crashing back. Modulation: Take my heart of stone and give me Yours/Fill it with the blood that pulses love/Burn my dirty mouth with Your holy coal/Fill it with the WORD that speaks reality/All it says will be/It speaks reality and it spoke to me.
Verse: Wash over me/cleanse me with eternity/Come by here/make me crystal-clear. *Chorus: Save me, save me from myself/Change me into someone else/Take me far away from here...far away from here. Verse: Take my hands of bronze/that cannot grasp the simple truth that you bring/Take my heart of stone/I am tired of being alone. * Bridge: I'm calling won't you save me/come and save me/take me away from here. Verse: Take my life these wasted years/I'm giving it to you through all my tears/Take my spirit scarred and bruised/give me something I can use...for you now I see it's all for you/now I know it's all for you.
Verse 1a: Find me here find me now/I am lost and so confused/and though I search it does no good/until you find me. Verse 1b: Come to me come inside/Come and make my soul alive/'cause though I try it does no good/until you find me. *Chorus: I cry out for your mercy/I am helpless 'til you save me/Find me Jesus! Find me (here find me now). Verse 2a: Find me here in my sin/Find me now I'm waitin'/'cause though I change it does no good/until you find me. Verse 2b: Find me here in my success/Find me now I'm dangerous/'cause though I win it does no good/until you find me
*Chorus: Jesus build a fortress in my heart/with stones of grace and mercy/founded on the rock that is your word/Jesus build a fortress in my heart/name it love and gratefulness/nourished by the river of your blood. Verse 1: May it prevail against my flesh/Stand always a witness/that I am sealed forever more/and you hold the key to my door/May this body of death lie piled outside/walls that stand ten miles high/and will not fall until the day/LOVE will chase all sin away. * Verse 2: But as I stay and fight the fight/run the race on to the light/be for me my power and might/a strong tower of refuge/And make this law a love affair/with you my groom my Jesus fair/until I see you standing there/LOVE will chase all sin away. Verse 3: Then all at once this victory/will conquer every part of me/What I am and what I want to be/will cease forever from war/And the great big walls will be brought down/for no enemies will be found/How I long for the day when we all will dance round/For LOVE will chase all sin away. *
Verse: Sometimes it's so hard/to see through our mirage/in this dry and thirsty land/But the living water flows/as we come before your thrown/it springs out of our very souls/And your presence is so sweet/as we fall down at your feet/overwhelmed with holy praise/But you feed us with your flesh/and we drink deep of your blood/and get lost in the mystery of your love. *Chorus: We don't want to leave(2x)/We don't want to leave you Lord. Verse: But you call us to your side/like you've done for our whole lives/and you name us your children/And you sit us on your knees/as you listen to our pleas/and wrap us in your everlasting arms. * The truth is we're your bride/and one day we'll abide/with you in paradise/And we'll never have to leave/the presence of your face/we will dwell forever inside your grace. *(We won't have to leave) Verse: But while we're here on earth/living our new birth/be ever by our side/And though we leave this place/may we always seek your face/and not be satisfied until we abide. *(We don't have to leave)
I am free from sin and death the law no longer holds me down/I lose myself in every step but you are giving me a crown/I rest secure in sovereign will of one the only source of love/who in his holy nature did spill both wrath and blood to cover it/You know the paths that I should walk and works of good that you have laid for me/but I can only see the cross and the price that you have paid for me/So turn me ever from the law and give me knowledge of Your grace/to turn me back where I'd once fall and may the love of Christ constrain me.
Verse 1: Lord I come to you lost as I've ever been/I've crawled back into my grave/All my striving has come to an end/I'm weary being a slave. *Chorus: I have nothing left to lie at your feet/I have nothing left to make me lovely/I have nothing left save grace and mercy/and that's where you want me/just like a baby/crying daddy in your loving arms. Verse 2: Lord I'm on my face and I repent/of all the good that I've done (that's right)/'cause I tried to earn your love instead I proved I resent/the sacrifice of your son. * Break * Verse 3: Lord I thank you praise you I know that I'm forgiven/Now I have your righteousness/This news makes my soul glory my heart sings Heaven's Joy/My lips proclaim my bliss *