Eden and Everything After

Restless

A beating heart and a restless soul

Are all that I've known since time began

There is a sound rising from a tempest sea

I'm challenging belief to find out who I am

I will find you there, I know

I will meet you at the end of this road

Until I drift away to another place

I will seek the word you hold

I have no map, only a compass here

But there isn't a fear of what I do not know

There is a voice; I've heard it all my life

It's calling me to find the place

that I'll call home

I will find you there, I know

I will meet you at the end of this road

Until I drift away to another place

I will seek the word you hold

I will find you there, I know

I will meet you at the end of this road

Until I drift away to another place

I will seek the word you hold

Open Your Arms

You can't stop the rain

But that don't stop you from trying

You can't heal the lame

But that don't stop you from crying

Oh, if you could only see

the light that shines on your soul

If you could only leave behind

the pain that you hold

Then you could find the freedom

that lies in letting go...just open your arms

my friend

There's no one to blame

There's nothing here that's broken

There's no need for shame

It only fear that's holding you

Oh, if you could only see

the light that shines on your soul

If you could only leave behind

the pain that you hold

Then you could find the freedom

that lies in letting go...just open your arms

my friend

The need to always know

is holding you down, it's holding you down

Until you learn to embrace the profound

Oh, if you could only see

the light that shines on your soul

If you could only leave behind

the pain that you hold

Then you could find the freedom

that lies in letting go...just open your arms

my friend

Will I Remember You?

I will always wonder why

a flesh destined to die

was given so much to love

If I am the first to say goodbye

and see the face of the divine;

will I forget where I come from?

Will I remember you?

If I wake up in paradise

and do not know of my past life

what was the point of a soul?

If my voice no longer cries

then my mind ceases with time

for my heart can't be so cold

Will I remember you?

I would like to think

this world was something more than

an exercise in truth

Will I remember you?

When the day is done,

when the night has come

and I close my eyes

what will I find?

Will I remember you?

I would like to think

this world was something more than

an exercise in truth

Will I remember you?

Until Sunrise

It's a lighter burden to be blind

than bear the weight of time

My soul cannot fathom it's own end

But eternity severs my mind

Tonight...I'll chase the moon until sunrise

Tonight...let me seek so I may find

Tonight

From Eden to this place we all have crawled

What is gained if nothing's lost?

I long not for my own completion

But for the chance to fall

Tonight...I'll chase the moon until sunrise

Tonight...let me seek so I may find

Tonight...if I can't choose than why confine

me to night, tonight?

Please let me be, please set me free

I'm on my knees

This has to be more than some cold belief

It means more to me

It means more to thee

Tonight...I'll chase the moon until sunrise

Tonight...let me seek so I may find

Tonight...if I can't choose than why confine

me to night, tonight?

Oil and Wine

We're chained by fate.

bound by dove and dust

while waiting for the Kingdom Come

But there's a cost

to every loaded gun

Freedom's both the source

and the enemy of love

We can rise together or we can fall apart

I want to let you off tonight

But you want to suffer for your crimes

I want to see past this divide

You and I, we're like oil and wine

You say black and blue

are the true colors of love

You've got to beat it up to make sure

that you've got enough

But souls aren't lost

and wars are never won

A Kingdom built on wrath

will surely come undone

We can rise together or we can fall apart

I want to let you off tonight

But you want to suffer for your crimes

I want to see past this divide

You and I, we're like oil and wine

You said that I was a sacrifice

that refused to die

You said that we would have to pay the price...

tonight

I want to let you off tonight

But you want to suffer for your crimes

I want to see past this divide

You and I, we're like oil and wine

I Am

I Am the one

that did the planting of the trees

I Am one, then three, then I Am everything

I Am the one

who thought of all that I can see

I Am all then nothing at all to me

But you are the one to whom I still run

I Am the first word

spoken from the endless deep

I Am the start and the end of mystery

I Am the shield against

my fear and trembling

I Am, not me, but I really want to be

But you are the one to whom I still run

You were the face I knew

Before we all turned to

The written word of proof

We were so proud of you

Was this your intent

Does it represent

The spoken word you sent

or are you unimpressed?

Say Something to Me

Hear my prayer,

Don't turn your face from me

Let me cry at your door

For my days,

they pass away like they are smoke

I struggle to remain untorn

Now say something to me

Turn and hear my cry

Now say something to me

If you'll be inclined

Oh Lord,

Why do you cast my soul away?

Why do you hide from me?

Hear my prayer

and don't let me be afraid

Shall I come begging at your feet?

Now say something to me

Turn and hear my cry

Now say something to me

If you'll be inclined

Is there a song I can sing

to bring me to thee?

Is there a gift I can bring

that will cover the breach?

Now say something to me

Turn and hear my cry

Now say something to me

If you'll be inclined

Now say something to me

Turn and hear my cry

Now say something to me

If you'll be inclined

When You Look Back

Another letter from Augustine

Telling me it's a sin to breath

We are bound from our first cry

Walk on water or die in vain

Caused to stumble by one man's shame

We are bound until we die

We are bound by our need to die

Tell me, when you stare into the rising sun

What do you see when you look back?

Tell me, what will calm the storm

inside you now?

What do you need when you look back?

What will set you free from your demands?

It' is easy to lose your mind

When the theories of space and time

come unbound before your eyes

Saved by love, you kill the flame

To make sense of a senseless grace

you have found, but you deny

You've been found, but forget why

Tell me, when you stare into the rising sun

What do you see when you look back?

Tell me, what will calm the storm

inside you now?

What do you need when you look back?

What will set you free from your demands?

Tell me, when you stare into the rising sun

What do you see when you look back?

Tell me, what will calm the storm

inside you now?

What do you need when you look back?

What will set you free from your demands?

Paradise Lost

In this land of tears and sand

A sickness unto death

has placed its hand on mine

I know you've traveled far and wide

my weary friend

But maybe you could find some time

Come quickly

Show them that you can

Come quickly

Help them understand

The heart slows

and the spirit breaks

From the bounds that hold us

in this place we crawl

I can feel the breath of God upon my face

And it was then I heard your call

Come quickly

Show them that you can

Come quickly

Help them understand

Why was it that you cried?

Did you understand the light

was too much for my eyes

You showed me paradise

and then you pulled me back inside

to this place that mortal pride

slowly dies...it slowly dies

Come quickly

Show them that you can

Come quickly

Help them understand

Torn

I'm torn between your two worlds

of love and the prophets of law

Can time calm an eternal soul

When time means nothing at all

When the hero takes the fall

Spirit of sky hits the ground

Bring me peace cause I don't see,

I cannot breathe

An atmosphere where blood and fear

are the things that we need

I don't know that I want to

know what you know

I've built a wall of heart and stone, no apology

A flood that drowns my remorse

A lamb walks upon that watery grave

It's a long way from Amalek

To the mourning widow of the son from Nain

When the hero takes the fall

Flesh of the Earth shed from bone

Bring me peace cause I don't see,

I cannot breathe

An atmosphere where blood and fear

are the things that we need

I don't know that I want to

know what you know

I've built a wall of heart and stone, no apology

I have looked into the mirror

I have looked at what it cost

And though I'm always asking

I know I am not lost

Bring me peace cause I don't see,

I cannot breathe

An atmosphere where blood and fear

are the things that we need

I don't know that I want to

know what you know

I've built a wall of heart and stone, no apology

Sing While I Run

I have never been the kind

To need to know the design

Though it would be nice to find

The reason why we live and die

I've never been the one

To need to touch the sun

I've always known

there's something more to love

It's why I run, it's why I run

Though the mountains may crumble

I'll sing while I run, sing while I run

And though I may stumble

I'll sing while I run, I'll sing while I run

I suppose it might be true

That I'm a crazy fool

But would I be a greater fool to refuse

A chance to choose, win or lose

Though the mountains may crumble

I'll sing while I run, sing while I run

And though I may stumble

I'll sing while I run, I'll sing while I run

To you

I don't understand those willing to believe

in a god who cannot be received

Though the mountains may crumble

I'll sing while I run, sing while I run

And though I may stumble

I'll sing while I run, I'll sing while I run

To you