It's amazing what you find
When you ask a simple question and then you take the time
To listen before you speak
You take a little interest in the people that you meet

What'cha running from?
What'cha running to?
What'cha running from?
What'cha running to?

How you doing friend well you know I'm just fine
Could be a picture of the truth or a pocket full of lies
And we don't know what's going on behind
But everything that's hidden finds it way into the light

Stop looking for a box to try to put me in
I'm just a pilgrim on the road who's been forgiven of his sin
Apart from the stories I'm the same as you
We're all held together by the same kind of glue
I just want to know what's really going on
So tell me what you're thinking and what's your bottom line?
Was everything created or did it just explode?
Some eternal purpose or to the dust we go?

It's amazing how many hearts
Fill their lives with something that'll never make it past
This old earth and all that's set to fade
People looking to the stars not the hands where they were made

Perfect Love

Perfect Love casts out fear
That's how I feel when you are near
So wrap your arms around me
'Cause when all fear is gone
It's only your love I see

Love is yes and love is more
Love is a key to the prison door
Fear's afraid of finding out
That love is what it's all about
Love can take a beating silent
Fear is angry noisy violent
Love can make a racist breathe
Please forgive me

Fear is lonely fear is wrong
When it whispers that you can't go on
Love's a bridge that carries me
High above an angry sea
Love will never keep a score
Of all the things you've done before
Fear will take you're darkest sin and blurt it out

Love is patient love is kind
Love can place itself aside
Love is power to believe
That what you dream you can achieve
Fear can sting and fear can scoff
But only when the lights are off
Love is light and fear it knows
When love is here it goes

Running away from you

There's no reason to hide this way
We're moving further apart each day
You're the one that I trust

Crossing the border looking for questions
To all the answers in my mind
Through Indiana and into Chicago
Feeling the winds of compromise
South in Kentucky traffic is go slow
Sentence my patience to doing time
We roll into Nashville
Sad country songs just seem to rhyme

There's no reason to hide this way
Moving further apart each day
And you're the one that I trust
But I'm running away from you
I'm running away from you
And it's got to stop
And now is the time

I pack in a suitcase all my opinions
I wish I could lose them on the flight
We cross Carolina the Atlantic beside her
And swallow the Georgia countryside
Alone in a truck stop thinking about you
My coffee as cold as our goodbye
And sweet Alabama
I wish I could find a home tonight

Now is the time to listen the hour of freedom
The power to let it all go
To rebuild the bridges surrender defences
And fall like the sun on the snow
Throwing down the stones of my self-righteousness
I am found and forgiven by your sweet caress

I was running away from you

Home of Grace

What do you do when people are talking?
Talking about you and you can't listen
What do you do when you hear what they're saying?
And you know it just ain't true

What do you do when people are sharing?
Half made truths through Chinese whispers
Damned of you don't speak damned of you do
And you pray just to make it though

Well you hold your head up strong
And you learn to carry on
And you fly away
To the home of grace

What do you do when people are walking?
Walking a line that's crooked and broken
All you want to do is to turn on the light
But you know that it can't be you

What do you do when you know it's in you
And everyone to believe the first thing
That you hear and to make your mind up
Before you know it's true

I've asked you to turn on the light
I've asked you to reconcile
But I see a sign on your door
Saying grace isn't here anymore

This girl wears glasses

This girl wears glasses she always has
Can't remember a time without them
And she can trace every faze
In her photograph album
And this is girl is pretty she's always been
With her glasses or without them
And if she could see the girl I see
Maybe she'd no longer doubt it

When I tell her she's lovely
When I tell her she's cool
When I tell her my light goes on when she's in the room
When I tell her I love her
And I tell her I'll be
Right there beside her all the time's she can't see

Well this is girl is I fussy she's always been
Things have to be just right
From the way that she dresses to who she believes
She makes sure the bed clothes are tucked in tight
Well I told you she's fussy so it puzzles me
Why this girl wants to be with me
Maybe she feels it deep in her soul
That I really love her

Love no-one can hide

Through the day lead me on
And through the night don't leave my side
Baby I will follow you no matter what you
This kind of love no-one can hide

When I'm weak and when I'm strong
And when I'm broken down inside
Baby I will follow you no matter what you
This kind of love no-one can hide

And you tell me when you hold me
That you're love will still be true
You're the only one I dreamed of
When I think of love it's you

Sweet little girl

It's was an awkward situation and everyone agreed
People left her standing in her greatest hour of need
It was a turning point in history but the change was yet to come

She had a baby out of wedlock when she was just a teen
And there was no disguising the place that she had been
And to avoid their frowning faces she gave her child away

And there's a sweet little girl with no-one there to hold her
A sweet little girl no-one to hold her tight
And she can't hide her need for love
Though she may try to cover it up
Just a sweet little girl

Well a couple from the east side who couldn't have their own
Completed al the papers and they took the baby home
And she filled their life with laughter and took the failure from their eyes

And she grew up in the valley in the shadow of their love
And on her fifteenth birthday they told her what they'd done
Well she cried and called them family but wondered where life began

Well the man she chose to marry climbed the wall around her heart
And he whispered to her softly Oh my love we'll never part
Sometimes loving words are painful when they let the light shine in the dark

And she walked the road to healing hands trembling n the phone
Mother why'd you leave me and didn't take me home?
And do you know my Daddy? Sorry mama I know that this is hard

Well she gave birth to a baby her Mother's by her side
And Father's in the waiting well they heard the baby cry
See the healing of a family through the sacred gift of life

And there's a sweet little girl with someone there to hold her
A sweet little girl sopmeone to hold her tight
And she can't hide her need for love
She may try to cover it up
Just a sweet little girl

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth
What do you think of us
When all we do is think of us?
Jesus you were neither black nor white
The son of an Israelite
How did you get so westernised?

Turn the water into wine
I tell the world you're a friend of mine
Then I want justice for them but grace for me
How can it be that you love me?

Jesus if the 21st century
Was when you came down to set us free
Would you build yourself a sanctuary?
Jesus of Nazareth
Would you have your own TV network
And call it sermon on the satellite?

Heal the sick and give sight to blind
Outside your church but also deep inside
My self-righteousness is your enemy
How can it be that you love me?

Jesus no-one said things like you
And if what you said and did were true
I would have to give my life to you

Raise the dead and tear the curtain down
Breathe your life but let religion drown
Set the captives free and start with me
I do believe that you love me

Small Steps

A drug softened mind greets me on the telephone
Going back in time to places I'd rather leave behind
Pictures in my heart of where I'd be in the other side
I could be with you a lone crusader simply passing through

And I know that when I smile it's a smile from my heart
And although that I'm not far down the road to where you are
I'm taking small steps to glory with my Lord

Upstairs and in my mind restless spirits try to pull me down
Behind your tears you smile and behind your smile I see a restless fire
I'm sick of fooling you my outside world is not who I am
To pierce this outer shell the inner garden it seems so frail

We've been fed the lie for so long
Don't go feeling with your heart
Generations scared to risk love
So they simply play the part
Well I'm not scared to walk around
With my heart out on my sleeve
Bringing peace and words of sorrow
To the hearts that I have bruised

My Confession/Your Grace

I confess my self absorption
I confess my stubborn pride
I confess that when I fail you
All I want to do is hide
I confess my independence
I confess my double mind
I confess my love of darkness
When the day gives way to night

Please forgive me
Please forgive me
Could your grace be over me?

I confess my lack of mercy
I confess my life of fear
I confess walls and fences
Inconsistent insincere
I confess my love of judgement
I confess my lying tongue
I confess I take for granted
All the loving things you've done

Please forgive me
Please forgive me
Oh your grace is over me?

Standing at the station

Standing at the station waving my lover goodbye
Snow falling heavy in the lonely January sky
As the train jerks forward I'm frozen stiff with pain
And I'm clinging to the hope that I'll see my love again
Grey smoke stinging my eyes as you pull away
Just two more helpless victims of war parting ways

Oh God it's 1942
I wonder what I'm going to do
Is he ever going to hold our un-born child?
And I standing frozen to the station
And I cannot move

All in a moment I see my life flash by
It's not just me he's leaving another waits inside
And now the train's out of sight
Is it ever going to be the same?
And I'm clinging to the hope that I'll see my love again
I slowly tear myself away toward our happy home
But it's never been the same since you've been gone

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