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Light breaks where no light shines
Light breaks this heart of mine
Where no seas run, burst out the hearts tide
And broken ghosts look out through my eyes, there
Light breaks where no light shines
Dawn breaks in blackened skies
Dawn breaks through all my lies
Where coursing blood slides to the sea
Through coursing veins to the heart of me
There light breaks where no light shines
Wake, O sleeper, rise up from the grave
And Christ will shine his glory on your face
Wake, O sleeper, rise up from the grave
And Christ will shine his glory on your face
Sun breaks on sleeping earth
Sun breaks to bring new birth
When logics die and answers fade
And foaming seas sweep my heart away
There sun breaks where no light shines
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Surd
03:45
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Surd, in the logic of my heart,
No rhyme or reason help me please I don't know where to start
It's absurd that I don't know who I am
I fear to face the mirror see the child in the man
And I would give you my everything,
if I knew what my everything was
I'm sitting here with my dreams on a string
My heart was not for sale but it got rented for a while
And now I have to use my smile to hide my broken wings
Surd, in the silence of the night
I'm lying in the darkness and I'm trying to get it right
It's that word that you whisper in my ear
I miss it when I listen could you teach me how to hear
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Cover Me
04:06
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Cover me, when the darkness has no answer
Cover me, when the daylight can’t be asked
Cover me, when my words are full of chaos
Cover me, when I’m haunted by the past
In your eyes I find the child I left behind
So cover me
Cover me, like the wind over the prairies
Cover me, like the moon in an eclipse
Cover me like the sky over a pilgrim
Cover me, like the sunlight on my steps
In your voice I find the heart I left behind
So cover me
When my thoughts were like an open wound
And my heart was like a smoky room
I found sanctuary like an empty tomb
When you came, you came and covered me
Cover me, in the haven of your heartbeat
Cover me, in the shelter of your palms
Cover me, in the refuge of your eyes and
Cover me, in the island of your arms
In your voice I find the song I left behind
So cover me
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The Second Circle
03:47
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The light that’s never satisfied is burning in my heart tonight
A thousand gaping emptinesses filling up my soul
I wish that I could run and hide or find my way to you tonight
That you might touch my emptiness and make my spirit whole
But I’m lost in the second circle
Lost, in this corner of the night
I’m lost, in the second circle, lost
The stolen fruit of bitterness is burning on my lips to night
The tree was sweet to look upon but its fruit was filled with ash
The garden of my wilderness is burning on my lips tonight
I cry out for the coming dawn to shine upon my flesh
I saw the sign, abandon hope, all ye who enter
I closed my eyes and wandered in and now my heart is
Lost in the second circle
Lost, in this corner of the night
I’m lost, in the second circle, lost
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Calling
05:21
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Sun calls to the mist in the morning
Join me in the air
Doe calls for the fawn to dance
Among the fields so fair
Flame calls to the grass with a whisper
Give me up your withered chaff
Spring calls to the sleeping treebud
Let me teach you how to laugh
Like the sun to the mist like the grass to the flame
Like the spring to the tree, so the Lord calls out my name
So the Lord calls out to me, His song caused the world to be
So the Lord calls out to me, calling let me make you free
Hawk calls to the western wind
Lift me on your breath
Dawn longs for the sun to rise
And wake her from her death
Earth calls to the heavens above her
Soak me in your soothing rain
Darkness calls out for perfect light
Come and let me see again
Like the bird to the wind, like the dawn to the sun
Like the earth to the heaven’s so I call out to the one
So I cry to him for light, my song echoes in the night
So I cry to him for grace, calling let me see your face
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Fear of Isaac
06:58
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Fear of Isaac won’t you let your shadow fall
Fear of Isaac come and overshadow all
These temples made by hands, there’s so much we don’t understand
In the depths of your mystery
Fear of Isaac teach us who you are again
Burst those wineskins that we thought would hold you in
In the palm of our control, the high places of our soul
Tear them down and set us free
Somewhere behind the question
Between the thought and the conception
Breathe life into our confession
As we embrace the mystery
And we confess he was made known in the body
We confess he was approved by the Spirit
And seen by the angels, and preached among the nations
Believed on in creation and taken up in glory we confess
Fear of Isaac there so much I do not know
But fear of Isaac I just cannot let you go
Won’t you take me by the hand, a stranger in a strange land
And teach me to wonder
How somewhere behind the question
Between the thought and the conception
Breathe life into our confession
As we embrace the mystery
And we confess he was made known in the body
We confess he was approved by the Spirit
And seen by the angels, and preached among the nations
Believed on in creation and taken up in glory we confess
And all I know is that nothing can take you away from me
All I know, you’ve brought me back my dignity
All I know your mercy and love have purchased me
No angel or demon no power or throne
Could take from you what you’ve called your own
I’m yours I’m yours I’m yours I know it’s true
I’m yours I know that nothing could ever take me away from you
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I saw the heavens standing open,
Saw the rider robed with white
And his name was true and faithful
And his war cry split the night
King of kings, and Lord of Lords, written on his thigh
From his mouth a two edged sword, a flame in his eye
In his hand the stars are seven, his standard lifted high
Leading forth the host of heaven, riding from the sky
I saw him crush the host of darkness
By his father take his seat
Saw the crowns of many nations
On his head and at his feet
King of kings, and Lord of Lords, written on his thigh
From his mouth a two edged sword, a flame in his eye
In his hand the stars are seven, his standard lifted high
Leading forth the host of heaven, riding from the sky
He comes quickly, he comes quickly
Amen
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Brendan's Song
04:15
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O King of Mysteries, shall I abandon
My home, my country, my land
Shall I place myself at the mercies
That flow from your mighty hand
Without a shield without a sword
I'm giving back all that you gave
Christ will you keep me, Christ will you guard me
Alone on the wild white waves?
Christ will you guide, Christ will you guard me
Christ will you lead, Christ will you save
Christ will you hold, Christ will you ward me
Will you help me alone on the wild white waves?
O King of Mysteries shall I surrender
With streaming tears staining my cheeks
Shall I leave the prints of my prayer
With my knees in the sand of the beach
Confessing my sins, confessing my failures
To him who conquered the grave
Christ will you keep me, Christ will you guard me
Alone on the wild white waves?
Christ will you guide, Christ will you guard me
Christ will you lead, Christ will you save
Christ will you hold, Christ will you ward me
Will you help me alone on the wild white waves?
King of Mysteries, shall I then suffer
The battering wounds of the sea?
Shall I cross the sparkling ocean
Will you steer my vessel for me?
My wandering heart is quiet within me
My heart no longer will rave
Christ will you keep me, Christ will you guard me
Alone on the wild white waves?
Christ will you guide, Christ will you guard me
Christ will you lead, Christ will you save
Christ will you hold, Christ will you ward me
Will you help me alone on the wild white waves?
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Song for the road, give us a song for the pilgrimage
A song of healing and hope
Fill our mouths with a song for the journey
And we’ll sing it wherever we go
Let our lives be taken and blessed and broken and given
Like the bread that came from heaven above
Taken and blessed and broken and given, Lord
Teach these clumsy hands how to love
Dream for the road, give us a dream for the pilgrimage
A dream of healing and hope
Be our guide and our destination
And we’ll follow where ever you go
Let our lives be taken and blessed and broken and given
Like the bread that came from heaven above
Taken and blessed and broken and given, Lord
Teach these clumsy hands how to love
Clumsy hands, clumsy hands, clumsy hands, clumsy hands
This bread is my body, broken for you
This cup which I pour out is poured out
To make your lives new
Now you are my body alive with my grace
Go now I’m sending you out there
To show the world my face
Let our lives be taken and blessed and broken and given
Like the bread that came from heaven above
Taken and blessed and broken and given, Lord
Teach these clumsy hands how to love
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Will One Thing
05:30
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Purity of heart is to will one thing
Want one thing, need one thing
Purify my will that I may seek one thing
Let that thing be you
Wandering the heat of the desert sun
Parched for you till my course is run
Slaking my thirst with a stone beneath my tongue
Until I’m quenched in you
A servant of two masters, trading one for another
Not knowing what I am after, loving one despising the other
Purity of heart is to seek one thing
Let that thing be you
You have set eternity in my heart,
Burning there in the secret part
You have set me seeking right from the start
Let me seek for you
One thing, one thing, one thing, one thing
Purity of heart is to will one thing
Want one thing, need one thing
Purify my will that I may seek one thing
Let that thing be you
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Brown land, like a cracked and calloused hand, dry land
Flesh of stone and bone of sand
Lift up your head
Long night, like the ash of phoenix flight, dark night
Red the dawn the longing light
Lift up your head
Lift up your head and see,
The lamb was slain to set you free
The phoenix flame will rise again
And perch upon the holy tree
Lift up your head behold
The child you welcomed once of old
With myrrh and frankincense and gold
Is now the resurrected Lord
He comes to heal your land, lift up your head
Ancient place, like a cracked and noble face, antique place
Mist of myrrh and tear of grace
Lift up your head
Night skies, like the gleam of veiled eyes, eastern skies
See afar his star arise,
Lift up your head
Lift up your head and see,
The lamb was slain to set you free
The phoenix flame will rise again
And perch upon the holy tree
Lift up your head behold
The child you welcomed once of old
With myrrh and frankincense and gold
Is now the resurrected Lord
He comes to heal your land, lift up your head
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Dancing with the Wind
05:19
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Being a child of the prairies, she seemed to me
A stalk of swaying wheat
Earth born and golden
Face brown before the coming frost
Like all the summers I had lost, And dancing with the wind
Gilded with auburn,
with winter’s white expectancy
When keeping is impossible,
But time is rich and lingering
Eyes wide, blue and wondering, and dancing with the wind
‘Cause loving is knowing and knowing is leaving
And leaving is coming back again
Until then I’ll take your hand, I’ll hold you till you understand
Until then keep dancing with the wind
Being a child of the prairies, she seemed to me
A stalk of summer wheat
Earth-green and growing
Face turned towards the summer sun
A taste of seasons yet to come, are dancing in the wind
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