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What's the Point?
06:39
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Idea; post your opinion
Afraid to speak up and tell
You think you’re too important
I’d like to see you smile
If just for a while
What’s the point?
You know I’m following the code
I’ll keep my mouth shut and implode
You know I’m following the code
What’s the point?
You know I’m following the code
I’ll just go back out and head home
You know I’m following the code
Conflict; I just shy away
Idol; seeking mankind’s praise
You think you’re too important
I’d like to see you smile
If just for a while
What’s the point?
You know I’m following the code
I’ll keep my mouth shut and implode
You know I’m following the code
What’s the point?
You know I’m following the code
I’ll just go back out and head home
You know I’m following the code
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2. |
Take You Very Far
04:23
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It’s not easy to be first
Trudging against a world so cursed
Everything I try to be is for you
I'm living for so much more than me
For you I leave this legacy
Grandchild, you're priority
I want to take you very far
I'm laying my life down for yours
Pressing on into the course
Giving inheritance for free
Jesus, you have promised me
Salvation for my family
May it pass down after me
I want to take you very far
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3. |
Intervention
03:45
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I walked into the living room
With no thought that I'd be hearing from you
You sat me down in the corner chair
And prepared me for what you would share
After a while of meaningless talk
Your voice grew stern but your expression soft
I knew that life was about to change
I grew anxious as I heard you say:
If you'd allow, I'd like to sit you down and speak some truth
There comes a time when you can't be so scared to break all the rules
You've lived your life afraid of everybody's thoughts toward you
You were a middle child
Not the perfect child
Remember all those times you turned down pleasure for your pride?
Every hit they took was just an attempt to stay alive
Oh, how you hated them as they let blood flow to their eyes
You didn't know better
That you were no better
Remember when you had a nervous breakdown after school?
All the honor, glory, power was awarded to you
You always thought that moment would've summed up all your worth
It didn't measure up
You didn't measure up
Remember how you gave your life up for your baby brother?
Gave him a step-by-step guide on how to be another
Self-projected, blessed savior of the modern culture
He wasn't meant to die
The death that you will die
Remember that time when you fought and took your dad aside
As if the clock was ticking worth and value off your life?
You said you couldn't wait to spread your wings and fly
You couldn't wait to go
Oh, what you didn't know
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4. |
Churchplant
04:29
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My tongue is the pen of a ready writer
You're the capstone we seek
Holding firm underneath
Bearing world-changing dreams
Build them inside of me
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5. |
Royal Meadow
04:52
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Do you remember that mountain drive?
Round the bend, sunset, tears in my eyes
You sang a song so sweet
Everything complete
That's one memory that will carry me
You are the royal meadow that I can call my home
I will take care of you, water your flowers 'til they bloom
Home is not where you come from
It's who you have with you
It's not about the destination
It's the journey
Home is not where you come from
It's show you have with you
Come with me, we'll ride together
Along this journey
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6. |
The Shore
04:27
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Deep inside the blackest hearts of men
Is a familiar stranger
A free ranger
Who will take your mind at will
And suppress any sightly chance of hope
By stripping conscience
Replacing with pretense
That you can save yourself
No, you can't save yourself
Look outside and see a new perspective
One that's not respected
But it's more effective
In the fight against dark will
There's a man I know who offers shelter
Against the common lecture
That life could be no better, but
You're so afraid to let go
You're so afraid of the shore
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What a strange and deranged and backwards fear
That's got us crawling into bed with serial killers
That's got us climbing into caskets at 17
That's got us calling a cab and getting a hearse
That's got us fleeing the Light of Life and running to worse and worse
What's the gain in living in pain
When the Doctor stands at the door and knocks
With the perfect prescription?
Are you addicted to a placebo effect existence?
What's the use in making a truce with heartache
A noose with dark days?
"Heartbreak have your way, as long as you dissipate
While i'm in a drugged-up state. I'll be okay."
But why not be great at noon day?!
Why not have your mind fully utilized in it's divine design to be fully alive
Streaming clarity from heavenly places
From the One in Whom is hidden all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom?!
Why not join the unfailing system enduring forever, victorious endlessly?
Have you got a better plan?
Have you grown so accustomed to life in the dungeon
Rats having a luncheon on your flesh on a regular occasion don't phase ya?
Come on man!
If you were handed a rescue plan would you read it?
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD
"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow."
You're so afraid of white like snow.
Isaiah 1:18
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7. |
Twenty Five
04:17
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To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
O my God, in you I trust;
let me not be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
For your name's sake, O Lord,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Who is the man who fears the Lord?
Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
His soul shall abide in well-being,
and his offspring shall inherit the land.
The friendship[b] of the Lord is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to them his covenant.
My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
bring me out of my distresses.
Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.
Consider how many are my foes,
and with what violent hatred they hate me.
Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for you.
Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all his troubles.
-Psalm 25
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8. |
Wilderness
04:37
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I feel lost inside my own head
You sent me, I was so unprepared
I follow, but where did You go?
Please show me what is coming next
Wilderness in my head
You have put in me vision to believe
Repressed so easily
How soon I can forget
This calling in my head
In my wilderness, you're all I have left
Please just speak to me
I will sing your song
Until they sing along
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9. |
Bear Mountain
05:17
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Today all the cars seemed so lonely
Swirling pictures in the roads
With such determination
It's a shame they had nowhere to go
I can still hear the laughter
Of a child out in the cold
He's telling me the way to everything
Still I'm wondering where to go
This season is so blinding
I can barely see at all
The silhouette of my lover
Becomes the reason for snowfall
So what's so wrong with being honest?
I'd assumed it's nothing at all
I can't seem to say anything without fault
So I just won't say anything at all
Look through the clouds, look for her face
You won't see anything at all
Reach for the sky, it's sweet embrace
You won't feel anything at all
Listen for the sound of coming grace
You won't hear anything at all
I'd like to hear the sound "you're gonna stay"
I won't say anything at all
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10. |
A Greater Story
04:53
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Come away, leave it all behind you
Cast your cares to the open sea
I have been here waiting to meet you
Open your eyes small bear to me
Don't compare, that's not how I made you
You're more beautiful than leaves in the fall
You were born for a greater story
Don't you dare think you are too small
Open your eyes small bear
There's a great world out there
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