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Conviction
05:49
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The world is losing its light. This is such a shame.
I am looked on as a zealot, never questioning anything I hear
The world has never given me a better answer
I know what is in my heart
I will not desert my cause
To bring the world to its knees with charity
I drank the dregs of addiction
I couldn’t help myself
I gave into mercy and lost myself in his light
Strength was my final result
I need to share this with you
Try to stop a moving boulder
If you can
Try to stop it as it destroys
Everything in its path
I gave up everything for this
My talents, my dreams, they are yours
Try to stop a moving boulder
If you can
Try to stop it as it destroys
Everything in its path
Bringing hope to the hopeless
Bringing light to the darkened
Power to the powerless
Healing to the broken
This is my conviction
This is my rock
This is my conviction
This is my foundation
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Soldiers
05:00
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Believe in the things you see
Believe in the things you don’t
Fight for the things you know
Have faith in the things you want
Strive to be the man you can be
Strive to help others learn to be free
Be Free
Free to be you
Free to see
Free to be a soldier of God
Your King
Join in the battle of the righteous
Be a soldier who knows what the right fight is
Show the people that we can be happy
Show them the plan to eternity
Show them the path by example
Show the people that we can be free
Be free
Bring unto God your brothers if worthy
To earn their stripes and begin their journey
Let’s start the march home to heaven
And live in our mansion that have been given
To those who learned the meaning of the fight
The fact that this life has been to learn what’s right
Let’s start the march home
Let’s start the march home
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Dawning
11:38
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The evening sun glows scarlet
As if falls from the sky
The fading day still burned strong
Leaving stains on my eyes
I can’t stand to see myself in the mirror
I know I let you down
The only one who’s always been there for me
And I gave it up and cast down my crown
I can’t take this anymore
Darkness is suffocating me
I can’t live without the light
So give it back to me
Give it back to me
A shadow eclipses what I know
And I’ve given up all of my control
The chords have bound me
And I can’t escape
I come to you with a broken heart
And blood on my hands
I need you to purify my soul
And loosen these bands
Please save me from myself
You felt the pain that I did
You stood there as my shield
You took the bitter cup for me
And with your stripes I was healed
The morning sky shines snow white
As the sun makes its climb
A whisper tells me “Use this day well
For I have given you this time”
A time to start over
A time to try again
A time to make up lost steps
And keep fighting to the end
The darkness wasn’t easy
Trying to make it through that night
But when the morning came I found
That crimson had turned to white
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Midnight Air
06:29
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I look around me now and wonder
What I’ve could have done differently
I reflect on that moment when
I could have done much more
As I will make myself anew
The midnight air clears
And I see
What I’ve been missing inside
Hope
Light
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The Silent Crowd
05:41
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I watch the silent crowd
I hear all that can’t speak
It is like you have screamed aloud
Going unnoticed like the faintest creek
I have seen your wound
I have heard your cries
I have seen what has held your bound
I look from above the skies
Why won’t this world wake up?
There is so much more to see
They are living inside themselves
Judging the world with irrational thought
They have been shown the way
Why do they falter
Watch what you do and say
When you fall below my alter
I am not your enemy
What kind of father would I be?
You will be put to the test
You will grow more than the rest
I have heard your cries
All I have is yours I have established your mansion
Please stay the course
There is more there than you can imagine
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6. |
Creation's End
06:24
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The little things that catch my eye
That I’ve never seen
The heavens so blue
Leaves change yellow from green
What is creation’s end?
Is there no rhyme or reason to life?
I have a heart that beats
Everything stands on the edge of a knife
Have you seen my city streets?
What is creation’s end?
I will take your mile
I will fight beside you
I will not let you go to waste
This is creation’s end.
Come and see
Beautiful world
I gaze out and see
Thick darkness covers me no more
The dirt has been wiped away from the eyes of doubt
I have been defined.
I am convinced this time
That no one can tell me what is right
I will share with everyone
I will take your mile
I will fight beside you
I will not let you go to waste
This is creation’s end.
To have return again
This is creation’s end
To walk the path he trod
This is creation’s end
I will take your mile
I will fight beside you
I will not let you go to waste
This is creation’s end.
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Ransomed
09:09
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I stare at the ceiling as the alarm rings
Another day, another dollar
I feel the full ache of apathy
The world is grey, devoid of color
A voice awakens inside me
Looking for something more?
Are you ready for your next trill?
I will show you the way
Just take my hand
And I will lead you on
On the path of fulfillment
Fulfillment eternal
Could there be any truth in this?
Do I have anything to lose?
I can find acceptance here
A place I’ll be understood
I’ll take this emptiness
And transform it to something good
Take from all you need
I am here for you, I’ll let you know
You will laugh now but it will all turn to tears
Eventually everything that is good will be left to waste
You won’t see me coming the next time
I will hit you when you least expect it
You will know it in your gut
Doesn’t the abandonment feel great?
The voice help nothing but deceit
I’ve been lied to more and more
Complete emptiness engulfs my soul
An emptiness greater than before
Comfort is finding you again
I am losing my control
He has loosed your band so strongly sewn
He has broken my chains
Beware the evil behind the smiling eyes
They look to impress but aim to deceive
Leaving behind all whose met their demise
The path lined with death has no reprieve
I awake from the slumber of my death
The veil lifted from my eyes
Vivid, bright and vibrant the colors repainted
To a new world I will arise
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108:13
05:48
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9. |
Pillar
05:27
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My strength is out and my head hangs low
I know that I will never grow
It is time to end this fight?
But I feel there’s a flame left to ignite
How can this be?
Clear out your mind and you can see
Passion kindles the flame
There is now a new thing to exclaim
For those that cry out I hear your call
I am here for one and all
For those that fear and distress
I will give you rest
Never let go of hope and see
That all you will ever need is me
We’re all burdened with the yoke of life
I can take away your strife
I feel warmth hugging my being
I understand faith isn’t seeing
You were there, but were not
This is something I have never thought
I have a pillar to lean on
A foundation to stand upon
And when I feel the tempest break
It will not leave me in its wake
You are there
I am here
We are connected
Father and his son
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10. |
Prodigal
06:45
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Father
My pain is shattering plain existence
As there is much more to be considered
I am not a prodigal
Not going to return
I can handle myself
My inner soul swells within me
What is this?
This makes no sense
I do what I want with no conscience
No consequence or so I thought
Racked with torment, overwrought with distress
Let’s add another grievance to the books
Here’s another laceration to the soul
As I tare myself from a light I thought was fake
Pigs eat better than I
Pigs, swine, better?
Should I listen to what my father said?
Will he take my back knowing what I have done?
I knock at the door only pleading for mercy
In mercy I was received
“Son, you’re always welcome here”
These words kept ringing in my ears
“Son, you’re always welcome here”
Father, thank you Father
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