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Just LOOK Around
03:21
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Dear every man who said, well I will be a better man today.
then looked back three years from then just to find they've ran the opposite way.
to every man who said well God you can have it all, but let me hold onto my hate. for every moment that I prayed and yet you stayed as far away as you could from me.
or was I that moved?
How can I still love the way that I was made to if I'm still holding onto little thing my God that is not you.
show me what it means God what means to look like love so that I can look like you, like love.
just look around dear friend just look around and I swear all your answers will be found.
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It was ALWAYS You
03:46
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I've got a billion reasons why I should be dead.
I've got more questions than I can fit inside my head.
I've got more reasons that I should run away from me.
than I've got more reasons why I should ever be free.
I've got more scars than any man could ever want.
I've still got repented sins that come back to haunt me.
they still haunt me.
but I've got more joy than I can contain and I'd be lying to you if I said I ever changed because of anything I've done or could ever do.
it was always you sticking out your hand when I said to hell with the truth and anyone that thought they were greater than I.
it was always you who I was meant to follow instead of what I could and could not do. you're so much bigger than the list I made.
it was always you who endured all of the pain I should of suffered through. thank God you're not fair.
it was never me or anything I could do. it was my decision but I didn't choose you, oh Lord you chose me.
it was never me or anything I've done it was the action of your one and only son, my dearest friend.
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Forget what you Know
03:31
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I forgot my name engraved on every single chain that's as broken as the day that I came. I believed a lie, built my bridges to the sky. shot my arrow to the sky, in hopes that you'd die along with mine. and how can I go on never admitting that I was wrong. still singin all the, the same songs. and all the while the spirit sleeps inside my heart these stones I keep buried deep within my skin, oh my God here I go again. how can I go on never admitting that I was wrong? I was wrong.
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We Don't have the Time
03:15
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I’m afraid for the day when God comes back cause we will be
too busy to even notice as we try and pack everything that owns us. It could be tomorrow
that I sleep beneath the stars. It could be tomorrow than my feet have walked too far. It
could be tomorrow that my bones embrace the ground and I will return to the dust in which
I’m found. I’ll be the one you find in the greatness of mine. We don’t have the time to look
back.
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Thank God he's not Fair
04:23
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I don’t speak for the sake of my own good. I don’t speak as if
no one else could. I don’t speak so that my God will love me more. I speak because my heart
once looked like yours. I don’t speak as if I hold all the cures cause in fact there is only one
and the same way you believe the night marries the moon I believe life married the son after
3 days that held more disbelief than you’ve probably held your entire life. Now I’m living mine
under the son but for most it only has even been night. We’re always looking for what’s wrong
and right, but sometimes it’s between what’s foolish and wise and we’re always separating
God in distances, but in the end we’ll all be seperated by truth and lies. The greatest one is
that I ever deserved to be your son cause if God looked like me then that’s no God that I
would want to serve. I’d say to hell with him cause after all that’s the only thing I deserve.
Oh thank God that you’re not fair, cause if you were then dear Lord I swear I’d be a
damned. Oh thank God that I was wrong when I tired to sing my redemption song and I was
the only one playing along.
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Forever's Already HERE
03:43
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What a beautiful smile braided between your cheeks. What a
beautiful face that borderlines its peaks. What a beautiful dress to perfectly match your
perfect skin. I just hope that it’ll one day compliment the casket that you’ll lay in. Girl when
will you see that one day you won’t wake up to put on the make-up that you think makes
up every single thing you are. You’ll never truly know love until you truly know the being
that started seeing you as something worth dying for when the world saw you as worthless,
nothing more than a whore. To the soliders marching in the street. To the rapper searching for
the perfect beat. Just know that one day that the earth will swallow up your feet. Then
tell me where will you stand. To the proud and mom and dads just praying for the best for
their little ones. Whether it be by your hand or another someone will bury your daughter
and your son under this harsh sun, under this harsh weather. I know it feels so constant now
but I swear that it won’t last forever. That’s one thing that time’s already told.
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Yesterday is NOT Today
03:28
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On the day I die to want to think of everything I never did and every word I never said, and every thought I never had.
I don't want to look back on the man I could have been.
I don't want to look at fear if it's in the eyes of men.
I don't want to look back on a hollow shell, but a hollow vessel for the living well. so gazed on heaven that I completely ran past hell.
The scariest thing I ever heard was that you were good cause I know I'm not. the scariest thing I ever read is that it took perfection instead of just being a good boy to make it to where you are, but God what does that mean? does that mean I'll never see you? or that the way you see me is so much bigger than I. We've lost you this time.
On the day I die I don't want to look back and realize my footprints never crossed the tracks. if I want to change the world I've got to start with myself.
There's a peaceful day that we're afraid to see.
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Don’t be afraid, I’m here my child to take away
the stake that’s in your side damaging the faith that follows. The storm is cold. Is it enough
to break the hold of the man you cling to as you run away from me? Twisting the hand that
sets you free. Oh what hand have I twisted and missed it once again? The point of it all was
that these feet were made to run not crawl. This brick wall has become my home where I
reside alone and through these lines I see my way out but they’re just to fine. Don’t be
afraid, just listen child and I will guide you home upon my throne, clothed in robes of light
beside you. The way is fine. If not my son then the path was never mine and nevermind to
the old way. My arms out wide can’t stop the sands of time. I’ve been lost at sea for so long
that I forgot I never left the shore. God I finally see that the point of it all was never me.
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Dearly Beloved
03:30
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Dearly Beloved, why have you placed yourself upon the window seal?
Always catching yourself within your longing gaze and blazing will to look past the glass well
if only your heart felt the same cause you’re staring right at freedom’s door, but the toll is
more than a physical change. Even if you don’t agree with what I believe you still can’t say
I wasted my time believing in something that I’ll never see. cause after all we’re all dreamers
praying for the furure that has yet to be seen. If it’s yet to be seen then it’s yet to exist,
but I have seen the hand that have always been determined to persist in reaching down to
the depths of hell where I found grace after losing myself. Call me foolish, call me crazy, call
me whatever the hell you want cause it is from hell he saved me. We’re all searching, but
we’re not looking. We are all hoping to win, but we’re too afraid to surrender all we are.
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Depart your Limbs
05:34
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I’m just trying to see you,but I’ve already gouged out both my
eyes. Damn the lust that nearly damns me every time. I’m just reaching out, but I’ve cut my
hands off too cause I’d rather depart from all my limbs than for a second be apart from you.
I’d rather lose all my limbs than my branches not be attached to you. I’m just trying to speak
out, but silence sounds so beautiful, cause it’s so easy to trade comfort for the sake of
anothers soul. I’m just trying to look like you my dear but you can keep every nail that I
drove into your feet. I’ll be blind before the day arrives when I will be kept from seeing you
my dear. I’ll be useless before the day arrives when I will be used any less by you. God take it
all.
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Joe Lane Little Rock, Arkansas
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