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Ten years ago if I had seen myself as I am now
Holding a baby, loving you, and wondering how
Life keeps running away with us
Doesn’t take long to make something in life worth dying for
You think your heart’s full and then you find there’s just a little more
Life keeps running away with us
Life keeps running away
Better to have loved and lost than never love and never mourn
Oh Atticus don’t let the living take what you are living for
Everyone’s got a reason to be scared to lose it all
But it’s better to build a home than put up wall after wall
Life keeps running away with us
Learning to love is laying your life down and thinking nothing of it
So let your light shine and shine and shine till you’re no longer lit
Life keeps running away with us
Life keeps running away
Better to have loved and lost than never love and never mourn
Oh Atticus don’t let the living take what you are living for
Better to have loved and lost than never love and never mourn
Oh Atticus don’t let the living take what you are living for
Better to have loved and lost than never love and never mourn
Oh Atticus don’t let the living take what you are living for
Oh Atticus don’t let the living take what you are living for
Ten years from now if I could see your face I’d tell you
Life keeps running away with us
Life keeps running away with us
Running away with us
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2. |
Inside My Heart
04:25
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Spent too much time playing myself
In stories other people penned
But I was nothing if not true
When my hours came to an end
I dreamt a wave came off the sea
And swept you far away from me
And all the places we had lived
Just became places that you had been
You can see inside my heart
We may be living in the dark
But you can see inside my heart
Don’t build monuments to fear
Or worry if the casket fits
Life’s a mansion full of light
Death’s just a picture hanging in it
So hold on, hold on
You can see inside my heart
We may be living in the dark
But you can see inside my heart
You can see inside my heart
We may be years and worlds apart
But you can see inside my heart
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Shine Baby Shine
03:25
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Take a couple steps toward me
And I’ll catch you when your legs give out
Show me all your little teeth
With a smile to kill my cynic doubts
If the sun burnt out you’d be enough to light and warm my life
Love is still alive, love is still alive
Shine baby shine
You are the dream of a lifetime
When the day goes long and hard
And your momma’s tired from loving you
I’ll hold you right beside my heart
And tell you what I know is true
If the sun burnt out you’d be enough to light and warm my life
Love is still alive, love is still alive
Shine baby shine
You are the dream of a lifetime
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4. |
Blind Blue Eye
04:39
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When you left me here, stranded in the east
Not a kiss farewell or words to bring me peace
The sun would not rise no matter when I woke
Your name would pass through my teeth like smoke
Is the great wide sky
Just a pretty, empty thing
Like a blind blue eye
A song no one will sing?
Seems an age ago when you took my hand and said
Let’s stop standing still, and run away instead
All my thoughts and dreams are tumbling through my head
Rollin’ round like stones over the river bed
Is the great wide sky
Just a pretty, empty thing
Like a blind blue eye
A song no one will sing?
Trying to understand but I can’t stand to wait
So skip the parable and tell it to me straight
Is the great wide sky
Just a pretty, empty thing
Like a blind blue eye
A song no one will sing?
Is the great wide sky
Just a pretty, empty thing
Or a blinding light,
A song that I can sing?
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5. |
Not So Far Away
04:08
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Turn, you’re on your own again
Turn towards the friends
You haven’t seen in years
An ache is safer than a tear
Pretending you don’t care
Is keeping to your fears
Give up believing you’re all alone
Need something other than what you own
Turn to your brother, turn to your brother
Work to recover his flesh and bone
He’s not so far away, not so far away as you’ve been told
Bury promises down deep
Repeat them in your sleep
The way it’s gotta be
You know you can’t believe those lies
Unless you hide your eyes
Be careful what you see
So you’re staying in tonight
You’re turning out the lights
Alone inside your head
When you look inside yourself
Apart from everybody else
Is there emptiness instead?
You’ve got to…
Give up believing you’re all alone
Need something other than what you own
Turn to your brother, turn to your brother
Work to recover his flesh and bone
He’s not so far away, not so far away as you’ve been told
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When You Are Alone
05:32
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Remember when I let you kiss me
And all the world seemed full of beauty
Well I thought then that love was easy
But nothing ever is, believe me
No one ever gives quite so freely
How long can you wear your heart on your sleeve?
How long till the ones you love have to leave?
How many scars is too many scars?
How long till you’d rather be who you are when you are alone?
Sunday night when I lost you
I asked what part of this you’d redo
You said of all you had paid into
Only love was worth the price it cost you
So give away the life you hold on to
How long can you wear your heart on your sleeve?
How long till the ones you love have to leave?
How many scars is too many scars?
How long till you’d rather be who you are when you are alone?
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7. |
I Want To Go Home
04:10
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I raised four walls around my family
I put a roof over their heads
Worked an hour before each sunrise
Gotta keep the children fed
But those walls came down
Now my babies can’t stop crying in the street
I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
I chased my dreams into the city
Till people paid to shake my hand
I keep my money in a safe place
Bought another house just cause I can
Then the city fell
Now my money’s gone and I’ve got no one to hold
And no place to call home
No place to call home
I want to go home
I am the daughter of a mother
Whose husband wanted only sons
But I’ve seen pictures of some others
Who want an orphan for their own
My world is shaking with their love
But there’s so much ground to cross
Before I am home
Before I am home
I want to go home
I want to go home
We want to go home
Jesus take us home
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Old Letters
03:43
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When I left town you promised to send your heart with the pages
Day after day those letters would cover the miles between us
It hurts to miss you
Though we know the pain is good
If we could have and hold each day we would
When I read the old letters
Love holds the words together
And makes the story better
Tonight we’ll pull this blanket up over our tired shoulders
Night after night this blanket and our love are getting older
Sometimes I hurt you
And we love because we should
If we could wait for letters now we would
When I read the old letters
Love holds the words together
When I read the old letters
Love holds the words together
And makes the story better
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9. |
Bring The Glory Here
05:14
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I can’t let go of this
Touch and taste, a minute’s bliss
I was made for the earth
We were made for this kiss
Rapture taking us home
All creation starts to groan
Yes all creation groans
Preacher says that my soul
Will find its home in streets of gold
Singin’ with the heavenly hosts
Age upon age, not growing old
What of my flesh and bone?
I want to have, I want to hold
Yes I want to have and hold
Hair falls across your face
Our bodies fold together like clay
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Will you still look at me that way?
Consumed by Endless Love
Can we be lovers up above?
Be lovers up above
Ain’t had enough of this earth
Every taste of you is a rebirth
When this world grows strangely dim
I’ll be holding on for all I’m worth
It’s the leaving that I fear
O God, just bring the glory here
Come on and bring the glory here
Come on
We won’t know the day or hour
When we go we’ll have the power
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10. |
Life Is Made Of Water
04:42
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Birth is made of bright light and a loving face
And hoping for a lifetime in someone’s embrace
And there’s something in the cry
That pierces like a knife
It puts to rest your doubts
And wakens you to life
Life is made of water and a million signs
Though doves may not descend to you every time
There’s something in a song
That carries up your heart
Like the silver flashing wings
As a thousand sparrows dart
Death is made of whispers and trumpet calls
And finding there are parts of you you never knew at all
There’s something in the weight
That’s lifted off your chest
When you hear the voice
Of One who knows you best
And your body finds its heart
Beating in the breast
Of the Maker of your life
The Maker of your death
Amen
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