'Bury
Me' lyrics
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BURY
ME
written by Stephen Gause
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Hiding and naked like Adam I am ashamed
Avoiding the voice in the garden that's calling my name
There’s a taste in my mouth of a fruit and forbidden ways
There’s a snake in the dark and he’s laughing to number
my days
Ch
Lord clip my wings so that I can fly
Lord shut my eyes so that I might see
Lord crack my shell so that I won’t hide
Lord bury me and my spirit will be free
The price of atonement is blood of an innocent lamb
But the blood of my brother is the blood that is staining these hands
See the chains of this slave are the chains of an evil desire
Lord I am laying this flesh on the altar of holy fire
Ch
Oh wretched man of sin am I
But on a mighty rushing wind he cries
That the law of sin will die this day
For the flesh to die is life to gain
Ch
INTANGIBLE
CHANGE
written by Stephen Gause
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See the will to survive is the will to believe
And the will to believe is the will to receive
Something Eyes cannot see and the touch cannot feel
But its hold on your soul lets you know that its real
Ch
Intangible feeling inside the change in my heart, I'm alive
On the wings of an eagle we fly and all inhibitions have died
And the breathing of God is the breathing in me
Something is new I'm beginning to see
That life's not the same since I met with intangible change
Cause there's a place in the heart when its given away
There's a birth and a start there's a freedom a reason to say
I'll leave it all behind I labor to live in vain
But the pain that was mine died when I cried Your name
Ch
And these words that I say on my knees as I pray
Won't perfect all my ways but beginning today
There's a light inside and the Son shine's bright in my heart
Ch
CALLING OF THE PRODIGAL
written by Stephen Gause
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You say you’re not afraid of getting lost
again
You say there’s no place you would rather be
You say your heart is through with running round about
You say this life has everything you need
But I see you running when the lights are down
I see you struggle to believe
I see your Sunday-morning-fairy tale
I see your heart was never free
Ch
You walk a fine line between what you believe and what you live on
your own
There’s only one line and you can walk it with me and you’ll
never be alone
Just turn around
You feel the fence you’re riding tumble down
You feel the walls are closing in
You feel so tired of hiding all your pain
You feel your mask is wearing thin
But I felt the pain to last a thousand years
I felt the nails go through my hands
And I felt the stripes as they fell on my back
I felt like any other man
Ch
I say that you won’t be afraid again
I know you’re not where you should be
I know your heart is running round about
I know I’m the answer and the key
Just turn around there’s more to life than what you’re
living for just turn around
LIVING
BY YOUR SENSES
written by Stephen Gause
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Living by your senses
Living like a moment you’re just passing right by
Living up the outside
Laughing at the wild night you’re dying inside
Ch
The window of your soul the weight in your eyes
Your window is dirty from the darkness inside
You think you are fooling but you’re desperately losing
Excuses you’re using they fall to the ground
Living by your senses
Running on your own fuel you’re empty again
Living like its your way
Living for the next day you say you’re a man
But you’re living in a boy’s mind
Emotion over hindsight your way is not working anymore
Ch
You ride alone cause you think that you’re right
Until your spirit says you’re losing the fight
Nobody tell you how to live your life
That still small voice is silent
But stubbornness by nature is the product of will
And selfish will is broken by the mercy of grace
Sufficient grace is given when you come face to face
To the fact that you’re fighting you’re falling
You’re running a race that you know you can’t win
Ch
CLOSER
TO DESIGN
writen by Stephen Gause
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Love on the line is the love that is given with freedom on the mind
And love that is given with nothing to gain is the love we can find
In the part of our hearts we conveniently cover with reasons we’ve
forgot
And we walk our own way and we breath in the air but the soul never
stops to ask
Why we live and why we are who we are
Is our fate to be known is this Sunday affair the extent of the show
I know that there is a reason to love when there’s no love
in return
Ch
And I know that there is a purpose to life when our purpose seems
undone
And I know that there is a God in my heart who will love me as I am
And I know when falling is all I can do he is stronger I will stand
And I know the deeper the love we can find the closer we become to
design
Blowing about like the wind in the sand leaving questions why we’re
here
Only that we have now one life to give only ourselves to be feared
And there is no fear in a love that is real it goes deeper it goes
far
And we can be free if we only believe that this love is alive in our
hearts
We ask why we live and why we are who we are
Is our fate to be known is this Sunday affair the extent of the Show
Ch
Leaving all excuse behind we walk into a blinding light
Reminding us from where we came from dust to dust we are the same
But calling us to greater love no greater love to give than life
This life this love our reason why for we in part deserved to die
Now we live to love
Ch
RITE OF SPRING
written by Stephen Gause and Matt Stanfield
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The maze she’s been running has tainted
the innocent times
But innocent memories are only a state of her mind
For she knows where she’ll go isn’t where she has been
Change is fine and the light in her eyes is alive
Ch
Snow slowly melts on a young heart tired of trying
To be warm in a winter of loveless and of dying
But the seasons will change
And
the life that remains will be stronger for all of the pain
And the life she’ll be living’s the way of her calling
The child of today is the woman to be
Cause the rite of her spring has arrived
She’s learning the path of her calling will often deny
The youthful excuses distractions that seem to defy
The love she could give to a world dying young
Change goes far and the growing is giving her life
Ch
Your life is the birth of a dream
Ch
You will dance your days in the sun
You will meet the man of your dreams
You will live your life for love
You will smile in your Father’s eyes
GET REAL
written by Stephen Gause
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Can the clown take off his mask can we get real
Can the darkness in these eyes see the pain they feel
Pickin' specks out of their eyes with a wood log in my face
We smile in padded pews we're so out of place
The times are changin' the fists are shakin'
This tunnel vision is our own demise
Livin' life through stainglass eyes a fantasy that makes us blind
Am I hot or am I cold I can't make up my mind
Ch
Get real get real we're flyin' so high that the world's gone to sleep
Get real get real we're smilin' their dyin' we're wadin' knee deep
In delusions that we are immune to the pain
Holiness buried for fortune and fame
I'm afraid that our pride is to blame
We gotta take off the mask and get real
A little fly ball a little off the wall
A left field swing just a missin' the mark
See we are failing in our effortless fight
To live the love we claim we hold inside
See we are standin' on the edge of truth
But all that we can say is brother bless you
Brother Bless you just don't step on my toes
Ch
Its time to change we've got to realize
That the lost cannot be found without the hands to guide them through
You see their full of desperation while we're asleep inside these
walls
Can the scales be broken from our eyes will we stand or will we fall
Ch
LAST DANCE
written by Stephen Gause
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Lonely is the heart when hope is out of reach
And the stars are falling from their silence crashing down on me
Just reminders that our world is ending we've chosen different roads
But time can wait for one more moment tonight I live to hold you for
this
Ch
Last dance when you are mine and time is standing still
Last dance I take your hand and loving you is all I feel
Last dance just one more time we're swayin' to the music of our hearts
Last Dance of our lives
The fire on your sweet lips burning a passion never known
Tonight we forget all our cryin' tonight we dance alone
With nothing but a blinding love the music guides our way
The darkness covers all our reasons tomorrow fades away in this
Ch
But when our hour on the stage is gone and our worlds have grown apart
Tell me this song will hold your memory of the dancing of our hearts
in this
Ch
FOREVER IS NEVER GOODBYE
written by Stephen Gause
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To walk and breath is to know what living means
To walk in faith the evidence unseen
To live today cause tomorrow's still a day away
To live so long to feel the spirit call you home
Wish you could stay a while but time has destined you to go
Ch
Cause sometimes life is give-and-take and sometimes there are hearts
at stake
There are questions leaving answers yet to find
But we know there's a higher way
And we know that the price we pay is only for a while
Cause forever is never good-bye
The wiser eyes the longer days to see
A heart of love a love that's given free
A man of worth the man to rise above
A child of God of faith and of redeeming love
Wish you could stay a while but time has destined you to go
Ch
All of my heart it tells me no but I'm learning to let go
But if I know what I know to be true I'll see you soon
Ch
MAN MACHINE
written by Stephen Gause, Aaron Sands, and Matt Stanfield
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I’ll tell you something about
When I never knew myself
So many things I could not see
Overloaded sensorys
Its like too much information preys
On the information age
I seem to know so much you see
I don’t know anything
Just following the hands of time
I mark my face and smoke my mind
Any worthless cause is right
If I think its worth the fight
Ch
Man Machine
Dressed in a dream
I do what I do not want
See what I should not see
Living life conformity
Living life like man machine
Burn and breath my life at stake
Mine to give and yours to take
Free my mind to tie me down
Pick my creed from lost and found
Ch
Man Machine
Dressed in a dream
Scream at the world that controls over me
Man Machine
Is there more to me, is there more to be
Is this all I can see, of the void that is me
Its like this pop culture overload
Free my mind to lose my soul
No regard for sanity
Create my own morality
Slip away to trippy land
Slide into the Reaper’s hand
There’s got to be a better way
There’s got to be a saving grace
Ch
TO
THE SKY
written by Stephen Gause and Moe Loughran
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Oh Mary someone has already come oh Mary someone has rolled away the
stone
A man in white awaits on the inside
Oh Mary isn’t he speaking to you yes he will tell you what
you should do
Don’t be alarmed go tell the others He is risen
Ch
To
the sky He is risen
To the sky He is risen
To the sky He is risen
To the right hand of God
He appeared to them on the path with the eleven He broke the bread
Finally their eyes were opened wide and He was recognized
Two thousand years later still we don’t see
We doubt the scared hands that hung on the tree
But there is nothing to fear He is here He is risen
Ch
Ch
He is risen He is risen to the right hand of the father
LOSING THE RAT RACE
written by Stephen Gause
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Standing alone wondering why its taken me so long to find my home
But all along it was hidden there between the lines that time had
drawn
But twenty years ago today all I had to do was run and play
Like soldier boys those guns and wars were only make-believe
Ch
I wanna run free I wanna throw time to the side
I wanna be me not just the image the world wants to see
I wanna be real I wanna throw chance to the wind
I wanna reveal all the illusions that won't let us see all the living
we're passing by
Seems like now the only time we give ourselves is time we dream about
But time don't lie what you give is what you get when all your giving
dies
But twenty years from now I pray my life has turned to simpler ways
Cause the rate we run we're looking for the light while we're staring
into the sun
Ch
And the voice of the Father says slow down learn to live not survive
Learn to breath learn to smile learn to love me learn to know you're
alive
Ch
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