Category Archives: Faith

The Only One

Posted on by under Conviction / Doubt, Faith, God

when you needed me
i fell asleep
you said ‘tell everyone’
but you’re a secret i keep

how can they see you
through everything i do?
how can it be true
that you’re good news?

’cause i never change
still spinning around
looking for answers i have
already found

and i’ve tried work, women, and whisky
they all left me thirsty
but even i can’t deny
you’re the only that satisfies me 

when i’m broken
you’re the healing i need
i don’t know why sometimes i
just let it bleed

it’s not cool to say ‘sin’
and i so want to fit in
i trade my mask for skin
i’m tired of pretending

’cause i never change
still spinning around
looking for answers i have
already found

and i’ve tried work, women, and whisky
they all left me thirsty
but even i realize
you’re the only that satisfies me 

whatever’s next

Posted on by under Faith, Love

he found her from the footprints in the snow
she ran away but she had nowhere to go
and no lie could be a fitting mask
one look and he didn’t have to ask

with an arm around her shoulder he stayed there
in the silence she knew that he cared
she cried until the tears froze to her cheek
he wiped her face and found the voice to speak

he said “i don’t know what you’ve been through
but whatever’s next i’ll go with you”

she wished she’d never heard his words before
but they’re often said by guys trying to score
everyone who’s held her has told her to lie down
and look for love in between sheets
(where it cannot be found)

but something in his voice closed her eyes
and she hoped for once love wasn’t telling lies
she leaned in to kiss him thinking that would make him stay
he put a finger to her lips and again she heard him say

i don’t know what you’ve been through
but whatever’s next i’ll go with you

what man

Posted on by under Faith, Girls, Hope, Love

what man would fight an army
what man would stand alone
hearing the predictions
facing unbeatable foes

but love, now here i stand
drawing shallow breath
outnumbered by the hopeless
facing certain death

i refuse to say i’m sorry
of love i’m not ashamed
i do not fear the falling
when i speak your name

to keep this somehow special
is this just a common tale
of a boy who pledged his heart
and eventually he fails

the enemy is moving in
what makes me think dreams come true
all the evidence i need
i find in you

the breath you exhaled into me

Posted on by under Faith, God, Hope, My Favorites
10-6-2000
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it’s like finding something and only when
your eyes catch sight of it then
you realize that you were needing it all along
and that’s what was missing – that’s what was wrong
like kicking off the sheets and finding cool night air
forgetting four senses getting lost in a stare
twirling so fast that world stands still
and walking away when you’ve had your fill
catching me falling when you know that i jumped
comfort me crying when i’m down in the dumps
a key to a door that i’ve tried to lock
a set of cuffs for the hands of the clock
a leaky lifeboat over an ocean of grace
at last i tried to splash my face
and found the breath you exhaled into me
found the breath you exhaled into me.

a reason for it all

Posted on by under Faith, God

7-29-99

give me some worry
give me some pain
give me something
so i can complain
every truth i ignore
every knock on locked doors
every time i take a fall
there’s a reason for it all
give me some sleep
give me some peace
give me a freedom
a taste of release
every sin i hide
all the times i lied
every time i take a fall
there’s a reason for it all

smart and smooth

Posted on by under Faith, Getting Over It, Girls, God, My Favorites

i can’t be smart and i can’t be smooth
i can’t see me from your point of view
i’m only me and i’m afraid
i’m not the man God meant when He made

all this skin and sadness and a heart i just can’t find
i lost it to a girl i can’t get off my mind

He says He loves me, i don’t know why
He says it doesn’t matter how hard i try
i’m only me, i’ll never be more
He says just to drop His name at the door

so she may not love me
but i think i’ll be ok
i’m gonna let her go
till she’s the one that got away

be still

Posted on by under Faith, God


when everything is noise
clatter crashing on the floor
when i can’t stand the voices
i’ve never needed you more

will you be still
when everything is spinning?
will you be still
when everything is changing?

 

playing with fire

Posted on by under Faith, God, Hope


i know, i know i’m playing with fire
it’s a dangerous game to chase desire
and i’m so far away from that pot of gold
i’m already too old

but every night the dreams return
like the flame that always burn
i can’t spend my life just standing by
afraid of trusting an obvious lie

maybe i can make it
i won’t know until i try
this is my chance i’ll take it
and i won’t trust my eyes

maybe i can make it

from here i don’t know which way to go
but if i stop i’ll never know
the closer i get, the clearer the way
i won’t stop in the shade

i must walk this path alone
i cannot get there on my own
i need some hope to hold on to
so i make my way to you

proof

Posted on by under Conviction / Doubt, Faith, God, My Favorites

i’m out for proof that you still care
i’d settle for knowing that you’re there
i wish you’d send a sign
i don’t want to doubt you

so i guess my faith is so weak
i must beg you to speak
all you offer me are words
i’ve never really heard you

if you’re everything they say you are
you know the secrets of my heart
the things i mean but cannot say
thank God you never run away

am i too smart to believe
you’re a possibility?
are my eyes so blind to see
what you’ve done for me?

if you made me i’d obey
i would be a fearful slave
but i’d never choose to
love you

worth it

Posted on by under Conviction / Doubt, Faith, God, Struggles

am i led into the desert
or do i go there on my own?

do i have to swing so hard
to get water from a stone

i can’t see a burning bush
i can’t see your signs
i wish you’d come and tell me
something that i can’t deny

say you love me
tell me i’m beautiful
say you love me
tell me i’m beautiful
tell me i’m worth it.

i would sit right by the fire
they’d ask me and i would deny

and i’d stand back in the corner
till i put a finger in your side