song
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the real me
i stop at red lights and 4 am in the morning look both ways and heed my mother’s warnings a smile for a stranger – forgiveness for a friend follow the golden rule – right up till the end from a distance you can see my front know it’s more than some weak stunt you’ll…
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tears from cloudy skies
i bury what i want to say deep under my breath and i watch the clock just like i’m marking time of death but the rains are washing way the layers of my lies erosion to emotion tears from cloudy skies and i say ‘i’m sorry’ – you’ve heard it before and i say ‘it’s…
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raising me from the dead
i’ve walked on the edge and fallen too i’ve never landed far from You You pick me up off the ground i’ve run and hid from Your will hands over my ears i hear You still i get lost, but i’m found i am a child – please teach me how to grow i am…
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prodigal’s poker face
sit down to the table tell y’all my name be nice to me please i’m new to the game ante up – for the priveledge something – i’m willing to lose slide the cards to me i’m ready to choose but all at once it is so clear i’m in over my head betting on…
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one and only
i didn’t know her name when she made me pray when she waved at me like she was in a parade like an angel touching down she stood out from the crowd i wanted to follow her home a girl like that should never be alone i knew that girl would be my one and…
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no more west
hitch up the wagons we’re headed west out where i man can meet his test (yeah) bid farewell to the house the city as they say, “it’s such a pity” (yeah) we’re driving across the land holding the reigns with both hands we’re staring into the sunset but there’s no more west stop at the…
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deliverance
I read You said I’ll deliver you I read You said I’ll be the one to pull you through but that was back with Moses and all those Hebrews back then they had the plagues how could they lose but i could use some of that deliverance now standing on the shores of an…
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sittin’ with an angel
i’m sittin’ with an angel stood up by my friends waiting for some signal here we go again skip ahead to dinner anything but a date i listen for 2 hours till we agree it’s getting late don’t you know i prayed for this to happen now my answers sittin’ here with all my feelings…