songs Archives - Oh, Banks

waiting

every morning i’ve stood at this open door to watch the sun rise and reveal the empty day train my eyes at the start of the sky when i look for you who went away they say i’m foolish for waiting and hope’s a hard habit to break they say i don’t look for you…

Any Good

moses was a killer out on the lamb he stunk of sheep in the desert heat You came in a flame, the great I AM and Your holiness washed under his feet david, he was working out in the fields while his brothers lined up to be king You led him to a giant, led…

911

written while watching familes searching for the missing after September 11th

just missed her

coincidence took me through my past now the houses are old and the traffic’s too fast so i pulled into our goodbye driveway to see if i could slow time down someway engine off, i still grip the wheel like it’s a bumpy ride across all i feel but i’d gone so far, so far…

Aisle Over

alarm clock bell to bell just another day under my belt sure I pause now and then to think of how God must have felt to send His son the sacrifice of Jesus oh but they knew what lie ahead and I am so envious but I can’t just hold God’s plan and wave it…

A Small God

during the forest fires in Mexico, May of ’97 – aggieland was blanketed in a dark heavy fog – driving home one day i noticed the sun looked very much like a full moon. passion burns in the land to the south and the smoke is chokin’ me dead it rolled into town just yesterday…

einstein to a child

don’t try to teach me i’ve got nothing to learn got everything figured out got knowledge to burn there’s nothing you could say that i don’t already know so don’t waste your words on me feel free to go what’s that you say you love me well i can’t believe my ears you say…