Mark Heard

Sun comes up like a yellow bus Tracking over the oceans of dust One day's miracle is another day's rut Day keeps breaking like it always does I'm not a loner, no sack-cloth and ashes Just a heart on a tether with a vagabond mind But this will be a broke...

Hasn't he always wanted a friend To stick close beside him through thick and through thin And through all that encompasses those born again Hasn't he always needed a friend To help tend his wounds in the war against sin And encourage him daily each battl...

Little child, weary eyes Wet from weeping still your cries In your fright know this night is day in dark disguise Though the darkness brings alarm You're still resting in My arms Do not weep - simply sleep You'll escape from harm Close your eyes, litt...

She gets his letter and she reads it well With tears on her face He says he's leaving her but he feels no disgrace He can't pity her while he pities himself Living in the age of the broken heart In the age of the broken heart We take it so hard We driv...

Lord, what can I say to You That's not been said in times past I see You darkly through a glass again And I can't think of no way new To sing about Your kindness When hymns are prayers You hear the last "Amen" Jesus, Precious Savior I have prayed it al...

When civilization takes a nasty turn And concepts are hushed when books are burned All is not lost, all is not lost When swine are the ones who steal the pearls From the human oysters of the western world All is not lost, all is not lost Truth lives on,...

He tried to open her eyes to the big wide world He was teaching her feelings that can't be taught Between his art museums and his politics He left her somewhere in a tangled thought And when he calls she don't answer When he comes 'round she's not home...

All the sleepless dreamers Dream their visions of no renown All tomorrow's unforeseen And time is a-running down Cast away the tether lines And take to the boundaries main Different horizons all the time Identical, just the same Can the loner stand a...

Red ball of sun Falters until it's out of reach
 Head in my hand Stranded on some deserted beach
 Starlight brushes my shoulder 
Tonight I'm suddenly older All too soon Summer is over
 All too soon the planet is colder 
All too soon heartbeats are slo...

Pray for the foothills Home to the drone of Power lines and rock doves Mountains grey as velvet Field for dots of yucca White and jacarandas Facing the sky As the day burns away Is a desert in mourning Sheltering the dead stones Cradle of the lost bones Home o...

Darling, when I was your age
 I could do anything
 There were days of rock 'n roll 
And lunar strolls and friendship rings
 And baby I told myself
 I'd follow my deepest dreams 
Knowing if I did my best 
Success would always follow me It was another g...

Appalachian melody drifting softly down Instruments of gold and red and brown Do not need no dulcimer or banjo-fiddle sound For right now I'll watch these leaves come down How peculiar liking old dead leaves against the sky There is something more than m...

They cast their visions in black and white In the old times And all those faces And all those lines got to me I've got to see how it ends And I'm Awake in the nighttime Awake in the nighttime Lost in a lifetime It was a love to end all bogus devotio...

I know promises thought and spoken Some are kept and some are broken Some are sprouts the weeds are choking Left alone to die There are those whose hope is taken There are those whose hearts are breaking Surely I am not mistaken I can hear the cry Ble...

Nothing I would rather do Than laugh a laugh with brown-eyed Sue No place I would rather be Than where I am when she's with me Oh, yes I do Love gives love replies And words are in your eyes No place I would rather be Than where I am when she's with m...

Many years I've been looking for a place to call home But I've failed here to find it, so I must travel on I don't care for fine mansions on earth's sinking sand Lord, build me a cabin in the corner of glory land Yes, build me just a cabin in the corner o...

You were in the right and I was the fool I'm just not too bright as a general rule So have some compassion I'm not what you see Not even a fool like me Well I had it coming but I couldn't have known I paid no attention to the goings on And a sad situati...

When we fill our minds with garbage From the tubes and profs and books It's no wonder we hate others When they give us dirty looks When we spend our days conniving How to satisfy our greed It's no wonder we feel clammy When we see the Saviour bleed Ca...

Billy is a man who let care slip from his clutch He stares with the eyes of a man who's seen too much His capital's gone, his dues are unpaid His heart is surrounded with a barricade He knows you don't need to be conscientious At a masquerade And he can...

You've come a-walking With a scar on your soul Taking too much too lightly It is no wonder That you're feeling so cold Shivering so politely Castaway, castaway You can find your way Castaway, castaway It will be okay You stand a-looking With a hurt in your e...

Street-wise tough-guys strutting on the boulevard Cold steel knife blade talking for a cold steel heart The day goes on, the darkness creeps up like a storm City life won't let up while you're waiting for the light to change (x2) Steel-boned high-rise gr...

You hit the floor at the sound of the band With a partner in your hand Restless and breathless you dance the night away Did I hear you say it is your aim For every night to be just the same And you hope the city outside's gonna be okay Dancing at the Po...

Born and raised in Macon - in my mouth a silver spoon T'wasn't long before I learned to use it night and noon Swore I'd eat at Hardees or the Krystal down the street But the food I get at Grandma's is mighty hard to beat Dinner at Grandma's - wash that ch...

As I sit and read this letter I'm amazed, I'm feeling better What is written to the soul Seem ever-fresh, and wasted never Words, when seen by more than eyes - I slowly start to realize - Compose a tune Though the song is very new I only wish that I...

Es tut mir leid, es tut mir leid (2x) Ich spreche eure Sprache nicht Ich bin nur ein dummer Amerikaner Amerikaner, Amerikaner Drum habt bitte Geduld mit mir Ein dummer Amerikaner Es tut mir leid, es tut mir leid 

Another blow to the back of creation Another fistful of dirt in the grave A vacant stare on the face of the nation Pennies of hate are easily saved And loved like a wage And everybody swings To the pendulum beats of our time [2x:] Everybody dances all...

Some say that God has approved of their mob Esteeming their purposes alone Choosing sides with a definite pride And taking their cause for His own Everybody loves a holy war Draw the line and claim divine assistance Slay the ones who show the most resis...

Just when I can see light At the end of my pipe dreams Something's not the way it seems It can pull me under overnight And all the dreamers in this town Wake up to lay their sweet dreams down Everything is alright That's the way it goes babe Everythin...

When it's dark outside you've got to carry a light Or you'll stumble and fall like tumbling dice It takes a steady step, it takes God-given sight Just to tell what is the truth, what is wrong, what is right In this world Thunder throbs in the darkne...

Hypothetical mortal beings Known only to themselves and God Come and go and play the cameo They're just faces in cabs, oh yeah All the hearts that are gonna break today All the lovers that won't come home tonight Nobody feels their dynamite They're jus...

Every eye was on Him For the words He had spoken About sight for the blind And good news for the poor That now is the time To restore all the broken When all those imprisoned Are captive no more They were amazed at His words Of wisdom and wonder A B...

Orphans wake to candlelight Noses to the Winter windows Peering down at the dawn-grey streets Where the life that goes on ebbs and flows And so another sun goes down All I am slips through my fingers Human heat it escapes this town Pray for warmth and...

Well, God told Noah to build a boat Make it good, it's got to float Pack it with animals two by two World's gonna drown, but I'm gonna save you Make it three hundred cubits by thirty by fifty Make it strong and make it nifty You're gonna be in it for a...

Miss misfortune sails down the rails With her brow to the windowpane The scenery that she sees in her soul Doesn't match with the blur in her brain Oh, she can trace the tricks of the tracks Like the ribs of a rattlesnake 'Til all her pastel chalk lines...

Oh, ever since I was a young boy I wondered what to be Watching all the grownups shaking on the money tree Oh, You know that everybody's got their places Everyone fits just fine: all except me, Lord When You gonna gimme mine? All across the nation (every...

What's the worth of one warm smile? (Go and ask the dead man) How bright the light in loved ones' eyes? (Go ask the dead man) Where's the charm in cloudy skies? (Go and ask the dead man) Oh - go ask the dead man Who has eyes for an evening sun? (Go an...

The sun goes down in Tinseltown Lights light the hype and the human debris The gazes that guide these half-a-million eyes Can't seem to make them want to see Growing up blind, growing up blind Hearts in the darkness killing time Growing up blind, growin...

Fire in my shallows, sap of my soul I'm hungry for mercy, thirsty for slack Out in the outland, flesh and the dust Weight of the tired earth breaking my back Hope where I left it under the skin Countenance of maidens, stance of the laddies The healing o...

Happy cornbread anniversary Happy cornbread anniversary Happy cornbread anniversary Here's to you and yours Well old Homer and Irene you've been hitched thirty year So you're entitled to a round of thirty cornbread cheers Corn, corn, corn Corn, corn, c...

Me, oh, my, don't you cry When the cold wind rushes by When the old adversity knocks on your door God is great, God is good You can thank Him and you should He remembers you are His own child for sure Be at ease on your knees Christ the Lord is pleased...

He fights for his own environment And never, never to repress his whims Right is what he thinks he does for others Wrong is what he thinks they do to him He plays the game He plays the game so well He plays the game He plays the game so well He smile...

When the weight of this world crashes down on you God will listen to you When the sky turns black and your thoughts turn blue He will listen to you He will listen to you Always listen to you He understands how His children feel He will listen to you...

Tears in the city But nobody's really surprised, you know My heart's taking a beating Existence is bleeding me dry, you know But way down in my heart of hearts Way down in my soul of souls Way down I know that I am a fortunate man To have known divine...

He remembers in the days of his youth He had an aptitude for acting cool And never unmasking his mind Never putting his heart on the line Penny ante in the peer-group game Taking chances for a fling with fame And never confessing the crime Never putting...

Once again here I am I have been a foolish man And I know that I've got a whole lot to learn Help me out, take my hand With a loving reprimand Without fear here I am Once again There are times When I don't know what to do And so much of what I am De...

When something shakes your fiber And stings your deepest part Just learn to be a liar Hold back your tears When something cuts you deeply And blood runs from your soul Just hide your heart completely Hold back your tears Hold back your tears Like you...

Hear the whistle blow It echoes down my soul It's something I have always known Nothing sounds so sad A cry to the unknown The fundamental sigh of all who've gone this way before Lay me down to sleep Come and comfort me I'll sleep in peace In a house...

Gunmetal grey for golden rules White hot steel for the comfort of fools Molten wills in iron hands Forge new sons for the Motherland And how many tears must fall down And how many tears must fall Hidden mounds in jungle dust Youthful voices forever li...

Strong man strangle universe - he drown the stars Blinded by the mission of a thousand wars He fit and dominant - not wonder why He love the battle cry Strong man is survivor - he live to pound Little wooden crosses in the bloody ground He fit and domin...

In the primal jungle streets Where the sky is smothered Two-legged creatures breathe and eat Bruising one another I wish I'd never been told That the species has souls I am an emotional man Emotional man with obsolete tears I guess I'm just an emotion...

Oh, the mouths of the best poets
 Speak but a few words 
And then lay down
 Stony cold in forgotten fields
 Life goes on in this ant-farm town 
Cold to the lifeblood underfoot 
All talk and no touch 
Just wanna be real 
I just wanna be real Oh, the c...

They say that the body is not of a durable kind Just cosmic pedestrians destined as bones in the ground While we and our fortunes are gathering dust We yearn for a hope that would lay those assumptions to rest Well, I know where that hope lives And I kno...

Limits in time and space Constrain the human race to do The things we learn to do Within the corridors Inside these human hearts we move Through the labyrinth of our moods And I want you To share this weight and understand And I want you To help me t...

The headlines in the dailies are the horses in a race They lead you to believe that life and death are commonplace Some believe it and I'm crying again I heard some good intentions and not all were second-hand But bravado and pretension will not feed a hu...

I used to think life was worth living And everything was just fine I came and I went And I spent all the best of my time But then I learned to live Just to care about Heaven Like the only thing on my mind Now I've forgotten my existence Like a prisoner...

I'm looking through you - where did you go? I thought I knew you - what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed, I'm looking through you; you're not the same, yeah. Your lips are moving; I cannot hear, Your voice is soothing, but the...

He hears his friends called shallow infidels Sees the vices they've naively held He looks at their faces And loves them in spite of himself When he sees the dark shadows they've thrown And their recklessness cuts him to the bone He looks at their faces...

In the gaze of the spotlight's eye A long way from home Still nauseous from a turbulent sky Up on the stage alone The live end of a microphone Point-blank to my soul I'm trying hard To keep my self-control I want to go home I wish that this night wo...

I had a dream, it was a mystery I dreamed of science and of history I dreamed that since we stood up out of the dust (out of the dust) We formed our words on lips of beauty and trust (beauty and trust) I should've known better than that I should've known...

When in the course of human events The darker side takes precedence And wise men fall and fools take charge And feign a naive innocence And blood runs cold at our own expense Ane we tend to ignore our ignorance: I know it will not be like this forever...

I get lonely sometimes - it's not your fault
 I'm a man who follows his own tracks until he's lost 
I'll keep on going round and round until I'm found I get wounded sometimes - it's not your fault 
I keep on shooting arrows up until they fall
 They stall...

Well, I hear about racial problems And what's wrong with the blacks And whites and reds and yellows And the folks who turn their backs We can't get rid of differences That fit us like a glove The fact remains that all the pain Is caused by lack of love...

Jonah was a loner and he loved the Lord So the Lord spoke out to him He said, "The men of a city named Ninevah Pity themselves no more for their sin So I want you to go there and preach, preach, preach; Come on Jonah get offa your seat" Now Jonah jumped...

When the phone rang Sunday night I was surprised to hear your voice And a hundred miles of wire Brought in your thoughts, and I rejoiced And then we said good-bye And I hung up the telephone It seemed like you were here But in an instant you were gone...

What's happened to me? I look into my loved ones' faces This skeleton key can't open up Their secret places I spend a feverish night deciding what I'll say But words are not enough to carry days All around the world (It's the same thing) Yeah, all aro...

Was a child and a newcomer to the ways of the world Eyes ablaze with the light of high noon Just to love and to be loved was all he wanted By the light of the lonely moon They taught him to capture and tame wild pathos Sold him distractions and made ever...

Lonely one Hard times inside you I have seen you crying Lonely one Dry eyes can't hide you When the truth draws nigh Lonely one You're such an actress Smiling with your makeup Lonely one You're out of practice And smiles are hard to fake You're n...

Not taking note of the fools or the wise Being a pawn of time and chance Not making vows when the flood waters rise Is simpler than nails through your hands Being a slave to the sultans of grief Keeping the hand to the plow Being held captive to public...

Babe they say that this world is better than the last I wouldn't know - I have no way of living in the past Where once there was a garden the streets have overflowed From the Golden Gates to the East Block states You can hear creation groan If there is a...

Look over your shoulder and tell me what's coming 
Tell me, what is the bogey that you're so afraid of?
 The eyes in the back of our heads can persuade 
That just for the moment mercy has swayed
 Look over your shoulder and tell me what's coming Look int...

Twilight star burns cold blue It burns cold blue in my eyes A thousand light years from the hot blue Of a thousand other dying skies Let's keep on walking past the brick walls Spray-painted with skulls of blue Matching moving moonlit silhouettes Past th...

It can bite you like a snake (Joy most poisonous) It can stalk you like a ghost (Quieter than air) It can shake you when you wake (Arrow to the heart) It can change you while you sleep (Slowly but surely) Heartbeats drown out the weather Two hearts b...

Sun rises and we talk about the weather
 Sun bleaches and we ponder it all 
The fine line between the banker and the debtor 
And what happens if the satellites fall
 Too shy we are to come right out and say it 
Too sly to let the other one know
 Head ful...

Scarlet is the color of her heart against the night Prism of her innocence is fracturing the light She will take her stairwell down to dark and heartless streets And spend her season singing songs to infidels and thieves Love is so blind, it's so blind (x...

You can't recall me on my own And you are amused But this knot is not a noose I love her I'd do it all again Don't pity me I know what I'm doing I don't even feel the pain Love ignites And I have been so long At the mercy of the flame She's a feve...

We stepped on the scene and shortly we chose our course We were given the world but we lost it and found remorse We fell so far (from day to night) We fell so hard (we should have died) And we would have perished and left no descendents Except for a mirac...

I can see myself preach on a windblown beach To a leaning, hungry bunch And then the cannibals said we got no bread Please, won't you stay for lunch? Well, I think I must be leavin' so Excuse me if you dare Think I'd rather go back to the USA And preach...

Oh, when the moon blooms Like a flower in the night Petals of Heaven-born silver light Its seeds ride the wind To the souls of men so silently Oh, there is a fanfare in the changing wind For those who will listen beginning to end And the nightingale pleads Fo...

Maybe I'm right Maybe I'm wrong Maybe I'm too weak to fight When the night makes the day seem so long But I see the wrong When I look for the right I see the shadows invariably thrown When I stand in the light Reason come to me now And tell me it's a...

Evening arguings Pointless to pursue I've got no one but you Though our pride might coincide Let's start the night anew I've got no one but you Won't you please forgive me And fight these battles with me Do you feel the hurt will heal? Kiss me if y...

You can look at the headlines And like what you've read You can look in the mirror at the hole in your head You can glance at the humdrum Moonland in tandem Fire handguns at random You can entice the lightning Lure in the lies You can look for Delila...

All the unsaid words that I might be thinking And all the little signs that I might give you They would not be enough They would not be enough So we nod over coffee and say goodbye Smile over coffee and turn to go We know the drill and we do it well We...

If you should see me stop and scan the hot sky Don't let me - give me an alibi If you should see me stoop to smell the rose Don't let me - show me the thorns it grows I can hear nothing but the howling Nothing but the wind And it is covering up the trac...

No news is good news but news is here to stay Tightening the thumb-screws from day to day I hear the tale of a distant fray War is hell but it's half-a-world away I'm alright Nothing is bothering me I'm just trying to keep the weight of this world From dawnin...

Joy is mine come morning time It's set in and here to stay I can be myself nowadays Jesus is my help nowadays All is fine come evening time I just used to pine away I can be myself nowadays Jesus is my help nowadays Life is mine, eternal kind But no...

Greenback band of the hour Setting half the trends we know They've got the power They're on the radio Flap-trap terminal D.J. Repeating everything he know He picks the hits Hey, he's on the radio Just by flipping one button You got an instant song...

What will you do with an old guitar What will you do when it's gone What will you do when you can't play no more Wood is surely rotting now Strings will surely rust And fingers that are picking turn to dust My, my - how the thoughts slip by Who has see...

Some folks can't wait Till God gets wind of what has happened to me I've got some doubts and questions, don't you see They say, "What does the poor boy Think he's doing hanging around our door We discussed this before There ain't room for him no more"...

I caught the train to San Francisco I would've flown but I can't stand planes I'm just a blur in Luis Obispo I'm just a nose on a windowpane I'll stay only for an evening I'll play just a one man band I'll stay only till I'm leaving I'll play just a on...

Heaven help a timid child in a trendy tide He really doesn't know That his heart's being taken for a ride Doing what the world lays down As a steadfast rule And hanging when the world says to change Like a steadfast fool Heaven, heaven help me I'm one...

I will rise from my bed with a question again As I work to inherit the restless wind The view from my window is cold and obscene I want to touch what my eyes have not seen But they have packaged our virtue in cellulose dreams And sold us the remnants 'ti...

Of all the crooks emotion is the worst one
 He took your answers and he took my questions 
We're like two drunks who've lost their prize possessions Our jungle conversations tend to digress 
I am a tiger you become a tigress 
The sharpest fangs won't get...

What difference does it make If this was once upon a time You supply the stereo And I'll supply the rhymes I'm aided by machinery In hopes to reach your mind Can you hear me Can you hear me now Just a needle scratching ridges On this one-way plastic...

There ain't nobody asks to be born There ain't nobody wishes to die Everybody whiles away the interim time Sworn to rise from the ruins by and by The engines are droning with progress The pistons are pounding out time And it's you and me caught In this...

Why do I lie awake at night And think back just as far as I can To the sound of my father's laugh outdoors To the thought of Sputnik in free-flight? Before I could fashion my poverty Before I distrusted the night I must've known something I must've kno...

The tears still fall The birds still sing And life is bittersweet With a schizophrenic ring The sun still shines The darkness still falls We must see both If we see them at all Schizophrenia Beauty and the beast Man from dust to dust The best among...

She's got smart-bomb eyes but they see no wrong 
She don't understand there's a war going on 
She melt my heart like lead - she got no X-ray sight
 She says a day's a day and a night's a night
 She don't see no blinding flashes 
Says why don't I hold her...

Whenever I venture from my home Why do I feel so all alone People should laugh People should love I'm in a crowd a hundred strong Watching the people walk alone Moments of life squandered away Maybe it's just a thing that I can't understand Maybe I'm...

Built your house upon the sand Worthless hammer in your hand Come high water will it stand Won't you need the Son He's my answer, He's my all He's my cushion when I fall God above is Lord of all Jesus is His Son Open the door, release the lock Can't...

Some folks' world is war-torn Some folks' world is fine This planet makes no sense to the untrained mind Some folks hope for fortune Some folks hope to die Each man sees his fate through his own two eyes And when it's day to me - it's night to someone...

We got the tickets and we missed the bus Baby - the joke's on us He's burning diesel while we fret and fuss Baby - the joke's on us Stranded at the station Fruits of hesitation Forget your destination Stranded at the station I made the terminal but I...

He set up a man of straw with an authoritarian aura And everybody thinks he's some kind of warrior for the Lord Stepping on some toes that he does not know And calling down fire on what he don't understand Straw men, straw men Set them up for a fall when...

Down peppers the rain from a clear blue sky 
Down trickles a tear on a youthful face 
Feeling in haste and wondering why 
Up struggles the sun from a wounded night
 Out venture our hearts from their silent shrouds
 Trying to ignite but wondering how We...

It's a funny world we live in It's funny every day Half the world prays like the preacher The other half don't even pray So no one understands you If you pray in your own way Now I'm stuck here in the middle Everything is in a jam Stuck right in the m...

It might be morning Just getting light He could be coming In the middle of the night It might be August It could be June Though years may pass He could be coming very soon I'm gonna watch and hope And pray every day For Jesus to come again And take...

Axes stroke in unison We make the big trees fall Chains make our ankles bleed Sweat make us strong Sun beats down on steel and wood Under watchful sights of guns In the shadows we clear this land To pay for what we've done Talk to me Talk to me Talk...

I paint a self-portrait poorly 
But I'll sell it to you pretty cheap 
I'll gather up all my tears and pour them at your feet 
If camaraderie melts like a crayon 
Then indifference spreads like a rash 
One minute and all your dreams
 Can turn themselves t...

Twenty years on and he still thinks He'll make a dent on the shrinking world But the pent-up way it works still stinks The spinning of wheels has been enough To keep him occupied, keep him tough But there's no momentum, just the gravel and the spinning...

Everybody's living in the brave new earth Prisoners of the small worlds that orbit in our skulls Native sons of a no-man's land Friends and lovers in the cold, cold ground Every now and then I seem to dream these dreams Where the mute ones speak and the...

They say this is the Golden Age Video millennium Tidings from the self-made media sage Tickings of the bio-bomb Jet-set etiquette consciousness Monosyllabic goodbyes No one cares about no one else We're so used to the capital "I" The Golden Age (Elec...

This could be the last time I awake This could be the last breath that I take This could be the last time that I pray This could be the day I fly away This could be the last time I sing a song This could be the day I say so long This could be the last me...

As this planet falls around the sun Trapping us in the orbit Creation groans in unison Like a race of frightened orphans The darkness of this raging storm Is covering up our portals But a yearning for the light is bourne In the heart of every mortal...

The power of love Can make a blind man see Can bring a man to his knees The power of love Can make a sultan grieve Can make a skeptic believe The power of love is south of south And scorches out all the doubt The power of love is the name of names An...

When you get off your knees for the first time And you know that you've been talking to the Lord You can see how His love far exceeds any other you've known It's not some mirage He's created Or some far-fetched imaginary high It's Jesus within - expressly...

Sheep come to the Shepherd when He calls their names And they follow wherever He leads Gentle is His voice as He calms and tames And He sees that they get all they need Rocky are the footpaths that He leads them on High are the mountains, low the plains...

I wish that the ways of men Were the same as the ways of God, How is it so our thick little hearts Leave the narrow path for the broad, Leave the narrow path for the broad? We could fly on the wings of eagles, We could see with the eyes of love, We cou...

It takes more than a good intention It takes more than a cursory line It takes more than mortal vigor To withstand the winds of time (To withstand the winds of time) To withstand the winds of time Yeah, yeah It takes more than an eager heart beating It takes...

These plastic halos They seem so out of place Behind the mask lurks a scarred and fragile face We lie so spiritually Familiar smiles displayed Misleading masquerade We hide our pain, we try to laugh Fools to think our tears Would provoke holy wrath...

Amen Amen Amen, oh yeah 

They had eyes to see but they focused on darkness They threw it away They had brains to reason but they let them atrophy They threw it away They had the sun by day, the moon by night Feet of clay and an inner light They were given everything It was mea...

There's an oasis in the heat of the day There's a fire in the chill of night A turnabout in circumstance Makes each a hell in its own right I've been boxed-in in the lowlands, in the canyons that think I've been pushed to the brink of the precipice and d...

Oh Diane, tell me once again Sing a song of Jesus for me, friend Sing as a bird with breath drawn from God's Word Tell me of the life that never ends Sing a song of Jesus for me, friend Sing in the night with the candles burning bright Sing to the world...

If I ever get to see your face And if you will spare me I know that my allegiance to the human race Will not ensnare me If I ever get to know your mind And I survive it I'm sure that I will leave a way of life behind I won't revive it Lord, you know...

I see you now and then in dreams Your voice sounds just like it used to I know you better than I knew you then All I can say is "I love you" I thought our days were commonplace Thought they'd number in the millions Now there's only the aftertaste Of ci...

Oh the sun runs its course from the east to the west With the best of our motives illumined Then it sinks with a sigh in the dusk of the heart And our virtue lies worthless as rumour You can be what you like if you like what you are We reflect but the su...

Two trusting Jesus There begins the story Two separate pathways Leading to glory With God's Son One and one Two eternal lives begun Two trusting Jesus Are two within His care Two trusting Jesus Kneeling now together Two separate prayers They're now...

Asphalt ocean roars At islands with rubber wheels City kid can't keep on even keel Neon world says, "Gotcha" Heart says, "No, no, no Don't be swimming in the undertow" Caught between these voices The sirens and the sage One too many choices For the v...

He bears his childhood scars With a sense of injustice Not unlike the Russians' Each time he shoots from the heart He holds his breath And waits for repercussions He'd like to trust someone He'd like to love someone But he's waiting, waiting Waiting...

I knew a man who thanked God for the good things His mind made clear by his terminal disease And he wept for those who did not understand him But his tears will be washed to the sea There is a woman, lives in midtown Manhattan And the lines in her face s...

Take each other for granted It's only love we tell ourselves It's only emotion Untamed as any ocean With the wind at our backs And time on our side Breakers crashing on rocks We assume that we'll survive Watching the ship go down (In the water) Watc...

As our conversation swells and our patience somehow lingers And accusing fingers shout about insensitivity Don't we oscillate so well within our fundamental boundaries While fiery foundries melt us down and kill tranquillity But we believe so well don't w...

I went down where the road meets the sea And I took everything that I own I was sitting on catastrophe's knee I was expecting Armageddon to come Oh, the highway was choked with its usual Clots of pickups and loud radios The airwaves were full of the obv...

Sitting with a Bible in his hand He thumbs the well-worn pages like before The evening young and he an aged man He seeks to understand his Maker more Sitting in the dark in frayed attire He feels the chill of winter coming in He throws another log into...

What kind of a friend could pull a knife When it's him or you and his kids need shoes? What kind of friend would do you in When the bomb goes off and the shelter's his? What kind of friends do friends become When the musical chairs get down to one? What...

I am a miner, a miner, a miner I'm stabbing the veins and the lodes Tunneling deeper and deeper and deeper For half of the gold in the world Breaking the backs of the workers, the workers With flood coming under the ground How can I turn back, turn back,...

From New York City to Babylon Like the tooth and the claw there's the law of the missile and the gun When Eden fell we gained our shame And from that age to this there has been no significant change With broken wings we beat the air And as we plummet we...

Another day is gone The earth spins on and on And so much news is bad But with the setting sun I let the evening come Learning to be glad Stars in the evening sky Lullabye Sweet, sweet simple treasure The sun is sinking deep I lay me down to sleep...

It's the demolition derby
 It's the sport of the hunt It's the proud tribe in full war-dance
 It's the slow smile that the bully gives the runt
 It's the force of inertia
 It's the lack of constraint
 It's the children out playing in the rock garden 
Al...

Well, I got some bad news to tell you But I got some good news too What you see ain't what you get When your whole life is through But I've got a promise in the Bible And I believe it's true God loves me, and it's plain to see That same love's good for...

You could lie to me with a ring of truth And I would not understand You could lead me on to the pits of Hell I'm a less-than-perfect man Oh - Who's gonna warn me Oh - How can I tell Oh - It's so easy Believing the lies you tell You could take my hear...