Randy Stonehill

Allison Allison, we've been friends A long, long time You know that I love you And I've got to say Allison, you've been heavy on my mind We both know that something is wrong All the weight you carry On your shoulders Can't you see it's bound To break your h...

American Fast Food American fast food What a stupid way to die American fast food Order me the jumbo fries Oh, oh, it's easy It's so easy and and it's trouble free It's quick and disposable, just like me If I don't stop eating This greasy American...

Angry Young Men He wants some angry young men Ones who can't be bought Ones who will not run from a fight Ones who speak the truth whether it's popular or not Ones who'd give up anything to walk in His light Rest assured when jesus comes again He'll be look...

Awfully Loud World It's an awfully loud world; you can't hear yourself think, It can make you join the monastery, it can drive you to drink, oh. With the sound of the bullets flying and the sound of the children crying, Yeah, the sound of the man on the TV...

Bad Fruit Rushing towards oblivion Like lemmings to the sea We stumble through this life time And call it being free yeah but knowing where you're going And who you're meant to be That's what freedom means to me We're all born with a hunger We just can't se...

Barbie Nation She was told when she was young Ah - that blondes always have more fun Lie lie lie dirty lie du du dumb Perfect hair perfect waste With a perfect prom queen smile upon her face For everyone But it's all right, it's okay Now your self-respect...

Bells When I was a little boy I'd wake up on a Sunday morning And hear the ringing of the bells And I remember how good it made me feel inside It was like the Lord was saying "good morning, all is well" And I'd get dressed in a hurry And say "Mama can you ta...

Big Ideas (in The Shrinking World) The economy is shrinking Our money is a joke We should go back to trading seashells And just admit that we're broke And our food supply is shrinking (Yeah, yeah) But we continue happily (Yeah, yeah) Building condos on far...

Celebrate This Heartbeat I'm gonna celebrate this heartbeat 'Cause it just might be my last Every day is a gift from the Lord on high And they all go by so fast I'm not shy, I won't hide The happy way I feel inside There's a love light shining down on me And...

Charlie The Weatherman It was Charlie who taught me to ride on a bike It was Charlie who taught me 'bout flyin' a kite It was Charlie who taught me the beauty of dreams He'd say "Life's so much more than it seems" He looked like a scarecrow so ragged and th...

China A billion hearts are beating Far across the water China And when the sun is shining Their land is cloaked in darkness China Silent eyes watching the western world Guarded hearts hidden like precious pearls Who can reach you, China All the ancient wi...

Christine I see you every night On Channel Seven, Christine Like a vision in the silvery light And each day drags by so slowly Till eleven, Christine How I hunger for your sight Now all my so-called friends They say that I'm a fool They say that you don't E...

Christmas At Denny's they got Christmas Muzak piped in through the ceiling and the refills of coffee are always for free and the waitress on graveyard and the surly night manager are wishing that all of us losers would leave there's a star on the sign at th...

Christmas Song For All Year Round I wonder if this Christmas They'll begin to understand The Jesus that they celebrate is much more than a man 'Cause the way the world is I don't see How people can deny The only way to save us Was for Jesus Christ to die An...

Cold Rock The Groove As it was in the days of Jehosaphat Let it be for me Father I can't win this fight But you're the victory Jehosaphat was praying "Oh God please hear our cry The Ammonites and the Moabites Are coming for our lives" And the prophet said "m...

Coming Back Soon Morning steals the night The sun breaks through the rain A little girl is sleeping While I pack to meet my plane Then I kneel down by her bed And I kiss her sleepy head She hugs me tight She knows I'm going away CHORUS: She says "tell me yo...

Counterfeit King Counterfeit king in a garden that he stole He's the outlaw with the diamonds in his eyes Like an angel of light He'll seduce your wandering soul He's a master of the beautiful disguise He has reaped what he's sown in his fatal act of pride...

Cross That Line Out in the danger zone Hearts are all alone and loves denied If truth has set you free Can you watch safely from the other side Now it's up to you And there's something you must do Cross that line Tell me what are you waiting for? You say yo...

Defender When it all comes down And there ain't any easy way out when it all comes 'round sometimes all you can do is shout You shout Defender It's all in Your hands Defender Take Your command When the sirens sing And they're pulling you on the rocks When...

Die Young The windows of the world Are open wide tonight And everyone is dreaming 'Neath the starry light But I can't sleep at all And dreams just waste my time I'll catch a thrill Across the danger line Don't think about tomorrow It might never come Have a...

Don't Break Down Don't break down when the sky grows dark all around your heart, Don't break down, let the love that's burning throw the spark, baby, Wash your face, put on your shoes and take a walk down any street, You never know who you will meet, Maybe s...

Emily I will not forget my sister's face the day that she died Such a frail little girl I remember how I cried When she reached out to squeeze my hand I know her time had come and when her fingers slipped from mine I knew that it was done Oh sweet Emily you...

Evangeline I can touch you but I can't reach you I can love you but I can't save you Crushed beneath some unseen weight Locked behind some prison gate I pound on these walls with my bleeding hands And long to pull you from sinking sand Evangeline Come back...

Even The Best Of Friends Even the best of friends Give in sometimes to their darker side Put up a wall of stubborn pride Not willing to make amends Even the best of friends Betray your trust in a moment of anger and it's so easy to point a finger And that's...

Faithful When I was a boy I opened my eyes Looking for the hand that moved The clouds across the sky And in my simple way I believed, yeah, yeah The one who turns the world around Was reaching down for me And He's faithful to take me through my darkest ho...

Farther On We're all traveling on a journey born to find our native land Like a scattered tribe returning Tracing the ancient plan Leaving the desert sand We've found a highway few have taken Winding up the mountainside Other roads must be forsaken Crossing...

Fifth Avenue Breakdown Did you ever get the feeling That you're trying too hard When you're all dressed up And you're out on the boulevard Looking for another likely face And going though the same old number Looking at the same old place Well it's a neon n...

Find Your Way To Me When your heart is aching And you just can't stop the pain When you feel like a lost and lonely child Crying in the rain There is someone you can turn to who will love you faithfully Little one you can find your way to Me Find your way...

First Prayer I've been waitin' for a long long time Hopin' You're a friend of mine If there's one thing that I need to do Well that's to find out more about You I have been wondering all of my days So if You're there show me the way I see people in a world...

Friend Of Old There you go, on the way to meet your fortune and your dreams, Down a road that is often not the highway that it seems, Well, I've been down that road and back again, I had the grandest dreams on the way. But if you find somehow, when the hou...

Get Together Love is but a song we sing Fear's the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Though the bird is on the wing You may not know why Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another...

Glory And The Flame We are hungry and we are haunted We are groping in the night We are wresting with the pain We are losing the fight We are liars and we are dreamers We're the guilty ones to blame And we're living out this nightmare Between the glory and t...

Good News Good news, Christ is returning Good news, now the world is learning Good news, Christ is returning And Jesus gonna bring us on home Good news well I feel alright Good news He'll come like a thief in the night Good news he's gonna take us inflight...

Grandfather's Song Dearest old friend Gone away with the wind On a morning in sunny July When it suddenly came It was calling your name And you left without telling us why But still you will find The ones you left behind Will not forget you my friend Oh we...

Great Big Stupid World Well we worship at the shroud of Elvis And we're waiting for that money from Ed McMahon And we're drinking from the Perrier fountain of youth While we follow what the daily horoscopes saying Taking lethal doses of MTV Delving into pet...

Here Come The Big Guitars Here they come! Here come the big guitars! Here they come just rockin' down the street Stopmpin' and struttin' in a furious heat Their hearts a poundin' to the big, big beat Ya can't complain and ya can't compete Here come the big...

Hymn In this land of the walking wounded In this desert of countless sorrows I will cling to His hand today And fear not for tomorrow I my heart I have made this promise With this song I declare my choice i will walk where the Shepherd leads And heed no oth...

I Don't Ever Want To Live Without You It's a blessing in my life, it's a lesson I have learned, Standing naked in this blinding light, where there's no such thing as too young to die, No, no, and there's no such thing as too old to cry. I don't ever want to...

I Thirst For You I was the boy with the high-water pants, Too shy to go to the dance, Till I learned that I could sing and play guitar And I finally felt like someone, Though my questions still remained But I've come to find my answers In the echo of Your na...

I'll Remember You I'll remember you No this isn't just another town I'm passing through Though I might not know you all by name The way I feel is still the same I believe the Lord has brought me here And I'm glad I came I'll remember you And I'm sorry that...

It's Now If there ever was a time to hold the line, it's now, If there ever was a time to confess our crimes, it's now, Better shoot out all the party lights, The devil could be trying for your soul tonight, He's cutting loose all the hounds of Hell, and th...

Jamey's Got The Blues Jamey's got the blues Day after day after day I know it must be something deep 'Cause there's nothing I can say That helps to ease the pain You know I can see in her troubled eyes The skies are grey And it looks like Jamey's blues Are...

Judgement Day In the slums of Port-au-Prince When the rain comes pouring down The homeless people sleep on the muddy ground And the children die so young 'Cause there's not enough to eat When their only food is the garbage They have found I just can't get...

Keep Me Runnin' Keep me runnin' from the shadow of my lies Like a gypsy who is never satisfied Once you compromise your soul You spend your lifetime dodging the devil's toll Keep me runnin', keep me coverin' up my tracks Keep me runnin' so I'm always lookin...

King Of Hearts All alone drifting wild Like a ship that's lost out on the ocean Everyone's a homeless child And it's not hard to understand Why we need a Father's hand There's a rainbow somewhere You were born to be there You're just running in circles Til...

Lantern In The Snow Distant voices draw you on To the glow of the evensong Call you back where you belong A prayer for you, a gift for you Leave your burdens and your cares By the fire there's an empty chair And old friends are waiting there Just for you, a...

Letter To My Family Father, you are older than me and in many ways you are wise But all of my life it's hurt to see The sadness in your eyes And I know that your life has been hard And you struggled to do your best Now I want you to share the love I've found...

Light Of The World You are the light of the world Shining like a diamond in the night You put Your healing hand upon my pounding heart And it's alright, it's alright Oh, and You who are the light within my soul Shining out for everyone to see You found me i...

Love Beyond Reason A million shining stars couldn't match The bright star that you are A million snow white doves couldn't match The wonder of Your love If I could sing for all my days A million songs of praise would still not be enough Love beyond reason I...

Lung Cancer She went down to the corner store And bought a pack of filter kings Don't you know tomorrow she'll be back for more Cause she really loves to smoke those things And every time that she inhales A cloud of that cigarette smoke She's just one step...

Modern Myth I don't know why we treat this live Like a creation of our own design Pretending everything is under control When actually we're running blind I hear that we're the highest form of life In all the universe That's pretty easy to say As long as you...

Mouse In My House I want to tell you everything Tell you who I am I need to be the one you trust And take you by the hand But when I try you pull away And I don't understand chorus: Here we are in the lonely house We can't talk about it Because the anger...

News For You Everybody's goin' to the movies Everybody's leavin' for the show It seems as though we've lost the nerves for feeling and no one's in the mood to want to know I've got news for you This is not a game I've got news for you Are you listenin' I've...

One True Love You might spin till you're dizzy Just trying to stay alive But you're so busy hustling You never arrive Don't try being a loner Cause that's your first mistake Go on once and admit that you need a break Well we all need a break You need one t...

Puppet Strings I can't keep from mourning for this topsy-turvy world with all its strife and pain Mourning for the lost and the desperate children who can't remember their name And I can feel it in my soul How the end is getting near I can hear the devil la...

Rachel Delevoryas Rachel Delevoryas With her thick eye glasses and her plain Jane face Sat beside me in her fifth grade class Looking so terribly out of place Rachel played the violin And classical music was out of style She couldn't control all her wild bro...

Rainbow Rainbow around my door I've seen You here before You greet me everyday Send the night far away Rainbow I've learned Your name You saved us from the rain Here in Your wondrous light I know everything's all right When You're near me I can tell That Y...

Shut De Do Shut de do, keep out de debil You shut de do, keep de debil in de ni-eet Shut de do, keep out de debil Light de candle everything's alright Light de candle everything's alright When I was a baby child (Shut de do, keep out the debil) Good and bad...

Song For Sarah Sarah can I love you will you open up the door I know you've heard that misused word a lot of times before But I think that you need someone who can firmly take your hand And love you in a way that you can really understand Sarah will you lov...

Stand Like Steel Martin Luther King, in Alabama, faced a howling mob with just the bible in his hand, He could hear the distant thunder, He knew his days were numbered, but he believed in freedom and so he never ran. He said, "You've got to stand, yep, stan...

Starlings Riding with my family in the '58 Buick, I can still recall how we'd drive through the valley to my grandmother's house every summer vacation when I was small, And I'd gaze out the window at the farms and the orchards, counting the telephone poles p...

Still Small Voice I have heard a still, small voice That's whispering "I Am, I Am, I Am Have you heard a still small voice Whispering ,"I can, I can, I can" "If you'd only believe" If you'd only believe" "If you'd only believe that there is love" I have hea...

Stop The World Well it's okay to murder babies But we really ought to save the wales We're putting criminals in office Cause it's way too crowded in the jails T.V. is our teacher now The schools are overrun by thugs And children skip their innocence And grad...

Teen King You were a small time session man Scuffling around L.A. Nights at the Troubadour Waiting for a chance to play I remember you were hanging around Cause you had no place to stay Man that seems like a long long ways away Baby you're the teen king Now...

The Dying Breed Everybody's pointing at the man up on the tightrope Cheering while they hoe he will fall Some think that he's funny some think that he's crazy Fact is his courage shames us all I've heard it said that the truth cuts like a sword And you can...

The Gods Of Men I used to dream of being famous Well, my name would be a household word I thought that it would thrill me, then I saw that it could kill me Now it strikes me as a little absurd I used to dream of being Don Juan Of having all these pretty gir...

The Great American Cure I went to the doctor all nervous and crazy I told him the way things were He smiled quite nicely And without thinking twice he Said just try the Great American Cure Put your brain in neutral Turn on the television set Kick off your s...

The Hope Of Glory Oh how much more could any man desire Than to know why he draws his every breath Oh how much more could any soul require than that the Lord is near him at his death Do not forget love's Greatest Story God knows the tears that you have crie...

The Sky Is Falling I see trouble coming Closer every day I see trouble coming I just gotta get away I hear distant thunder Rumbling at my feet I see people Going crazy in the street I keep having these falling dreams And I wake up screaming I don't really k...

The Wild Frontier Like a child that dreams of flying And aches for something more We hold the dim remembrance Of an ancient golden shore Ah, but now our faith is frozen We lost it by default I tell you if we linger We will all be turned to salt Come where...

The Winner I'm a wheeler a dealer the man who's in control don't talk about my feelings Don't talk about my soul Well you know my time is money So I've got no time to spend But when you've got some business Won't you come on by again I'm the winner and I ma...

Through The Glass Darkly I heard God was at the Palace doing a one night stand So I went out there to see Him with my hope in my hand He was just a boy of fifteen without much to say And when he started signing autographs I walked away I was standing on a c...

True Blood I catch the scent in the morning air, like sweet perfume from a holy garden, I feel the warmth of a love, so rare it finds no wrong too great to pardon. Oh, true blood, spring of life from an endless river, Oh, true blood, the perfect gift of a s...

Turning Thirty I've got a house down by the ocean The rent is not too high And I love to watch the ships come in And hear the seagulls cry And lately I've been taking stock Of all that I've been through Oh, tomorrow is my birthday Feels funny but it's true,...

Until Your Love Broke Through Like a dreamer who was trying To build a highway to the sky All my hopes would come tumbling down and I never knew just why Until today when You pulled away The clouds that hung like curtains on my eyes I'd been blind all those...

Venezuela My best friend's in Venezuela And he sent me a letter and a photograph Well I miss him so you know His letters always make me laugh Well he's down there in the southern sun Where the ocean waves roll blue Walking barefoot in the sand You know that...

Weight Of The Sky Michael was funny, he was charming and wild. In my high school days, he was the king of the street. Rode his Harley down Blossom Hill Road, and his life was over in a heartbeat. Not me, I think I'm gonna stick around. I've just got to find...

What's My Line Who is this phantom Inside this skin? The kindred stranger In this mannequin? do I live today I can't say What's my line What's my number Is there a grand design Or just a blunder There's a cloud That I'm under And that's why I'm trying to fi...

Whatcha Gona Do About That Well, love can hurt so bad sometimes But even so, I still don't mind Cause just to feel it, feels so fine And I'm in love with you Well I think I've learned What it's all about And with a little bit of faith It can all work out Bu...

When I Look To The Mountains When I look to the mountains I can see You there In the wild churning ocean I can feel You there In the warm summer breeze Your voice is in the air Oh my Lord You reflect Your perfection In the smallest leaf In your vastness You...

Who Will Save The Children Cry for all the innocent ones Born into a world that's lost its heart For those who never learn to dream Because their hope is crushed before it can start And we shake our fists at the air And say "If God is love, how can this be f...

Wonderama Mr. Little in his paper boat Sails the painted sea Velvet curtains rise on cellophane skies And the tiny town scenery And the mayor and the duchess dance To the music box serenade While angels glide down the starlight promenade The tinsel rain en...

Words On The Wind Never was a day so dark Never was a scene so stark Cut my heart All that I believed Was hanging in defeat And though I stand alone His voice I hear Words on the wind Wing away to a new horizon Words on the wind Bringing life like a rain fr...

World Without Pain All the earth will watch in silence When love banishes the night Every heart will worship in His light And we'll all be together In a world without pain And we'll fly like eagles on the wing His breath from which we came All our longing...

You're Loved Tonight It's the fear of silence That give us away 'Cause when we're alone We have to hear What our aching hearts try to say And we've been walking In dead men's shoes Now there's only one saving grace And we're given the power to choose Whoev...