Third Day - Make Your Move

♫I'm looking around here for some kind of miracle
I'm looking around here for some kind of sign
I gotta believe there's a rhyme and a reason
For the faith that you find

And if you care to share a minute of your time with me
Tell me now because I am hoping that I can believe
Give me a reason to trust what you're telling me
Lord knows I need it now, won't you show me how.♫



(I'm kind of laughing today. Brought some friends to church on Easter which is always an hour long experience of "What are they thinking of this?" going off in my crazy brain. But there was a dance number...the first ever in our church...to Uprising by Muse. Our preacher wore jean shorts and no shoes, as is typical for him. My "show them how" is I'm sure way different than anything they were expecting.)

I keep getting in trouble for copyright infrigement. Who knows if the music will actually stay on here...so you can hear it here!

Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

(This is the first time I've heard this group and after seeking out the rest of their work, found that this was the only one I loved. While not agreeing with the premise there is no redemption or salvation for whatever the subject did for money, I understand guilt, and it weighing so heavy in a moment that it feels like there is no going back. Strength of spirit says "Yes" anyway, and accepts consequences as the lifeblood of change. I've watched this a hundred times, still can't make out what is written on his arm. Anyone?)


♫I'm a dead man walking here
But that's the least of all my fears
Ooh, underneath the water

It's not Alabama clay
That gives my trembling hands away
Please forgive me father

Ain't going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e'er I go
Won't do me no good washing in the river
Can't no preacher man save my soul

Did that full moon force my hand?
Or that un marked hundred grand?
Ooh, underneath the water
Please forgive me father.♫

Breathe Into Me - Red

("Red plays hard rock music that occasionally flirts with metal influences. The quartet is identified as a Christian band, but their songs don’t contain overt references to religion or faith, although their lyrics’ have implied spiritual themes.")




♫And this is how it feels when I ignore the words you spoke to me
And this is where I lose myself when I keep running away from you
And this is who I am when, when I don't know myself anymore
And this is what I choose when it's all left up to me

Breathe your life into me
I can feel you
I'm falling, falling faster
Breathe your life into me
I still need you.♫

My air does catch, like a hiccup expelled long
too long
and lungs forget they have hollow spaces
which can be mindfully filled

but even when I will not....
forcefully then
and I scrunch my face
open mouthed in silent protest

father, you should have let me go

God can roll His eyes...
and does

Falling Off the Face of the Earth - Matt Wertz

There is an edge to the earth,
that planet we each are
our own core
the flowing mantle
we cover with crust

and stepping from
we know then
our hands fisting feathers
formless
the static of our hair
up
and the great Unknown
rushing
the exposed nape

(4/12/11)

Bernhoft - Cmon Talk

(This video is a live recording of Norwegian singer Jarle Bernhoft, former lead singer of the Norwegian rockers, SPAN. For this recording, he’s on his own, only accompanied by his loop-machine. No lyrics were available on-line, so I tried my best to interpret, but some of the words I came up with don't make all that much sense. I am amazed that he can multi-task like this...creating loops and then inserting them them with the foot pedals.)


♫C'mon C'mon talk to me
I'm gonna try my utmost to be honest with you
every single word
C'mon C'mon talk to me
I'm gonna try my utmost to be rythmical
try to...

I've been thinking a lot to the end
of our family affair
things that went wrong in a matter of speaking.
Should've been more forthcoming
about the things I need to say
but you seem to be talkin to someone else.

Now you got me feeling so sorry
for something I didn't do
You got me crawlin' around in the gutter
when I shoulda been making love to you.
So let's all smooth it over, cover your ears real tight
and talk to me, to be telling the black from the white.

So what matters most in the end
is beyond our limited reach
how to unfold all the mysteries
take a different kind of species to handle the weight
of all of your cows put into words

Now you got me feelin' so stupid
when I couldn't understand
you got me reeling 'round in circles
incomprehensible demands

C'mon C'mon talk to me.♫
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One Last Chance - James Morrison

♫ I got one last chance to get myself together
I can't lose no more time it's now or never
And I try to remember who I used to be
I got one last chance to get myself together

Time has come for me to change again
I can't carry on like this I will lose my friends
Don't say that you have given up on me
Just give me the time and space to heal my head

Some people say that I'm not worth it
I've made mistakes but nobody's perfect
I guess I'll give it a try

I got one last chance to get myself together
I can't lose no more time it's now or never
And I try to remember who I used to be
I got one last chance to get myself together

Oh
And I don't want to be misunderstood
I've got to take this chance and make it into something good.♫

Beautiful Like You - Lee DeWyze

♫Everybody wants to
look into the mirror
feel a little better now

And everybody wants to
know there's someone out there
waiting for you to come around

And I wish that
You could feel it
But you don't choose
To believe it
Cause I know that
You can't see it that way
That way

If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful...♫