You'd Better Decide
Life's Strange
Eucy Lady
Roll Your Eyes
Out of Everything
Your Restoration in Me
Everybody's Got a Secret
Take You at Your Word
Bill (Eye Cannot See)
Teach Me How to Pray
You Don't Even Know
Change of Life
You'd Better Decide
What is it that you stand for
What would you sacrifice
What would you let depend on
A careless roll of the dice
What is your strongest conviction
What is important to you
What is it that really matters
When the long, hard day is finally through
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You'd better decide
You'd better decide
You'd better sit right down and think it out
You'd better decide
Oh, you'd better decide
Oh, you'd better decide
Oh, you'd better decide.
Where is it that your thoughts turn
When the quiet hums in your brain
Where is your consolation
When your spirit cries out in pain
What if you knew the number
Of the days that you have left
What if there wasn't enough time
What is it that you'd regret
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Too many irons in the fire
Oh———
Burning hot, burning out
Right foot in, left foot out
Life's Strange
Life's strange
Just when you think you're okay then you're not
Cling to the tree and ripen
Or let go and rot
Time marches on
Time skirts around your plans
And the portrait that you've painted
Lies crumpled in your hands.
Cruel change
You struggle to escape your comfort zone
Then, once you're out
Your heart just longs to take you home.
Emotional erosion
Wears you down
Internal demolition
Without a sound
Freedom
Can be a kite string wound around your neck
And indecision
Can make you a nervous wreck
Stumbling in a circle
Your thoughts are tied
Rip your eyes out of the darkness
And hold them to the Light.
Eucy Lady
The Eucy Lady walks from town
Cuts eucalyptus for her bag
The bag is heavy on her head
Like the sadness in her heart.
The Eucy Lady does not beg
She sells her branches to make oil
But now she's sick and needs some help
To keep a room, her family fed.
Oh, the oil can heal
Oh, the oil can burn
Oh, Eucy Lady
Deep in your soul, the tide must turn.
The Eucy Lady's getting old
Sometimes she says she wants to die
She's suffered greatly in her life
Still she searches through her pain.
Oh, the oil can heal
Oh, the oil can burn
Oh, Eucy Lady
Oh, good works can't earn.
A sweater and some medicine
A loving hand in a cold world
Some things translate without a word
Love is captured in a smile.
Oh, the oil can heal
Oh, the oil can burn
Oh, Eucy Lady
Oh, let hope return
Oh, dear Hindu Lady
Oh, the tide must turn
Oh, the oil can heal
Oh, the oil can burn.
Roll Your Eyes
You say you want a cup of coffee
You say you want to talk about life
You say you feel that there's something more
Than you've been able to find so far
You tell me you've been having some problems
You ask me how I've handled mine
I tell you about the Lord and the peace He gives me
Then there's silence you can cut with a knife
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And then you roll your eyes, and you turn away
I guess I should have known, it comes as no surprise
I ask for wisdom and strength to speak to you in love
When you roll your eyes
There's nothing that I'm leaving out here
Nothing that I'm making up
I'm speaking from the heart but you're not ready
To receive a gift that you haven't bought
Part of me just wants to cry out
Part of me just wants to scream
Part of me remembers the part of me
That did the very same thing
Out Of Everything
And the message of my heart cries out to you
In the loneliness and sorrow you've been through
But I know the One to tenderize your pain
Out of everything faith, hope and love remain.
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There's an ugliness that lives inside us all
Even good intentions lift us up to fall
What we lose often seems more than what we gain
Out of everything faith, hope and love remain.
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Continuing the journey starts right here
And in retrospect the goal seems very clear
The beauty of the pearl starts with a grain
Out of everything faith, hope and love remain.
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"And now these three remain: faith hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." —1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
Your Restoration In Me
Tossing and turning 'til midnight again
Counting the cracks in the wall
Details and entrails are spinning again
Trying to make sense of it all
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And in my inmost place you teach me
My broken spirit---sacrifice
With your joy you sustain me
Your restoration in me.
Clean me with hyssop, untangle my thoughts
Focus me wholly on you
Keep me from filling my life up with junk
Pop all my hot air balloons.
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Take my anxiety, stand in me firm
A thousand years like a day
Life is not futile when hope comes from you
I call as my heart grows faint.
"Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow." —Psalm 51:6-7 (NIV)
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." —1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
"For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." —Psalm 90:4 (NIV)
Everybody's Got a Secret
Everybody's got a secret
Everybody's got a secret
Everybody's got a secret
That they hide, and they run
And they hide.
Everybody's got a question
Everybody's got a question
Everybody's got a question
To ask, to ask
Ask away.
Everybody's got dust in the corners
Everybody's got a rat in the basement
Everybody's got a trunk in the attic
Hidden away, dark and deep
Everybody's got a reason
Everybody's got a reason
Everybody's got a reason
Why they can't, why they can't
Why can't they.
Anyone can be forgiven
Anyone can be forgiven
Anyone can be forgiven
If they choose, if they choose
Choose they must.
Everybody falls short of the mark
Everybody gets tired to the bone
Everybody gets down in the mouth
Hurt and defeated, sick of tryin'
Everybody's got a secret
Everybody's got a secret
Everybody's got a secret
That they hide, and they run
And they hide.
Take You At Your Word
I forget to remember you are with me all along
Circumstances take over, I break down
I will never leave you nor forsake you is what you said
I have learned to trust you come what may
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I'll take you at your word, you are my salvation
Take you at your word, I am not afraid
Take you at your word, you are God Almighty
The stronghold of my life
I'll take you at your word, your voice with lightning flashes
Take you at your word, you whisper to my heart
Take you at your word, you are Lord God
You do not change.
Shifting sands of my life, they throw me, Lord, you lift me up
Through the storms and the shadows, you're my Light
I know your grace is sufficient for me when the thorn is deep
Your power is made perfect when I'm weak.
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I'll take you at your word, you are my salvation
Take you at your word, I am not afraid
Take you at your word, you are God Almighty
The stronghold of my life
I'll take you at your word, your voice with lightning flashes
Take you at your word, you whisper to my heart
Take you at your word, you are Lord God
You do not change.
"The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is th stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?" —Psalm 27:1 (NIV)
"The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning." —Psalm 29:7 (NIV)
"I, the Lord, do not change. So you, o descendants of Jacob are not destroyed." —Malachi 3:6 (NIV)
"But he said to me 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." —2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
Bill (Eye Cannot See)
Transform me, I am a pupa; I'm not what I'm going to be.
I'm not sure how I got here; I'm not sure what I need.
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Metamorphose the inside of me.
Liquefy what the eye cannot see.
Invent me as a new creature separate from the shell that I've been
Behind me lies a full season; before me, eternity.
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Present me with a new reason for who I am and what I do.
Augment me with a new purpose; reveal me deep within you.
Teach Me How To Pray
My two sons laugh and play
I try to teach them about the dangers out there
Don't want to scare them but
I want to keep them safe
It's such a different world
Every generation feels that way
Oh Lord, you know my fears
Hold them close, teach me how to pray for them.
This is a joyful time
One we've waited for and now that we're here
We try to stop the clock
Drink in the moments of the day
The seasons hurry by
We see our parents in a different light
They're moving slower now
It scares me, Lord. Teach me how to pray for them.
Each morning I awake
Kiss my babies, take a look at the day
I thank you, Jesus
For the grace you've given me
So many empty hearts
Their purpose robbed, their motives analyzed
Lord Jesus, love the hurt away,
Teach me how to pray.
Teach me how to pray.
You Don't Even Know
The ribbon's fancy, but the present's broken
You've got a window seat, but all you see are clouds
The sun is shining, but there's something in the shadow
You bend to glimpse it and then suddenly it's gone.
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You don't even know
What lives inside my heart
The fear it rears it's ugly head
When I lay myself open and so I back away
I try to live this life to please the One Who gave it
Sometimes I do okay, sometimes I try to hide.
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A fragile thing, this memory
With it's scars of pleasure and of pain
Each day adds to the reservoir
As I drag it 'round with me again
Change Of Life
Almost thirty, full of worry
You know, it scared me to the bone
I left the music, 'til He could use it
I left the only life I'd known
He walked me through it, He still sees to it
Day by day until I'm home.
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Change of life, change of life
Change of life.
Life's a rewrite, darkness to daylight
Things have changed and I have, too.
I lost my mind's eye, I didn't know why
Then He came and changed my view
Unexpected, resurrected
Lost to found, old to new.
All songs copyright©1999, Charlie and Mary DeFrank
except Change of Life, copyright©1999, music-Randy Dahl/lyrics-Mary DeFrank