Your essence astounds me
Like this sunset on
A mountain’s winter’s peak
A picture of beauty
That I’ve had the pleasure to meet
I’ve rarely seen
Such beauty reflected
On the outside as
Well as within
Your essence astounds me
You shine even on rainy days
Your essence takes my breath away
Like the horizon when it meets
The ocean once more
In the place of dreams
For there lies creation’s most beautiful of things.
Dedicated to the girl who works at the Tangerine Bar, Worthing, West Sussex.
Monday, 3 December 2007
Work In Progress
This may look like I am on the floor
That I haven’t made my stand
Just trying to navigate my way through
This uncharted ground
So bear with me while I make these mistakes
Can you bear with me while I take these steps
For this is a work in progress
And it’s in the hands of the greatest artist
That’s ever lived of all time
So I just need a little of your patience
A little of your time
A little of your compassion
To fix this heart of mine
So please don’t write me off yet
For even fermenting fruit can be used for the finest wine
That I haven’t made my stand
Just trying to navigate my way through
This uncharted ground
So bear with me while I make these mistakes
Can you bear with me while I take these steps
For this is a work in progress
And it’s in the hands of the greatest artist
That’s ever lived of all time
So I just need a little of your patience
A little of your time
A little of your compassion
To fix this heart of mine
So please don’t write me off yet
For even fermenting fruit can be used for the finest wine
Outside The Front Door
Sometimes I think we can’t make it
Sometimes I think we’re all alone
Not often sure what’s going on here
Who is my friend or foe
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Trying to block out the noise
I cover my ears yet still these tears
The world outside is at war
We chose to ignore
What’s going on outside the front door
Outside the front door
Seems to me there’s a need to change
In our lives today
It’s up to us to heal the difference
In this world of pain
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Cos’ I can’t take this anymore
For all I want is some silence
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Still trying to block out the noise
And all I want is some peace now
Yet I sit in my room at night
Listening to the world outside
Still here the screams and the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Try to block out this noise
I cover my ears yet still there’s tears
Sometimes I think we’re all alone
Not often sure what’s going on here
Who is my friend or foe
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Trying to block out the noise
I cover my ears yet still these tears
The world outside is at war
We chose to ignore
What’s going on outside the front door
Outside the front door
Seems to me there’s a need to change
In our lives today
It’s up to us to heal the difference
In this world of pain
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Cos’ I can’t take this anymore
For all I want is some silence
So I sit in my room late at night
Listening to the world outside
I hear the screams, I hear the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Still trying to block out the noise
And all I want is some peace now
Yet I sit in my room at night
Listening to the world outside
Still here the screams and the sirens
And here I hide behind closed doors
Try to block out this noise
I cover my ears yet still there’s tears
Grace
Verse 1:
G C9
Grace, you show me grace
G C9
Grace, you show me grace
D A7
Even when I’m far away from home
D A7
You show me I’m not all alone
Verse 2:
Love, you show me love
Love, you show me love
Even when it gets hard being on this skin
You come and make sense of everything
Chorus:
C Am
When I’m lost in this world
G
You give me direction
D
You show me the way home
Verse 3:
Hope, you give me hope
Hope, you give me hope
When I fall apart at the seams
You come and restore my dreams
Verse 4:
Peace, you give me peace
Peace, you give me peace
Here I lay in your arms
Laying still in your arms
Bridge:
G C9 G C9
So now I’m no longer afraid, I’m no longer alone
G C9 D A7
I’m no longer lost, you’ve shown me the way home
G C9 G C9 D A7 D A7
For you are here with me, You’re Grace with me
Verse 5:
Grace, this unconditional grace
Love, this unconditional love
All my hope is in you, All my love to you Jesus
G C9
Grace, you show me grace
G C9
Grace, you show me grace
D A7
Even when I’m far away from home
D A7
You show me I’m not all alone
Verse 2:
Love, you show me love
Love, you show me love
Even when it gets hard being on this skin
You come and make sense of everything
Chorus:
C Am
When I’m lost in this world
G
You give me direction
D
You show me the way home
Verse 3:
Hope, you give me hope
Hope, you give me hope
When I fall apart at the seams
You come and restore my dreams
Verse 4:
Peace, you give me peace
Peace, you give me peace
Here I lay in your arms
Laying still in your arms
Bridge:
G C9 G C9
So now I’m no longer afraid, I’m no longer alone
G C9 D A7
I’m no longer lost, you’ve shown me the way home
G C9 G C9 D A7 D A7
For you are here with me, You’re Grace with me
Verse 5:
Grace, this unconditional grace
Love, this unconditional love
All my hope is in you, All my love to you Jesus
Feels Like
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m not breathing
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m bleeding
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m dying
The parting of me
Was like the parting of the sea
This was the point that I left my own life
Feeling release as I found my peace
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m leaving
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m dreaming
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m flying
I’m flying home now across the open skies
Seeing is believing yet I daren’t open my eyes
In case I fall, wake up from it all
Learnt to fly from somewhere deep inside
Now I’m flying free,
Home across the open sea.
Like I’m not breathing
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m bleeding
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m dying
The parting of me
Was like the parting of the sea
This was the point that I left my own life
Feeling release as I found my peace
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m leaving
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m dreaming
Feels like, feels like
Like I’m flying
I’m flying home now across the open skies
Seeing is believing yet I daren’t open my eyes
In case I fall, wake up from it all
Learnt to fly from somewhere deep inside
Now I’m flying free,
Home across the open sea.
Beacon
There’s this light
It’s the beacon in my life
And it guides me through the stormy seas
To the shores of your undying love
Where you hold me close as gentle as a dove
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
There’s this breeze
It’s the wind beneath my wings
And it keeps me lifted up, Keeps me flying free
It draws me to the place where you dwell
It’s where you cleanse me Lord with the water from the well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
With your spirit washing over my soul
Brings me close to you makes me whole
And to the shores of your undying love
Where you hold me close as gentle as a dove
Draws me to the place where you dwell
It’s where you cleanse me Lord with the water from the well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
There’s this light
It’s the beacon in our lives
And it guides us home through the stormy seas
To the shores of His undying love
Where He holds us close, as gentle as a dove
He draws us to the place where He dwells
Where He cleanses us with the waters from His well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
It’s the beacon in my life
And it guides me through the stormy seas
To the shores of your undying love
Where you hold me close as gentle as a dove
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
There’s this breeze
It’s the wind beneath my wings
And it keeps me lifted up, Keeps me flying free
It draws me to the place where you dwell
It’s where you cleanse me Lord with the water from the well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
With your spirit washing over my soul
Brings me close to you makes me whole
And to the shores of your undying love
Where you hold me close as gentle as a dove
Draws me to the place where you dwell
It’s where you cleanse me Lord with the water from the well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
There’s this light
It’s the beacon in our lives
And it guides us home through the stormy seas
To the shores of His undying love
Where He holds us close, as gentle as a dove
He draws us to the place where He dwells
Where He cleanses us with the waters from His well
Oh my Lord, my agape, my saviour, my all
Fish In The Sea
Everyone keeps
Telling me
“There’s plenty
Of fish
In the sea!”
Yet they fail
To say that
The trawler’s been
Past previously
Some slip through
Their nets of course
And some are just
A Gull’s main course
Telling me
“There’s plenty
Of fish
In the sea!”
Yet they fail
To say that
The trawler’s been
Past previously
Some slip through
Their nets of course
And some are just
A Gull’s main course
Take Aim
In life we often think we have to make the grade,
When in fact it’s enough to just take aim.
To give flight to everything we do,
To carve it out, to sharpen the point,
Unfold thy wings, pull back on thy strings,
To simply fly.
Take aim and sing, it’s enough to take aim.
That you keep this faith,
Aim to release your heart to this
With every composed piece,
Always intend to release,
It’s enough just to take aim.
For in taking aim,
Not sitting on blame.
Or in regret,
And there will be no ‘if only’s’
You can say you took this day
Aim to release your heart to this.
When in fact it’s enough to just take aim.
To give flight to everything we do,
To carve it out, to sharpen the point,
Unfold thy wings, pull back on thy strings,
To simply fly.
Take aim and sing, it’s enough to take aim.
That you keep this faith,
Aim to release your heart to this
With every composed piece,
Always intend to release,
It’s enough just to take aim.
For in taking aim,
Not sitting on blame.
Or in regret,
And there will be no ‘if only’s’
You can say you took this day
Aim to release your heart to this.
Within The Spaces
Broken in pieces, this heart exposed.
Extinguished light hardly shows.
From this distance all looks composed,
Looking closer now mistakes are shown.
Within the spaces it’s you and I
Picking up the pieces of our lives.
Within the spaces of our lives
Picking up the pieces, it’s you and I.
I know you’ve been marked down
Passed around, labelled “reduced to clear”
No more than a whisper
In someone’s ear.
Expired. Past the ‘sell-by’ date.
Simply out of fashion.
In it comes, and there it goes
Quicker than anyone knows.
The latest transaction,
Filling up a vacant space.
Is there a need for an explanation
In any kind of disgrace?
Cash it in, exchange this,
Keep the receipt.
In a changing world
It’s all about the people we meet.
Extinguished light hardly shows.
From this distance all looks composed,
Looking closer now mistakes are shown.
Within the spaces it’s you and I
Picking up the pieces of our lives.
Within the spaces of our lives
Picking up the pieces, it’s you and I.
I know you’ve been marked down
Passed around, labelled “reduced to clear”
No more than a whisper
In someone’s ear.
Expired. Past the ‘sell-by’ date.
Simply out of fashion.
In it comes, and there it goes
Quicker than anyone knows.
The latest transaction,
Filling up a vacant space.
Is there a need for an explanation
In any kind of disgrace?
Cash it in, exchange this,
Keep the receipt.
In a changing world
It’s all about the people we meet.
From King Size
From king size to single
All within the space of my foolish pride
With this lesson learned, wishing I had sooner died
For this day without you
I can’t breathe without your love
I can’t breathe without your love
For the sun always shined with you even on rainy days
Just took me far too long to say
Pull back the curtain to the same old view
I guess they’ll be no getting over you
From king size to single
All within the space of my foolish pride
For loving you was fatal, now I’m dying inside
If only I could have said just three small words
They would have saved the day
Now all I see is rainy days
Now all I see is rainy days
Even on sunny days
And it doesn’t seem to dampen this pain
Growing colder inside without your love
All in the space of my foolish pride
I can’t breathe without your love
I can’t breathe without your love
All within the space of my foolish pride
With this lesson learned, wishing I had sooner died
For this day without you
I can’t breathe without your love
I can’t breathe without your love
For the sun always shined with you even on rainy days
Just took me far too long to say
Pull back the curtain to the same old view
I guess they’ll be no getting over you
From king size to single
All within the space of my foolish pride
For loving you was fatal, now I’m dying inside
If only I could have said just three small words
They would have saved the day
Now all I see is rainy days
Now all I see is rainy days
Even on sunny days
And it doesn’t seem to dampen this pain
Growing colder inside without your love
All in the space of my foolish pride
I can’t breathe without your love
I can’t breathe without your love
Simply Naturally
You shouldn’t force
A situation
A chord progression or
An infatuation
Just simply set
The E chord
Then a G
Then come sit here
With me
Play the A chord
Then the C
And who knows
Where we’ll be
Play the music how
It’s supposed to be
Through the verses to the chorus
The intimate melody
Creating a bridge here
Between you, it’s you I see
This is how it’s
Supposed to be
For everything works out eventually
For love comes around naturally
A situation
A chord progression or
An infatuation
Just simply set
The E chord
Then a G
Then come sit here
With me
Play the A chord
Then the C
And who knows
Where we’ll be
Play the music how
It’s supposed to be
Through the verses to the chorus
The intimate melody
Creating a bridge here
Between you, it’s you I see
This is how it’s
Supposed to be
For everything works out eventually
For love comes around naturally
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
On Days Like These
My cuts may have healed
But my scars are still revealed
On days like these
So put your arms around me when I’m cold
And put your arms around me when I’m all alone
On days like these
On days like these
On days like these
And you shelter me from the rain
Like you take away this pain
On days like these
For it’s always nice to hear you say
That everything’s going to be OK
Nice to just hang out, for I like it when you’re around
For you seem to understand
On days like these
For you see past the world’s point of view
With those crazy things you do, they give me a reason to live
But my scars are still revealed
On days like these
So put your arms around me when I’m cold
And put your arms around me when I’m all alone
On days like these
On days like these
On days like these
And you shelter me from the rain
Like you take away this pain
On days like these
For it’s always nice to hear you say
That everything’s going to be OK
Nice to just hang out, for I like it when you’re around
For you seem to understand
On days like these
For you see past the world’s point of view
With those crazy things you do, they give me a reason to live
Reach Out
Can I reach past the sky above,
Past the stars into your arms
Can I rest there until the morning comes?
Will you be here when I awake?
For you are so far away from me now.
Will you be here to wipe the tears away?
Can I plot a course by the stars?
Will they guide me to your heart?
Will they guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost?
Will you put me back together
When I fall apart?
Will you be there, will you be there?
Please say you will
For I need you, I need you, even
When there’s nothing wrong
For where you are,
Is where I belong
Can I plot a course by the stars?
Will they guide me to your heart?
Will they guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost?
If I fell out of the sky
Stopped believing,
Believing that I could fly
Would you save me?
For where you are is where I belong
For when it’s like this
I find that I can carry on
I will plot a course by the stars
They will guide me to your heart
They will guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost
Past the stars into your arms
Can I rest there until the morning comes?
Will you be here when I awake?
For you are so far away from me now.
Will you be here to wipe the tears away?
Can I plot a course by the stars?
Will they guide me to your heart?
Will they guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost?
Will you put me back together
When I fall apart?
Will you be there, will you be there?
Please say you will
For I need you, I need you, even
When there’s nothing wrong
For where you are,
Is where I belong
Can I plot a course by the stars?
Will they guide me to your heart?
Will they guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost?
If I fell out of the sky
Stopped believing,
Believing that I could fly
Would you save me?
For where you are is where I belong
For when it’s like this
I find that I can carry on
I will plot a course by the stars
They will guide me to your heart
They will guide me to your heart,
Guide me home when I get lost
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Who Has The Right?
Users of technology
Users of technology
The use it to learn
They show no concern
Experiments in biology
Experiments in biology
For the human race
To our disgrace
They don't seem to care
What they've been doing here
Keep saying "it's OK"
Underneath
The skin of decay
In the name of progress
We've created machines
Pumping waste out
Reducing the atmospheres
As I look into the sky
everything seems alright
With closed eyes
With my closed eyes
Users of technology
The use it to learn
They show no concern
Experiments in biology
Experiments in biology
For the human race
To our disgrace
They don't seem to care
What they've been doing here
Keep saying "it's OK"
Underneath
The skin of decay
In the name of progress
We've created machines
Pumping waste out
Reducing the atmospheres
As I look into the sky
everything seems alright
With closed eyes
With my closed eyes
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