1. |
Wrong
03:42
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There is a right and wrong and I say
The idea hasn't gone away
Despite the things that people do
To change what we think is true
They say that we decide what's good
As if what we think really could
Change the way the world exists
With grinding teeth and clenched fists
What if I do what I feel
What I want, what's my will
Where is my right to steal
Where is my right to kill
You don't decide what is real
It doesn't change with how you feel
You'll find out it won't be long
There is right and there is wrong
The masters of not so long ago
Owned men who would never know
What it's like to live life free
Because their masters couldn't see
That a law doesn't make it right
There's something else beyond our sight
Today we speak of then's great crime
When all that's changed is law and time
[Chorus]
What are our laws for and what of our love
Are you an animal and nothing above
So why stop now at these lines we've drawn
When all the reasons for stopping are gone
[Chorus]
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2. |
Power Abuse
04:58
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Population's restless, time for a policy change
Can't lose all our members, time for a belief exchange
You were trusted with some power
Sitting up in your tower
Made a choice the ends don't meet
Changing truth is quite a feat
You got power the sheep got hurt
It's an issue that I cannot skirt
[Chorus]
How do I speak my doubts and still use tact
Popular opinion isn't quite fact
[Chorus]
Do you know what you're going to say
When you see him on that day
He knows what you did down here
How you led his people astray
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3. |
Hope (ensemble)
05:51
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Without hope everyone dies
So we grope and we try
To find a hope that will last
And we mope when they go past
Everything that we can find
We'll eventually leave behind
Because you know at the time of death
What you've sown nothing will be left
So here's your hope there'll be no more crying
Here's your hope there'll be no more strife
Here's your hope there'll be no more dying
Here's your hope eternal life
With all our hopes and our dreams
We cannot cope because it seems
That all our lives we work for nothing
And all our role models are just bluffing
But Jesus Christ he's made a plan
To give hope to every man
What if you didn't die when you did?
Something to believe in you can live
[chorus]
Where's your hope, where's your hope
Little boy, little girl
Jesus Christ, give me hope
I want to see you
[chorus]
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4. |
Momentum
03:25
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I made a resolution to change myself
But days passed weeks passed and it's on the shelf
I was going to change the world but I got older
The world got bigger
Father give me the momentum to serve you each day
Fill me up with your spirit and I'll serve you each day
I was going to finish the race escape this place
I'd run til I dropped
But each time that I looked back I fell off the path
I've stopped and I'll stop
[chorus]
Don't let me be distracted or to be tempted
Draw me closer everyday
Keep me on the narrow path save me from your wrath
Near me always stay
[chorus]
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5. |
For the First Time
03:46
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I'm a christian kid was raised in the church I'm there every sunday
Don't get all they're talking about they say Jesus is the way
And I never felt that I was getting it all
But now that you forgave me I can stand tall
You died for me and you suffered the pain when I'm not a worthy man
I bow to you and I give it all I put my life in your hands
Justified like I never sinned do you know what I'm feeling
Everything that I ever did just flew out the ceiling
Feel so good I could run a thousand miles
Feel so happy I could smile a thousand smiles
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6. |
What I Need
03:03
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When people look at me what do they see
Who I really am or what I should be
When they see me do they see a change
Am I like them or am I strange
What is the difference between them and me
I'm in trouble if there's none I see
You need to
I need to
Act a little more holy away from the pew
You need to
I need to
Act a little more like we're brand new
Look at you what have have you changed
Warm fuzzies died down and you're still the same
To the outside world you are same old
You will be the same if you use the same mold
Don't want to sound like I'm passing judgement on you
But you can tell a tree by it's fruit
[chorus]
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7. |
Flower
05:01
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Flower bud in the sun dew glistening on it's tip
We declare it has no worth bend down with blades and clip
The potential there it's not yet full of the beauty it inherits
Unfeeling eye will deny the care that it merits
No on cuts a blooming bud still we cut a blooming child
Lifeless scrap left in the mud, in the streets their bodies piled
A mother's choice a mother's choice
To kill someone just like her
In a year he'd be here
Baby boy just like her
In her arms she'd do no harm
But he's not in her sight
She can't see what he'd be
It's not right
The difference of a few months aborted fetus or a boy
There is no difference here it's a human you destroy
You made your choice on that night and it still endures
You have no right to take and murder what's not yours
[chorus]
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8. |
Whole
05:15
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Hurt today I hurt today
There's not a whole lot else to say
Thoughts too dark I can't explain
I hold them back until they wain
Shadow there behind my smile
My soul torn out all the while
And no one here to see
And no one to hold me
Beneath the facade I'm keeping
I cannot see from weeping
And what is there to gain
From having all this pain
Tossed in the water and the waves
Lost sight of the one that saves
And in the dark I'm all alone
I've forgotten what I should have known
Things hurt when I was small
And now they don't hurt at all
I can see how these petty things
Still hurt and it still stings
[chorus]
Shadow there behind my smile
My soul torn out all the while
There's no one here to see
And no one to hold me
In a day I'll be all right
What's one day, what's one night
When I see the sun the next day
Everything will be ok
Sunlight breaks and it is dawn
All those fears are gone
Water reflects sun and my soul
Some day God will make me whole
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9. |
Prodigal Child
02:59
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10. |
Unborn Child
05:05
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11. |
New Beginning
02:09
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12. |
Let It Rain
05:16
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13. |
Shades of Blue
04:22
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14. |
Hope (acoustic)
05:48
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Without hope everyone dies
So we grope and we try
To find a hope that will last
And we mope when they go past
Everything that we can find
We'll eventually leave behind
Because you know at the time of death
What you've sown nothing will be left
So here's your hope there'll be no more crying
Here's your hope there'll be no more strife
Here's your hope there'll be no more dying
Here's your hope eternal life
With all our hopes and our dreams
We cannot cope because it seems
That all our lives we work for nothing
And all our role models are just bluffing
But Jesus Christ he's made a plan
To give hope to every man
What if you didn't die when you did?
Something to believe in you can live
[chorus]
Where's your hope, where's your hope
Little boy, little girl
Jesus Christ, give me hope
I want to see you
[chorus]
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