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Four Score and Seven Years

by Ex Nihilo

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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released January 1, 2000

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