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Don't Go
05:11
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The hours are ticking away, almost as much as I can take
I've said all I could say, what conversation could I make?
And now I try to leave this call that's going nowhere fast
Your stranglehold on me - I can't express my feelings right
Those things a part of me forbidden as we talk into the night
And now I try to end this painful silence, I move to say 'goodnight'
Don't go! Don't leave me all alone again
Don't go! If you stay on the line, the conversation will start again
Don't go! You must have needed more than I could lend
Just to know I'm on the line may be enough for you
But it just blew my mind to hear 'don't go' coming from you
And now I agree to stay around, although for what end?
I'd like to think that I pulled you out of the whole mess
But history will find we soon fell into our own hands
Even now I wonder what I could have done - or what you could have meant
When you said...
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For My Friends
04:09
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I must redry my eyes
Once laughter sat beside me
But such a fright/surprise
to know that I love you all
I did break down and cry
At this moment you're lost as can be
All of you will surely die
But I so want you to fly...
What sound is that that I can hear so true?
It's just the sound of my aching heart for all of you
It's not good enough to know one of the few
Though its good that this one will cry for all of you
I wonder if you'd mind
If I got down on my hands and knees
And pleaded for your life
Would you all question my sanity?
It makes me well up inside
To think you might miss eternity
I'm afraid I'll let down the side
By not doing enough
In case you think I make this up for you
My friend who died for me - he died for all of you
It's not good enough to think you're something good
Though it's good that this one will cry for all of you
Please understand that I'm in pain for you
It hurts to know I am alone in this one truth
My pain so pales to my friend who aches for you
It's good that this one has always cried for all of you
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In Colour
04:29
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I could turned to stone - caught in the stare
When you held my sight
To scared to move, but happy to be there
You put the wrong things right
A little story with a lot of meaning
A little heart with the biggest reaching
The colour runs wild
But have I got time?
The dream is so clear
But even some have to give it away
You’ll never know just what you did
Though through night you understand
I watch you watch me in a dream world
It all lies so close at hand
No little wonder that I heard a meaning
Now I am stronger, did I earn a feeling?
And then she tells me
Anything - I just want to hear..
I wish that I could keep me dream awake
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Reality
03:51
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I wish I'd know you long - but, I don't know you
You're flawless?! Something's wrong - nothing can dull you
I'm speechless in a song, how could words contain you?
So bright. So I go on...
If I knew you in a dream
Oh, could I remain asleep?
But in time, I hope you'll be
A part of my reality
I remember a shine that caught me out
I remember that all but you faded out
I can't quite pick the point where the memory fades and the dream begins...
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Te Whanau Tahi
02:13
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Te Whanau Tahi! Tu tonu mai!
E karapotihia nei me te pou Tokomanawa
Ko te Amo, te Maihi me te Koruru
Hikina ko te mana o te kura nei
(Aue!) Kia Ihi! Kia Maru! Hi!
Te Whanau Tahi!
Kia Ihi! Kia Maru! Hi!
Te Whanau Tahi!
Te Whanau Tahi! Tu tonu mai!
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[CONN3CTED]
03:59
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Your love never changes
You love me no matter what - You never fail
You last through the ages
You're wise, You're strong, forgiving, merciful
And You simply want us in full
Once lost, but now found
We put our hope in God - You save us all
Once dark, but now in light we live
Even when we run away, back home You call
Seek God with all your heart!
Oh! Abba! Father!
From ashes we arise anew
Love one another
All we want is to [CONN3CT] with You
"I will be found
By you," declares the Lord, "Be still and know"
"I AM always around
Till the end of the age - call out to Me"
One love...
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You Are Holy
03:30
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We come, Your people gathered
To lift Your name on high
Our voice we raise to heaven
With prayerful lips and arms held high
Lord of Creation! We offer to You our lives
We bend our knee, we bow our heads
For You Lord Jesus Christ are holy
We sing our praises, we lift our hands
For You Lord Jesus Christ are holy
We come, Your people gathered
To praise Your holy name
We are Your people gathered
We praise Your holy name
Holy is the Lord
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Under the Weight
02:43
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I'm waiting around
I know I won't sleep sound
But I'm gaining some ground
To know you want me round
I just don't mind
If you do take your time
In my confident mind
I say your target you'll find
I'm under the weight of you
But who knows what to do?
I look forward and wait for you
And you'll know what to do
It's been so great just to see
How we have come to be
And that's brought me to see
If you could choose me
While you're thinking away
I wear smiles all the day
To know you ponder my way
is a joy, I must say!
So I'm waiting around
I guess I won't sleep sound
But surely I've found
That you must want me round
I'll sit back and wait
Take as long as you take
For my sanity's sake
Make sure I'm what you take!
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9. |
The Greyest of Days
03:58
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On the greyest of days
I was going the way
Of the biggest gathering's of folk
Why they came to this place
I could not say
The building grabbed the sky by the throat
On a vacant estate
Edges blended away
It was the largest home you could see
The walls grey as the sky
Oft a story would fly
But today there'd be just one indeed
A number filled up the halls
Out of windows, of doors
All a bottle and a song to entice
As I approached the home
I had come not alone
The Earth-Angel on the ends of my eyes
A dream in a dream
She was all I had seen
I began to get drunk with my eyes
With her brown jacket on
And the calm of the storm
The world dulled as she bathed in white
She pressed on a head
Leaving me watch her tread
And I followed her off with my eye
I had sipped no hard drink
Yet she had made me sink
Then someone appeared at my side
She had come from the rest
Just to put me to test
On her mind was what was on mine
"Has your favour, does she?"
She asked pointedly
I affirmed then she put out her line
"What? Your intentions would be?"
"What do you ask of me?"
"Do you really care how she feels?"
"What does the ring say?"
"Yes! What does the ring say?"
"I will be her man in steel"
She had seen no disguise
Knew I uttered no lies
And returned from whence that she came
I returned to the dream
The Earth-Angel was seen
She appeared and thought of her name
Unaware of her size
She took me by the eyes
And led me away into sleep
Then the home slipped away
And all faded to grey
Then to black, there the vision completes
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Special Friend
05:55
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I am taken so
This flight is fine, you lift me high
Will I ever know
If you were a present or a find?
Trying to sketch your soul
The lines don’t seem to cover what is you
We’re already two
There’s still a million more we need to have our fill
Your sky is always blue
No grey ever dares to erase the shine
Now my focus is on you
I’ve only got this life to learn your person through
You are the sun, the moon
Oh, how I consume your light
And I am all at see
When you look at me just right
I am taken so
I’m amazed when I see a shine from you
As if you didn’t know
But you are the world that I see
Trying to write you whole
The words don’t seem to cover what is you
A feeling speaks a million words
Then what hope do I have to write of you?!
Oh, this sun, this moon
When they shine, I swoon in their light
And what is left for me
To do is be in sight
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11. |
Vanilla
05:29
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I have a target
Just waiting to be
Here I have started
Ever to complete
She is an angel
Or so I believe
She does not conceive it
A gift for me she’s been
At the end of the day I will try
To keep you at the end of my eye
I won’t forget it
She won’t let me try
Like a madman on her doorstep
Would I just say ‘Goodbye’?
She has a mission
To watch over me
And I, I have position
To help her gain her wings
I now have an arm-weight
Fashioned out of she
I must learn to carry
The two of us complete
She is an angel
Just waiting to be
I will pull the angel uphill
We must see the end in to see
Maybe someday we will find
That the two of us will leave the world behind
But ‘till that day it comes, I will try
To keep you at the end of my eye…
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We come, Your people gathered
To lift Your name on high
Our voice we raise to heaven
With prayerful lips and arms held high
Lord of Creation! We offer to You our lives
We bend our knee, we bow our heads
For You Lord Jesus Christ are holy
We sing our praises, we lift our hands
For You Lord Jesus Christ are holy
We come, Your people gathered
To praise Your holy name
We are Your people gathered
We praise Your holy name
Holy is the Lord
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