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Chorus:
Teach me your way and I will walk in it
Teach me your way and I will walk in it
Verse 1:
Lean in and listen to my voice, O my God
I've been calling to you all day long
Lean in and listen to my voice, O my God
I am trusting your unfailing love
Chorus
Verse 2:
When I'm in trouble I will call on your grace
There is no one like you, Holy One
When I'm in trouble I will call on your grace
Your forgiving, overflowing love
Chorus
Verse 3:
Great is your love that won't let go even now
as my life is hunted day by day
Great is your love that won't let go even now
as the terror closes in, we pray
Chorus
Verse 4:
Show us a tiny sign of hope; we are yours
In your holy presence we're in awe
Show us a tiny sign of hope; we are yours
Your compassion for our world abounds
Chorus
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Everyone Come (Ps 36)
02:42
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Verse 1:
Everyone come!
You are meant to rest in this perfect love
Everyone come!
Every bird can nest in this perfect love.
Refrain:
Everyone come to the fountain of life!
Drink from the river of delight!
Verse 2:
Everyone come!
You are free to drink of delicious love.
Everyone come!
Taste and see and think of delicious love.
Refrain
Verse 3:
Everyone come!
We together feast in the light of love.
Everyone come!
We forever see in the light of love.
Refrain
Verse 4:
Everyone come!
We're below a sky of relentless love.
Everyone come!
We are on the ground of relentless love.
Refrain
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Verse 1:
All of me is devoted head to toe
to your word's unfolding light
All of us are heart-open, simple things
for your people's simple minds
Refrain:
Keep our steps steady in your promise, on the path
Keep our steps steady in your promise, on the path
Verse 2:
But our strength has been failing, looking in,
looking out from streams of tears
All of us are awaiting golden light
from your face to end our fears
Refrain
Verse 3:
Holy One, we long for you Rescue us
May no sin disrupt our pace
Turn to us and have mercy Guide our feet
Help your people walk your way
Refrain
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4. |
How Strong (Ps 103)
01:41
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Part 1:
How strong, how true, how big is God's love?
Part 2:
As far as up is from down, as far as East is from West.
Part 3:
That's how great God's love is for all of us!
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Refrain:
If we all belong to God, how do we live? How do we live?
If we all belong to God, how do we live? How do we live?
Verse 1:
Looking up at the night sky and the work of your fingers
It's amazing you are mindful of us
It's amazing you are mindful of us
Refrain
Verse 2:
It’s a wonder to have life in its splendor and glory
with the suffering of God in our midst
with the suffering of God in our midst
Refrain
Verse 3:
Walking here in this small world with our human companions
We're commissioned to take care of this earth
We're commissioned to take care of this earth
Refrain
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Refrain:
But as for me, O God, I turn to you
So answer me, O God, in your love
Verse 1:
I’ve been disgraced because of you, God.
And shame covers my face.
I'm a stranger to my own family.
Refrain
Verse 2:
Because of my passion for your house,
those who insult you have insulted me.
I was weeping, I was weeping while I fasted.
Even for my grieving I took abuse.
In my grief, people made fun of me,
singing mocking songs, spreading rumors about me.
Refrain
Verse 3:
O my God, save me from sinking down! Don't let me drown!
Rescue me from the rising waters of their hatred.
O my God, I'm almost swallowed up!
Don't let the terrorists overwhelm me!
Refrain
Verse 4:
Yes, answer me, Holy One of promise and love.
I'm in deep, deep trouble and I need your love!
Refrain
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Refrain:
God of deliverance, oh bless Your people
God of deliverance, oh bless Your people
Verse 1:
Trouble comes to crowd against us
Many will say that our God is no help
Refrain
Verse 2:
You, God are a shield around us
You lift my head and give Your glory
Refrain
Verse 3: We cry out for God to hear us
God sounds a song from the holy mountain
Refrain
Verse 4:
I lie down at night and sleep
I wake again because God sustains me
Refrain
Verse 5:
Trouble stands ten thousand 'round us
God will arise and disarm the terror
Refrain
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8. |
Search Me (Ps 139)
02:53
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Refrain:
Search me and know my heart
Search me
Search me and know my heart
Search me
Verse 1:
Where can I hide from your knowing?
The dark to you is daylight.
If be in me seeds of suffering,
break them open into life
Refrain
Verse 2:
Where could I fly from your presence?
You knit my life together.
Anger can pull me past justice;
lay your hand on me forever
Refrain
Verse 3:
More than the sand on the seashore,
your precious thoughts amaze me
Power and hatred rise in me;
lead me in the timeless way
Refrain
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Refrain:
We wait full of hope for the Holy One,
our whole being breathless
Verse 1:
Out of the depths I have cried to you,
cried to you, our covenant God
O Holy One, won't you hear my voice
Hear my voice, our covenant God
Refrain
Verse 2:
Were you on vigil to watch for sin,
who could stand, our covenant God
With you instead is forgiving love.
We’re in awe, our covenant God
Refrain
Verse 3:
All of our being waits for you,
longs for you, our covenant God
More that the night watchmen watch for dawn,
wait for dawn, our covenant God
Refrain
Verse 4:
O Israel, our nation, wait for our covenant God
Unfailing love, liberating love
like the dawn, our covenant God
Refrain
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Refrain:
Our breath is incense, sweet smell rising
Our hands are open, lifted up in the evening
Verse 1
I call out to you Come and hear me
Give ear to my voice, my God, and quickly
Refrain
Verse 2
Watch the door of my mouth for integrity
Guard my lips and keep my heart from turning
Refrain
Verse 3
Let the elders guide and correct my way
Keep my words and actions true I pray
Refrain
Verse 4
Watch the farmer's plow turn the blessed earth
Bones of death and signs of rising birth
Refrain
Verse 5
You are the earth, I am a seed
Hide me, grow me, love and never leave me
Refrain
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11. |
Oh My Soul (Ps 42-43)
04:23
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Hey, why you looking down in shadow?
In what darkness do you kneel?
You strong enough to find a window
or are you ripening in Saturn, patient still?
Are you ripening in Saturn, patient still?
Hey, what's this staring at the ocean?
And what gifts do you await?
You heard the summons late at compline,
but are you wand'ring in a forest off the trail?
Are you wand'ring in a forest off the trail?
Refrain:
Oh my soul
Oh my soul
Oh my soul
Oh my soul
Hey, what dark soil you reaching into?
Isn't your patience wearing thin?
The water's troubled in the shallows
and your mind it has a body wading in.
Your mind it has a body wading in.
Refrain
Hey, why you looking down in shadow?
Are your questions still alive?
You strong enough to find a window
and what forbearance keeps you faithful through this time?
What forbearance keeps you faithful through this time?
Refrain
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Verse 1:
Green pastures, quiet waters
Lead us and restore us
Death-shadow, fearful valley
Lead us and restore us
Refrain:
On the path of justice Oh-oh
On the path of justice Oh lead us
On the path of justice
Verse 2:
Old hatreds reconciling
Bring us to your table
Full blessing overflowing
Bring us to your table
Refrain
Verse 3:
Full lifetimes in your presence
Your compassion drives us
Full lifetimes in your presence
Your compassion drives us
Refrain
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They flourish fresh as palm trees,
strong as the cedars of Lebanon,
planted in your house
Their leaves are green, their roots deep,
their gift to bear fruit is never gone,
planted in your house
Behold them planted in your house
They breathe in pace with your breath,
their wisdom ripened with holy time,
planted in your house
Their hearts beat true at sunset,
their stories sing as they bless the ties,
planted in your house
Behold them planted in your house
Their branches arching history,
their lives ring true with your faithfulness,
planted in your house
They flourish fresh as palm trees,
strong as the cedars of Lebanon,
planted in your house
Behold them planted in your house
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14. |
No Trace (Ps 77)
03:27
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Verse 1:
Cry aloud at night in these troubled days
Cry aloud at night, hands and voices raised
My soul refuses to be eased
My soul refuses to be eased
Refrain:
No trace of your footsteps
Where is your grace?
No trace of your footsteps
No trace
Verse 2:
I remember back and I will not sleep
Pondering the past and I cannot speak
Dismay and hope are in the wheel,
Dismay and hope are in the wheel
Refrain
Verse 3:
Singing in the dark Is love at an end?
Quiet with my heart Will I break or bend?
The rising water to our necks,
The rising water to our necks
Refrain
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15. |
137 demo
08:28
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Part I: We Sat By the Waters
Psalm 137.1-4
We sat by the waters of Babylon and wept
when we remembered Zion, Zion.
We sat by the waters of Babylon and wept
when we remembered Zion, Zion.
On the bending willows there we hung up our instruments
and wept when we remembered Zion, Zion, Zion.
For there in our exile, we were forced to speak of home.
They said, "Sing for us one of the songs of Zion
Sing for us one of your little sacred songs.”
They said, "Sing for us one of your songs of Zion"
But how could we sing our songs on strangers' soil?
How could we sing our songs on strangers' soil?
So we sat by the waters of Babylon and wept
remembering Zion, Zion, Zion.
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Part II: If I Forget You
Psalm 137.5-6
Part 1:
If I forget you, Jerusalem, beloved Jerusalem.
Part 2:
If I lose my heart, my source of joy.
Part 3:
Let my strumming hand forget how to play
Let my voice lock up and my music die away.
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Part III: O God, Remember With Us
Psalm 137.7
O God, O God, O God, remember with us.
O God, O God, O God, remember with us.
Remember the day she fell and all our courage died?
Remember the day she fell
Remember what the terrorists cried?
"Tear her down! Tear her down! Strip her to the ground!
"Tear her down! Tear her down! Strip her to the ground!”
Remember the day she fell.
O God, remember with us.
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Part IV: An Open Letter to the Warriors of Babylon and Edom
Psalm 137.8-9
Warriors of Babylon, you mock us now
but you've planted the seeds of your own fall.
When those seeds bear fruit, you know when that day comes,
we will bless the justice done
We will bless the justice done
You are terrorists and you've tormented us
How dare you teach your children to hate
Stop the cycle now, so never again.
We'd be happy to see anyone
smash your babies on the rocks of Babylon.
If I forget you, Jerusalem, Beloved Jerusalem
Curses on you Edomites You're doomed to fall
You've planted seeds that will bear fruit of justice done
Babylon!
Babylon!
Babylon!
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Well, you stood up before the judge and you lied to hurt me
After all these years, I can't believe you'd burn me
You repaid my honest love with a pure betrayal
Where was your freaking head? Guess your conscience failed
May you be hounded ev'ry day by a cruel accuser
May your friends be few and may your days be fewer
Lose your house and lose your job, up to here in debt
Strangers come and threaten you and steal what's left
May no one show you mercy as your life is in a full-tilt spin
You're fond of a good curse, so have a taste of your own medicine
Maybe I'll never understand why you said all that hate
I've been so enraged, I can't see straight
I can scarcely now believe what you did was real
I just want your life to hurt and then disappear
May no one give you comfort as you're crying in the dark alone
You never blessed, so may you never get a blessing for your own
So there I said it oh my God— That’s my heartbreak talking
All my ugly thoughts I'd never ever act on
There's a lot of letting go til this poison's gone
God, my one and only prayer: help me move on
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