Caedmon's Call - 40 Acres There You Go Is this the strange feeling Of you working all to good 'Cause I am so confused I don't even ask for what I should When I asked for and deserved a stone You broke and gave your body as bread And even the stone that dropped down and rolled away Spoke of the one who bled There you go working good from my bad There you go making robes from my rags There you go melting crowns from my calves There you go working good of all I have Till all I have's not that bad When I asked for and deserved a serpent You gave a net full of fish And even the serpent that told the lie When lifted high foretold the gift For you so loved the unlovable That you gave the ineffable That who so believes the unbelievable Will gain the unattainable -------------------------------------- Thankful You know I ran across an old box of letters While I was bagging up some clothes for Goodwill But you Know I had to laugh at the same old struggles That plagued me then are plaguing me still I know the road is long from the ground to glory But a boy can hope he's getting some place But you see, I'm running from the very clothes I'm wearing And dressed like this I'm fit for the chase 'Cause no, there is none righteous Not one who understands There is none who seek God No not one, I said no not one So I am thankful that I'm incapable Of doing any good on my own 'Cause we're all stillborn and dead in our transgressions We're shackled up to the sin we hold so dear So what part can I play in the work of redemption I can't refuse, I cannot add a thing 'Cause I am just like Lazarus and I can hear your voice I stand and rub my eyes and walk to You Because I have no choice I am thankful that I'm incapable Of doing any good on my own I'm so thankful that I'm incapable Of doing any good on my own 'Cause by grace I have been saved Through faith that's not my own It is a gift of God and not by works Lest anyone should boast -------------------------------------- Shifting Sand Sometimes I believe all the lies So I can do the things I should despise And every day I am swayed By whatever is on my mind I hear it all depends on my faith So I'm feeling precarious The only problem I have with these mysteries Is they're so mysterious And like a consumer I've been thinking If I could just get a bit more More than my 15 minutes of faith, Then I'd be secure (Chorus) My faith is like shifting sand Changed by every wave My faith is like shifting sand So I stand on grace I've begged you for some proof For my Thomas eyes to see A slithering staff, a leperous hand And lions resting lazily A glimpse of your back-side glory And this soaked altar going ablaze But you know I've seen so much I explained it away Chorus Waters rose as my doubts reigned My sand-castle faith, it slipped away Found myself standing on your grace It'd been there all the time (Chorus repeated) Stand on grace -------------------------------------- Faith My Eyes As I survey the ground for ants Looking for a place to sit and read I'm reminded of the streets of my hometown How they're much like this concrete that's warm beneath my feet And how I'm all wrapped up in my mother's face With a touch of my father just up around the eyes And the sound of my brother's laugh But more wrapped up in what binds our ever distant lives But if I must go Things I trust will be better off without me But I don't want to know Life is better off a mystery So keep'em coming these lines on the road And keep me responsible be it a light or heavy load And keep me guessing with these blessings in disguise And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes Hometown weather is on TV I imagine the lives of the people living there And I'm curious if they imagine me Cause they just wanna leave; I wish that I could stay And to visit places from my past But only for an hour or so Which is long enough to smell the air To tell the tale and find the door But I get turned around I mistake some happiness for blessing But I'm blessed as the poor Still I judge success by how I'm dressing So I'll sing a song of my hometown I'll breathe the air and walk the streets Maybe find a place to sit and read And the ants are welcome company And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes. And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes. -------------------------------------- Where I Began The grass looked greener on the other side So I tried to, snatch myself from your hand Caught a boat to anywhere but Nineveh And, well you know, I got spit back on dry land. Verse 1: Give me purity and give me continence But oh no, not yet. Like a coin hiding in the corner Trying not to be swept And I was trying not to be swept. Kicking against these goads Sure did cut up my feet And didn't your hands get bloody As you washed them clean (you washed them!), Chorus: Here I am again, back where I began Try as I may I can't get away from you And all of these roads lead me to roam, Bring me back home. Here I am again, back where I began. Verse 2: So you have yourself your ninety nine (ninety nine), Isn't that enough for you? Still you followed me to the shadowed valley Carried me on your shoulders too. I've done the work of Sisyphus Thinking that I could get over this hill But the one thing I can't get over now...(is the) Is the force of your will. Chorus x2 -------------------------------------- Table For Two Danny and I Spent anther late night over pancakes Talkin' 'bout soccer And how every man's just the same. We made speculation On the who's and the when's of our futures And how everyone's lonely But still we just couldn't complain. And how we just hate being alone. Could I have missed my only chance, And now I'm just wasting my time By lookin' around But ya know I know better, I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothin'. Cause if the birds and the flowers survive, Then I'll make it okay. I'm given a chance and a rock; see which one breaks a window. See which one keeps me up all night and into the day. Because I'm so scared of being alone That I forget what house i live in. But it's not my job to wait by the phone For her to call. Well this day's been crazy But everything's happened on schedule, from the rain and the cold To the drink that I spilled on my shirt. 'Cause You knew how You'd save me before I fell dead in the garden, And You knew this day long before You made me out of dirt. And You know the plans that You have for me And You can't plan the end and not plan the means And so I suppose I just need some peace, Just to get me to sleep -------------------------------------- Climb On (A Back That's Strong) Oh, my soul, sometimes we don't know what to do We work so hard being tough on our own But now it's me and you Let's get up sad bones 'Cause we are fall on hard times But you don't have to stand up all alone Just put your hand in mine Climb on a back that's strong Yeah, you can get what you want Climb on a back that's strong If you could save me a place in heaven With a clean well-lighted room I'd muscle up to Armageddon And wave to you darling, be home soon If you could show me the story of love I would write it again and again And then you could be the woman you need If you would just let me be the man that I am Oh, I don't know Sometimes we try to hard to see But we've got one down and one more to go That's when you say to me -------------------------------------- Petrified This old heart's been left Upon on my sleeve And I have paid as it's been rent Into pieces Seems everyone I've loved has Taken a bit of my insides I'm scattered as the woman whose body Was torn for the twelve tribes When did my heart get so petrified When did it get so hard to feel When did my heart get so afraid to love When did it get so hard And the easy-living Gnostic proud Use their knowledge Like a wreking ball to tear me down Flooding me with their fallacies I can't walk on this water I'm starting to drown Strike this rock with your rod I'll take the blows Till Your living water begins to flow As it flowed from the Man of Sorrows' side On that day when His body Was torn for the twelve tribes -------------------------------------- Somewhere North It's a muggy night in Houston And all the intersections are like full service stations I'm on my way to a familiar place It's cold in Kansas City And you can no more hear me than I can see your face How I wish it was just you and me We wouldn't have to talk above the crowd We wouldn't have to talk so loud I give you my life and all I am But what I have to give So I hand you a candid photograph of this little boy 'Cause I have nothing to my name But I can give you that I don't miss the driving Seems like forever And I'm always driving in my mind And wearing out the road that gets me there And I'm driving till my eyes just can't see straight But I suppose that it's getting late I may never find the sleep I've lost all feeling in my hands and Feet may touch the ground but My mind's somewhere north of here -------------------------------------- Daring Daylight Escape I've got my mind made up I've got to love you or leave you fast 'Cause I've been thinking clear Ans I don't know how long it'll last Just like Uri Gellar, I'm bound to twist the facts around I've got to get them straight before my baby up and leaves town 'Cause I can't walk on water And if I chase you, I might drown And I'm already up to my neck If I may pose a question, it'll only take a second 'Cause I know that it's getting late And depending on your answer I might have to pack And make a daring daylight escape Because it's either high time to make you mine Or I swear it's time to get outta town So please say "yes" quick, 'cause the sun's going down London's nice but it's the last place you wanna go But there's no crime and you can catch a Broadway show 'Cause it's just so far and it's bound to get a hold on you And I've got front page headlines pulled right outta yesterday's news You can read all about it About boy meets a girl and then screws the whole thing up Just like always It's no crime to love you And my heart's still doing time It's acting on it's best behavior -------------------------------------- 40 Acres Out on these Texas plains you can see for a million lives And there's a thousand exits between here and the state line About the last time that I saw you You said call me Pandora, call me a fool And I'm thinking this view it could do you some good So drop these scales and take a look There's 40 acres and redemption to be found Just along down the way There is a place where no plow blade has turned the ground And you will turn it over, 'cause out here hope remains 'Cause out here hope remains... Out here the Texas sky is as big as the sea And you're alone in your room like an island floating free Your spirit's hanging in a bottle out on a tree You say that you're the black sheep, I say you're still family So throw that bottle to the waves They'll bring you in to me and from the shore you will see Out here the Texas rain is the hardest I've ever seen It'll wash your house away, but it'll also make you clean Now these rocks they are crying too And this whole land is calling out for you --------------------------------------