What I Know
I was headed for disaster
Captured by an ambivalent master
Scattered, wishing for a different past but after
I met a better shepherd and got led out to pasture
My benefactor traded like NAFTA
Gave his own life so that I never have to
Bringing me back to the garden
Sin has been pardoned
Softened my heart when it all had been hardened
He bleeds, I take a sip
it makes a dif’ embracing this salvation trip
He’s the one that breaks my hip, and gave the gift
Amazing grace, I’m banking it
Revealed what was concealed
His body’s the meal
And now to him I kneel
I worship with zeal
Nothing can bring down this feeling I feel
My faith is for real
Let the heavens rejoice
Let the earth be glad
I’ll proclaim your mighty acts
Oh sovereign Lord I’ll proclaim your deeds
You are worthy, our Lord
Everywhere I go
Tell ‘em what I know
God is on the throne
His love has been shown
When He gave his own
(X2)
He gives with no limit and living within me
Delivering sinners from the pit
And building a city
But in the name of God
Not the name of man
Where the foundation’s sand
You better take a stand on the solid rock
He’ll find you when you’re separated from the flock
He gave his life to save us
Paid the price to make us right
The brightest ray of light
Became the way to life
Let the heavens rejoice
Let the earth be glad
I’ll proclaim your mighty acts
Oh sovereign Lord I’ll proclaim your deeds
You are worthy, our Lord
Everywhere I go
Tell ‘em what I know
God is on the throne
His love has been shown
When He gave his own
(X2)
GO
Always had faith I just put it in the wrong place
Low down dope fiend thought I was Scarface
Then I met a man from Galilee
Took me as an orphan
Adopted into his family
And sent me on a mission with a message of deliverance
Deliberately imitate the man I heard deliver it
He’s different than every other teacher that I heard
Speaking like a man with authority in his word
Come join the journey of salvation
Built upon a simple proclamation
Step out the dark and spark a conversation
Watch it grow from one city to all nations
Washed in blood his robe is stained with
Without him I know my heart would have remained stiff
With his name lifted high
Look to the sky
Trusting the one who always will provide
Make straight the path of the Lord
You could be reborn no umbilical cord
Turn away from the snare of sin
Catch fire for the Lord
Watch it flare within
Now, GO and share the news
And remain in the way because he paid your dues
Doing the most and he’s using the least
He must increase
I must decrease
There is one who is greater
Fully human and fully divine in nature
The incarnated creator
Entered creation to die as a Savior
So travel on, he ain’t a vagabond
He is a man and God
And cannot be contained inside a song or catalog
So battle on, the lamb is on the throne
Don’t be slow with it you gotta get it and go
Come join the journey of salvation
Built upon a simple proclamation
Step out the dark and spark a conversation
Watch it grow from one city to all nations
Washed in blood his robe is stained with
Without him I know my heart would have remained stiff
With his name lifted high
Look to the sky
Trusting the one who always will provide
Make straight the path of the Lord
You could be reborn no umbilical cord
Turn away from the snare of sin
Catch fire for the Lord
Watch it flare within
Now, GO and share the news
And remain in the way because he paid your dues
Doing the most and he’s using the least
He must increase
I must decrease
Son Shine
I got news, have you heard it right?
About the son of man shining with a burning light?
For the plight of the servant it was worth the price
To turn the bite of the serpent to eternal life
He’s the lion and the lamb
Highest in the land
Yet was Crucified for man
Lying in the pyre
With a fire in his hand
Takes our violent defiance
And he writes it in the sand
He saw you when you were running away
When you thought that you couldn’t get through the day
Praying but didn’t know what to say
He made a way to save
When he ate from the bread
Raised from the dead
Introduced a heel to the snake and his head
Lifted up the low
Saved us from below
Only name under Heaven that we need to know
Bring on the demons by the legion
And he’ll cast em in the Sea of Galilee
He tell the truth but then they call it blasphemy
They didn’t know the son of man would ever be a Nazarene
Didn’t know he’s from the royal family
Had to be a son of David
To make a statement about the sacred name that we gave him
The one who reigns over Salem
When they take him and nail him they can’t contain him
He’s raising up out of the grave on the third day
You heard me?
Still Dying
I’m dead but still dying
If heaven is perfection then ‘til then I’m still trying
Permanently marked since I came up out the water
But I’m still learning how to love my wife and my daughter
Startled by the darkness that I’m still finding inside of me
In privacy I’m haunted by idle thoughts and hypocrisy
I’m trying to be the man I’m supposed to be
But with the ones that are close to me
I can’t stop from sinning openly
Still feel like my hearts is an idol factory
One moment praising him, the next I’m speaking blasphemy
Am I even actually finding my identity
In the one that rescued me the way I’m always meant to be
He bled for me, not so I’d return to slavery
Complacently forsaking the life that he gave to pay for me
Gratefully I take his body to ingest
The only one that can save me from this body of death
Am I going backward, am I just an actor?
Am I still a son or is the evil one the master?
Do I have a lack, will this always be my pattern?
Who will have the last word…
Still making mistakes
He’s still hanging up on that cross
Still turning away
He’s still finding me when I’m lost
I’m still forgetting to pray
He’s speaking to me anyway
I needed him then just like today
Spirit wash my sins away!
When I’m feeling unholy
He reminds me that he chose me, he knows me
In his hand he holds me
He crucified the old me
So if you find me boasting
it’s only in the one who set my soul free
Need a New Heart
As a child knew the world ain’t right
Walking all around like “who I gotta fight?”
Gotta know my enemy, I can’t even see him
Didn’t know my body was a living mausoleum
Quick to point a finger at metropolis
Didn’t consider that maybe I‘ve got a part in this
Blind to see it was hypocrisy
That’s the toxic imposter inside of me
Then I saw God’s law like a mirror
All of a sudden my vision’s getting clearer
For the first time knew my nakedness
It made me sick
But ached for the grace that he saved me with
I was made for relationship with my maker
But I gave it up to chase a fix
I was so calloused
Mind filled with malice
Soul off balance
Drinking from a bitter chalice
Lying all the time
Oblivious to the sign
Now I finally see
What was wrong with the world? ME
I’m the problem so what’s the solution
Not a protest and not a revolution
I need a doctor and a surgery
To make my hard heart, soft for eternity
There is only one who really knows the heart of man
He parted the waters so we could walk on dry land
No one is good, no not one
Except for God's Son
The Savior has come
He takes what I’ve done and he makes it new
Your payments due
Call on him today and he’ll pay for you
By taking our law breaking
And nailed to cross, he’s making a way
For the fall to be erased
And it’s all grace
Not even a trace
Of hate it’s been replaced
With love from the Son in its place
The Lord heard me in my distress
Took my heart of stone, gave me a heart of flesh
Look at the World
Look at the world
Tell me, what do you see?
What do you hear?
Who do they fear?
Everybody is worshiping whether they know it or not
Maybe some gold or a Glock
Selling their soul for a spot up at the top
But it’s only higher to drop
Tell me
What is it worth?
What is it worth?
You can’t take none of that in the dirt
Look at the world
Tell me, what do you see?
What do you hear?
Who do they fear?
Straight out the vanity fair
Humanity’s bare of its sanity there
We stand and we stare
Beware of the mirror in front of us
Every one of us
Hiding, pretending
And heading for reckoning
Can you afford what you’re spending?
Or are you indebted to the God of the heavens
Through the Son he’ll forget it
70 times 7
Look at the world
Tell me, what do you see?
What do you hear?
Who do they fear?
We come to an end and then a beginning
The kingdom of God where the loser is winning
And blessed are poor the meek and the spurned
He’s flipping the world with a 180 turn
I’ve seen and I’ve heard, I know that he’s true
He’s doing for me what I couldn’t do
Now I can see that was the clue
That one day he’ll come and make EVERYTHING new
Look at the world
Tell me, what do you see?
What do you hear?
Who do they fear?
God so loved the world
He gave us his only Son
God so loved the world
He gave his one and only Son
He took our sin and shame
He paid it on the cross
The ransom that he paid
Gave us eternity with him
Lonely People
The way she listens to what the comments said
She might as well plug the ethernet cable in her head
Staring at the screen but never liked her reflection
Doing anything she can to get some attention
Always wanted to impress him, her disconnected father
Doesn’t realize he doesn’t know his own daughter
She grew up in an over-sexualized culture
Willing to get close to any man who would approach her
Hovering like vultures waiting to take advantage
Of her unbandaged wound that time can’t consume
Class time wasted, never getting educated
When you face Facebook more than you face books, face it
Face filled up with jewelry and tears
Makeup ain’t cover the anxiety and fear
No one to hear what’s going on under the surface
So she hides behind another online purchase
He never was fit physically
All the kids in class say “he’s so weird isn’t he?”
Never knew a time when he wasn’t picked on
So he flips on games and plays until it’s dawn
Mad at his reality but can’t escape it actually
He’s trapped in vacillating animated fantasy
Headed for catastrophe, a self-care tailspin
Thick gut, weak legs, and pale skin
Wondering who is to blame, that failed him
Getting aggravated his patience is rail thin
Radicalized inside of online chat rooms
Talking about the rifle inside of his dad's room
To bring in his classroom to let all of his anger out
Thinking that’ll really give them something they can laugh about
It’s just another hesitation
Tells the doctor he’s depressed to keep feeding him medication
I know a man who was despised and rejected
Not to mention insulted and disrespected
Doubted by his own friends and family
Knew ahead of time he’s headed for a tragedy
What happened to the praise days before?
When palm branches were laid on the floor
It reveals what’s inside us at our core
He’s either hated or adored, obeyed or ignored
He came with a sword because they wouldn’t give him peace
Yelling, “Crucify him!” while Barabas is released
Falsely accused then assaulted and abused
Not appalled they were amused but he saw they were confused
So he offered them the truth, the way, and the life
Hanging on the cross to be the final sacrifice
Forsaken for the sake of all the other lonely ones
From the Father, who gave up his only son
Note to (former) Self
Nah, you were never meant to last
You were always meant to be referred to in the past tense
No more sitting on the fence
Calling all the grass greener
No more mask either
You didn’t know that you’re just putting on a show
Except when you’re left by yourself and the lights are low
A factually bad actor
No SAG AFTRA
Had being a hack mastered
Wanted applause and got sad laughter
And I was hiding inside of you in embryo
Waiting for my exodus
The Spirit shouting “Let me go!”
I’m free now
But the enemy tries to tempt me though
So I told my brothers if they see you again to let me know
You might be who I was but you’re not who I am
And like my sin you’ll be forgotten
Lost in God’s redemptive plan
When his red blood met my black soul
It washed it and behold it left me white as snow
Had to take so he could give
From the grave to the crib
Jesus loved me too much to let you live
So forgive me if the way I speak is blunt
But I don’t miss you now
And I never have once
You’re just my evil doppelganger
Imposter, stranger
If God wasn’t so merciful he’d still be hot with anger
Already our maker but his resurrection’s mine
To save me he had to create me a second time
Glory to the Father and his son the true Christ
Down into the water
Raised to new life
You might be who I was but you’re not who I am
And like my sin you’ll be forgotten
Lost in God’s redemptive plan
Over and Over
Thank you for my wife
Thank you for my daughter
Thank you for giving us unlimited living water
Thank you for your Son
Thank for your Spirit
Thank for your Word
And the ears that we have to hear it
Thank you for your promises
And the confidence that we have that you’ll accomplish them
By your sovereign providence
Thank you for your truth and your people
We’re the proof that you are making all things new
So many blessings
Can’t even count them all
I hear the sound of all the angels singing around the clock
Not needing a needle to find release
I am free from all of the demons
Been screaming inside of me
Lied to me so many times that I started to believe
I would never be more than just a junkie
Just Jesus, must be
The only one that could pull me from it before I plummet
He brought me to the summit
Of his holy mountain
Made my heart like a living water fountain
Now I can’t even imagine life without him
Since I heard about him
Every day I’m shouting
Hallelujah! Let God renew ya
Lift him up when blessing comes down to ya
I can’t take credit for myself, it ain’t true
All I can do Lord is say THANK YOU
Feels Like This
It's like I’m the richest man alive
But not in earthly currency
Got eternal certainty
My inheritance is waiting in the sky
Got no concerns or worries
Since I was earned with burgundy
Like preparing and then marrying my bride
All the love and laughter
Gathered up and captured
In the passing of a single moment
I was broken
Now I’m glowing
It’s like having feet
In the sand at Cannon Beach
Underneath the canopy
Laughing with my family
Singing with a liturgy of love
Infinity’s enough with the Trinity above
Everything is new
when you’ve finally got the truth
I couldn’t hide it if I tried
what’s inside of me is the proof
I could hardly conceive it or dream it
I didn’t believe it
now I’ve seen it
Taste
What it costs
To be paid with a loss
The pain of the cross
The embrace of the lost
I’ll tell you what it feels like, it feels right
Never thought this could be real life
I feel hype and holy
Rowdy righteous
Yeah I like this
I’m a son because Christ is
When you’ve seen the darkness
You know what the light is
And to find it?
That’s priceless
It’s amazing
Can’t contain this
Have you seen what the look on my face is?
That’s what it feels like to be
Lost and then found
Blind and then see
A prisoner set free
The tomb is empty
Now I can breath
And I didn’t expect this
It’s better than anything that I ever injected
I know what it’s like
To be dead and resurrected