1. |
Timm's Quartet
02:42
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2. |
Traveling Song
02:55
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Travel, cause there's no place to stay
Travel, leave them behind.
The things that you lose leave you spaces to find
Freedom, is a chain in itself
freedom, oh lady freedom
She walks through the night without fearing the dark
Chorus:
We feel alive when we walk and cry
Set these structures ablaze
Building our cities wherever we lie
Lovers, love like hands mixed in clay
Sinners, oh all good sinners
Hang all your lies and dry all your shame
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3. |
Grey Bells
03:01
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Don't be afraid to put a candle at your window
Its flame will keep you warm
Don't be afraid to stain the glass that lets the light in
the stains of past will wash away
You said "no no no don't let the light in. But my hands are so cold, who will keep them warm?"
Your grey bells ringing in the night
You tell your stories like their over
Grey bells singing in the trees
The echoing of hope that's in the breeze
it isn't cold
Go ahead and try to find your way child
Go ahead and be the better man
I know your father tried to beat you down the wrong way
but the dawn is here, embrace the day
Your grey church sleeping on the hill
the dark of the night is black and still
These grey stones lying in the stream
the echoing of grace that's in the breeze
it isn't dead
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4. |
Wide Eyed Wood
04:43
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Breathe, breathe until there's no more air to breathe.
Silent screams in the streets you walk
your bare feet punish the ground
Breathe like we do
It's your God given right.
To make this world a safe sanctuary
There's no place to run from the father's grace,
His grace is all we need
Fear the Lord
May God's love be with you
May God's grace breathe on you.
Hearts awaken
When the heavy veil was thorn
Take your covered hearts to the river
And wash away the paint
Sink, drown, live
May God's love be with you
May God's grace breathe on you.
Wide Eyed wood,
Wide Eyed Wood
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5. |
The Tree Beyond the Fire
03:28
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today we see what is in our hearts
no it ain't pretty but it's beautiful
it is freedom, the way she forgives
A single boat in a hurricane storm
at the mercy of the sea
searching ever more for the shore
The tree beyond the fire is green
The tree beyond the fire is green
pray for a monster by its name
and he'll become a man of faith
then every breath he takes will be life
God takes a picture from the sky
with his polaroid and tries
to let the slide fall into our hands
The tree beyond the fire is green
The tree beyond the fire is green
The tree beyond the fire is green
The tree beyond the fire is green
He is more alive than the demons behind a man
He is more alive when you forgive
God takes a picture from the sky
with his polaroid and tries
to let the slide fall into our hands
and only when the colours come
do we see, like a blinding flash,
the truth that finally sets our spirits free
We are all but murderers
we are all but running thieves
The tree beyond the fire is green
The tree beyond the fire is green
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6. |
Every River
03:01
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Staring at each other over distance
With nothing but time and glass in between
My heavy heart is full
But God knows there's room for you
Take all these words
Don't give them back to me
Put them in the pocket of your heart they're yours to keep
Fill the cup that's half empty
Don't leave any room for air
There will come a time to drink but tonight we'll have to sleep
Every river flows to the sea
Then one day your bones will lie with me
Take all these promises
But know I am just a man
Whose heart is wild and bent on running everywhere its feet can land
But oh God willing
It'll find its way back to you
But till then I know this song will have to do
Every river flows to the sea
Then one day your bones will lie with me
Every ocean pulls with the tide
Every heart has a place to hide
Staring at each other
There's nothing in between
My heavy heart is full when you're with me
Staring at each other
There's nothing in between
My heavy heart is full when you're with me
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7. |
Instrument
03:33
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, let pardon grow;
where there is doubt, let faith like rivers flow;
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
where there is despair, may your hope never cease;
where there is darkness, let there light;
and where there is sadness, your joy will be their pride.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we ourselves are pardoned;
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
for it is in dying that we are born to life. Amen
~St. Francis of Assisi
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8. |
Baptised in Asylums
03:24
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Don't hide the scars inside your heart
we can see that art, bleeding from your eyes
Just leave the thorns on your rose
we need to feel the sting of beauty in this world
And so,
the devil has no hold,
when we find hope
that God loves Emma
We were all baptized in asylums
we have all felt the coals burning on our lips
We were all baptized in fire
now we see,
What it means to be burnt
She said, life.. give me all you've got
and she found when he left, strength to move on
Now In every room there is a silence
and every eye there is a tear filled only with love
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9. |
Into the Woods
04:39
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Lead me off the weathered path
Take me to the place where crowds begin to pass
I can hear the river rushing on its way
But I'm not going anywhere until you're here
I've had a dream about this place
Where broken wood came alive, my soul will turn to face
the trees were walking like people
this broken life begins to sing in second part
And you've painted the inner walls of my heart (x2)
Into the woods
Where you broke the frozen castles of my heart
And when you found there's nothing left in me but sorrow
you said child, my arms are bigger than your throne
and on my face, your hand is warm
Our broken hearts amidst the grass
Reflecting grace like the dawn that's breaking across against the glass
We've got to turn towards the light
It's a dangerous place inside when you're alone
into the woods
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10. |
Birds in Ribcages
03:14
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Sink this ship of hollow bones
When this life has more beauty than youth
Nails on the blackboard of nostalgia
Oh Sink the ship on empty hopes
Tie my chest to the wood
Pin my arms to the walls
Spill my seeds across the stone floor
A castle's still a prison cell
Our hearts are birds in ribcages
Singing songs worth more than gold
Our hearts are birds in a mess of veins
Oh sink this ship of hollow bones
Put a hole in your head
Tilt one way and let your brain fall out
Take that heart out of its cage
Fill your head with songs of birds
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11. |
We are lilies
04:22
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These memories are etched so deep inside of my mind
that it's starting to draw blood
hold it tight my sister, won't you hold it tight my friend,
till our knuckles turn to white
We started out into the dark, we walked in cold wet shoes
and the thorns would catch our jeans
though we've all grown older, we've got to peel the scabs
to show the soft tissue of our hearts
We are all but lilies, picked from the field
Separated from the earth
But we have a purpose of beauty
So we're alive, yes we're alive
I've felt too scared to hope for better, my ambitions were too grand
but greater was His grace
Even though I've been drowning in a sea of endless blessing
All I could do was cling to straw
So we swam in tear deep stories, we sang in sorrow's song
but we breathed in heaven's air
See, people give a place a purpose, like leaves the wind a meaning
God is sunlight and we are windows
oh God I'm in the air
but my heart is planted on the ground
connected by veins stretched
to invisibility…
I'm so afraid to shut my eyes
cause it brings me to the place veiled by leaves
filtering sunlight like green, broken stained glass windows…
My church is the valley
and the towers are the mountains
Oh God Help me love….
Oh God help me love beyond the river
See I'm home sick but I'm not going home.
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Daniel and the Sparrows Chicago, Illinois
Daniel and the Sparrows is a Christian songwriter who uses music and storytelling to live and breathe his faith- "Show the world that we stand together broken but whole".
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