Say Hallelujah

say hallelujah
throw up your hands
the bucket is kicked
the body is gone
close your eyes
bow your head
to rest your soul and praise the dead

say hallelujah
throw up your hands
the bucket is kicked
the body is gone
dry your eyes and stand up right
put a smile on your face
it wouldn't warm us to cry

the sun will rise, the stars will shine
turning day into dusk and night into dawn
we'll pass on but until that time
say hallelujah
say hallelujah
say hallelujah
say hallelujah

say hallelujah
throw up your hands
the bucket is kicked
the body is gone
have mercy
it's a wonderful life
eternal rest for the weary mornest part of tonight

say hallelujah
throw up your hands
the bucket is kicked
the body is gone
wave your hands
but don't say goodbye
we're all gonna meet you on the other side...

Broken

You can close your eyes
And see a picture perfect life
Inside your mind
Dreaming only of the days ahead
wanted and wished for more than now
Or the days behind
You waste your time

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

You can never think
You can't even stop yourself
Before the words have been spoken
And you've already said
You would give everything
And something for nothing
Everybody thinks you're joking

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

You want to be the one
Made over be your own
Before and after
And the supermarket
Beauti in a bottle queen
Who'll one day grace a
cheek-out counter
Magazine front cover
Though the fine print reads

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Broken
Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Broken
Broken

When your life is never what you wanted
Not even halfway normal
Just tarnished and soiled
When in your reach
A framed and frozen moment
So far from perfection
Not truth or transcendence
Will set you free
Still you don't belive

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

Happy

Should be happy to be loved
Happy to be
Unburdened by the thought
I could still be lonely
I think you're the one
Everyone agrees
But some can see the face of love
And turn away in disbelief
Every time we get close
I just run
And the wind on my face
Last rays of the sun
Shine on my skin
My heart slow me down
Is all that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
Should be happy to be loved
Happy to be
With someone who knows
And understands me
I think you're the one
Everyone agrees
But some can touch the hand of love
And pull away in disbelief
Every time we get close
I just run
And the wind on my face
Last rays of the sun
Shine on my skin
My heart slow me down
Is all that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
Should be happy to be loved
Happy to be
Possessed by nothing but
A heart that's chosen freely
I think you're the one
Everyone agrees
But some can feel the grace of love
And walk away in disbelief
Every time we get close
I just run
And the wind on my face
Last rays of the sun
Shine on my skin
My heart slow me down
Is all that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
All that I can feel
Should be happy to be loved
Happy to be
Should be happy to be loved
Happy to be

Goodbye

For you
It's all in a day
One day in a life
It's all in the one word
The one word is goodbye
For me
It's all in what you say
Though you've tried to be kind
It's all in the words
From the lips that once touched mine with a sigh
Goodbye
For you
It's all in your face
The laugh and worry lines
It's all in the one word
You hope will make you young again
Goodbye
It's all in the play
Someone speaks the line
It's all in the one word
That stops and steals the time
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
For me
It's all in a day
It's the part in life
When it's all in the words
To fate and circumstance resigned
Goodbye

I Am Yours

When all my hopes and dreams
Have been betrayed
I stand before you
My hands are empty

I am yours
If you are mine

When I fall and stumble
Flat on my face
When I'm shamed and humbled
In disgrace

I am yours
If you are mine

When voices call me
To question my faith
When misperception
Taints my love with hate

I am yours
If you are mine

When time decides
It won't stop for me
When the hawks and vultures
Are circling

I am yours
If you are mine

Over In Love


Cold wind blows
Shivers loose
Hard rain
To my skin soaked
through

So over in love with you
I dont't even care

Sky turns gray
Black and blue
Fall on me
I can't be moved

So over in love with you
I dont't even care

Hot sun shines
And lays bare
Shadows cross cut
Heavy air

So over in love with you
I dont't even care

the tide that washes in
and out
Reveals a heart
And face worn new

So over in love with you
I dont't even care

I dont't even care
I dont't even care
I dont't even care

I dont't even care

I dont't even care

Change

If you knew that you could die today
You saw the face of God and love
Would you change
Would you change

If you knew that love can't break your heart
When your down so low you cannot fall
Would you change
Would you change

How bad, how good does it need to get
How many losses, how much regret
What chain reaction would cause an effect

Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget
Makes you change
Makes you change

If you knew that you could be alone
Knowing right, being wrong
Would you change
Would you change

If you knew that you could find a truth
That brings a pain that can't be soothed
Would you change
Would you change

How bad, how good does it need to get
How many losses, how much regret
What chain reaction would cause an effect

makes you turn around
make you try to explain
makes you forgive and forget
makes you change
makes you change

Are you so up right
You can't be bent
If it comes to blows
Are you so sure you won't be crawling
If it's not for the good why risk falling
Why risk falling

If everything you think you know
Makes your life unbearable
Would you change
Would you change

If you'd broken every rule and vow
and hard times come to bring you down
Would you change
Would you change

If you knew that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change
Would you change

If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change
Would you change

Talk To You

Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Maybe it's too late
You're slamming the door
You're walking out

I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don't let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now

Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Say it isn't too late
You'll see me again
We'll work it out

I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don't let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now

Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Say it isn't too soon
You'll see me again
We'll sort it out

I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don't let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now

3000 Miles

Good girls walk fast
In groups of three
Fast girls walk slow
On side streets
Sometimes the girls who walk alone
Aren´t found for days or weeks

On the busy boulevards
Bad boys call you names
And cruise you hard
Bullies laugh and grin and beat
Your soft skin against
The cold concrete

I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away

Knock you down
Make you bleed
Make you cry
And make you think
I´ll die here soon if I don´t leave
If I don´t leave if I don´t leave

This patch of sky and native ground
Take turns to push and pull you down
Forget trying to live and be happy
I´ll take safe and terror free

I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away

Hit the floor
Shut off the lights
As the bullets fly
Terror rules the dark night
Dogs hang from the trees

This training ground for punks and thieves
Home of poor white retirees
Who didn´t bail
And couldn´t sell
When color made the grass less green

I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away

Apples are filled with razor blades
But fools and innocents believe
That love and faith and truth and beauty
Can make a garden of this human factory

I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away

Bad girls run fast
Leave home alone
No trace or clue of where they´ve gone
Sometimes these girls are never found
Never found never found

I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away
I´m 3000 miles away

Going Back

No picnic no barbecue out in the back
A yard for parked cars left to rot and forget
For chained-up mad dogs for garbage to sit
Get lost get lost a part from it

I can't see through it
But i can see past
With me with me always
Without going back

Just people and buildings
Not city or town
Great lake crooked river
Flat land water burns
The air not smoke
It tears the eye
Home is where you live
Home is where you'll die

I can't see through it
But i can see past
With me with me always
Without going back

In a glacial slide
Over ice mirrored glass
In a slip and past times
Are in the future brought back
Reflected reflected reflected
Every footstep

No walk in the park
No there is nowhere
No place can replace
What a clear eye reveals
Soft and hard shaped like a wheel
Made me of rubber made me of steel

I can't see through it
But i can see past
With me with me always
Without going back