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Gateway Into Heaven
05:11
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Before you came and found me I was lost
On Chaos's white horses turned and tossed
With a word you pacified the waves
Set my feet upon a road that leads to resurrection morning
Gateway into Heaven, may I come through you
Gateway into Heaven, no other way will do
Dancing in the way you draw me near
You are overwhelming draw me near
Love can be alarming when it's this real
Love that accepts crucifixion
Just to bring us to communion
Chorus
You are like a treasure house a home
Toward which all the lost and weary roam
When we pray your spirit lifts us high
Lifts us through a curtain torn from top to bottom
Waving in your breeze
Chorus
Holy Spirit burning out so bright
Illuminating even darkest night
Crowning those who love you with new life
O come Lord Jesus come and lead us home with you
Toward the end of strife
Chorus
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2. |
Sob Stories
04:46
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You could have been something in life
If you'd been healthy, or wealthy, or poor
You could have made everyone laugh
If you'd been funny
You could have been Ghandi - if -
If only you'd been born in India, yeah
You could have bought the starving a meal
If you'd had the cash
Chorus
Don't believe in your own sob stories
About how life should be
Like it is in your dreams
Don't believe in your own sob stories
You can't carry a cross
On a diet of peaches and cream
You could have been light for the world
If you hadn't locked yourself in the basement
You could have said things to revere
If you'd known what they were
You could have made discoveries
You could have changed history
You could have won medals of gold
If only you'd run
Chorus
You talk about sin as if you had
A unique view of the matter
As if you have some excuse
God won't recognise
You talk about dying as if you had
Some sort of choice in the matter
As if when it comes to you
You'll just close your eyes
Don't think that I don't understand
Or criticise you as if alien
There's something of you, the fantasy fool
In all of our lives
But when we replace life with a dream
Vision with hallucination
Sleep walk ensues
Wandering off in a deadly land
Chorus
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3. |
High Ground
05:31
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So, the problem of human suffering
Seen from the high ground appears small
With a stiff drink and the curtains drawn you can kid yourself
There's hardly any problem there at all
Diamonds sparkle in the disco
Glitter ball sheen on all the sins
Outside in the alley the party appears distant
As the hungry and the homeless look for dinner in the bins
Wealth is a jetty
At which a ship of state may more
But when Christ was born on earth
It was among the poor
Yes, we study economics
Got to make the money make some kind of sense
Having heaped it into mountains of endeavour
We knock off all the peaks and spend them on defence
In the ring the wars are raging
To be top dog you've got to have the sharpest teeth
When you've clawed your way up to the top of the scrap heap
You live by barking at all the little dogs underneath
Though human weakness
Is what the power hungry scorns
When Christ was crowned as king
It was a crown of thorns
We can raise a smile by sharing
We're appealing and we really love to give
At least until the cost of caring
Cuts deep into the way we really live
What is our charity
So self-righteously displayed?
When Christ taught us to give
It was a ransom paid
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4. |
Seriously Siblings
07:40
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Seriously siblings
Are you running scared, running scared, running scared
Seriously siblings
Are you running scared, running scared, why so scared?
From a howling night we're running into daylight
Down a corridor of knives
From a city built on suffering and warfare
We are running into life
Seriously siblings
Are you running hard, running hard, running hard
Seriously siblings
Are you running hard, running hard, running hard
There's no time to stand around in acquiescence
To the spirit of this age
In the love of Christ find strength to resist evil
In His justice all the rage
Sing Hallelujah, sing loud and long
Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song
Sing Hallelujah, sing proud and strong
Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song
Seriously siblings
Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now
Seriously siblings
Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now
Well there's a mighty hand that holds us all in orbit
Round His own eternal light
Praise His name and by his spirit live within it
In His strength fight the good fight
Chorus
When the anti-Christ comes roaring
And you feel your love so drowned
Let your heart be broken open
Let your love of God's love sound
Chorus
Come on, seriously siblings
Won't you run with joy, run with joy, run with joy
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5. |
Don't You Wait
04:51
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Day she dim draw down the night
Thoughts they turn towards the light
On the homeward road
You say you will make the move
When your heart and mind approve
The way your conscience goads
But you know you need more than a desire
You need the depth love alone can inspire
To impart the willpower that you require
To step out of the fire - Don't you wait too long!
All around the jaws they clash
Hungry nightmare teeth they gnash
Looking you up and down
Tick the time tock seconds pass
Clock the forces that amass
The gauntlet is thrown down
But you say you'll wait 'til your youth is gone
Then you say you'll wait 'til your loving is done
Then you've got a career, high ambitions to be won
When does the time come - Don't you wait too long?
Most of say that we'll run away sometime
Few get as far as the gate
Some run a lifetime, ten times round the whole world
End up in the same sorry state
When the fact of death examines all of which we're proud
Stop and think about it
Doesn't it make you want to cry out loud?
But to who?
Who can take you to heaven?
Who knows what it is to be you?
Who can righteously judge between your mistakes and your sins?
Tell me who said
'Except by him nobody enters in?' - Don't you wait too long!
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Stranded
03:34
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Who would have thought you could be stranded
High and dry without a friend to call upon
You were so certain such disasters
Were reserved for those in life
Who hadn't had the sense
To have been born you instead
And now you're here
And all the tears
That you have cried
Have made your vision come clear
The truth remains
Came the flood and your perceptions
Of what's important found themselves in sink or swim mode
The whole wide world of false attachment
Was washed away and there you were
In the boat you pushed out
Sending hopeful birds of prayer
And now you're here
Above the fear
In humility become finally sincere
The truth remains
Can you hear the heavens cheer?
And as you take the pathway home
Towards an everlasting welcome
The truth remains
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7. |
Looking For Love
05:27
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Looking for love that heals
Looking for love to make
Looking for love that's real
When all the rest is fake, love's reality
Looking for love that stands up
Looking for love that saves
Looking for love that liberates
Here is a world of slaves
All of us are looking for love
Looking for love that want's us
Looking for love that cares
Looking for love that teaches
Love that has endless layers
Each one more beautiful
Looking for love that speaks out
Love that does more than flirt
Looking for love that seeks out
All that is lost and hurt,
All the world is looking for love
Looking for love's bright shining
Looking for love that laughs
Looking for love to lead us
Down the most dangerous paths
To lead and not follow
Looking for love that's soothing
Looking for love that's strong
Love that loves peace and justice
Love that reveals the song as while are singing it
Looking for love
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8. |
Table Talk
07:12
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A very human feeling
Comes stealing over us
Once we grasp that we will die
Catch it staring at us
Round the corners of each joy
And it fills us with a longing
For a life without it there
Like a song from childhood
A melody we know
Re-learnt every time
A regret so poignant
It cuts into the soul
And the tears come out like blood
In a flood soiled with sin
I will sing this song for you
A song of yearning and a prayer
I will sing this song for you
Your ways are not our ways
So you build a bridge between us of yourself
There's a knowing in us
Implanted from the start
That your witness might be heard
Through war and dancing
Through torture death and grave
Still and small your voice pervades
"Come out of dying into life"
I will sing this song for you
A song of needing as a gift
I will sing this song for you
Humbled and uplifted by your love
You are all around us
Symbol you are sign
Sacrament and word
You are aching beauty
The source of all true life
You are in us
You are far, far beyond
All we are
I will sing this song for you
Knowing you is everything
And being loved is heaven
I will sing this song for you
We cannot be worthy
We can only be invited
And this bread
And this wine
Say we are
Thank you
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Seriously siblings
Are you running scared, running scared, running scared
Seriously siblings
Are you running scared, running scared, why so scared?
From a howling night we're running into daylight
Down a corridor of knives
From a city built on suffering and warfare
We are running into life
Seriously siblings
Are you running hard, running hard, running hard
Seriously siblings
Are you running hard, running hard, running hard
There's no time to stand around in acquiescence
To the spirit of this age
In the love of Christ find strength to resist evil
In His justice all the rage
Sing Hallelujah, sing loud and long
Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song
Sing Hallelujah, sing proud and strong
Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song
Seriously siblings
Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now
Seriously siblings
Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now
Well there's a mighty hand that holds us all in orbit
Round His own eternal light
Praise His name and by his spirit live within it
In His strength fight the good fight
Chorus
When the anti-Christ comes roaring
And you feel your love so drowned
Let your heart be broken open
Let your love of God's love sound
Chorus
Come on, seriously siblings
Won't you run with joy, run with joy, run with joy
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Twelfth Night UK
Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.
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