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TV is switched on
The screen reveal a spokesperson
Adverts, politics, editing the real
Cheap words, money talks
Naming itself to be the key
To Utopia, Cornucopia
To a better world you go buy and buy
And if you listen carefully
You can hear the bacon fly
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
History shows that policy demands weapons
Selfish desires simply lead to pain
The chit-chat continues
A big pretence that divides
Into power blocks
Where the orthodox
Have a propaganda war to fight
(You know they'll fight it, all right...)
And if you're looking closely
You can see that black is white
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
If the "unthinkable" should happen
And you hear the sirens call
Well you can always find some shelter
Behind a door against the wall
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
Don't make me laugh!
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Life and death are fought out on a screen
Words and pictures jostle there
But are not clearly seen
Selfishness and greed like driven rain
Soak into the pilgrim soul
Prepared to feel pain
Down here…
Samples of the merchandise displayed
The killer’s tools the toys for fools
The thugs love to parade
Expenses in this business world are high
The average plan takes what it can
The rest must do or die
Down here…
Time and time again we’re torn
Between the world we’re longing for
And the one in which we’re born
Oh Lord can’t you magic it alright?
Is there no answer?
“…You say your love stands until the weather breaks
On the other side of the storm
You say it’s mercy that hold judgment back
That love prefers reform
All the promises you make
Are met in the bread we break
It’s a cross-road onto which your shadow falls
Your love’s not cheap at all…
You say we see you in the Servant King
In whose sufferings we are healed
You say we need turn around and see
The love we seek revealed
If we’ll lower the shield of lies
If we’ll drop all our disguise
You have shed forgiveness
Life-blood for us all
Your love’s not cheap at all
Desire to share must proclaim what is missed
The promise of Your full embrace
For all who had You kissed
However often this worlds lies are told
The power of Your promises still holds
They make bold
They comfort and empower us
Where garbage sells as gold
Down here…
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Everybody has wisdom everyone understands
Food when we are hungry
The touch of loving hands
No one is anyone's property
No one should be a slave
The joining of hearts in free will
Begins a tidal wave
Don't hold back
Don't think that hope is pointless
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
Don't believe
That life is closed against us
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
And it doesn't make any difference
The colour of anyone's skin
We need the rejection of prejudice
Let peace come flooding in
Jealousy is just a parasite hatred is disease
Respect for human dignity
Become skittering wind blown leaves
Don't hold back
Don't think that hope is pointless
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
Don't believe
That life is closed against us
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
The time is surely coming when we could all be free
When eyes for so long blinded
In opening shall see
That children may grow happily
Safe in the love of all
The earth a fertile garden where nobody need crawl
Don't hold back
Don't think that hope is pointless
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
Don't believe
That life is closed against us
Love is a, love is a,
Love is a, love is an open door
And if it seems that your hoping heart
Has led you into pain
Take a tip from the carpenter
Forgive and love again
And again
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FIND YOUR FEET
So many questions
Nobody giving the answers
Yet you ask them all in good faith
So many feelings
Nobody wants to share
Well you feel them anyway
Welcome to the human race
The glory and the sadness
May you find your pathway home
May you find your feet upon it
So many problems
So many proffered solutions
That lead to more confusion
So many needing something more than diagnosis
But where is healing to be found?
Welcome to the human race
The glory and the sadness
May you find your pathway home
May you find your feet upon it
Let's walk a while
So we turn our separate ways
And we try to make it home
But you know we'll never get there on our own
We need a guide who loves us
I hear a baby crying under his star...
Welcome to the human race
The glory and the sadness
May you find your pathway home
May you find your feet upon it
Welcome to the human race
The glory and the sadness
May you find your pathway home
May you find your feet upon it
We're going home now...
DANCE
Psalm 150; John 11; Romans 6:1-11
Word of God came looking for me
Deep into this corner of the room
Where I hid head in gloom
Asked me "Who do you say I am?
Listen to the song of truth I sing -
It's got a beat of angels wings"
I think I'll get up and dance
Dance
Deep into the gleaming spotlight
Knees are shaking
Feet they lead me on towards the Heavenly song
Suddenly, I feel a movement filling me up
From head to toe - oh!
It makes me want to g-g-go get up and dance
Dance
I can feel a heartbeat moving on the edge
On the edge of my vision like a flashing light
It is the dawning of the new life
Where I stand free on the plain without the chains
Where I can move my limbs and move my mouth and move my soul
Into freedom dance
Dance, keep dancing, dancing
Jesus came off the Cross
And left it all behind Him
Defeated Death fell from Him like an empty sack
That once held rubbish
Rising rising into forever
Dragging us behind Him
If we will only give our lives into His hands
He'll teach us to dance
Dance...
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So tough - Nothing touches you
So hard - nobody's pain gets through
So Deep - your tears are diamonds
So mean - you're giving none away
I can't look at you without crying inside
This time - you made your indecisions
No gifts - you make your lovers pay
See through - your every smile transparent
I know you could be more than this
I can't look at you without crying inside
So long - the second's legs seem broken
So tired - but you can't get the rest
Why try?
Why make the moments happen?
You tense - and try another trap
I can't look at you without crying inside
I can't look at you without crying inside
I can't look at you without crying
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6. |
The Bond - Trumpet Call
05:51
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Cross the snow white, cross the Bible pages open
From the word upon the cross
Do you hear the trumpet call? - and can you bear it?
From the heart of a cold cell deep in Russia
Do you hear the man in chains
Proclaim Him for us all - and are you near him?
One of the things you get with the Holy Spirit is trouble
Praise the Lord and ask for more
I'd rather serve the Lord than make friends with the devil
And that's one thing I know for sure
Many prophets have arisen false and greedy
Bringing miracles and signs
To say that God is dead - well don't believe them!
Jesus Christ the King of Kings is in His glory
He alone permits the strength
To do any thing at all - it's Him who told us
One of the things you get with the Holy Spirit is trouble
Praise the Lord for these hard days
When all the pride of this world has long since turned to rubble
You'll be in heaven singing praise - hey Valeri!
When the end comes as it must signs in the heavens
Will it find you out of oil or brimming overflow - will you be ready?
Russian snow and the greenback dollar melted
Face to face no-one will doubt
But every knee shall bow - and then the judgement
One of the things you get with the Holy Spirit is trouble
And that's something you've got to face
But don't be scared, remember Jesus went before us
Because he loves us took our place
And now He says Go!!!
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The Bond - His Love
05:19
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His love is a shield for the hopeless
His love is a seed in the soil
All of His love He will give you
If you will learn to receive
His love is worth far more than money
His love is worth suffering and joy
All of His love can live in you
If you will only believe
His love is a light on a tall stand
His love is a shade in the heat
His love is the gift of a clean heart
His love drown the bitter with the sweet - His love
All of the pain you will pass through
The lies you will see bought and sold
Will never destroy His love in you
The Spirit of life that the grave cannot hold
His love is a strong place to stand on
His love causes blindness to see
His love it is pure it is holy
His love is forgiving and free -
I'm grateful for His love
So grateful for His love
Undeserved for me
He loved us so much he gave his only son
More precious than the universe and all it holds
He lived amongst us, bled and died in our place
For the lashes the shortfalls of our sin
Just to show us all His love
All His love
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John 6:2; Colossians 2:14
Caesars dancing on the brink
Hate the poor because they stink
Kalashnikovs the mullah’s clutch
Killing hands regain their touch
Ignorance and idol fear
States of sin the sick revere
Despair driven from the rear
Hunters hunt the hunted
Glibly stating that it’s all
For God’s sake
Both sides in war for blessings pray
Scatter refugees from fields of play
Financial farmers planting bombs
Crops of death to prove a pointless point
Catholic killers rant and rage
Provo marxmen come of age
Troubles conscience turning page
Dredging obscure scripture
That might justify more murder
For God’s sake
Haunted eyes in bloated skin
Napalm babies weeping waifs of war
Children always suffer most
Innocents exploded into toast
All of us in some way kill
Unless we trust in Heaven’s will
The only victory we need
The three nails Our Lord buried
Namely Pride, Death and Greed
For God’s sake
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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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The Bond - Dance
06:05
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Psalm 150; John 11; Romans 6:1-11
Word of God came looking for me
Deep into this corner of the room
Where I hid head in gloom
Asked me "Who do you say I am?
Listen to the song of truth I sing -
It's got a beat of angels wings"
I think I'll get up and dance
Dance
Deep into the gleaming spotlight
Knees are shaking
Feet they lead me on towards the Heavenly song
Suddenly, I feel a movement filling me up
From head to toe - oh!
It makes me want to g-g-go get up and dance
Dance
I can feel a heartbeat moving on the edge
On the edge of my vision like a flashing light
It is the dawning of the new life
Where I stand free on the plain without the chains
Where I can move my limbs and move my mouth and move my soul
Into freedom dance
Dance, keep dancing, dancing
Jesus came off the Cross
And left it all behind Him
Defeated Death fell from Him like an empty sack
That once held rubbish
Rising rising into forever
Dragging us behind Him
If we will only give our lives into His hands
He'll teach us to dance
Dance...
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11. |
Time And Tide
03:03
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You know time and tide wait for no-one
Time and tide wait for no-one
Time and time wait for no-one
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This City
03:11
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The abstracted shapes
Of the people's thoughts
Different shops and pubs
All the cheap facades
It is all this city
It is all this city
Wind shaken trees
Half crumbling parks
The enquiring eyes
Fingers parting lace
It is all this city
It is all this city
Long straggling queues
Of the out of work
A baby sucking sweets
Dribbling down his quilt
It is all this city
It is all this city
All this city
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Eleanor Rigby
03:10
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Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Father Mckenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Ah look at all the lonely people...
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Lyrics written by Lennon / McCartney.
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Willy Welsh
08:06
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I'd like to wish you well
I'd like to wish you happiness
I'd like to wish you peace
Of the everlasting kind
I'd like to wish you love
Rich and deep and plentiful
I wish you all the joy
Of a free and quiet mind
I'd like to wish you hope
To see beyond the storm clouds
I'd like to wish you faith
A faith that you can share
I'd like to wish you health
Courage and compassion
I wish you all the vision
Of a heart equipped to care
I'd like to wish you friends
Who love you as they find you
I wish you sense to seek
Forgiveness that is true
I wish you endless strength
To learn to love your enemies
For what you hate in them
Has all been found in you
I'd like to wish you patience
Endurance and humility
To hold to what is good
Amongst the lies that tease us
I'd like to wish you life
A safe home for eternity
In short I wish you all
That you could find in Jesus
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Magic man said "you know my dear
You are living inside a dream
Believing the things I do are what they seem
Life is a trick that runs too quick
For a volunteer from the crowd
Volunteers only see what's been allowed"
The players practice to deceive
With paper flowers none perceive
Disappearing down the top hat corridors
Art and illusion
The magic show won't let you go
Magicians rehearse their sleights of hand
They slip money-bags up their sleeves
They saw you in half and then they turn to leave
The tricks of the trade the ball games played
By the jugglers centre stage
Carefully handed down from age to age
Conclusions made conclusions leapt
Impressions lost and overstepped
Shadows hide the truth with nobody the wiser
(Chorus)
They're only trying to tell you lies
Trying to make you compromise
To leave reality completely up to them
(Chorus)
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Easy to imagine, difficult to see
We don't need, we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t need their sympathy
It seems pretty underhand all the lies they tell
We don't need, we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t need their sympathy
They say, it’s all fantasy
Love, we know is real
We don't need, we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t need their sympathy
It will come together, we will all find our way
We don't need, we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t....
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I am the ceiling, you are the floor above me rising into real
I am deceiving, you are the honesty I pray that I could feel
I am confusion, you are the thought that heals clarity of vision
I am delusions, you are the target struck a shot of pure precision
And how I love you
Some may say it's all unreal, that's not the way I feel
My heartbeat dance and play, nothing more to say…
How well you know me, how much you show me
As you lead me to my goal
Ferryman row me across deep waters to the calm side of my soul
Where we can beachcomb
(Chorus)
Trace the feeling back to source
Adopt a different kind of course
The change of heart, another place to start
Secret steps are in your dance, the offer of a second chance
The site renewed, a clearer point of view
No longer need a careful plan, no longer be the also ran
I laid my life down and I picked it up again
Freedom! Along the way
I sing celebration I sing for the new day
Freedom! Now I know
So long as we're together, there's nowhere that we cannot go
I called your name, no words remained … enter!
I am delivered, I am a baby born into your sacred peace
I was a prisoner
You were the key that opened locks for my release
And Christ I love you
(Chorus)
Nothing more to say…
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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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