Would I Make The Choice (2015)

FAWM 2015

Would I Make The Choice (05 - Lyrics - Feb 06)

2015-02-07 @ 09:00am
tags: christian gospel folk

Deeply affected by this sermon today: http://youtu.be/havd_RVXOEM

Lyrics

If you were here would I know your voice
Would I feel your love
Would I make the choice
Take up my cross
Take up my cross
To walk with you

Some people say you never existed at all
The improbable story of divine birth was grafted onto a Judaic framework
Just another deception from the makers of elitism

The words you gave us were powerful and simple
I know you are more than just a parable
I know you lived
I know you rose

If you were here would I know your voice
Would I feel your love
Would I make the choice
Take up my cross
Take up my cross
To walk with you

Some people say you never rose from the dead
You had a twin brother who took your place
And faked the wounds to save your faith
Just another deception from the makers of elitism

Miracles you gave us were powerful and simple
I know you are more than just a parable
I know you lived
I know you rose

If you were here would I know your voice
Would I feel your love
Would I make the choice
Take up my cross
Take up my cross
To walk with you

Why is this so hard still
After everything I've been through
I've seen the evils of the normal way
Why is it so hard to choose
To suffer for my faith in you
To live by your word and your truth

If you were here would I know your voice
Would I feel your love
Would I make the choice
Take up my cross
Take up my cross
To walk with you

Quiet Together (2013)

Quiet Together

2013

Chagall

Listen to the rain
Let it wash away the pain
Feel it coming down to make our lives clean again

Listen to your heart
How the beat's a work of art
Feel it strong in you and know we're never apart

We can be
Quiet together
We can listen
To all the songs that aren't being sung right now
We can be
Here forever
Holding hands and listening
Through all that life can bring
Through all that life can bring
Quiet together

Listen to the wind
Hear it rushing to ascend
Know it's carrying our wishes safely in

Listen to the calm
Let it bring a healing balm
To bind up all our wounds and make us oh so strong

Whatever is around us
The sounds of traffic or of thunder
Children's laughter or thunderous applause
Whatever is around us
Whether crashing waves or solemn hills
Being with you is a thrill
Whether loud or quiet together

We can be
Quiet together
We can listen
To all the songs that aren't being sung right now
We can be
Here forever
Holding hands and listening
Through all that life can bring
Through all that life can bring
Quiet together

Eternally Adored (2013)

Eternally Adored

2013

Chagall

I don't wanna stay
Here in this place
It's so forlorn and filled with pain
Just let me escape
Somewhere far away
Where I can heal another day

Just let me sing
To the Lord
Maybe I'll strike another heart with this same chord
Just let me fly away on clouds of song
To let his glory shine to wash away all wrongs
Just let me sing
To the Lord
And bask in that love
Eternally adored

I know you were hurt
I know it's not right
And now you're just looking to last through the night
Just trust me there's love
Which comes from above
And perfectly eases every strife

Come let's just sing
To the Lord
Maybe we'll touch another heart with this same chord
Just come and fly away on clouds of song
To let his glory shine to wash away all wrongs
Come let's just sing
To the Lord
And bask in that love
Eternally adored

Fairytale Romance (2007)

Fairytale Romance

2007

Chagall

Originally written during FAWM 2007, and performed live at the Renaissance Cafe in Toronto without accompaniment. A few years and a few tweaks later I'm happy with this version.

Lyrics:

The Lady weaves her sad tales
In an isolated tower
A mirror crack'd from side to side
Laid down doom upon the hour
What happens when the Beauty
Is hunted by the Beast
I'm hoping that I'll wake up now
Stop Sleeping so lost in dreams

You called me a Goddess
You called me an Angel
But you refused to see
The lost girl
The woman who's not your fantasy

And yeah, I'm a Goddess, I've got a halo
But, sweetheart, we both know it's bent
So tell me, what's the use of being an Angel
When you can't make rent?

I'm just a broken dreamer
With feet of clay like the rest
A Paperbag Princess wandering lost
In search of resting her head
What happens when Prince Charming
Is just a Frog like the rest
When your sworn Knight leaves you to fight
Alone, so harried and pressed

How will this story end
Is there another chance
Waiting just around the bend
How will this ending begin
Are you strong enough a man
To tame the beast that lies within

I called you a God
I called you a shining Prince
But you refused to free
The lost boy
The man trapped inside of this story

And yeah, you're a God and you've got a gold crown
But, sweetheart, it's grimy and worn
So tell me, what's the use of ruling a kingdom
When your heart's forsworn?

Ticket to Paradise (2008)

Ticket to Paradise

FAWM 2008 Spamour #2

Chagall

It's important for you
Give yourself a favour
You will feel lovely
You really need it
Just let go and fly

Don't strain yourself
You don't need to look around
In a split second
Just a matter of weeks
She won't resist you

You don't know what to do?
You don't know what to do?
Grab your ticket to paradise
Book your flight

Impassioned zealous nights
Will cure all your doubts
The one you've constantly wanted
Wrapped in your arms
Your ticket to paradise

You'll know just what to do
You'll know just what to do
Grab your ticket to paradise
Book your flight

Have a perfect love!
Today is the day
She will want to have these nights forever
You really can make a perfect love!
Just let go and fly
Just let go and fly

You'll know just what to do
You'll know just what to do
Grab your ticket to paradise
Book your flight
Just let go and fly
Your ticket to paradise
Just let go and fly
Your ticket to paradise
Just let go and trust

White Dressing Angel (2008)

white dressing angel

FAWM or 5090 2008

Chagall

when dark clouds block the sunrise
and your heart is full of grief
when the sea seems set to drown you
and the summer's so long ago

remember your innocence
forget your fear
see the white dressing angel
in the sheets upon the mirror
and walk right through that wall that holds you here

when the path ahead just seems too hard
and the dagger's in your back
when the people all seem to crowd you
and the ancient ways let you down

remember your inner song
forget your tears
see the soul of all shining
in the faces you see around
and walk right through that chain that holds you to the ground

A Permanent Wall (2007)

A Permanent Wall

FAWM 2007

Chagall

Conversations
from outer space
Two souls
not quite connecting
Fumbling towards
the question of otherness
Togetherness
Hoping for
A complicated wonder

Will I love you
Will you love me
Is there an answer
Or have all these questions
already received their reply
Two souls reaching across
A permanent wall
When the distance seems solid

Sweet consequences
From candied words
Two minds
Not really merging
Stumbling towards
The answer of strangeness
Familiarness
Hoping for
A sudden flooded delight

Will I love you
Will you love me
Is there an answer
Or have all these questions
already received their reply
Two souls reaching across
A permanent wall
When the distance seems solid

Will I love you
Will you love me
Two souls
not quite connecting
I can't love you
It's a permanent wall
When the distance seems solid
I'm sorry

Empy Space (2005)

Empty Space

2005

Chagall

The music to this was actually a jazzy piano ballad. Didn't know I had it in me.

Lyrics:

Night falls
Black as raven's wing
How I wonder if
I did the right thing
Letting you go, you know
Letting you go

The empty space beside me haunts me in bed,
I wish the pillow wore the shape of your head
Now that you're gone I try as I might
Now that you're not here I seem to have lost my fight

Soul calls
From the depths of me
Iridescent
Core of mystery
Will you restore your joy
Will you restore

The empty space beside you haunts you all day
You wish that I was there to join in your play
Now that you're gone you know what you left behind
Now that you're not here I'm always on your mind

Heart calls
In the dead of night
So far to go
To set things right
Now that we know, honey
Now that we know

No Guarantees (1996)

No Guarantees

1996-ish

Chagall

Written just before I joined the Goth band, I think. More of a punk style. But piano punk not guitar punk. O.O

Lyrics:

You can promise me today that you'll love me forever
But tomorrow will you even remember my name
No guarantees

Even if you think you love me would it be for real
And even if I really loved you
How can love ever truly be stronger than steel

I could promise you today that I'll love you forever
But sometime or someday will we still be together this way
No guarantees

People die
People change
People find somebody new
People lie
People mistake lust for love
People
Find somebody better than you
No guarantees

[Wild piano solo]

You can promise me today that you'll love me forever...

Night Garden (1996)

Night Garden 

1996-ish
Chagall 

Written around the time I was in a Goth band called Wysteria which was unfortunately shortlived. Music for this is very stately. 

Lyrics:

Often have I walked there, where lovers love to play 
Where flowers fill the darkened air, now there I'll stay 
Long's the time I've longed for you, though they say love is blind 
Well so is pride and now I know which I'd leave behind 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went 
Away 

Veiled by night the white moonflowers perfume a place I know 
There we fought and there you left me those long years ago 
You walk with me within these dreams, you're twined into my soul 
Just as the twisting, climbing vines that in this garden grow 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went

The scent of your skin has faded 
Into the whispering wind 
As I walk this labyrinth 
All I feel is numbness within 

Often have I walked here where lovers love to play 
Where flowers fill the darkened air, now here I'll stay 
Long's the time I've longed for you though they say love is blind 
Well so is pain and now I know which I'd leave behind 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went 
Away