I'm dreaming of this picture....

Of you and me together!....

And it's so beautiful, it's so beautiful.....

.. ..

-Chorus-

Could you, could you! ....

Crush my dreams, ....

So you can build yours?....

.. ..

I'm walking through this tunnel....

Of shattered dreams and misshapen hearts. ....

And it's so beautiful, it's so beautiful.....

.. ..

My soul is at rest tonight;....

I close my eyes and know....

That when they open again,....

Everything will be all right.....

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The Sailing Ship

..............

I found
myself upon the sea, one day.....

Off the
shore of that copper-grain home of yours. ....

No rescue
plans! ....

No spread
of wings to fly!....

Ever since
my push from the land. ....

.. ..

Across my
travels I met a youth....

If joy was
false, his face was truth....

Sea-salt
bitter bent his lip....

I watched
him from my sailing ship.....

-Chorus-

O my God,
when will I ever learn from my past!....

O my God,
hold me fast in the sea. ....

Across my
travels I met an old man.....

If voices
fired, his locked again.....

Sea-salt
bitter bent his lip....

I watched
him from my sailing ship...

I crack and
creak,

And refuse
to speak!....

If only he
knew this courage....

Is for the
weak,....

Like me!....

.. ..

Ever since
I realized, I was those two.....

Then I met
you among the blue. ....

.. ..

Everyone is
Between Blue, ....

Everyone is
here. ....

.. ..

Safe! In
cupped watery hands. ....

We rise on
the wings, sprouting from the dawn.....

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Marbled Sky (O, the Wonder)

All that I believe in.

All that the future means to me.

All that my past built in me.

All that peacemakers hope for.

All that this world deserves.

All that comes to the slave who endures

All that makes me afraid

All that removes fear

All that forms a festival of friends

All that my sins warrant

All that glass tubes can’t cure

All that death takes away

All that life takes back

All the earth cries out for

The rocks and the bowed ground

Giving way to the millennia of mistakes cry out!

A rescuer comes, not to break my reed back

But to build it back together.

And I’m looking over my square wooden socket shoulder

Jutted and altogether immovable

And I think I saw a marbled sky and the hope of hopes

COMING DOWN!

In a dream or in my eye, could it have seen??

Could it have been?

O! The wonder I feel!!

All that I’ve come to become

And all that I wish I was

I might have been more prepared if you would have stopped by
tomorrow,

But everyday I can begin a new life!

All this: it is becoming,

It has happened now.

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Tin Cans Rattling (Wherever It Beats)

Just to be with me, and for no other cause!

But dear, this people-and-paper shuffling

Rarely lets me pause!

How quickly have I been climbing?

I’m sure my heart’s been timing it!

If I stop the flicker of tin machines

And for a moment just be quiet!

Maybe I could hear it!....

In the reflection of the glassy mountain

I saw a bursting, starry fountain.

Could I loose the cords of Orion

Or lead the Bear and her children?

Who pushed in those thumbtack lights?

Wherever it beats, make it right!

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Hospital Beds

When things get bad,

I fall on the floor.

The guilt I have

Shall be no more.

And it kills me still today, it kills me still today.

When I get lost,

I burn my map.

(?)

Just endless traps!

And it hurts me still today, it hurts me still today.

And we are changed,

And we are changed.

When I get sick

The doctor is here

(?)

The more I fear

And it kills me still today, it kills me still today!

And we are changed,

And we are changed.

And we are not the same!

And we are saved!

So live like it, live like it!

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Yikes, it got formatted with all kinds of spaces. sorry!

:)

Hello friends! It's good to be writing on here again. I took a bike ride the other day, and it was very pleasant. Seriously, if you bundle up it's
not too nippy outside. I rode to a small bridge which arcs over a small pond. I
paused here and examined the frozen water. It's interesting how captivating,
engrossing, and dense nature is when examined in silence. I knelt down and (of
course) tested the strength of the ice with rocks, then a foot, then two feet.
I had made my mind up at that point, I suppose.

:)

It was a universe of detail, solitude, and icy terrain. It's hard to believe it
was simply a pond in Townsend. That moment made me feel so small, and yet so
watched, loved, cared for, and held...

"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

   and marked off the heavens with a span,

enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure

   and weighed the mountains in scales

   and the hills in a balance?"

...by the Lord. 

I snapped a photo of it the day after, and it didn't do it justice.
:(

We've begun developing a new song, entitled Tin Cans Rattling (Wherever It
Beats). Landon rushes up the acoustic guitar, I am playing bouyant bass, Andrew is enjoying it all, and Aaron has a neat little melodica part. Drums will, almost certainly, be fantastic.

We can't wait to complete it and dance with you all at a future show.

hosanna, in the hightest!

-levi

Its been a really great weekend! We'd like to thank everyone who came out and listened to us. We really enjoy doing this for a great bunch of folk like you. Last night was the first time in a long while that I've thuroughly enjoyed playing music in this band. I think I was truly at ease and able think about what I was doing. I probably should thank Shane for that. He was a great host and I'm sure many who attended would agree. I think God still has a way for this band in our short time left of high school. God definitely showed me that last night. A month ago, I was really ready call it quits, I was'nt feelin' it anymore. It had gotten to the point where I was looking at the month of January on the calender and marked the date when I was to be officially done with BetweenBlue. I can say now that I'm not done yet. I don't really know how my band mates feel, but I'm ready to give it all I can possibly give in the winter and spring. So watch out Newark and Middletown!!! Were gonna come like a storm this time.