WAITING (words and music by Chris Sligh)
It just seems like you're taking your time
I'm just waiting for the sun to shine
I don't want to go another day without you here
Without you here to stay
It seems like forever and I'm still waiting for you
I'm still waiting for you
It seems like forever and I'm still waiting for you
I'm still waiting for you - yeah I'm waiting
All I want is to see you smile
'Cause if a blink lasts forever this might take a while
I can't wait to hear you speak my name
You've got me here, you got me here to stay
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It's never gonna be enough to dream of you
It's never gonna be enough to dream of you
I wanna see you - I wanna see you
CHORUS * CHORUS
HERE (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Can you see through all the truth and lies
That are clouding up our love
To see the shadows in our hearts that break us down
I know you listen to me, but what can I say
When the pain that's in my heart gets in the way
All I want is to hear you speak my name
Are you here with me?
Are you near me? Hold me close till I can see
Are you here?
I know that I am broken,
But you're breaking down these walls
To the heart I guard too well and for too long
I feel you watching over me, but what can I do
When all I need to do is get to you
All I want is to hear you speak my name
Are you here with me?
Are you near me? Hold me close till I can see
Can you let me know you're with me
Can you show me till I get past every fear
Are you here?
Oh, I know who's in control
But I'm too scared to trust, oh, oh
All I want is to hear you speak my name
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KNOW (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Lost in the windows of time
You see a time of change
Don't it all feel strange
Stuck in the reverb of me
I hear echoes of myself
But I can't say what I see
I'm finding the answers
To my great divide
Someday when the sky is falling
I will let you know
Someday when my dreams are caving in
I will let you know
I'll let you know
Forget the first verse of life
There's nothing learned at all
At least until you fall
Stratospheres and atmospheres collide
Worlds come to an end
And there's nowhere left to hide
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS
...when I'm falling
Let you know when I'm calling
Let you know when I'm breaking
Let you know when I'm making it through
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HERO (words and music by Chris Sligh)
You got a beautiful name
Don't ever let it get away
When the times are changing fast
Don't give up what changed your past
It's a wonderful world
But will it last beyond today?
The times are changing quick
And we're all hurting, we're all sick
We're all hurting, we're all sick
Looking for a hero
Someone who can come and save the day
Looking for a savior
Someone just to take our pain away
Someone just to take our pain away
It's a beautiful sound
To find myself just to let me down
You know I'm changing fast
But I don't know what will last
You got a beautiful soul
Don't ever jade yourself with hope
'Cause times are changing soon
And love can save us from this gloom
Come and save us from this gloom
CHORUS * BREAKDOWN * INTERLUDE * CHORUS * CHORUS
RISE (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Every time, you save me
Every time, you save me
Every time I fall you pick me up
And when I fail, you right me
And pick up the pieces that might be
The pieces of me I haven't given over yet
Your love digs deeper than the valleys
And I can't hide anymore, anymore
Love is rising up like a spring up from the ground
Redemption comes and turns this heart
Turns this heart around
Love keeps rising up and I can't make a sound
Redemption comes and turns this heart
Turns this heart around
The sun's on the right horizon
Still I can feel it rising
It's rising just like the love I know is welling up
So, pick up these broken pieces
And I'll give up the broken pieces
The pieces of me I haven't given over yet
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS
Redemption falls like rain into the thirsty ground
The thirsty ground that is my soul
Out of nothing rises up
Except the hands that bore my pain
Redemption comes to fill my broken heart
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SOMEWHERE (words and music by Chris Sligh)
What kind of world gives us pain when we're weak?
Where do we go to make our ends meet?
What kind of world rewards love with the hurt?
Where do we go to make this work?
Where do we go? Where do we go?
Oh, come and take me somewhere
Oh, I can know I'm free
Oh, take me down to somewhere
Just go with me, just go with me
Just go with me
What kind of world throws our faults in our faces?
Where do we go to fill the empty spaces?
What kind of world trades our answers for doubts?
Where do we go to work all this out?
Where do we go? Where do we go?
CHORUS * MUSICAL INTERLUDE * BREAKDOWN * CHORUS (x2)
GONE (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Is this it? Is this the place we all wanna be?
Or are we blind in our confusion?
Battered by contusions that make us bleed?
I'm gone
I'm gone
There's nothing left for us to hold onto
There's nothing left to breathe the breath of life into
There's nothing left
But hopes and dreams that shoot you through
There's nothing left...nothing left...I'm gone
So here we are
Are we beyond what decent people do?
Or are we broken in our shadows
Or can we really know what's beyond you
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS * SOLO * PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS * SOLO
CRY TONIGHT (words and music by Chris Sligh)
You could never understand
Just how scared I am
I've lived and loved and lost a thousand times
Is this second chance
Just to make it past all this energy?
I don't wanna cry tonight
Don't wanna hang my heart on my sleeve
But you're everthing my sould could ever need
Don't wanna cry tonight
It's just a little faith
That gets us further in this race
But all know trust don't come too easily
Is this just romance
Or will we take a chance on something beautiful
I don't wanna cry tonight
Don't wanna hang my heart on my sleeve
But you're everthing my sould could ever need
Don't wanna cry tonight
Don't wanna know my heart's broke in two
All I'll ever need right here is you
I don't wanna cry tonight
Don't say it's hard enough to be myself
All I ever need is you
All I'll need is you
FULL CHORUS
TUNNEL VISION (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Every time I slip away
I dream a little dream of you
You got me thinking 'bout your love
When I got too much else to do
Is this the way it's gonna be
Is this how I'll just get through
Ooh, is this how I'll get through
Oh, you know
I've got the tunnel vision
I've got my eyes only for you
I've got the tunnel vision
I've got my heart set up for you
It's been weighing on my mind
How you love me all the time
I've been around a time or two
Wasting time till I met you
Wondering how it was gonna be
But I know that I'll get through
Ooh, is this how I'll get through?
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS * BREAKDOWN * CHORUS
CLOSER (words and music by Chris Sligh)
All this waiting and medicating
Has left me hating my sin
Altogether let's leave forever
Let's pretend never is here
I'm here. Are you here?
Can you pull me closer to you
And love me like I never fell
Can you pull me close to you
And love me like I never failed your love
Love me like I never failed your love
Shadow boxing with my own conscience
I've lost my friendships to love
Altogether now let's pretend we know how
Love works itself out again
I'm still here. Are you here?
CHORUS * SOLO * CHORUS
CONVENIENCE
(words by Jon Sligh/music and additional words by Chris Sligh)
Ache for life it's your show,
Shallow sure, all we know
Are the masks that we wear
You find it easy to hide
With your well-crafted smile
You hold the world at bay
Empty spaces in a sea of faces
Still everyone's a smile
Oh, easy come, easy go is all we know
Oh, to break these walls down inside becomes too hard
Oh, small talk slowly becomes our consolation prize
Convenience keeps us miles apart
Lost inside me the words to find me
The chance to open your eyes
Your words are empty white noise without meaning,
A mist that hides who you are
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS * MUSICAL INTERLUDE * CHORUS
NAIVE (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Let the weak say "I am strong"
Let the strong say "I am weak"
Pray the Lrod this life be long
Pray the Lord my soul keep
Truth be told, I tell the truth
But still I strugle with it told
Can all these answers lead to you
Or some imagined pot of gold
I know...
Oh, yeah I know
I don't wanna be
So naive
Just holding on, just holding on to...
Whispers in the dark say I'm a fool
And simple fools say I'm unwise
To trust in more than golden rules
And things beyond seen with these eyes
I know...
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Love. I'm holding on to love - oh
Love that crossed a bridge I'd never go
Love that holds me close enough to know
And faith enough to know that I can be
Naive
RIFF INTERLUDE * CHORUS
HOW LONG (words and music by Chris Sligh)
Shadows fill the places where I used to be
And now I know the pictures I hold on to
Are gone away, they're gone away
And I'm just getting older
But maybe getting older brings me closer to you
All my days are spent away
In daydreams...and all I wonder is....
How long? How long
How long till I get to be with you?
How long? How long?
My heart is longing for you.
All my life's been leading to this:
I've been dreaming
I know that life was meant for so much more
All the dreams and hopes to be
Are just dreams of something bigger
And maybe all this dreaming brings me close to you
PRE-CHORUS * CHORUS * SOLO
How long? How long?
How long till I know your lovely face?
CHORUS