Songs

“Glory Bound”

When I hear that trumpet sound
I will lay my burdens down
I will lay them deep into the ground
Then I’ll know that I am glory bound

I’ll be travelling far from home
But I won’t be looking for to roam
I’ll be crossing o’er the great divide
In a better home soon I will reside

Hallelujah

When I’m in my resting place
I’ll look on my mother’s face
Never more will I have to know
All the loneliness that plagues me so

So I’m waiting for that train to come
And I know where she’s coming from
Listen can you hear her on the track
When I board I won’t be looking back

Hallelujah

When I hear that trumpet sound
I will lay my burdens down
I will lay them deep into the ground
Then I’ll know that I am glory bound

I’ll be travelling far from home
But I won’t be looking for to roam
I’ll be crossing o’er the great divide
In a better home soon I will reside

Hallelujah

When I’m in my resting place
I’ll look on my mother’s face
Never more will I have to know
All the loneliness that plagues me so

So I’m waiting for that train to come
And I know where she’s coming from
Listen can you hear her on the track
When I board I won’t be looking back

Hallelujah

 

“Like the Wheel”

Oh I wish I was the sparrow in your kid’s eye
Like a fly above is summer all day long
On an island in the heart he has to carry
Past the many you have let into your song

And I said oh my lord why am i not strong
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home

And in the forest someone is whispering to a tree now
This is all I am so please don’t follow me
And it’s your brother in the shaft that I’m swinging
Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free

And he said oh my lord why am I not strong
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home

And on this Sunday someone’s sititng down to wonder
Where the hell among these mountains will I be?
There’s a cloud behind the cloud to which I’m yelling
I could hear you sneak around so easily

And I said oh my lord why am I not strong
Like the branch that keeps hangman hanging on
Like the branch that will take me home

 

“Pilgrim”

I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys
This ain’t never been my home
Sometimes the road was rocky ‘long the way, boys
But I was never travelin’ alone
We’ll meet again on some bright highway
Songs to sing and tales to tell
But I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys
Until I see you fare thee well

Ain’t no need to cry for me, boys
Somewhere down the road you’ll understand
‘Cause I expect to touch his hand, boys
Put a word in for you if I can

 

“Seeker”

I am a seeker
A poor sinful creature
There is no weaker than I am
I am a seeker
You are a teacher
You are a reacher
So reach down
Wont you reach out and lead me
Guide me and keep me
In the shelter of your care each day
Cause I am a seeker
You are a keeper
You are the leader
Wont you show me the way

I am a vessel that’s empty and useless
I am a bad seed that fell by the way
I am a loser that wants to be a winner
And you are my last hope
Don’t turn me away

I am a seeker
A poor sinful creature
There is no weaker than I am
I am a seeker
You are a teacher
You are a reacher
So reach down
Wont you reach out and lead me
Guide me and keep me, lord
In the shelter of your care each day
Cause I am a seeker
You are a keeper
You are the leader
Wont you show me the way

Oh, I know you are a mountain
From which there flows a fountain
So let it’s water wash my sins away
Cause I am a seeker
You are a keeper
You are the leader
Wont you show me the way

 

“Take ‘Em Away”

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken cause my spirits
Not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Some birds feathers are too bright to
Be caged
I know I’m not that colorful but a bird
Just the same
Open up your gate now, let me put
Down my load
So I can feel at ease and go back to my
Home

Sun beating down, my legs can’t seem
To stand
There’s a boss man at a turnrow with a
Rifle in his hand
I’ve got nine children, nothin in the pan
My wife she died hungrey while I was
Plowin’ Land

Can’t see when I go to work, can’t see
When I get off
How do you expect a man not to get lost
Every year I just keep getting deeper in
Debt
If there’s a happy day, Lord, I haven’t
Seen one yet

Land that I love is the land that I’m
Workin
But it’s hard to love it all the time when
Your back is a-hurting
Getting too old now to push this here
Plow
Please let me lay down so I can look at
The clouds

Land that I know is where tworivers
Collide
The Brazos The Navaso and the big blue
Sky
Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon
Vines
Of any place on God’s green earth, This
Is where I choose to die

 

“We Are Changed”


Not any government on Earth, no law that God has given
No will of man, no blood, no birth
Can raise a soul to heaven

The sovereign will of God alone
Prepares the heirs of grace.
Born in the image of his Son
A chosen holy race.

We Are Changed

We are changed, no longer in chains
Once were enslaved, but the Son has come
And conquered the grave,
So we are changed.

We are changed not by the things we’ve arranged
Not by the work our hands have done
It’s through your son
That we are changed.

Our quickened souls awake and rise
From sin and shame and death
On heavenly things we fix our eyes
His praise employs our breath

We are changed, no longer in chains
Once were enslaved, but the Son has come
And conquered the grave,
So we are changed.

We are changed not by the things we’ve arranged
Not by the work our hands have done
It’s through your son
That we are changed.

Not any government on Earth, no law that God has given
No will of man, no blood, no birth
Can raise a soul to heaven

 

“What Light”

If you feel like singing a song
And you want other people to sing along
Just sing what you feel
Don’t let anyone say it’s wrong

And if you’re trying to paint a picture
But you’re not sure which colors belong
Just paint what you see
Don’t let anyone say it’s wrong

And if you’re strung out like a kite
Or stung awake in the night
It’s alright to be frightened

When there’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
Inside of you

If you think you might need somebody
To pick you up when you drag
Don’t loose sight of yourself
Don’t let anyone change your bag

And if the whole world’s singing your songs
And all of your paintings have been hung
Just remember what was yours is everyone’s from now on

And that’s not wrong or right
But you can struggle with it all you like
You’ll only get uptight

Because there’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
Inside of you

 

“Wiseman”

Said the man
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don’t think he’s a fool he
Control his destiny
But he’s too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
All i need
Is something to keep me movin’ on
In a world
Where violence reigns
And everybody seems so strange to me
Said the man
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wise man
For the man
Who dont feel him a fool he
Control his destiny
Yeah he’s too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Ohhhh ohhh ohhhh oh
This weapon of destruction
Swallows peoples suffering
And no confusion
You aint winnin’ if your losin’
We don’t need
Said the man
Who feel him a fool he
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don’t think he’s a fool he
Control his destiny
But he’s too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Oh