Stonewick

Lyrics taken from Psalm 139: Oh how well you know my rising up and laying down My rising up and laying down, day by day You search out my ways, my hidden thoughts, and every word I say (where could I go?) Where can I hide when all is laid bare If I rise into heaven, you are already there If I fly with the sun into the waves of the sea If I make my bed in the land of the dead, even there your hand shall lead Your hand shall lead I was woven in darkness and secret Your eyes saw this person unformed You see me now as you saw me then In your book, my days are written Every one (chorus) To my right and my left are slander, lies and death The violent love to curse your name Come soon to help me, for blood is on their hands Oh, wash me from my own bloody stains Search me, try me, know my mind And lead me to life

Lyrics: Look outside, look outside! Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside When the moon is soaring and the stars align Carry your hopes to the end of the night Ocean waves breaking and crashing away with a roar Gently reflecting the fall of the sun Crushing and bursting and carving away at the shore Drinking the flames that they cannot outrun Listen to the last bit of hope disappear Watch the people falling down, shaking with fear Closing their hearts to the sense of the sign Pointing out the turning of the grinding gears Measuring the river as it rises near While you were sleeping we ran out of time Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside When the moon is soaring and the stars align Carry your hopes to the end of the night Grasp at the seams as time slowly unravels This threadbare creation, so tired and worn All that they cling to is ashes and dust as the Old falls away so the new can be born "Not yet," they say, "Not yet!" they say Give us more time to kill and to play A thousand years longer to ruin ourselves Long have we wandered in the winding way Long have we waited for the judgment day Longing to hear the archangel descend Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside When the moon is soaring and the stars align Carry your hopes to the end of the night Raise your head to watch the sky / Raise your voice to join the cry When all our hopes give way to sight / Now redemption has arrived This is the end / That all must face It's the end / Hear them scream and curse the day It's the end / At last it's drawing near It's the end / Cast aside the voice of fear Now we sing in harmony / Our Lord the Judge shall come How we long to bend the knee / And hail the reigning Son Look outside, look out! Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside Watch the dark give way to light / Every promise satisfied

Lyrics: It's time. Breathing in for the first time in years Drying my eyes from well-spent tears I will arise, no longer sleep / The time is drawing near Just finished bandaging this broken heart Now how much more can I take All roads before me lead straight to pain I can't help but dream of your fate Fear before, and fear behind / Spread out to every corner of my mind So afraid of driving you away / The terror drove me blind But if there's any hope for you, and any real help I'll have to fight you, to fight you for your self The time has come for me to stand right in your way Before the gates of hell I'm ready to fight [ready to fight] Ready to lose [ready to lose] I'm ready to fight you [fight you] for you Oh raise your blade now as we square off in the dust Let my aim be true and I'll do what I must Faithful are the wounds of a true friend, you see And a risk not taken is a chain not cut I know you're settled, and I know you don't believe These years you've memorized your part But if there's only one thing that could make me risk it all It's that my God can start your heart I wasn't ready to fight for you / 'Cause I was too afraid to lose But I have come to face the truth / That it was not my right to choose Now I can never hold you closer / Unless I can let you go I wasn't ready to fight for you / 'Cause I was too afraid to lose But I have come to face the truth / That it was not my right to choose I'm ready to fight [ready to fight] Ready to lose [ready to lose] I'm ready to fight you [fight you] for you Now every road has its own hurt / But some do not end there If there's a chance that I might carry you away Then I will not despair Won't bide my time / Won't just survive I'm ready to fight you / Fight you for your life Won't bide my time / Won't just survive I'm ready to fight you / Fight you for your life

Lyrics: These notes, the wings that lift my prayer For all these souls conflicted, so cold and unaware They stand in place for so many days & gaze uphill Patient as a mountain & twice as still We've met before so many times along the way I cannot move them but they won't remain So every one of them has gone and left me here To wallow in my cowardice & curse my fear Don't they every wish they could be satisfied? Raging without respite and dead inside How can they happy with the pain they wear Still they hold it closer and just disappear Turned myself into a harbor that no one needs Turned myself into a warning sign that no one reads One by one they disappear and pass me by The dead just find it easier to die / The dead just find it easier to die Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side Let this bitter emptiness pass me by The waters wash up over me and chill my soul Be my only anchor, don't let me go Pick me up and dust me off, save me from despair Oh, you know how weak I am, so slow to care So concerned with getting my bruised heart to heal Deafened to their dying cries, afraid to feel And all my time is spent so selfishly I'm here for them but all I talk about is me Don't let me turn a blind eye that cannot weep Wishes are all worthless and talk is cheap Again this darkness settles in my bones I ask for bread but all I see are scattered stones Never would I call your providence unkind I'm just so burned-up, can't lift my eyes Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side Let this bitter emptiness pass me by The waters wash up over me and chill my soul Be my only anchor, don't let me go Be my only anchor, don't let me go Turned myself into a harbor that no one needs Turned myself into a warning sign that no one reads One by one they disappear and pass me by The dead just find it easier to die / The dead just find it easier to die Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side Let this bitter emptiness pass me by The waters wash up over me and chill my soul Be my only anchor, don't let me go Be my only anchor, don't let me go

It's taken me five years to make this song - December 2011 was when I came up with the riff, but I wasn't good enough on drums until, like, last week. Main inspiration taken from Proverbs ch. 5. (audio mix updated 9/6/16) Lyrics: Ten fingers circling the way that you go Grasping at your heel to catch the sole Breathing easy, sure of the snare A freezing shadow in the frozen air Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day Oh, she knows exactly what you want That dress, those shoes, and she's on the hunt Murder on the mind, running out of time Better brace yourself for pain up front How good's your memory when you're under the gun If it's a haze, you're not the only one But now's the time as the jaws come down To recall that you're a soldier, son Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day Now you're feeling strong Now your fear is gone Toss your shield away Now you're easy prey The King has not commanded you to win somehow To walk proud and cut the devil down No, you resist, you resist and you trust The Lamb wins, and that's your way out Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day Fight another day Fight another day

Lyrics: Blessing and curse from the one source / Fresh water and salt from the same Brothers, it ought not to be so / Tell me, where is our shame Where is our shame? And we claim / that we're alive Maybe you can't just admit it / But I know that look in your eyes Hounded and hunted and driven / When you stumble, it's no surprise No surprise Yet you claim / that you're alive Oh, this is a call to wake the dead And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads Come back (come back) / Come home (come home) Come back again Come home / Come back again Watching your conscience condemn you / I don't know the half of your pain But you've gotta let go of your reasons / Or the guilt will drive you insane It will drive you insane While you scream / that you're alive Let's just forget how we got here / How bad do you want the way out? Repentance is a bitter pill / How bad do you want the way out? One way out For anyone who struggles now / anyone alive Oh, this is a call to wake the dead And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads Come back (come back) / Come home (come home) Come back again Come home / Come back again Every choice that kills you / Brings out the beast inside These sins can't feed your body / They'll only feed your pride If you give in now and waste away / And trust the heart that lied Stake your hopes for happiness / On charming suicide These sins don't know connection / They only know divide The soul that lives for pleasure / Will die unsatisfied (These sins can't bring connection / They only bring divide) (The soul that lives for pleasure / Will die unsatisfied) Oh, this is a call to wake the dead And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads Come back (come back) / Come home (come home) Come back again Come home / Come back again Our sins wanna bury us under the floor (but we don't need them anymore) Our sins wanna bury us under the floor (but we don't need them anymore) We don't need them anymore, no we don't need them anymore We don't need them anymore, no we don't need them anymore Stand we all together now / side by side by side Anyone with the scars of the better fight Anyone who struggles now / Anyone alive

Colossians 2:13-15 Complete re-recording uploaded 12/17/15 - final version, I hope. Lyrics: In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words Placed inside by God Himself on the last day of making the world But we set fire to its pages / And scuffed and blurred the lines We've hated its reminders / Acting deaf and blind But how can we recover / Dead sinners that we are For as long as we are guilty / Heaven's gates are barred But God knew we would be here / Unable to stand Buried by the law we broke / With our calloused hands It would take a Son to save us / And so a Son He sent Perfection sacrificed for every evil thing we meant And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down What else can we say? How is it we can be so close / And yet so far away Our hearts of stone are distant from these righteous words we say The dead can never earn life / We don't deserve his death His lonely substitution / His very last breath And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down What else can we say? What else could we see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life What was there to see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words Perfectly kept only once by the same hands that made the world And while we were busy cursing / And the devil thought he'd won This silent lamb was bleeding out for every chosen one And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down

Proverbs 25:28 Lyrics: You've taken my mind into the alley out back And beat it down into the mud and the grass You've taken my time when I had none to give You've taken my heart when I just wanted to live How'd you get such a grip on my soul? I opened the door, got no self-control You're just a thief in a suit and tie With a great handshake and a tear in your eye The man to my left and the man to my right Have gone and set themselves alight And here I'm playing with matches on a wooden floor When will I learn not to open the door I'm just a soul with no shell at all A burning city with a broke-down wall I need a fortress that I can't afford I need a ship to pull me aboard I'm onto you now, I been reading up on your game No more surprises, you aren't holding the reins Got shoes on my feet and a sword in my hand I'm ready to fight, yeah, I'm ready to stand You get away, you get out of my mind I'm leaving the dirt and the mud behind My time is a gift, I won't answer your call My heart is a city with a hundred-foot wall

Mix updated 12/17/15, adding a third voice and some timing fixes. Lyrics: Oh, they love to tell me / I'm wasting my time Never moving on, just holding the line But all the same I'll still be here when I see you again 'Cause you're the one who let go, and turned on a dime With only one hand, I can list the dreams of those days Oh, they were few, but they were strong Come on, give me a reason / why they all fell down Oh, what did I do wrong? Try your own advice / How's it workin' for you? Turn right around, leave it all behind That's the price you pay to forget the truth That's the price you pay to turn on a dime To move my feet is to move my heart I'm gonna be sure before I get too far Well, I know where I am / Can you say the same? Always running, always taking the easy way out No, I'll never believe you / Stop tryin' to drag me down that road You're so surprised I don't share your doubt Try your own advice / How's it workin' for you? Turn right around, leave it all behind That's the price you pay to forget the truth That's the price you pay to turn on a dime

Lyrics by Nate Hoffmann and Luke Gunkel, some time in 2011 I think... This version: Nate on bass and lead vocals Falling faster, every moment / feels six feet deep 'cause every sin and evil passion / haunts him in his sleep He prays, he cries / then recalls a promise He lifts his eyes / and knows God will provide a Way out so / douse the flames and with His help they'll stay out, He won't let you down Way out, stay out / Way out, stay out Head held high, but moving nowhere / Why can't he resist? The poison which constricts his conscience / in its iron fist He prays, he cries / then recalls a promise He lifts his eyes / and knows God will provide a Way out so / douse the flames and with His help they'll stay out, He won't let you down Way out, stay out / Way out, stay out

IT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK Nate Hoffmann on lead vocals, right harmony & bass Me on wrong harmony, guitar, guitar, guitar & drums Walkin' down a lonely road / And I don't know where to go But I hold on to the hope / Of the One who saved my soul When all I try just seems to fall / Everything that I know I know He'll be there through it all / And I know He'll lead me home And I know He'll lead me home So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again So stand tall once and for all now Stay strong! Stay strong! I know my dreams just seem so far / And I am so far gone Looking back at who I was / And the man that I've become Don't know how I could have made it this far / Without you by my side And I know you'll be there through it all / To the end of the night To the end of the night So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again So stand tall once and for all now Stay strong! Stay strong! I can't do this on my own / I've got nothing else to show But you've been there through it all / And you never let me fall You've got the words that set me free / Words that brought new life to me I know it's been so very long / Lord, help me stand strong Help me stand strong So close / Yet so far Broke down / And bleeding Just lift your voices up and say So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again So stand close once and for all now Stay strong! Stay strong!