Jake
Love this guy! Great late 90's rock sound with a really good bass line!
Love the messages... thought provoking and definitely connects with a wide variety of listeners.
Favorite track: Fooled.
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Intro
01:06
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2. |
Pull Through
03:32
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Crashing questions flood my mind
As broken answers float away
To my knees I sink before You
As I fade in seas of grey
But there I see You walking,
Speaking to the waves
Splashing hands I'm shaking,
Screaming out in faith
Lord, I need You
Take me far from here
Give me strength to soar again
Let me live in the light You left for me
I'm gonna pull through
Holy pages stained with grace
As speechless oceans drench my soul
At your feet I sing before You
And in this emptiness I'm full
And every breath I've wasted,
Drowning in these doubts
And all along You've waited,
Screaming through my clouds
I can feel You
Repeat Chorus
Trapped inside
A world of temperament
Swept along
These shores of circumstance,
But You’re reaching in
Repeat Chorus
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3. |
Supposed to Be
02:56
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It’s like a lead weight
These chains of self that strap your neck
So swiftly sunk with disbelief
Defeat is your fate
These guilty leaches grip your chest
Choked in the words you can’t complete
But you’re free
Still searching for some lost identity
And you’re trapped within these webs of history
Every dead end brings you back to Calvary
It’s who you’re supposed to be
He came the same way
Sinless, but tempted still like us
He felt the claws of fallen flesh
These thoughts that you hate,
Just bring them captive to His love
He bled away your worse regress
Repeat Chorus
Made a new creation,
These shackles, they’re gone
So leave the imitation,
He’s calling you home
Repeat Chorus
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4. |
Hurricane
04:57
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Crazy how the things you know
Unveil the ways you're wrong
And all the stars you've held so close
Can vanish with the dawn
Skies that seemed to write your name
Brought you storms of spinning rain
Spinning rain
The wind is ripping at my face
So I close my eyes in faith
I'm holding on
And when my world is falling in,
Your peace consoles me
And when these thoughts can't touch the end,
You promise me Your rest
And when I don't know where to try
And when these wings can't see to fly
And when this heart's too worn to cry,
You're the eye of my hurricane
Crazy how the things you need
Remind you what you have
And all the wounds that made you weak
Give strength to steeper paths
Clouds your cries could not erase
Left you limp in arms of grace
Arms of grace
The wind is ripping at my face
So I close my eyes in faith I'm holding on
Repeat Chorus
And when this life's too thick to breathe
I cling to You, You carry me
You whisper words that calm
This raging night again
And as these demons whirl around
I hold to You, I won't look down
I feel Your light inside,
It's rising in the distance
Repeat Chorus
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5. |
After Everything
04:06
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When sorry won't wipe it away
And forgive me is answered in grey
I've been fighting,
I've been praying
But it's dying,
I’m watching it fade
After everything I messed up
Everything I knew not
Everything I couldn't see
After everything she’d hide,
And everything I tried to be
I longed to be
When perfect is left in the rain
And I love you can't remember your name
I've been bleeding,
I've been waiting
Now I’m leaving,
It's just not the same
After everything I messed up
Everything I knew not
Everything I couldn't see
After everything she’d despise,
Everything I tried to be
This was our parade, my friend
As a heart betrayed runs again
After every night you smiled
And every time you laughed
And every kiss you shared with me
After everything we had
And everything we longed to be
I'm gonna be
You're gonna be
We're gonna be
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6. |
Making of a Rock Star
03:16
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Strutting around,
A Strato ‘69 glued to your neck
You’re skipping school to jam
With Jimmy on your three-piece stack
That Abercrombie blond,
A smile that melts, you’re so the look
And every freshman chick
Wants you to sign her French notebook
It’s three a.m.,
Inspired pen and paper by the bed
There’s thirty teen-sensation
Grammys sprinting through your head
Mom’s talking college,
But you’re tired of learning how to spell
While everyone keeps screaming,
“Can you play that somewhere else?”
And your future looks so bright
You were born for these spotlights
You’ve got the making of a rock star
Well, I can see you going so far
And if you dream of playing fast and loud
For a crazy crowd,
Dontcha leave that stage without
Sharing the bow
He’ll take the interview
If you’ll remind him of his name
The dye from all those tattoos
Must have gotten to his brain
Still sports the earrings,
But the mullet’s getting sort of thin
There’s three-packs of his greatest hits
In Wal-Mart’s discount bin
His purple air guitar got dumped in 1988
While pretty band boys dance
With songs they’d like to think they made
So now he’s hosting infomercials
About herbal health
Because the techno remakes
Wouldn’t seem to leave the shelf
And every gold must lose its shine
Just remember why you rhyme
Repeat Chorus
Can’t forget your skyway gig
(He sent you such a gift)
Don’t you waste it with the pigs
Repeat Chorus
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7. |
Fooled
03:33
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Bottled and raised inside this town
You like to take the shortest way around
Learned how to stand and when to sit down,
You've always been the star
You bring two legs for every fence
Know how to fake that stained glass grin
Learned how to wipe those greasy fingerprints
From that cookie jar, yeah
You’re switching masks,
Playing everyone's stage,
Straddling the ropes of rapport
You won't sleep
In this bed that He’s made
Because you know
You can’t lock these doors
You flash a diamond from your knees
You're everything she wants a man to be
But there's a shaded room you’re praying she won’t see
It's just the way you are
It's sad the way you are...
Repeat Chorus
You blur the lines,
You’re dead, but you can’t see the signs
Five candles, funnel hats, and screams
Seems just like yesterday, but now he’s seventeen
He’s got a gift of dancing in between
He’s just the way you are
Is it the way you are?
Repeat Chorus
You're so fooled
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8. |
A Thousand Gods
04:12
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Chills of tragedy,
A nation finds its need
As caskets pass, we stop to pray
Darkened mornings flee,
Repack our rosaries
We frame the light, but won’t obey
A thousand gods, a thousand lies,
Ten thousand paths to touch the sky,
A million walks for penance pride,
With shifting laws of twisted tries,
A trillion souls to tortured loss,
A spotless lamb, the rugged cross,
A perfect love, a sweeping grace,
This pending choice, the only way...
He spoke from Abraham,
The laws of counting hands
The King they killed, a love denied
Laid aside their robes,
In anger, threw those stones
As Stephen bled, He clung to Christ
Repeat Chorus
And all the idols we create,
These gods of tolerance and taste,
Forms without a face
And only few will find the gate,
Our single saving grace,
We owe Him everything…
Jesus
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9. |
By Now
05:36
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Carcass soul,
The darkest sin abyss
Echoing crow,
Betrayer leaves a kiss
Sacrifice,
So selfishly arranged
Crucified,
Gasping from my shame
Father, do You hear me?
Savior, can You heal me?
By now,
I should’ve packed and left this place
I should’ve thrown these lusts away, by now
By now,
You should’ve slammed these palace gates
I’m so ashamed to show my face, right now
Candle lights,
Chorus sung in vain
Wand’ring child,
So foolishly inflamed
Granite heart,
Spitting blood stained hands
Teardrops pour,
A faithless wretched man
Father, do You hear me?
Savior, can You reach me?
Repeat Chorus
You break bread with me
And still You call me friend
You calm my deepest need
And cleanse my foulest sin
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10. |
Ladder
04:03
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A golden afternoon in May
Cameras flashed and tassels waved
A closing pose with plaques engraved
Just to think how far we’ve come
With corporate dreams and trophy brides
Diapered cribs and fences white
Polished rungs of applauded heights
So innocently clung
Ridiculously hung
This is the ladder
These are the rumors
This is the future we’ll sink to find
These are the towers
Our daddies built for us to climb
This is the measure,
These are the dangers
This is the pressure that we’ve defined
These are the tangles
From a land we’ve left behind
Foxes’ dens and sparrows’ nests
The Son of Man sought no place to rest
So go and sell that real estate
And burn those resumes’
Eternity can’t wait
Repeat Chorus
Flannelgraphs and Bible crafts
And stories ‘bout a King that left
His throne for love
Balding paths and buried tracks
And feasted tables lined with scraps
Of lives untouched
Angels grieve as pulpits preach
In castles locked from trouble streets
Beneath a setting sun
Beneath a setting sun
Beneath a setting sun
Repeat Chorus
A golden afternoon in May
Cameras flashed and tassels waved
A closing pose with plaques engraved
Just to think how far we’ve come
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11. |
Backstage Pass
03:37
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I’ve got a backstage pass,
But the show won’t end
Well I’ve been stuck here for years
They’re careless liquor latched
And uncondemned,
But I’m so glad You hear my cheers
And now I see You from a distance
In this drunken crowd, I’m cold and alone
Man, I’m so sick of this cheap system
But You remind me this ain’t home
I’ve got a backstage pass,
But the clouds won’t close
As Sunday shouts the end is near
I’ve got my bags all packed
For that thin gold road,
Guess I missed out on why I’m here
Repeat Chorus
I’ve got a backstage pass,
But the show won’t end
Guess I missed out on why I’m here
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