1. |
The Great Dream
04:02
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The cold will be warmed
Old fools will be taught
Poison ideas will get lost
God don’t count the cost
Truth is the real world
You can find it in the word
You feel a strong heart stir
So you stand up and serve
You become a force for the good
Suffering can light a path home
Truth will be known
I got the glory in my soul
I got the truth now I am whole
To be humble and play my role
To serve with all my soul
The great dream will light your path home
The truth will be known
What you do is real and you are not alone
The light calls you home
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2. |
Go Another Way
03:19
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I can’t believe
How good it can be
If I walk with God
Will God walk with me?
I’m so brightly lit
I can hardly stand it
I try to be
What you require of me
I know I look
Like a fool
I don’t care
You
In all your post modernist cool
Suck down that poison air
I think God is real
I know that sounds naive
I know that modern men
See it another way
But the truth is weird
You don’t get ideas
Ideas get you
Then you go another way
There is a light in you
That will fade or burn true
It’s up to you
But you must tell the truth
I know I look
Such a fool
But I don’t care
You
In all your relativist cool
Slowly descending into disrepair
I think God is real
I know that sounds naive
I know that modern men
See it another way
But the truth is weird
You don’t get ideas
Ideas get you
Then you go another way
I think God is real
I know that sounds naive
I know that modern man
Sees it another way
But the truth is weird
You don’t get ideas
Ideas get you
Then you go another way
Go another
You can go another way
The great dream will light your path home
The truth will be known
What you do is real and you are not alone
The light calls you home
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3. |
Get Us Down
03:55
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I’m doing my best
I’m working real hard
I will stand up today
Even though I’m terrified
People they always seem
So much better than me
How are you so together now
We walk this (dream together)
And life is (real hard)
We face down (every challenge)
Even when we’re (terrified)
The world is (pretty rough)
But our love is (pretty tough)
Somehow we will (be enough)
We won’t let it get us down
Won’t let it get us down
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I’m sentimental lately
Should we make a baby
Are we tough enough
I think we make a good team
Will we be worthy
Should we get married
We will have money
Will we have dreams
I will never leave you
We’ll do what we need to
If God says yes
Then I say yes
Time to be a man
Time to make plans
(let’s be brave)
Time to be a man
Time to make plans
(stand up straight)
We’ll make a pact with being
To live our lives with meaning
And when the flood comes
We will blossom
I will stand up straight for you
You will stand up straight for me
We will take our place
In the dream
Time to be a man (be a man)
Time to make plans (make plans)
(let’s be brave)
Time to be a man (be a man)
Time to make plans (make plans)
(stand up straight)
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5. |
Grace
04:44
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You are the word
You are the eye of the stars
We occurred
Then we said ‘we are’
I found my burden
I grow strong under the weight
Born fallen
We learn to stand straight
We weave our strange hearts
Into the fabric of the dream
I am who you are
But you’re not me
I ask humbly
What is required of me
Forever falling
just to keep going
Just keep going
I can’t explain
The changes happening to me
Instead of talking I
End up crying
This is the joy, the tears
Of the saved
This must be
What they call grace
I was failing
Arrogantly suffering
We run deeper
Than modern men can see
I am working to find my place
In the great dream
You’ll be welcomed into
The arms of glory
I can’t explain
The changes happening to me
Instead of talking I
end up crying
This is the joy, the tears
Of the saved
This must be
What they call grace
(just keep going)
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You are a child in praise
You must be patient now
Had to burn away
So you could work it out
God gets into your skin
You must be humble now
He knows where you’ve been
He loves you anyhow
Strange shadows claw at your feet
You must be so strong now
You don’t know what you could be
Within that light or without
Something grows in you now
An air you drown without
God is a melody you love
And a love you don’t doubt
So shout it out
That old bitterness is so useless now
So shout it out
Keep your eyes up
Keep your shadow down
You are a son of adam
You are the fallen beast
You float through deep heaven
You are a daughter of eve
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7. |
Speak
03:52
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Will you be strong
Will you move forward with faith
Your dreams went wrong
You must now throw them away
There is a dark heart
A road the snake paved
It’s the path
From which you must now turn away
Will you tell the truth
Will you be upright and brave
There’s something in you
That will respond this way
You’ll make nightmares come to life
If you fall off the way
If you’re not up to the fight
You’ll be swallowed by shame
You owe your sight to the light
You owe your heart to the stars
You owe your fear to the night
You owe your fist to the fight
You owe your life to this life
You owe your dreams to this dream
You owe your love to the hearts
You owe your lips to God’s feet
You have a spark the world needs
You are the word, you must speak
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8. |
...and Hateful
05:03
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We share this dream
This mystery
Under intense heat
What will we be
I talk to God
He destroys me
As I still am
A wretched beast
So arrogant
And hateful
I was the shadow
So hateful
So hateful
There are two roads
This I did not know
Til I was far gone
Down the wrong one
I kept cutting (then I’d ask)
Why won’t I stop bleeding
Now I see
The monster I was to be
So arrogant
And hateful
I was the shadow
So hateful
So hateful
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9. |
Breaking Good
03:43
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Are you for real
Or turning about in the wind
Is this just a way to feel
Just a way back to where you’ve been
Man don’t live on bread alone
He is fed by the stars
You are fallen, you must atone
For wherever you are
Are you here to be humbled now
You won’t find the way through alone
Seems like my dreams have crumbled down
Down to the bone
I must grow back better now
I must move into the unknown
Could you turn the past out
Now that you know what the tree knows
Are you finally breaking good
Could you do what you should
Could you stand where the son of man stood
Could you do what you should
Could you do what you should
Are you breaking good
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