Alternative Worship

Prayer, Petitions, and Praise

featuring Gene Eugene, Michael Knott, Terry Taylor

When it's all dried up and taken
While it's all buried within
As this faith I know is shaken from
Where it was hidden

High, You put me on my feet again
Without you, going nowhere

The middle is the coldest
Somehow it's always near
Just like these indecisions
Round my neck all these years

High, You put me on my feet again
Without you, going nowhere

You take me on through

The prize is in the placement
I'm still waitin' to win
Which mile is the safest one?
Which road is caving in?

Ended up in Chicago
Stayed up all night in the lake below
Left next day to drive somewhere
Saw fields and fields of corn

Left that place of tornadoes
St. Louis for a night was home
Shack'd up in the worst part of town
Nearly died from getting robbed

I see You out my window
In the fields and the forgotten

Drove all night in fear I'd die
Got lost in the land of Pop-Eye
Played another gig for no one
Slept in a cat hair'd bed

Headed down to Atlanta
Passed a poor family that looked "in love"
Smoke was rising up from their grill
They looked at me and smiled

I see You out my window
In the fields and the forgotten

Moved on up to Lexington
Saw green pastures with white fencin'
Got off to get some gasoline
A beggar stuck out his hand

I see You out my window
In the fields and the forgotten

Sick of empty banks and tanks and pockets
Why is it all revolving around this?
I know I should trust in You
Pour Me

Pour me a bucket from Your
River of love

Risen You are, holy You are
The giver of life, the giver of light
The lover of souls, the doer of righteousness

Pour me a bucket from Your
River of love

Fill me to the bone
Knock away the tainted view
It keeps me from really living
Pour Me

Pour me a bucket from Your
River of love

Show me more of your simple way
Take me up to your lovin' time
Bring me round when i stray
Ooo

Truth is insecurity
You got the walls down, this I know
You view the blind man inside of me
Ooo

Understandin' You
Understandin' You
Oh, and your burden is light
Oh, why should I fight it?

in the back of my head I know
eveything would be great
if I had a straight job in the city
home by 5:30, attendin' the TV
read me a story
in the front of my mind
i realize she's two now
i can barely believe she's almost three
she sits by Daddy
gives me a kiss and a hug
and says "Don't work too much."

Everything for Stormie
All that she wants is me
Everything for Stormie
She just doesn't see
Everything for Stormie
But all that she wants is me

and then i'm gone half the night
is this all there is?
is this all I ever do?
is all I know how to be?
and she's wonderin'
where is he?
is he gonna come home, huh, tonight?
can I wait to go to sleep?
can I wait 'till he gets home?
can I?
tell me that, Mom

Everything for Stormie
But all that she wants is me
Everything for Stormie
She just doesn't see
Everything for Stormie
But all that she wants is me
All that she wants is me
All that she wants is me
All that she wants

Livin' like a church mouse
Lookin' for scraps
Hidin' from the cats
Somewhere up near the bats
Deaf from the bell
I hear by what I smell
Anyone got some cheese?

I might be lost and disillusioned
I might be runnin' from the wrong side
I could be cracked up and confused
But you're still gonna shine

Swingin' in the circus
Waitin' for the curtains
To try and hide
To be skirtin'
Any issue I don't need
They always cause a bleedin'
Since you've been doin' your seedin'
This is the only reason
That I couldn't see

I might be lost and disillusioned
I might be runnin' from the wrong side
I could be cracked up and confused
But you're still gonna shine

Move it away with your true understanding
And stitch it up with your steady hand

I could be misled and misillusioned
I could be runnin' from the wrong side
I could be cracked up and confused
But you're still gonna shine

(shine)
(shine on me)
(shine)

Call on You most often when
It seems that I will never win
Gettin' black and blue
Beaten to a pulp
By mis-choosed avenues
Light I see down the street somewhere
Turns chilly, dark by the time I get there
Everyone is foolin' me
With happy smiles and half-sympathies

Some day I'll know You
With a smile
Some day I'll see You like the dew

But for now I'll call on You
For help with cash and bills overdue
And strenght that I can influence right
Little One I hold so tight
Like slingshot breaks
Snaps a hand
I know one day I'll understand

Call on You most often when
It seems that I will never win
Gettin' black and blue
Beaten to a pulp
By mis-choosed avenues
Light I see down the street somewhere
Turns chilly, dark by the time I get there

Never forsaken
Never low for more than a while
Never mistaken
For anyone else but Your child

And never left alone
Never left alone

Never denied forgiveness
And never pushed away
And never far from the goodness
That falls from Your path way
And never left alone
Never left alone

And never left alone
Never left alone

Never forsaken

May the peace of the Lord
Be with you, my friends
With you, my friends
Forever

Lamb of God
You take away the sins of the world
You take away the sins of the world
Have mercy, have mercy on us

Grant us, O, grant us Your peace

Holy, holy, holy
Lord God Almighty
Heaven and earth are filled
With Your glory

Holy, holy, holy
God of power and might
Heaven and earth are filled
With Your glory

Hosannah
Hosannah
Hosannah
In the highest

Within the peace of the One who has died
Within the cross and the pierce in His side
Within the rising and the rolling of a storm
Within the Lord we can live, we can live

Within the right hand of the Father above
Within the making of the faith and the love
Within the hope of a kingdom for a home
Within the Lord we can live, we can live

Within the tears of the man we can cry
Within the face of temptation we can try
Within the garden we, too, can feel alone
Within the Lord we can live, we can live
Within the Lord
Within the Lord, we can live, we can live
Within the Lord
Within the Lord

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