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Someone Better
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Somewhere else there’s someone better
Having coffee with another better else
Who I’d like to be
But I’m stuck here with you
(you) and I will hope snapshots of better people’s lives
Will hold at bay the will to die for another day
Cause I just want love
I just want to love
I just want to be loved
By someone better
I just need a better piece of glass
to give me happiness;
I’ll trade my hard-earned money
for a girl in a box and now
I’ll never need another friend or lover
She can be whoever I’d like her to be
Cause I just want love
I just want to love
I just want to be loved
By someone better
Make me a conduit of grace
Just to stare death in the face
Take up the surgeon’s knife and
Tear out his heart;
Make me an instrument of peace
Just to give more than receive
Be in the darkness light,
In hatred:
Love more than be loved
Cause I just want love
I just want to be loved
So teach me love to love
Love more than be loved
Cause I just want to love
Someone better
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Metaphysical Messes
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Though I don’t know who you are
And I don’t know what you’re made of
And you often seem so far
Yet I know that you are here
Still sometimes I hear your voice
Or a shiver shoots from heaven
And it seems you hear my call
Though I’m caught in
Metaphysical messes
Like
My God my God
Why have you forsaken me
Why have you forsaken me
Your will be done
Though I don’t want it
yet
Stumblin through my weary mind
Afraid to get the answers wrong
With only my eyes l I feel blind
Can I know if I’ve imagined you
Still I savor Love at least
And my girlfriend’s prayers change things
And I know you’re made of light
And incline your ear to
Metaphysical messes
Like
My God my God
Why have you forsaken me
Why have you forsaken me
Your will be done
Though I don’t want it yet
So though I don’t know who you are
Would you make your home within me
And over time could I please know
You
My god my god
Please do not forsake me
Please do not forsake me
Do what you want
But just don’t leave
Me
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What I've Become
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You couldn’t make your mind up
So your hands are here again
Packin’ in just one more drug
And then one more drug again
And I hate to see you like this
Cause it always breeds despair
And you know that more than I do
And I can’t help you
Friend
Ah You say I hate what I’ve become
Ah And could I somehow be reborn
If I could only make my mind up
And never have to choose again
I wouldn’t have to turn to one more drug
And become one more drunk that’s dead
If I could let a better man choose
If he could live within my bones
Would that rectify my wrongs
or tear me in two
Ah I hate what I’ve become
Ah I hate what I’ve become
I hate what I’ve become
He said
Until becoming came to death
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4. |
It's Okay
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As a young man I always had to think twice
When those church folks urged me avert my eyes
So listen here don’t you ever fear
You’ve got to listen never cover your ears
So I left the church for the lack of hurt
That they let us children find out why
They say you might lose God and though it wasn’t all good
I just couldn’t help but use my mind
You know that I don’t like this and though I wouldn’t choose it
No I wouldn’t have it any other way It’s okay
Cause this is what I’m given so this is what I’ll cling to
Oh that nothing matters really anyway It’s okay
I’m an old man now and I’ve had my share
Of the things that make most men despair
I get to watch my son lose the only one
That he bet his life on; riches won
And now at 85 I get to love my wife
As she slowly sweetly loses her mind
And thought I’m not well off I get to pay it all off
Once the doctor’s failed to make it right
Some people wish they could change
The way they lived or the friends they made
The way they go or the date I hope you understand
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About to Break
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Lord I know, I am slow
To understand where I’m to go
My hands are worn
My heart is sore
And I’m afraid
Is it a blessing or a curse
What will come of my hard work
And will they stand
All the plans that I have laid
And will I have a home?
Will you make a place for me?
Where do I belong?
Can I just not see it?
Oh
How long should I wait
I’m about to break
Please don’t let me break
All this angst in my bones
You take my peace, high interest loan
To ride the wave, a moving home
Where I am still
From stagnant waters, a fertile moon
From something dead will come a bloom
Your fallow ground
I am yours to break and till
And will I have a home?
Will you make a place for me?
Where do I belong?
Can I just not see it?
Oh
How long should I wait
Cause I’m about to break
Please don’t let me break
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Water to the Wilderness
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I came to you weary and broken
Condemned by traditions upheld
Their words were well-meaning and righteous
But I couldn’t escape from their hell.
And you tenderly stooped to the ground
Addressing ephemeral matters
And paying respect to their frowns
You set me free
And said
Behold I am doing a new thing
It springs from the dust oh you blind people
No it is not of your choosing
Forget the former things
I’m bringing water to the wilderness
So now I count all else as worthless
And straining ahead toward your life
I leave in the dust every doctrine
And press toward the image of Christ
‘Cause no one could throw the first stone
And in this mysterious atonement
Your only command was to go
And sin no more
You said
Behold I am doing a new thing
It springs from the dust oh you blind people
No it is not of your choosing
Forget the former things
I’m bringin water to the wilderness
So go now and be free
Go now and be free my son
Go out and be free my daughter
Go now and be free
Forget the former things
And be free
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7. |
Resting Place
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All the daisies set in stone conspire
To bring fire
On my fathers long ago, they hired
To get back home
To castles yet unknown to men
Heaven home my family's resting place
All the days I've sat in cold soft iron
Desire
For my brothers lot when better love
and higher
Desires home
For my horcruxed heart in stone-jawed men
Heaven home my family's resting place
So pray them home
to empires yet unknown to men
Heaven home my family's resting place
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Spirit-Filled Socrates
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Spirit-filled Socrates, live your life in me
May I protest a little less than James of Zebede.
Oh Brother James, The blessed saint; the first to be set free
By Herod’s sword he joined you Lord to reign a thousand years.
Oh Christ, live your life in me
Oh Jesus Christ, let me die with thee;
That I might rise, rise to life and be
Your brother, Christ, live your life in me.
Spirit-filled Socrates, make your home in me
We may not have a place to rest, but I’ll find my rest in thee.
Oh Brother James, the lucky saint to be your brother here:
May I be found to him a kin, and be your brother dear.
So Brother James the third I’ll be, if you see fit for me
To live in Christ, and die to gain is all I ask for please.
So curb me now impatience vain to read thy veiled decree
And count it joy to suffer, Lord if so brought nearer thee
Christ, kin eternally.
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Brother James Los Angeles, California
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