Testimony

I wish there was

A way to start again

Just blink and count to ten

In the land of beginning again

Where no one knows

The bad things that you´ve done

The past is truly gone

In the land of beginning again

And I

See a child returning to the sky

We´ll all play simple games

And all the hard things there

Are soft as rain

I wish there was

A way to start again

To wake up among friends

In the land of beginning again

And I

Love my brother more than my own life

And no one feels mean

All things are new

Behold - the slate is clean....

I wish there was

A way to start again

Just blink and count to ten

In the land of beginning again

Let me take you back to where it all began

Out there on the fast track

Where the mountains stand

Against the sand... in L.A.

Music every night, hung-over everyday

I was gonna make the big time

I could feel it in my fingers when I’d play

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies

Living for the summer moon and the party of life

There’s nothing worse than L.A. days

But those California nights

The barely kept me alive

As the years rolled on the humor got really dry

If I played that terrible eagle’s song

One more time I thought I was gonna die

The one man good night

Longing to seize the day

That big record deal in the sky

Surely was just a heart beat away

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies

Living for the summer moon and the party of life

There’s nothing worse than L.A. days

But those California nights

The barely kept me alive

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies

When I think of the things I did

On those party nights

ITS ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD

THAT I AM STILL ALIVE

I believe God’s grace kept me alive...

Grace kept rolling off

Like so much rain into a broken cup

It stayed a while but soon was on its way

Just like a prize fighter

Who can hear the count but can’t get up

I’ll sleep a while and fight another day

Like a clock to the door, like a latch to the window

Closed to everyone

Like a clock to the door, like a latch to the window

I was growing colder in the sun

Mirror, mirror in the sky I look to you

But you can’t hear me cry

Sometimes to seem so far away

Why give me this ocean

That nobody wants to get too near

And why, oh God, can I not seize the day?

CHORUS

Years kept blowing by

Like so much rain into my heart

Waiting for the day

Whem I might get the major part

And when things didn’t go my way

I did that I did yesterday

There wasn’t any way to change my heart

Like a lock to the door

Like a latch to the window

I was growing colder to the sun

Like a clock to the door, like a latch to the window

(Just enduring my life in silence)

Closed to everyone

Like a clock to the door, like a latch to the window

(I kept living my life inside)

I was growing colder in the sun

But during that time

Of darkness and doubt

I began to search

For something

Look up and down

But I barely knew

The difference between

The sky and the ground



Sleeping Jesus

Awaken in the man

Send your spirit

Touch him with your hand

He can’t feel you

He cannot see the sky

Sleeping Jesus

Awaken in this mind



The veil of tears

Was wearing quite thin

The weight of wasted years

Left no way to win

But I began to

Feel his guidance

When I was deep in my sin



Sleeping Jesus

Awaken in the man

Send your spirit

Touch him with your hand

He can’t feel you

He cannot reason why



Sleeping Jesus

He’s reaching for the sky

Sleeping Jesus

Awaken in the man

Send your spirit

Touch him with your hand

He can’t feel you

He cannot see the sky

Sleeping Jesus

Awaken in this mind

With one hand retreating

Like one that would

Drink to forget

I sunk to the dephts of the

Deepest black florest of death

I was under the fatherly care

Of the prince of the

Power of the air



The prince of the

Power of the air

Was calling me back out there

The prince of the

Power of the air

Was taking me anywhere



It’s the way of the movement

That flies in the face of the son

Live what you feel and watch

Out for what you might become

It can seem

Like you’re doind just fine

But the creep’s creepin’

Into your mind



The prince of the

Power of the air

Was calling me

Back out there

The prince of the

Power of the air

Was taking me

Anywhere



The prince of the

Power of the air

Can bring you

Down anywhere

The prince of the

Power of the air

Can break you

Down anywhere

Princes, principalities, legals and legalities

They have no more power before us

Dark is their reality; there’s a light that we can see

Lighting up the pathway before us



There’s so much that we can know

There’s a godly way to go

Can’t you feel he’s reaching down for us

His is the best place to be;

He’s the truth that makes you free



Princes, principalities, legals and legalities

They have no more power before us

There’s a light that we can see; there’s a new reality

Can’t you feel he’s keeping his promise NOW!



Princes, principalities, legals and legalities

They have no more power before us

There’s a light that we can see; there’s a new reality

Can’t you feel he’s keeping his promise NOW!

The prince of the power of the air

Was calling me back out there

The prince of the power of the air

Can lead you down... can lead you down



The prince of the power of the air

Can lead you down anywhere

The prince of the power of the air

He led me almost anywhere...

Hearts can turn away

And the roots of bitterness can carry the day

And I was done

It was over

I’d become

Just another heart without a home

And I was angry that god had left me alone



Since I had

No hope of living

I began

And started giving



My life, my shame

I gave it all to him

My heart, my strife

Can you change this wasted life?



Time

Took time away

But he was reaching when I was so far away

Through many years

Through death’s valley

He knew my tears

I believe he allowed me



My life, my sin

Oh, I gave all to him

My heart, my strife

Can you change this wasted life?



My life, my shame

Oh, I gave it all to him

My heart, my strife

Can you change this wasted life?



My love, my shame

Oh, I gave him all my pain

The truth inside

Can you change this wasted life?



My life, my shame

I gave it all to him

With tears in my eyes

Can you change this wasted life?

Long before he came to claim me

Things had started changing in my life (in my life)

I began the day by praying

God help me to lay myself aside (lay aside)

Show me your will for my life



Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away

Longing for the break of day

Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away

Longing for the break of day



Long before he came to hold me

I looked up to heaven and I cried (yes I cried)

Why it was I didn't know;

My heart and soul just had to apologize

And my eyes looked up to the Father of Lights



Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away

Longing for the break of day

Night falls away - night falls away

Longing for the break of day



Unlock the door and walk inside

And find the truth you seek to hide

He chased you down and brought you low

To work the change no one can know

But to go on you must let go



Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away

Longing for the break of day

Night falls away - night falls away

Longing for the break of day



Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away

Longing for the break of day

Somewhere down inside me

There’s a new sensation

Out there on the edge there is no turning back

I began to feel aware of a different kind of

Power in the air



Like a key in the door, like an opening window

Something had begun

Like a key in the door, like an opening window

I found something new under the sun



God began to deal with me in different circles

I began to hear him like I never had

While I was playing rock n’ roll

He began to feel the silence in my soul

Like a key in the door, like an opening window

Something had begun

Like a key in the door, like an opening window

I found something new under the sun



Thought the seeds of happiness

Had been planted in my bones

The soil had too much emptiness

To ever have a home

And when things didn’t go my way

I went right back to yesterday

And no one seemed to know the way back home

I’ll just find my way alone



So the key in the door, like a opening window

At some point I lost the glory

Like a key in the door, like a opening window

I went back into my history

Like a key in the door, like a opening window

Open just a crack

Like a key in the door, like a opening window

When strings got rough I started looking back

Breath Blew right out of me

Like wind across a window legde

My old forgotten ways

Came rushing back on me

The world that held no interest

Gave way to somber days



So many somber days I felt so all alone

(In my suffering I was home)

So many somber days I was so unaware

Of almost anything but my suffering



How can our sight become so severely limited

We cannot see beyond the step we’re

About to take, the love that we did not make

The years so swiftly gone

So many somber days I felt so all alone

(In my suffering I was home)

So many somber days I was so unaware

Of almost anything but my suffering



And I felt unsure under a winter sky

And I would waste away

Coldest sun, seemed so far away

Who can heal a heart that’s made of clay?



If you’re feeling down today

If you’re dreading your next breath

Your hurt down to the bone

There is someone here with us

God is close as your next breath

He won’t leave you alone



Through your somber days when you feel all alone

(All your suffering he has known)

Through your somber days

Whem you feel like no one cares

(Touch your memory; he is there)

Through these somber days...

All these somber days

(He will walk with you all the way)

No matter how it hurts please stay here

One more day, help is on the way

They’ll be no more suffering

To make this story ever longer

Life began to cut me down to size

Down to the size

Things not tough and they got tougher

The California sun had burned me blind

Made me blind... so blind



Some of us are hard of hearing

There I was nearing thirty five

Thirty five

All the clubs that used to pay me

Now began to say they got no time

How would I survive?



With a host of weekend warriors

Dancing in the underground

Someone stole my guitar

And made it out of tinsel town

Surrounded by rejecters

And bill collectors circling all around



The girl I loved went off

And got married to a millionaire

For fifty dollars I’d play five hours in the desert air

Some of us have to hit bottom

Before we’ll ever see above the ground

It’s all I can do to get up in the mornin’

And get through another day

It’s all I can do just to get off to work

And not hurt anyone today

It’s all I can do to get by in this world

There’s so many dues to pay

I used to believe I had so much to give

But now all I have to say... is this is all I can do



It’s all I can do to come home at night

And get myself undressed

It’s all I can do to sleep with the zombies

And give my mind a rest

I used to believe I could be anything

And make it a big success

My dreams got smaller and smaller

Until they were gone

And now I guess... This is all I can do



Oh God, why have you forsaken me?

Please don’t leave me now

Please don’t leave me now

Oh God, why are you so far from me?

Can you save me now?

Can you save me now?

From this world of tears...



It’s all I can do to get up in the mornin’

And get through another day

It’s all I can do to sell all my junk

Pack up and leave L.A.