Dim the light and pull the shade
see the ending of the age
is playing now upon the stage of modern times all mankind
Rolling faster down the track
prophecies becoming fact
and Jesus Christ is coming back for one last time
Call..
From the west unto the east
Roll the dice and stroke the beast
or call upon the Prince of Peace, he's standing by.
Call..
Dim the light and pull the shade
see the ending of the age
is playing now upon the stage of modern times
watch it playing now upon the stage of all mankind
See the Zeitgeist he knows no rest
he hides his hand within his chest
he shines no light but his silhouette
is all around, it's all a mess.
Hey can I sing,
of a wonderful thing
of a beautiful mystery
Now in these days,
I am simply amazed
at WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAS DONE FOR ME.
And when I think of how,
I was lost in a crowd
making my plans that never did work out.
I will rise and stand,
and tell this land -
WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAS DONE FOR ME.
Now I can say,
I'm a lifetime away
from the person I used to be
Hey don't you know,
can't you see - don't it show
WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAS DONE FOR ME.
Cos when I think of it now,
I was lost in a crowd
but for the grace of God I'd be there now
So I rise and stand,
and tell this land -
WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAS DONE FOR ME.
Standing in a courtyard, not knowing what will happen next.
Waiting for your judges to come and say you've failed the test
Walking in the shadows of the city where laughter never ends
Lost without a father, without a mother, without a friend
Jesus has DONE IT ALL
No one need do it any more
Jesus has DONE IT ALL for me.
Riding on as streetcar with a pocket full of nursery rhymes
Drinking with a hobo and giving him your last dime
Hiding in the alleyways when the freezing cold wind begins to bite
Putting on a brave face but still hoping you won't have to fight
Jesus has DONE IT ALL
No one need do it any more
Jesus has DONE IT ALL for me.
Waiting for your best friend who never turned up when he said
Pacing by a fountain side while the horses of the rich are in bed.
Standing on a crossroads, alone inside the dance of the rain
Wishing you were somewhere else, far away back home again.
Jesus has DONE IT ALL
No one need do it any more
Jesus has DONE IT ALL for me.
Look at the sky tonight
way 'cross the far horizon.
Could be the time tonight
for the Lord to return.
Just like a thief in the night he'll call.
I look at the sky tonight
but it's just cos I'm Looking or the Lord.
Ah -
Said he'd return one day
way 'cross the far horizon;
- and in a surprising way
O and I know that he will.
Just like a thief in the night he'll call.
I look at the signs tonight
but it's just 'cos I'm Looking for the Lord
Ah - that's what I'm Looking for
Go put the world to rights
go touch the far horizon.
It never does turn out right
Oh no never it will.
'cos there's only one
who can save us from the fall.
I look at the sky tonight
but it's just 'cos I'm Looking or the Lord
So long ago, so far away
so many broken dreams
we left on the way back home
Follow the sun and the ancient drum
to a city on a hill
the streets ran red, we were left for dead
but we're living, breathing still
Oh, hear what the people say
hear them laughing at me
going along the long, the lonely lonely way
Follow the sun and the ancient drum
to a city on a hill
the streets ran red, we were left for dead
but we're living, breathing still
O - when somebody calls my name
Was it a dream, a lifetime away?
did we really live through it all?
somewhere on the way back home
Follow the sun and the ancient drum
to a city on a hill
the streets ran red, we were left for dead
but we're living, breathing still
Oh, we're going the long way hom
Lord hear my prayer
I'm so loaded down with care
All I do - is call on you
won't you hear my prayer (hear me..)
So long ago
since I felt the spirit flow
now I've run so dry
please don't pass me by
when you hear me call
won't you smile on me once more
Can you hear me call ?
Can you hear me at all ?
LORD HEAR MY PRAYER
LORD HEAR...
In the dead of the night
Everywhere I look
I see trouble and strife
Hemming me in,
Oh where do I begin
to get to you again ?
Lord hear my prayer
I'm so loaded down with care
It's all I can do, just to call out to you
cos if you hear my prayer
I know you can heal me where I am.
Who's gonna walk,
who's gonna ride?
Who's gonna sit,
who's gonna stand outside?
Alone in the dark
where there's nowhere to hide
in the Ages of Glory come
in the Ages of Glory come
in the Ages of Glory come
I'm looking around,
I'm feeling so sad
But who can I tell,
who's gonna understand
No mortal man
is gonna hold my hand
When the Ages of Glory Come
when the Ages of Glory come
when the Ages of Glory come
Why don't you just Praise the Lord
when you think about
the good things he has done
tell me what is there to meditate upon?
when all the world's in a spin
can't hang on to anything
no nothing at all...
Why don't you just Praise the Lord
when you think about
the good things he has done
when you realise there isn't anyone
to carry you through the storm
to keep you unto the dawn
to make it all right.
BIG WHEELS roll on - on and on
Under the sun - on and on
Up and down the avenue the devil is loose
he knows the number on your door
he's got permission to be cooking your goose
if you don't start praising the Lord
you'd better, you'd better sing it loud.
Why don't you just Praise the Lord
when you think about
the good things he has done
when you think about
the good things he has done
're..
HIGHER THAN THE MOUNTAINS
DEEPER THAN THE OCEANS
WHITER THAN THE STARLIGHT
BIGGER THAN MY PROBLEMS !
LORD YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING I NEED
YOU GIVE ME A SONG TO SING
AND A LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY
You're..
STRONGER THAN AN EARTHQUAKE
LOUDER THAN THE THUNDER
SOFTER THAN A SNOWFLAKE
BIGGER THAN OUR PROBLEMS !
LORD YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING I NEED
YOU GIVE ME A SONG TO SING
AND A LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY
You're..
CLOSER THAN A HEARTBEAT
SWEETER THAN A DEWDROP
FRESHER THAN THE SUNRISE
BIGGER THAN MY PROBLEMS !
LORD YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING I NEED
YOU GIVE ME A SONG TO SING
AND A LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY
Some say that God doesn't live any more
Some say he did once but now they're not sure
I look around at the state of the world
in spite of the promise it seems to get worse
And everyone's looking for the answer to it all
everyone's looking for the Lord -
Who laid the foundations high in the sky?
Who made my spirit and taught it to fly?
Some say that evolution did these things
with magical potions and energy strings
Still everyone's looking for the answer to it all
everyone's looking for the Lord
- the answer to it all
Some say there's nothing when this life is through
some say it's blackness and some say it's blue
But everyone's looking for the answer to it all
everyone's looking for -
- the answer to it all
- the answer to it all
Oh Lord you have searched me
and you know me
You know when I sit
and when I rise
You perceive my thoughts from far away
My going out, my coming in,
my lying down, my getting up each day
- You're familiar with my ways.
Long before I speak a word
you know it
You hem me in -
behind me and before
You have laid your hand upon me
And filled my heart to the brim -
knowledge too wonderful for me to hold
- Too high for me to reach.
Where can I go from your spirit?
Where can I flee from your side?
If I go up into the heavens
you are there
If I make my bed inside the depths
of darkness and despair
If I rise upon the wings of the dawn
If I settle on the far side of the sea
even there,
even there
your hand's guiding me,
Even There!
And if I say the darkness
will hide me
Even then the darkness
will not be dark to you
And the night will shine just like the day
For what is darkness but another shade
of satan's lamp upon the way.
- just another light to you.
Adapted from Psalm 139 (NIV)
David Scott-Morgan, 1996
Just a little baby,
just a little boy
ordained by God on high
to change the world for evermore
Just a little baby,
little helpless child
but Kings came from afar
and shepherds from the mountain side
Just to see the little baby,
look and see for themselves
You've got to make that trip,
you can't send somebody else
No, no ,no, no, no -
You've got to open that door
cos that baby is Jesus Christ
and he's alive for ever more
He's ONE BRIGHT STAR
shining hope into a world so dark
- ONE BRIGHT STAR
calling out to every waiting heart
Yes he's - calling me, calling you,
everybody 'neath the big wide blue.
calling everybody 'neath the big wide blue.
That's the Christmas Story,
the Christmas song
and don't you wonder why
it never fades, it just goes on
Started out way down in Bethlehem,
so very long ago
but he's still going strong
two thousand years along the road
He's ONE BRIGHT STAR
shining hope across a world so dark
- ONE BRIGHT STAR
calling now to every waiting heart
Yes he's - calling me, calling you,
calling everybody 'neath the big wide blue.
Hear him - call to me, call to you,
everybody 'neath the big wide blue.
calling everybody 'neath the big wide blue.
The post-mortem's complete
I know I've been wrong
but with you beside me I'll be strong
Now ME AND THE LORD
are on the road again.
I hear what you say
it's something so neat
that's a love that needs no one to speak
Now ME AND THE LORD
are on the road again.
Watching the water go under the bridge
wondering where does it lead
Am I fool for the things that I did
can I begin to believe?
The weather man says
it's gonna be rain
but a brighter son has called my name
So ME AND THE LORD
are on the road again.
So ME AND THE LORD
are on the road again.
And if my tears could wash away
the stains of yesterday
and if my heartache was enough
to make it all okay
Jesus need not have died,
need not have paid the price
Jesus need not have left his home in paradise
not if my tears could wash away
the stains of yesterday
not if my heartache was enough
to make it all okay
Jesus the perfect man lived for all to see
God's sacrificial Lamb died instead of me.
Oh ---
Jesus the perfect man lived for all to see
God's sacrificial Lamb died instead of me.
And I
believe
that every tear
will one day pass away
and I
believe
that every heart
will stand upon display
Jesus will call my name,
and I won't run and hide
Jesus will call my name, and call me to his side.
Oh ---
Jesus need not have died,
need not have paid the price
Jesus need not have left his home in paradise
not if my tears could wash away
the stains of yesterday
If I could repay what God did for me
one day long ago, far away
Outside Jerusalem
where my debts were paid
Outside Jerusalem
Christ died so as I might be saved
Oh I couldn't believe something so pure
no way, long ago, far away
Outside Jerusalem
a new deal was made
Outside Jerusalem
Christ died so as man might be saved
And when times get hard
and the road gets steeper
And my heart gets tired and my faith gets weaker
then I'll call on him cos I know down deep
as sure as day and night
He'll put it right.
If I could repay what God did for me
one day long ago, far away
Outside Jerusalem
where my debts were paid
Outside Jerusalem
Christ died so as man might be saved
How many days was I searching
How many years did I stay...
Outside Jerusalem
where my debts were paid
Outside Jerusalem
Christ died so as man might be saved
Outside Jerusalem
a new deal was made
Outside Jerusalem
Christ died so as man might be saved
I heard the water talk to me
as if on bended knee
and it spoke about a parable
the Jeremiah Tree
and when the spell was broken
and the glass began to shrink
I looked out over Babylon
and saw the great ships sink
and Jeremiah's daughter,
she was hanging on the brink
without a penny for the blind
without a message for the time
but she was always thine.
The water came from miles away
to bring to me a word
when I believed in Santa Claus
and anything I heard
it told me of a mystery
a future that had past
I looked out over Babylon
and saw it's cities smashed
and Jeremiah's daughter,
standing ready for the task
with a penny for the blind
with a message for the time
yes she was always thine.
Now the Lord was moving in the hills
and valleys far below
and he sent his special one to plant
where nothing else would grow
but the coaches stopped at Idlewild
where Israel didn't kneel
so satan crossed the border
he was hungry for a meal
he snatched away her heart of love
and re-fashioned it in steel
without a penny for the blind
without a message for the time
but she was always thine.
But the days were drawing to a close
and everyone could see
the acorns falling thick beneath
the Jeremiah Tree
and as she toiled the stony ground
she came upon the spring
and water came from everywhere
and flooded everything
and Jeremiah's daughter
found at last the song to sing
with a penny for the blind
with a message for the time
for she was always, always thine.
I want to belong to you
want to be strong with you
all that I want to do.
And if ever somebody should want to know
what it is with Jesus that I love him so
then I will say it's just because
Jesus lived and he died all for love. AIl for Love, all for love.
I want to be friends with you
want to depend on you
go to the end with you.
and if ever somebody should ask me why
how it is that I could put one name so high
then I will say it's just because
Jesus lived and he died all for love. All for Love, all for love.
Oh Lord on high how you care for me
Unseen unheard still you're there for me
When the winds of circumstance
casts a shadow 'cross the sun
you're still there for me when every hope is gone
Only you, Lord on High, holy one.
Oh Lord on high how you rescue me
out of the depths into
ecstasy
when every friend and helper
has long since cut and run
still you're there for me when every hope is gone
Only you, Lord on high, holy one.
Oh Lord on high there is nobody
who can compare or rule over me
The richest man upon the earth
couldn't purchase what you've done
to be there for me when every hope is gone
Only you, the Lord on high, holy one.
What can I tell you that you don't already know
I guess it's nothing at all
So I'll just say, Lord from today
have mercy on me another man
who's RUN AWAY
One road is easy and the other so hard
you know the one that I'll choose
if you don't say, and point out the way
rebellious and proud that's what I am,
a RUNAWAY.
People say 'Jesus Christ' -
they don't put it too very nice
I don't think he hears.
But if you call on him
and just admit the state you're in
the promise is clear, it's written in here
he wants you to know, he'll never let go
What kind of love is it that never grows cold
that never closes the door?
or turns me away, or asks me to pay
for the million and one times that I turn
to RUNAWAY