Jars Of Clay Album

rain, rain on my face
it hasn't stopped raining for days
my world is a flood
slowly I become one with the mud

CHORUS:

but if I can't swim after forty days
and my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves
lift me up so high that I cannot fall
lift me up
lift me up - when I'm falling
lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
lift me up - I need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again

downpour on my soul
splashing in the ocean, I'm losing control
dark sky all around
I can't feel my feet touching the ground

[CHORUS]

calm the storms that drench my eyes
dry the streams still flowing
cast down all the waves of sin
and guilt that overthrow me

[CHORUS]

lift me up - when I'm falling
lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
lift me up - I need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again

in open fields of wild flowers
she breathes the air and flies away
she thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses
in no simple language
someday she'll understand the meaning of it all
he's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
as close a heartbeat or a song on her lips
someday she'll trust him and learn how to see him
someday he'll call her and she will come running
and fall in his arms
and the tears will fall down and she'll pray

i want to fall in love with you (x 4)

sitting silent wearing sunday best
the sermon echoes through the walls
a great salvation through it calls to the people
who stare into nowhere
and can't feel the chains on their souls

it seems too easy to call you "Savior"
not close enough to call you "God"
so as i sit and think of words i can mention
to show my devotion

i want to fall in love with you

he's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
as close a heartbeat or a song on our lips
someday we'll trust him and learn how to see him
someday he'll call us and we will come running
and fall in his arms
and the tears will fall down and we'll pray
i want to fall in love with you

my heart beats for you

dear God, surround me as I speak
the bridges that I walk across are weak
frustrations fill the void that I can't solely bear
dear God, don't let me fall apart
you've held me close to you
i have turned away and searched
for answers i can't understand

they say that i can move the mountains
and send them falling to the sea
they say that i can walk on water
if i would follow and believe
with faith like a child

sometimes, when i feel miles away
and my eyes can't see your face
i wonder if I've grown to lose the recklessness
i walked in light of you

they say that i can move the mountains
and send them crashing to the sea
they say that i can walk on water
if i would follow and believe
with faith like a child

LITTLE GIRLS:
"i've got joy like a fountain"
"be kind one to the other"
"in Jesus Christ your son"

they say that i can move the mountains
and send them crashing to the sea
they say that i can walk on water
if i would follow and believe
they say that love can heal the broken
they say that hope can make you see
they say that faith can find a Savior
if you would follow and believe
with faith like a child

I am the only one to blame for this
somehow it all adds up the same
soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high
and like icarus I collide
with a world I try so hard to leave behind
to rid myself of all but love
to give and die

to turn away and not become
another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans
more abundant than the tears
of a world embracing every heartache

can I be the one to sacrifice
or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow

to love you - take my world apart
to need you - I am on my knees
to love you - take my world apart
to need you - broken on my knees

all said and done I stand alone
amongst remains of a life I should not own
it takes all I am to believe
in the mercy that covers me

did you really have to die for me
all I am for all you are
because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
more and more I need you now
I owe you more each passing hour
the battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
so steal my heart and take the pain
and wash the feet and cleanse my pride
take the selfish, take the weak
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
the sin-soaked heart and make it yours
take my world all apart
take it now, take it now
and serve the ones that I despise
speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love
fall to dust and thrown away
I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
so wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
so steal my heart and take the pain
take the selfish, take the weak
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
take my world apart, take my world apart
I pray, I pray, I pray
take my world apart

you're cold that way
and that's why you say
the things that you say
you can't attract
the things that you lack
you're trying in vain

CHORUS:

it seems it's always the crazy times
you find you'll wake up and realize
it takes more than your saline eyes
to make things right

you spiral down
you've broken your crown
you don't feel like a queen
you've seen the proof
but you're still crying wolf
you'll never believe

[CHORUS]

you try to climb a broken ladder
grip the missing rungs
and fall down, down, down
seems sometime ago you said
this wouldn't last
and now you sit here crying

beside your bed
you feel left for dead
you kneel in the dark

it takes more than your saline eyes
to make things right

[CHORUS]

convinced of my deception
i've always been a fool
i fear this love reaction
just like you said i would

a rose could never lie
about the love it brings
and i could never promise
to be any of those things

CHORUS:

if i was not so weak
if i was not so cold
if i was not so scared of being broken
growing old
i would be
i would be
i would be

blessed are the shallow
depth they'll never find
seemed to be some comfort
in rooms i try to hide

exposed beyond the shadows
you take the cup from me
your dirt removes my blindness
your pain becomes my peace

[CHORUS]

frail

I never minded calling you a king
if that meant that I could count on you
to give me everything
I never thought to ask you
I always thought you knew
it was never my intention to question you

you never minded calling me a child
well, I guess that's how I acted all the while
but you live through every tantrum
you see through every lie
though they seem to be more common
I just wanted to know why oh why

unforgetful you, unforgetful
unforgetful you, so unforgetful

you never minded giving us the stars
then showing us how blind
and unaware of you we are
you painted me a picture
and showed me how to see
though I just won't behold it
unless it pertains to me

strangely out of place
there's a light filling this room where
none would follow before
I can't deny it burns me up inside
I fan the flames to melt away my pride
do I want shelter from the rain
or the rain to wash me away?

CHORUS:
I need you, I need you, I need you
I need you, I need you, I need you
you're all I'm livin' for

I might sound like a fool
but I think I felt you moving closer to me
face to the ground to hide the fatal cut
I fight the weight, I feel you lift me up
you are the shelter from the rain
and the rain to wash me away

[CHORUS]
I need you, I need you, I need you
you're all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
you're all I'm livin' for

face to the ground to hide the fatal cut
I fight the weight, I feel you lift me up
I can't deny it burns me up inside
I fan the flames to melt away my pride
I only had a second to spare
but all the time in the world to know you're there
you are the shelter from the rain
and the rain to wash me away

I need you, I need you, I need you
(all I'm livin' for)
I need you, I need you, I need you
(all I'm livin' for)
I need you, I need you, I need you
you're all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
you're all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
all I'm livin' for
(all I'm livin' for)
you're all I'm livin' for

speak
and say the words that no one else will ever say
love
love like the world we know is over in a day

Chorus:
I'm gonna show you love in every language
I'm gonna speak with words that need no form
I'm gonna give you what you never had before

and you're beautiful
and I am weakened by the force of your eyes
so shine bright
to separate the truth from the lies
I'm gonna show you love

[CHORUS]

what you never had before
had before

so tie me to a tree and let the smoke and ash collect
no, I won't regret to let love do what love will let
and you can drown in mixed emotions and walk across an angry sea
this is the cost of being free

[CHORUS x 2]

I'm gonna show you love, love in every language
I'm gonna show you love you never had before
I'm gonna show you love, love in every language
I'm gonna show you love you never had before
I'm gonna show you love

I grew this heart into a drifter
never felt the roots I bare
sold my sight, oh, brother, sister
for a mountain of fool's gold, it's gone
only God knows, God knows where

soul was restless for redemption
feet were lookin' for a place to stand
well, I ain't got no life
and you know I ain't got no money
just the faith of an empty hand, empty hand

Chorus:
amazing grace, I feel you comin' up slowly now
like the sun is risin', heat on my face
oh, love that keeps on shinin', don't let the shadow come
you know I gotta feel your healin' rays

hitched a ride; I was a beggar
and I had murder on my hands
needed water to rinse these stains
but only blood could remove what's spillin'
and pardon me to blame

[CHORUS]

amazing grace, I feel you comin' up slowly now
amazing grace, I feel you comin' up slowly now

amazing grace, I feel you comin' up slowly now
like the sun is risin', heat on my face
oh love that keeps on shinin' don't let the shadow come
you know I got to, yeah

[CHORUS]

see, I gotta feel your healin' rays
you know I gotta feel your amazing grace

traditional words by Paul Gerhardt
(trans. John Weswley, alt. by Jars of Clay)/
music by Jars of Clay

Give to the wind your fear
Hope and be undismayed
God hears your sighs and counts your tears
God will lift up, God will lift up, lift up your head

God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head
Lift up your head

Leave to His sovereign sway
To choose and to command
Then shall we wandering on His way
Know how wise and how strong
How wise and how strong

God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head
Lift up your head

Through waves and clouds and storms, He gently clears the way
Wait because in His time, so shall this night
Soon end in joy, soon end in joy
Soon end in joy, soon end in joy

God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head
God will lift up your head

Words and music by Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark

January 1, I've got a lot of this on my mind
I'm looking at my body through a new spy satellite
Try to lift a finger, but I don't think I can make the call
So tell me if I move, 'cause I don't feel anything at all

So Carry Me,
I'm just a dead man
Lying on the carpet
Can't find a heartbeat
Make me breathe,
I want to be a new man
Tired of the old one
Out with the old plan

I woke up from a dream about an empty funeral
But is was better than the party full of people I don't really know
They've got hearts to break and burn
Dirty hands to feel the earth
There's something in my veins,
But I can't seem to make it work… won't work

So Carry Me,
I'm just a dead man
Lying on the carpet
Can't find a heartbeat
Make me breathe,
I want to be a new man
Tired of the old one
Out with the old plan

Can you find a beat inside of me?
Any pulse?
Getting worse?
Any pulse?
Getting worse?
Inside of me, can you find a beat?

Carry Me,
I'm just a dead man
Lying on the carpet
Can't find a heartbeat
Make me breathe,
I want to be a new man
Tired of the old one
Out with the old plan (2x)

Words and music by Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark

Just in case, I will leave my things packed
So I can run away

I cannot trust these voices I don't have a line of prospects that can give some
kind of peace
There is nothing left to cling to that can bring me sweet release
I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work

Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"

Empty spaces with shadows hit by streetlights
Warnings signs and weight of tired conversations
In the absence of a shoulder, in the abscess of a thief
On the brink of this destruction, on the eve of bittersweet
Now all the demons look like prophets and I'm living out
Every word they speak, every word they speak

Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"

Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
Alone, alone, I don't want to be alone

I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work

Get Love Out On The Dance Floor
Reflects Off The Mirror Ball
Sending Fragments Of Life To The Poor

Get Love Out In The Nameless Streets
Child, You'll Finally Eat
Love, Love Is The Protest

When You Rise, Do You See?
Love is The Protest
How You Fight, Let It Be
Love Is The Protest

Let Love Make Saints Out Of Hypocrites
Let Grace Fall From Broken Lips
Turn Dirty Rags Into White Flags

Let Peace Crawl Out Of The Mystery
Show How Blinding The Light Can Be
Don't Be Afraid Of What You See
Love Is The Protest

I Want Peace, But It's Not What I'm Used To
I Want Love, But It Hurts When It Gets Through
I'm Surrounded By People Who Don't Think Like I Do