How Long?

How long?
How long will you let yourself be tormented?
How long will you toss and turn and try to convince yourself the restless sleep does you well?
How long will you cling to the injustice and tell yourself the next time will make it all right?
How long?
How long will you hold the office of avenger and operate under your own commission to make them pay?
How long will you fight to stand alone when we both know you can't win that way?
How long will you clench your fists and tighten your jaw to hold back the tears?
How long?
How long will we be here, at odds on how to carry on?
How long will you tell me you're fine?
How long am I to pretend I believe you?
How long?

He's Calling Your Name

He's calling your sweet name
He's calling your sweet sweet name
He's calling your sweet name
He's calling your sweet sweet name

And He says come to Me
come follow Me
come take My hand
come walk with Me

don't know what to call it...

and i don't want to care
i don't want to know
i don't want to pretend that you can make it better
when we both know you won't

and i don't want to cry
i don't want you to speak
all the words that will leave your lips
do nothing to soothe me

but i can't walk away
and i won't turn my back
i can't pretend that you don't matter
and that i won't take you back

i can't close my eyes
to all of your pain
i know you did your best to run
but im still here just the same

i love you

It's All I Got

i just want to praise You for a little while

i just want to sing our words, even if they come out wrong

i just want to close my eyes and see Your face

i just want to reach up with my hands

and trace every feature

let me linger here

let me stay like this

i'm caught in this place

and i don't want to miss a thing

i don't want to miss a thing

can i just stay here forever?

stay here just like this?

i don't need the rest of it

this world has nothing for me

i don't want this world to own me

all i am is Yours

all i am is Yours

take my idle hands and give them purpose

and take my calloused heart and open it

to the world in need

Lord move my feet

take my words and make them Your own

take my mind and tell me what to know

let Your truth saturate every fiber of my being

Daddy this world needs to know

that You're bleeding for it

You're bleeding for it

i just want to stay here for a little while

just like this

i don't want to miss it

Father lift my voice to You and inhabit my praise

be the lamp unto my feet and guide my way

i just want to stay here just like this

i don't want to miss a thing

will You please stay with me

just stay here with me for a little while more

just stay with me

give me just a taste so that i'll beg for more

more of You

give me just a taste so that i'll thirst for more

more of You

i want more of You

i want more of You

let me stay here a little while

i don't want to miss a thing

let me linger here just a little more

i don't want to miss a thing

let me stay here just a little while

i don't want to miss a thing

will You linger just a little more

i don't want to miss a thing

don't want to miss a thing about You

i know i can't do this without You

don't want to miss a thing about You

pour Your spirit over me

let me feel Your warm embrace

kiss me with the breath of life

oh give me just a taste of just what heaven is like

set my eyes on things above

rend the heavens, loose Your love

rain down on me

rain down, rain down on

rain down on me

set this soul of mine ablaze

for the destiny You've called it to

set these feet of mine on their way

to the journey You have called them to

set these hands of mine to work

to the purpose You have called them to

set theses lips of mine with words

of the truth you have called them to

i just want to stay here a little while

i don't want to miss a thing

i just want to linger here a little more

i don't want to miss a thing

i don't want to miss a thing

Daddy don't let me miss a thing

Only the Dead are Welcome

it was dark

eerily so

the air was cold and thick

i felt sickbut kept moving

leaves and branches crunched beneath my feet

i couldn't see

but i kept moving

as i did it became darker still

a feat i did not think possible

but with my hands held out in front of me

i kept moving

and then i saw it

in the distance

the faintest light

and without a second thought

i ran to it

the light sat atop a sign

relief spread across my mind

until i was close enough to read

"only the dead are welcome here"

i rubbed my eyes and blinked them twice

sure the words had not been read right

i looked again and still so clear were the words

"only the dead are welcome here"

God this must be a joke?

i have to be dead to go any further?

this is why You brought me here?

to read a sign that does not apply?

He was still and silent as i ranted

He waited patiently till i was done

and then "it does apply." was all He said

i looked once more at the words on the sign

i thought and i thought and i thought

and then i understood

i must die to myself

"yes," He said. "you must."

"as the sign says,

only the dead are welcome."