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All Creation Sings
04:24
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Dreaming awake as I'm lying down,
Gazing at starlit skies
The feeling grows as my wonder shows,
Trying to crystallize
The wind in the trees is a melody,
Just like me, yearning to harmonize
The rivers speak and the waters cry,
Wanting to hear Your name
Deep in the bowels of an ancient earth,
Groaning to be reclaimed
Anticipating the grand return,
Crying out for the page to turn
I want to know as I am known
And see You as You are
Every knee will bow,
And all will proclaim
All creation sings, hail the King of kings
All creation sings, to the glory of Your name
Joy at the end of the great decline,
For all who will heed Your call
An end to the sin and an end to the pain,
You will restore us all
We're sons of dust in the Son of Man,
Chosen long e'er the world began
I want to know as I am known
And see You as You are
Every knee will bow,
And all will proclaim
All creation sings, hail the King of kings
All creation sings,
Now we lift our hands in praise,
Such an anthem we will raise,
When Your kingdom comes to earth
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We Are The Men
04:44
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Why did you do it? Who put you to it?
If I was in your place it's easy to say
It might be different than it is today
OH! We are the men
OH! We are the men
Walking together, cool of the garden
From a rib came a woman and she was deceived,
Now we're the race of the ill conceived
OH! We are the men
OH! We are the men
Long time, since we turned to our own way
Sure sign, that we've all gone wrong
Decline, since the beginning
With the first and the last we can overcome the past
Billions of faces, showing the traces
From the one man's sin everybody died
Plunged into sin, because the serpent lied
OH! We are the men
OH! We are the men
We are men, we are the men!
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Lead Me To Reason
04:00
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Deep in the heart is a creature of deception
Lying in wait to deceive me again
Fighting the feeling and failing to win
Where do I begin?
Over and over I silently scream
This must be a dream
Only Your face will lead me to reason
Just one embrace to carry me through
Only Your grace will keep me from treason now
My head is reeling in the wake of delusion
Left to myself, I'm so quickly undone
Wayward I wander again and again
Still haunted by sin
Who will deliver the unreconciled,
The prodigal child?
Only Your face will lead me to reason
Just one embrace to carry me through
Only Your grace will keep me from treason now
I can't begin to account for my condition
Questions with answers I just can't explain
Utterly helpless and nothing to do
I'm lost without You
Bury the old man and raise up the new
When his time is due
Only Your face will lead me to reason
Just one embrace to carry me through
Only Your grace will keep me from treason now
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Deep in every heart there's a desire
Just to be accepted as we are
Everybody needs to know that he's wanted
But everybody's always wanting more
The Son of God came down to be a servant
The world did not receive Him as a King
And if we take the Lord as our example
It ain't how much you get, it's what you bring
You got to show somebody your salvation
Show someone the mercy you've been shown
And if you heed the very first commandment
You'll take your brothers burdens as your own
The only way to have a friend is to be one
If men could see our faith turned into action
The way the Lord intended it to be
If flesh and blood were dying in the Spirit
Then Jesus would be plain for all to see
The words of our own mouths will be our judgment
The measure that we use will be returned
We hear the Word but how much do we do it?
We hear the Word but how much have we learned?
The only way to have a friend is to be one
You got to show somebody your salvation
Show someone the mercy you've been shown
And if you heed the very first commandment
You'll take your brothers burdens as your own
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5. |
Games of Chance
04:19
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Where have all the children gone?
Who will hear their silent song
Many never cry the tears nor learn the infant dance
Mother, won't you keep your young
Or are they in the balance hung
On games of chance and circumstance?
O, save the children!
And a cry of desperation is rising up in all the land
When the cold wind blows the helpless suffer the sin
Some will only see the grave
Who will care enough to save?
Or is the heart become too hard to love the little ones?
Mother, won't you keep your young
Or are they in the balance hung
On games of chance and circumstance?
O, save the children!
And a cry of desperation is rising up in all the land
When the cold wind blows the helpless suffer the sin
Mother, is your blood running cold?
You don't care to pay the price
The innocent have never been told
They will be the sacrifice
And a cry of desperation is rising up in all the land
When the cold wind blows the helpless suffer the sin
Some will end in tragedy
Some will never be set free
From games of chance and circumstance
O, God, save the children!
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6. |
The Fury
05:36
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Where is the promise of His coming?
All things continue just as we desire
They have forgotten the ancient world
So once by water, now by fire
After seven years, No more tears
The fury waits above the sky
The Lord of hosts will purify
On wings of fire He will appear
As the end is drawing near
And if those days had not been shortened
No flesh would survive
He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked
But with their sin He will not strive
After seven years, No more tears
The fury waits above the sky
The Lord of hosts will purify
And His redeemed are justified
Their blood avenged and satisfied
The fury
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Progress
04:41
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So they say it's getting better now,
And we're climbing ever higher up the scale
Soon controlling all conceivable solutions,
No one notices that all our efforts fail
Progress, we are marching backward
Progress, as the captains of our fate
Progress, as we spiral downward
Progress, we defile and we desecrate
Calculating every possible obstruction,
Have to sacrifice a few along the way
Devolution from genetic degradation,
Separation from Creator brought decay
Progress, we are marching backward
Progress, as the captains of our fate
Progress, as we spiral downward
Progress, we destroy and we annihilate
Ideologies, moralities are passé,
It's said the concept of religion's obsolete
Something's missing in our picture of the future,
It seems our latest observations' incomplete
Progress, we are marching backward
Progress, as the captains of our fate
Progress, as we spiral downward
Progress, we entangle and we complicate
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Heartland
03:44
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Far from the clamor and confusion we live in
There lies a refuge from the threatening tide
A cool oasis in the heat of the desert
A resurrection from this graveyard of pride
And if you tell me it's just imagination
I won't believe it 'cause my heart tells me this is for real
The revelry and the fascination
When destiny draws near
I'm standing on the last frontier
This is the heartland
Amid the din and desolation I feel it
In spite of all the indecision and fear
Hope for the hopeless and a rest for the weary
Deep in the heartland where the vision is clear
Now after all of the years of resignation
Of endless agonizing over the things yet unknown
The revelry and the fascination
When destiny draws near
I'm standing on the last frontier
This is the heartland
And if you tell me it's just imagination
I won't believe it 'cause my heart tells me this is for real
The revelry and the fascination
Then destiny draws near
The future holds no fear
The heartland is the last frontier
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Zion
03:26
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You lie between mountains and hills known of old
The desert is green all around you,
Your enemies come from without and within,
Seen and unseen they surround you
Zion is coming ISRAEL,
Children of Promise soon fulfilled,
The Kingdom's coming ISRAEL,
It's Yeshua, Emmanuel, He is the One you've waited for
In the desert you wandered, in the nations dispersed,
But you will return to Moriah,
As you gaze upon He who was pierced,
You will mourn an only Son your Messiah
Zion is coming ISRAEL,
Children of Promise soon fulfilled,
The Kingdom's coming ISRAEL,
It's Yeshua, Emmanuel, He is the One you've waited for
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Up From The Wasteland
04:25
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The traces of tears disappear in the desert
Where hot winds blow
The touch of a conscience is lost in the ice and snow
Ghosts of great cities, ruins of empires their spectres arise
No sign of the living beneath these skies
Minutes are passing, they turn into hours
The hours, they drift into days
O, Redeemer, lift us above this maze
Up from the wasteland, like a dream
Long forgotten reappearing,
Up from the wasteland
Now redeemed, from a winter bleak and weary
Dry bones collected, connected by sinews
Stand as an army of men
Filled with the Spirit, they enter this world again
Its glorious light, or grey desolation
The lines of the battle are drawn
Jehovah, the rock that we stand upon
Up from the wasteland,
We are drawn, to a glory never ending
Up from the wasteland
By His hand, our iniquity transcending
All our enemies beneath His feet
No height, nor depth, nor life, or death
Can take us away from His love
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Kerry Livgren Kansas
Kerry Livgren is best known as the Guitarist, Keyboardist, and primary Songwriter for the group "Kansas," He has also released several solo projects.
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