Well, I'm walkin' in the hills of Carolina Through the heat as thick as the blood That moves my bones And I don't think much about nothing in Carolina
The sun looks down on another day And I stumble on, and I stumble on through it So bright, so I look away to another day And these words that don't
Listen to me, Jesus Cause I know you'll understand I've been right back down With the weight of the world on my mind I'm trying hard to salvage joy
I could fly, I could fall I could turn my back and walk away Spurn the path and find my way again It's my life after all You know everybody hurts the
I wanna open up my eyes And see a more beautiful world Let the hand of God Almighty Sweep his colors through my life I wanna hold tight to the laughter
A promise spoken is a promise broken An inconsistent life is all I am, I won't deny My secret's showing No way to hold it Cause everything that promises
Well, I haven't got a lot to offer Just a rhyme and a melody But I promised I'd write if it took all night A lullaby for thee CHORUS They say there
I remember how the shepherds lay in slumber And the angels came and broke them from their dreams And Mary raised her weary head And Joseph stood there
Daniel hollered goodbye to the old river barge With a dream in his head and a bride in his arms Everyone said, "You're crazy: But everyone longed to
We touched down on the sound At the top of the world In the land of the midnight sun Where the frozen river melts away And breaks into a run Into the
Tonight in the line of the merchandise store While they were packing up my bags I saw the pictures of the prophets of the picket signs Screaming, "God
After the last tear falls After the last secret's told After the last bullet tears through flesh and bone After the last child starves And the last girl
I am a family man I traded in my mustang for a minivan This is not what I was headed for when I began This was not my plan I am a family man But everything
Sarah, take me by my arm Tomorrow we are Canaan bound Where westward sails the golden sun And Hebron's hills are amber crowned So bid your troubled
High noon in the valley of the shadow When the deep of the valley was bright When the mouth of the tomb shouted, "Glory, the groom is alive" So long,
Gather round ye children come, Listen to the old old story Of the power of death undone By an infant born of glory Son of God, Son of Man
Lost my luggage out in Kalamazoo Same way I tend to lose my conscience too Another day in these dirty old blues And I don't seem to mind This is a thing
It came to pass back in those days that Caesar, he decreed A census would be taken of the Roman world, you see So everyone packed up and headed back
