You found a quiet cove

It was a shipwrights dream

You built a sturdy boat

One day to sail the sea

And all was well until that set sail

Caught a warm east wind

The preparatory toil done

But you still have to send it

Holding on will only make it harder

You didn’t build this ship

To send it to another harbor

So let it go and let it sail

The seven seas

Don’t you know you

Set that sail

Now you can’t stop the breeze

From blowing

She’s going

And that’s alright

A weather eye for storms

Out there the nations rage

But who knew peace could be so hard

When love constructs a cage

Oh she shouldn’t sail just yet

You say again and then again

Tossed and driven like a wave

Is no way to begin

Holding on will only make it harder

You didn’t build this ship

To send it to another harbor

So let it go and let it sail

The seven seas

Don’t you know you

Set that sail

Now you can’t stop the breeze

From blowing

She’s going

And it’s alright

Christened on a sunny day

Wine spilled on her side

The wind will take her with it now

That wine won’t wash or dry

You want to keep her from this wind

And save her from the sea

But what if the true Shipwright’s wish

Is to use his vessel differently?

Holding on will only make it harder

You didn’t build this ship

To send it to another harbor

So let it go and let it sail

The seven seas

Don’t you know you

Set that sail

Now you can’t stop the breeze

From blowing

One day she’s going

And that’s alright

What’s left for me

But to follow where he leads

I’m still beyond the Jordan

Far from the city where they say he is

I’m way out in Galilee

As the waves climb high

I see it in his eyes

He was waiting for me

In the desert where he leads

I’m way out in Galilee

It’s a one way ticket

It’s a long ride home

It’s a lonely train car

On a frosty morning

But I know what’s left

Has been left for me

And pleasant are the boundary lines

By the way of the sea

By the way of the sea

What’s left for me

But to follow where he leads

I’m still beyond the Jordan

Far from the city where they say he is

I’m way out in Galilee

I’m way out in Galilee

Maybe with his mouth

Maybe with his eyes

Maybe by the stuff that he just has to try

Maybe by his walk

Maybe just sometimes

Maybe it’s a hole in his heart

A hole that he just can’t climb

I, I…

You feel you’re alone

But I don’t think you are

Cause brother I still lie

I say it with my mouth

I do it with my eyes

I do and I don’t

And I have to admit

Sometimes I don’t even try

I show it by my walk

More than just sometimes

I feel all alone there’s a hole in my heart

A hole that I just can’t climb

Love comes and it goes

It reaches for the sky

Love won’t take no for an answer

But brother true love dies

True love died

A word from his mouth

Tears in his eyes

His friends all asleep when the cup

Wouldn’t pass him by

We slept while he watched

We hid when he cried

The rooster admits what I can’t deny

And still true love died

We feel all alone but I know that we’re not

Cause brother true love died

He reached to the earth because we couldn’t climb

Brother true love died

Oh true love died

This is my Father's world

Where moth and rust destroy

Where sometimes nothing seems to rhyme

And loved ones pass away

This is my Father's world

Where brothers hurt themselves

Where those who are fine are slowly dying

And still left on the shelf

This is my Father's world

Where thieves break in and steal

Children used and love abused

O God help us to feel.

This is my Father's world

The saddest song to sing

We play notes, break our hearts,

And pray for harmony

Why do I consistently

Get the chords wrong

How do I forget the words

To my favorite song

I’m blinded by the lights

The wind and the waves

Fill my mind

I take pot shots at people

For sinking so low

But three chords in I’m like

Where did the major go?

Minor details start to get to me

I lose my way

By making my own

I believe there’s only one path

Through this sea

I just get confused cause I

Think that it’s me

I’d love to say I’m sinking

Down low

But I’m scared to get out of

This boat

I’d love to say I’m sinking

Down low

But I’m still here in this

This boat

My fingers are glue on the side of

This thing

My hands are the wrong shape to play the

Right strings

I never meant to play

This melody

That I sing

So tell me to come to you lend me

Your hand

I’ll trust that you love me and walk on

Dry land

And when the wind blows again

I’ll show my love for you then

I know there’s only one path

Through this sea

It’s so hard to remember that it

Isn’t me

I’d love to say I’m standing

Up tall

But I’m so afraid that

I’ll fall

I’d love to say I’m sinking

Down low

But I’m still here in

This boat

I need a bridge over troubled water

A chord that could help ease my mind

I play this music and I say these words but

I can’t seem to make it all rhyme

I need a bridge over troubled water

Please won’t you help ease my mind

I choose my own way through the music I play

And I can’t seem to write the right line

I know there’s only one path

Through this sea

And I know that you know that

It isn’t me

Oh please be patient with me

And those who don’t walk on the sea

Please find my hand where I am

I need a word I can’t sing

Oh take my hand where I am

I need the word I can’t sing

This world is shaking

From the breathtaking

Nightmares that it’s known

And oh it’s waiting for the day

To take it where it’s meant to go

And I’m here saying help my unbelief

When my faith just feels so

Touch and go

How many more songs will be sung

Before my soul feels young again

It’s aging I can tell

This world is shaking

From the breathtaking

Nightmares that it’s known

And oh I’m waiting

For the day to show me what I’ve never known

And I’m here saying help my unbelief

When my faith just feels so

Touch and go

Another night rolls by

Reminding me that I

Don’t like the dark

As much as I might think I do

My heart is aching

And I know that my memory is poor

But I’m praying help my unbelief

So please remember me Lord

Oh remember me

Don’t let me stay so

Touch and go

Make my life a prayer for the day when

My faith won’t be touch and go

Make my life a prayer for the day

When my faith won’t need to grow

Make my life a prayer for the day

When I see the morning glow

Make my life a prayer for the day

Make my life a prayer for the day when

My faith won’t won’t be touch and go

Make my life a prayer for the day

When my faith can all just go

Make my life a prayer for the day

When I see the morning glow

Make my life a prayer for the day

When my faith fades

Like mist around your throne

We set the table

And kept the porch lights on

Winter after winter

Practicing the songs

And we see spring is coming in

But we were wondering if this time

Maybe this time

You’d be here again

Set a flame to every candle

‘Cause they remind us all of you

Picked azure for the vase

‘Cause you loved the way they bloom

Spring’s coming around here soon

And we were wondering if this time

Maybe this time

You’d be coming too

We will wait for a new sun to rise

One day we’ll raise the parting glass

To our last goodbyes

We’re singing out of tune

Having trouble keeping time

But there’s an echo of a harmony

In the deep blue of these skies

And all around the color green survives

And all around the color green survives

We propped open the screen door

Brought out our favorite wine

Remember how you poured it

That last night when we dined?

And as the soil drinks this April rain

We can’t help wondering if this time

Maybe this time

You’ll be home again

Every day we say we believe

Is one day closer to the day

When every eye will see

Even in this sunshine

In springtime we find that we still cry

Lord help our unbelief

Oh but there’s a promise in these leaves

That with all of this brokenness

That bring us to our knees

We can’t help that the world

Is turning green

Well that golden flower is first to bloom

Under this deepened blue

And oh I love this house you built

But I want to be home too

And when life springs alive again I long to be with you

In a home of golden light

And many rooms

We will wait for a new sun to rise

We’ll all break bread together

And you will pour the wine

We will finally sing in tune

These trees will keep the time

We hear a harmony as we stare

Into the deep blue of these skies

A whisper sweet

No louder than a heartbeat old as time

The echo of a word

A word that makes the brokenhearted rise

A mystery

A whisper making broken lyrics rhyme

Promising

Promising these trees will have new life

Oh I know the color green survives