NEAL MORSE LYRICS

1. The Land Of Beginning Again

I wish there was a way to start again
Just blink and count to ten
In the land of beginning again

Where no one knows the bad things that you've done
The past is truly gone
In the land of beginning again

And I see a child returning to the sky
We'll all play simple games
And all the hard things there are soft as rain

I wish there was a way to start again
To wake up among friends
In the land of beginning again

And I love my brother more than my own life
And no one feels mean
All things are new
Behold the slate is clean ...

I wish there was
A way to start again
Just blink and count to ten
In the land of beginning again
In the land of beginning again

2. Overture No. 1

[Instrumental]

3. California Nights

Let me take you back to where it all began
Out there on the fast track
Where the mountains stand
Against the sand... in L.A.

Music every night
Hung-over everyday
I was gonna make the big time
I could feel it in my fingers when I'd play

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies
Living for the summer moon and the party life
There's nothing worse than L.A. days
But those California nights
They barely kept me alive

As the years rolled on
The humor got really dry
If I played that terrible Eagle's song
One more time I thought I was gonna die

The one man good night
Longing to seize the day
That big record deal in the sky
Surely was just a heart beat away

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies (wester skies)
Living for the summer moon and the party life
There's nothing worse than L.A. days
But those California nights
Oh, they barely kept me alive

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies
When I think of the things I did
On those party nights
It's only by the Grace of God that I'm still alive
I believe God's grace kept me alive

4. Colder In The Sun

Grace kept rolling off
Like so much rain into a broken cup
It stayed a while but soon was on its way
Just like a prize fighter
Who can hear the count but can't get up
I'll sleep a while and fight another day

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
I was growing colder in the sun

Mirror, mirror, in the sky I look to you
But you can't hear me cry
Sometimes you seem so far away
Why give me this ocean
That nobody wants to get too near
And why, oh God can I not seize the day?

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
I was growing colder in the sun

Years kept blowing by
like so much rain into my heart
Dreaming of the day
When I might get that major part
And when things didn't go my way
I did what I did yesterday
There wasn't any way to change my heart

Like a lock to the door
Like a latch to the window
I was growing colder in the sun

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
(Just enduring my life in silence)
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
(I kept living my life inside)
I was growing colder in the sun

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
(Just enduring my life in silence)
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
(I kept living my life inside)
I was growing colder in the sun

5. Sleeping Jesus

But during that time
Of darkness and doubt
I began to search for something
Looked up and down
But I barely knew the difference
Between the sky and the ground

Sleeping Jesus
Awaken in the man
Send your spirit
Touch him with your hand
He can't feel you
He cannot see the sky
Sleeping Jesus
Awaken in his mind

The veil of tears
Was wearing quite thin
The weight of wasted years
Left no way to win
But I began to feel his guidance
While I was deep in my sin

Sleeping Jesus
Awaken in the man
Send your spirit
Touch him with your hand
He can't feel you
He cannot reason why
Sleeping Jesus
He's reaching for the sky

Sleeping Jesus
Awaken in the man
Send your spirit
And touch him with your hand
He can't feel you
He cannot see the sky
Sleeping Jesus
Awaken in his mind

6. Interlude

[Instrumental]

7. The Prince Of The Power Of The Air

With one hand retreating like one that would drink to forget
I sunk to the depths of the deepest black forest of death
I was under the Fatherly care
Of the prince of the power of the air

The prince of the power of the air
Was calling me back out there
The prince of the power of the air
Was taking me anywhere

It's the way of the movement that flies in the face of the son
Live what you feel and watch out for what you might become
It can seem like you're doing just fine
But the creep's creepin' into your mind

The prince of the power of the air
Was calling me back out there
The prince of the power of the air
Was taking me anywhere

The prince of the power of the air
Can bring you down anywhere
The prince of the power of the air
Can break you down anywhere, anywhere, anywhere

8. The Promise

Princes, principalities, legals and legalities
They have no more power before us
Dark is their reality
There's a light that we can see
Lighting up the pathway before us

There's so much that we can know
There's a godly way to go
Can't you feel he's reaching down for us
His is the best place to be
He's the truth that makes you free
Can't you feel he's keeping his promise

Princes, principalities, legals and legalities
They have no more power before us
There's a light that we can see
There's a new reality
Can't you feel he's keeping his promise now?

Princes, principalities, legals and legalities
They have no more power before us
There's a light that we can see
There's a new reality
Can't you feel he's keeping his promise, promise, promise now?

The prince of the power of the air
Was calling me back out there
The prince of the power of the air
Can lead you down, can lead you down

The prince of the power of the air
Can lead you down anywhere
The prince of the power of the air
He led me almost anywhere

9. Wasted Life

Hearts can turn away
And the roots of bitterness can carry the day
And I was done, it was over
I'd become
Just another heart without a home
And I was angry that God had left me alone

Since I had
No hope of living
I began
And started giving

My life, my shame
I gave it all to him
My heart, my strife
Can you change this wasted life?

Time took time away
But he was reaching when I was so far away
Through many years
Through death's valley
He knew my tears
I believe he allowed me

My life, my sin
Oh, I gave it all to him
My heart, my strife
Can you change this wasted life?

My life, my shame
Oh, I gave it all to him
My heart, my strife
Can you change this wasted life?

My love, my shame
Oh, I gave him all my pain
The truth inside
Can you change this wasted life?

My life, my shame
I gave it all to him
With tears in my eyes
I gave him my wasted life

10. Overture No. 2

[Instrumental]

11. Break Of Day

Long before he came to claim me
Things had started changing in my life (in my life)
I began the day by praying
God help me to lay myself aside (lay aside)
Show me your will for my life

Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away
Longing for the break of day
Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away
Longing for the break of day

Long before he came to hold me
I looked up to heaven and I cried (yes I cried)
Why it was I didn't know;
My heart and soul just had to apologize
And my eyes looked up to the Father of Lights

Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away
Longing for the break of day
Night falls away - night falls away
Longing for the break of day

Unlock the door and walk inside
And find the truth you seek to hide
He chased you down and brought you low
To work the change no one can know
But to go on you must let go

Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away
Longing for the break of day
Night falls away - night falls away
Longing for the break of day

Dreams pass away - Dreams pass away
Longing for the break of day

12. Power In The Air

Somewhere down inside me there's a new sensation
Out there on the edge there is no turning back
I began to feel aware
Of a different kind of power in the air

Like a key in the door, like an opening window
Something had begun
Like a key in the door, like an opening window
I found something new under the sun

God began to deal with me in different circles
I began to hear him like I never had
While I was playing Rock 'n' Roll
He began to fill the silence in my soul

Like a key in the door, like an opening window
Something had begun
Like a key in the door, like an opening window
I found something new under the sun

Though the seeds of happiness
Had been planted in my bones
The soil had too much emptiness
To ever have a home

And when things didn't go my way
I went right back to yesterday
And no one seemed to know the way back home
I'll just find my way alone
I'll just find my way alone
I'll just find my way alone

So the key in the door, like an opening window
At some point I lost the glory
Like a key in the door, like an opening window
I went back into my story
Like a key in the door, like an opening window
Open just a crack
Like a key in the door, like an opening window
When things got rough I started looking back

13. Somber Days

Breath blew right out of me
Like wind across a window ledge
My old forgotten ways
Came rushing back on me
The world that held no interest
Gave way to somber days

So many somber days I felt so all alone
(In my suffering I was home)
So many somber days I was so unaware
Of almost anything but my suffering

How can our sight become so severely limited
We cannot see beyond
The step we're about to take, the love that we did not make
The years so swiftly gone

So many somber days I felt so all alone
(In my suffering I was home)
So many somber days I was so unaware
Of almost anything but my suffering

And I felt unsure under a winter sky
And I would waste away
Coldest sun seemed so far away
Who can heal a heart that's made of clay?

If you're feeling down today
If you're dreading your next breath
You hurt down to the bone
There is someone here with us
God is close as your next breath
He won't leave you alone

Through your somber days when you feel all alone
(All your suffering he has known)
Through your somber days
When you feel like no one cares
(Touch your memory: he is there)
Through these somber days
All these somber days
(He will walk with you all the way)
No matter how it hurts please stay here one more day
Help is on the way
There'll be no more suffering

14. Long Story

To make this story even longer
Life began to cut me down to size
Down to size

Things got tough and they got tougher
The California sun had burned me blind
Made me blind, so blind, yeah

Some of us are hard of hearing
There I was nearing 35, 35
All the clubs that used to pay me
Now began to say they got no time
How would I survive? Oh

1, 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4

With a host of weekend warriors dancing in the underground
Someone stole my guitar and made it out of tinsel town
Surrounded by rejecters and bill collectors circling all around

The girl I loved went off and got married to a millionaire
For fifty dollars I'd play five hours in the desert air
Some of us have to hit bottom before we'll ever see above the ground

15. It's All I Can Do

It's all I can do to get up in the mornin'
And get through another day
It's all I can do to just get off to work
And not hurt anyone today

It's all I can do to get by in this world
There's so many dues to pay
I used to believe I had so much to give
But now all I have to say

Is this is all I can do

It's all I can do to come home at night
And get myself undressed
It's all I can do to sleep with the zombies
and give my mind a rest

I used to believe I could be anything
And make it a big success
My dreams got smaller and smaller until they were gone
And now I guess

This is all I can do

Oh God, why have you forsaken me?
Please don't leave me now
Please don't leave me now

Oh God, why are you so far from me?
Can you save me now?
Can you save me now
From this world of tears?

It's all I can do to get up in the mornin'
And get through another day
It's all I can do to sell all my junk
Pack up and leave L.A.

There's no future that I can see here
The dream has gone away
Don't cry for me mother, don't shed a tear
I'll probably be back someday

And this is all I can do

16. Transformation

[Instrumental]

17. Ready To Try

I drove out to Nashville in the pouring rain
With revolution in the air
With just my guitar, my dog and my tape machine
I thought I might have some luck out there

'Cause I was ready to try anything
Maybe my life was somewhere waiting
I had nothing to lose and less to bring
I was ready to try almost anything

I spent my first night there with a friend of mine
She was from that old party set
I unpacked my bags and all I couldn't leave behind
As it turned out I never left

And I was ready to try anything
Maybe my life was somewhere waiting
I had nothing to lose and less to bring
I was ready to try almost anything

She's a good girl
Loves Jesus like the song says
And through my madness
My heart began to say yes, yes

One day she brought me to her childhood church
Old time religion filled the air
The preacher said you're saved by faith and not by works
I thought "that's good 'cause I haven't worked in a year"

But I was ready to try anything
Maybe my life is right here waiting
I've got nothing to lose and less to bring
I was ready to try almost anything

I was ready to try anything
(Don't want to be a lock to the door)
Maybe my life is right here waiting
(Don't want to be a latch to the window)
I've got nothing to lose and less to bring
I was ready to try almost anything

18. Sing It High

Can somebody shout Hallelujah?
Can somebody give an amen?
The church sang and danced
And the band cranked up to ten

They talked about living water
Oh, they sang about Jordan wide
I never felt so out of place in all my life

Sing it high, sing it low
Sing it everywhere you go
Jesus will deliver you from suffering

He's the way, he's the goal
He's the song in your soul
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring
Can't you hear it ring now?

Somethin' kept calling me back there
Oh, the love of the people so strong
Soon I was dancing and clapping and singing along, yes I was

Sing it high, sing it low
Sing it everywhere you go
Jesus will deliver you from suffering

He's the way, he's the goal
He's the song in your soul
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring
Oh, you'll hear it ring

Come on, wooh, come on
Woo hoo, wooh

Sing it high, sing it low
Sing it everywhere you go
Jesus will deliver you from suffering
He's the way, he's the goal
He's the song in your soul
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring

Sing it high, sing it low
Sing it everywhere you go
Jesus will deliver you from suffering
He's the way, he's the goal
He's the song in your soul
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring
Oh you'll hear it ring?

19. Moving In My Heart

Cherie and I got married
In my bass player's old back yard
My Mom and Dad tried
But they took my moving hard

We still didn't have much money
And soon kids were on the way
But more and more
I would go to church and pray

Like an opening door
Like a breeze through a window
Prying me apart

Like an opening door
Like a breeze through a window
Something started moving in my heart

The band started doing better
Back in 1998
I started to think
Well maybe it's not too late

That big round ball of death inside
Something that I'd always had
I woke up one day
And realized I wasn't sad anymore

And the opening door
Like a breeze through a window
Prying me apart

Like an opening door
Like a breeze through a window
Something started moving in my heart

Oh Lord, my God are you calling me now?
Oh Lord, my God I can feel you now, oh

20. I Am Willing

Jesus, is it true what they're saying
You know in my heart I've been praying
'Cause I feel something, is it you that I feel?
Hold me and show me you're real

For I am willing and I am broken
All I want is the life you have spoken
Oh Father
If I give you my life
Will you come turn the night to day?

For I am willing, you don't have to break me
I don't know why you'd die just to save me
Oh Father
Come and take me now
Take me now

Jesus spirit deep as an ocean
I need you and not just emotion
If you can truly live here within me
Let this be our great beginning

For I am willing and I am broken
All I want is the life you have spoken
Oh Father
If I give you my life
Will you come turn the night to day?
For I am willing
You don't have to break me
Take all that I am don't forsake me
Oh Father
Come and take me now
Take me now

I am willing and I am broken
All I want is the life you have spoken
Let the sleeper. let the sleeper be awoken now

(I am willing and I am broken)
(I am willing and I am broken)

All I want is you, all I want is you
Oh Father
Come and take me now

All I want is you, all I want is you
Oh Father
Come and take me now

21. In The Middle

In the middle of the breaking through
There was still more that I was clinging to
That fear you feel like when you're almost gone
When you want to jump but you're still hanging on
Come on!

And as I stood there praying in my mind
I saw the things I couldn't leave behind
The heart conceals what we cannot know
As he revealed I cried out, "Let it go."
Let's go!

22. The Storm Before The Calm

I can't let go, I can't let go
I want to let go, I want to let go
Help me!

Princes, Principalities, legals and legalities
They have no more power before us

There's a light that we can see
There's a new reality
Can't you feel he's reaching down for us

Come on in the water's fine
It's ok to take the dive
Strike the harp and join in the chorus now

23. Oh, To Feel Him

In quiet solitude
I lift my heart to the sky
To the mountain so high
My life is on the altar
With music all around
His spirit enters my soul
Like nothing I've ever known
Like stillness on the water

And I knew it was him
I knew it was Jesus
The beauty of his love inside
Letting all my pain be crucified
And I knew it was him
I knew this was Jesus
There my heart was cleansed of sin
I could have the world but oh, to feel him

In a moment lost in time
My life in front of me lay
From my birth to that day
I caught a glimpse of freedom

And there I stayed
While the people prayed
Until he came in at last
I waved goodbye to my past
And walked into the kingdom

And I knew it was him
I knew it was Jesus
Like the wind you cannot see
I felt his spirit touching me
And oh, to feel, to feel him
I knew this was Jesus
There my heart was cleansed of sin
I could have the world but oh, to feel him
To feel him

Oh, to feel him, I can feel Jesus
Like the day of Pentecost
His love poured out to all the lost
And oh, to feel him, oh to feel Jesus
The power of his love inside
Letting all my pain be crucified

Oh, to feel him, oh, to feel Jesus
There my heart was cleansed of sin
I could have the world but oh, to feel him
(To feel him)
To feel him

24. God's Theme

[Instrumental]

25. Overture No. 3

[Instrumental]

26. Rejoice

Rejoice
For the king is here
Yes he's with us now
Whispering in your ear

The seed of sight, the birth of sound
The God of heaven to earth come down

Rejoice
For the king has come
Let the spirit move now
And his will be done

Reflections of God's window pane
The dew of heaven fall like rain

The seed of sight, the birth of sound
The God of heaven to earth come down
His glory lives in senssurround, yeah

27. Oh Lord My God

Oh Lord, my God
You were there when things were hard
Oh Lord, my God
Hear the words I say
You will not break
If my ways are mine that's my mistake
Oh Lord, my God
Come and breathe on me

(And you are) You are the tongues of angels
(You are) You are the winds of time
(That's what you are) The sould that feeds my freedom
(And you are) The dream that never dies

Oh Lord, my God
You walked this worldly boulevard
So a joke like me
Might ascend one day

(And you are) The realm above all nations
(You are) The oceans open wide
(That's what you are) The ultimate musician
(And you are) The life within my eyes

(That's what you are) You are the tongues of angels
(And you are) The voice that guides my soul
(That's what you are) The pain alleviated
(And you are) You are the only goal
(And you are)

Light the lights of man
Count the grains of sand
Form a deeper connection
Shift to day from night
Making fresh the trite
There's no greater affection

('Cause you are) You are the tongues of angels
(And you are) You are the winds of time
(That's what you are) The soul that feeds my freedom
(And you are) You are so magnified

(That's what you are) You are the wealth of wisdom
(And you are) The voice that guides my soul
(That's what you are) The pain alleviated
(And you are) Your love is my only goal

Oooh, you are my soul

28. God's Theme 2

[Instrumental]

29. The Land Of Beginning Again

I wish there was a way to start again
To wake up among friends
In the land of beginning again

There is a land of beginning again...





NEAL MORSE LYRICS