If it be your will That i speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more I shall abide until I am spoken for If it be your will If it be your will That a voice be true From this broken hill I will sing to […]
Now the captain called me to his bed He fumbled for my hand "take these silver bars," he said "i’m giving you command." "command of what, there’s no one here There’s only you and me — All the rest are dead or in retreat Or with the enemy." "complain, complain, that’s all you’ve done Ever […]
I went down to the place Where i knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, mother i’m frightened The thunder and the lightning I’ll never come through this alone She said, i’ll be with you My shawl wrapped around you My hand on your head when you go And the […]
The Law - Various Positions
How many times did you call me And i knew it was late I left everybody But i never went straight I don’t claim to be guilty But i do understand There’s a law, there’s an arm, there’s a hand There’s a law, there’s an arm, there’s a hand Now my heart’s like a blister […]
Maybe i’m still hurting I can’t turn the other cheek But you know that i still love you It’s just that i can’t speak I looked for you in everyone And they called me on that too I lived alone but i was only Coming back to you Ah they’re shutting down the factory now […]
Your father’s gone a-hunting He’s deep in the forest so wild And he cannot take his wife with him He cannot take his child. Your father’s gone a-hunting In the quicksand and the clay And a woman cannot follow him Although she knows the way. Your father’s gone a-hunting Through the silver and the glass […]
I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere. And I sing this for the captain Whose ship has not been built For the mother in confusion Her cradle still unfilled. For the heart with no companion For the soul without […]
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah. Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah. Your faith was strong but you needed […]
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love. Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone […]
