I rented out the space that you used to take In my head and my heart I kept the terms of our agreement But your lease was fake Although your head used to park On my chest after dark Wait a minute This is where my journey home started Living on my own in a new apartment I was hopeless; I was broken-hearted This is where my journey home started I met you at our work when the driving snow Filled the booths with cold feet I stirred up gallons of chili While your hired hands Kept turning up my low heat And at first the flavor was sweet So I did not turn the lock on my door at night Though I should have said “It takes time” So all it took was your apartment burning down For you to move into mine, To tell me you love being mine So then I had a A new apartment where the winter crept Another lonely night of being told I wandered through an empty room and slept A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold You always put your feet on the couch while we talked And the microwave was thawing our frozen beef And you always grinned as you said time and time again I’ll turn over a new leaf And stole my heart back like a thief But I shoulda known that you were the type to rove You shoulda bought an RV Because as soon as the weather told me to light our stove You had rolled out on me Told me I have to chase an old dream So again I had a A new apartment where the winter crept Another lonely night of being told I wandered through an empty room and slept A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold To stay alive and never woken! An early morning on a snowy night Maybe going through a mass commotion On the other side of town tonight You’d find a crockpot meal on my counter now No sense in cooking for one If you hadn’t left me with scalded hands If you weren’t on the run With my dream of a son So again I’m looking for a reason to buy a home Where I can plant some young trees And where I know, even when I’ve got the itch to roam, It’s not a seasonal lease If I want a harvest of peace But for now I’ve got a A new apartment where the winter crept Another lonely night of being told I wandered through an empty room and slept A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold I rented out the space that you used to take In my head and my heart I kept the terms of our agreement But your lease was fake Although your head used to park On my chest after dark

I want to know who named the water I want to know who gave the butterfly its spots I want to know who gave me a father I want to know who gave me this life that I got I’ve walked the world alone, and I’ve tasted all it has But my heart is full of longing Longing that I cannot explain Oh, I’m aching to be known, and I’m aching to be had Oh, my heart, it needs belonging Belonging that I cannot gain How long must I wander? How long must I grieve? How long must I hunger? Will there be rest for me? I know that I was made to follow I know that I’m to give another my heart But like the world that I’m in, I’m hollow Like the world that I’m in, I’m broken in parts I’ve walked the world alone, and I’ve tasted all it has But my heart is full of longing Longing that I cannot explain Oh, I’m aching to be known, and I’m aching to be had Oh, my heart, it needs belonging Belonging that I cannot gain How long must I wander? How long must I grieve? How long must I hunger? Will there be rest for me?

Come to me All you who labor and are heavily burdened And I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you And learn from me For I am gentle and humble in heart And you will find rest for your souls For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light

New Day New Dawn New Life Move On So, you woke up today With no sunlight for your eyes And you hope and you pray Keeping your feelings at bay For an opened horizon But when the glimmer of day Only laughs at your pain What should you be surmising If you live by your eyes That the Lord of the skies Is a miserable miser Could there be a new day Could there be a new dawn Could there be a new life How can I move on But those heavenly lights Although distantly bright Are calling you to look farther Isn’t every good gift Even a loss or a rift From your heavenly Father Doesn’t He know what’s best Isn’t His Son the chest of all wisdom and treasure So shouldn’t you look to Him Lest your vision be dimmed With your thoughts as your measure He'll help you find a new day He'll help you find a new dawn He'll help you find a new life He’ll help you move on Listen, His Word said blessed are you Who are poor in the eyes of the world I’ve made you rich in faith You’ll inherit the kingdom The banner of which I’ve unfurled He said blessed are you Who are meek and who mourn Blessed are you when you’re the victim of scorn for my name When the game that they play isn’t fair But you keep to my rules with a peacemaker’s flair For redeeming what’s broken with merciful might And you hunger and thirst for the dawn of what’s right And when all else fails you and everybody bails You praise my name all the same Keep singing You’re my new day You’re my new dawn You’re my new life So I can move on New Day New Dawn New Life Move On

Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven Whose sin is covered Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity In whose spirit there is no deceit When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all day long For day and night your hand was heavy on me My strength was sapped in the heat of summer I acknowledged my sin to you I didn’t hide my iniquity I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh And you forgave the iniquity of my sin For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you In a time when you may be found Surely when the great waters overflow They shall not reach to him You are my hiding place You will preserve me from trouble You will surround me with songs of deliverance I will instruct you And teach you in the way which you shall go I will counsel you with my eye on you Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule Which have no understanding Who are controlled by bit and bridle Or else they will not come near to you Many sorrows come to the wicked But loving kindness Shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Be glad in Yahweh And rejoice, you righteous Shout for joy, all you Who are upright in heart

Have you lost your wonder If so, do you wonder How it happened to you Was it like clothes you outgrew through Life’s dim and winding hallways But wonder is with us always If we’ll open, open our eyes Breathe the night air Seek the sunrise Wake as a child As a child As a child Forests cling to mountains Will you cling to counting On your journey’s deeper purpose There is not a step that you’ve missed Reach out to the Father Of your spirits, sons and daughters There’s a city where your treasure Is enthroned in endless pleasure That His child That His child That every child is coming home Will you give love to him Who rescued his Father’s children In him there’s nothing Nothing you lack Oh, no matter what holds you back You’re His child He loves you so

I spilled my seed along the way On ground I did not love Ground I did not own, did not care for Yes, indeed: I’d seen the better way The way of dirty hands And of long-term plans, the way that’s careful But in the frozen wastes of the garden bed Of my younger years Now I think with tears, oh, how shameful I gave and gave as to an iron grave Not a single sprout, bud or leaf came out of what I sowed But the death I reaped only made seed cheap I would not have slowed except I heard you say I want to help you plant A hundred lilacs in our front yard The love I give to you Will make them bloom That’s what this seed is for It’s time to yield your heart to me Plant your trust. You’ll see What I have in store Don’t run from me anymore Anymore But my heart could not It could not love you back My heart was hard as ice My heart was hard as stone, hard as iron But the Son arose He the everlasting seed In which all living things Spread the vivid rings of their offspring But why’d he die Who was the Source of Life When it should have been All we willful men who were fruitful It was because he loved Even when we hated him He took the death I sowed and the debt we owed And he gave more He made us alive In the gardened vine of his kingdom Singing over us What the reason was we were saved for I want to help you plant A thousand lilacs in our front yard The love I give to you Will make them bloom That’s what this seed is for It’s time to sow a fragrant legacy Plant your trust. You’ll see What I have in store You belong to me evermore Evermore The King of Glory, He died for my shame He hung there naked and mocked on the cross. He told me, child, if you trust in my name, My love will welcome you home from your loss Oh, for the music I hear in his voice A million orchestras playing in tune Today I’ll put to death any sin That He died to save me from. So I’ll be ready when he returns soon Oh, for the music I hear in his voice A million orchestras playing in tune Today we’ll plant a seed For the fragrant hope that soon In our front yard You will smile because of what’s bloomed And then she came And she came to stay Oh, to grow beside Such a fruitful branch of the vine What a privilege So beautiful, with such a well-watered faith She’ll make our daughters, sons And their father want to stay grounded But then a shadow of doubt Fell over our garden bed We were rebel dirt Could it ever work To make more of us Yes, because It is his seed in us That made us alive in the gardened vine of his kingdom And we will plant the same With the love He gave when he saved us, singing We want to help you plant Today a lilac in our front yard The love you give to us Will make it bloom That’s what this seed is for And time, too, as much you, Father Of our merciful Lord of love have in store Oh, gracious Lord, give more Please give more Oh, for the music we hear in your voice A million orchestras playing in tune Today we’ll plant a seed For the fragrant hope that soon In our front yard You will smile because of what’s bloomed You will smile because of what’s bloomed

June 13th, the milk carton says Is when this drink will expire And that date makes me think And, I admit, perspire Because on June 13th my wife is due To release to the world this child she grew And I admit that before I thought that I knew How to keep from getting too hot and bothered But that was before, that was before That was before I was a new father But now I’m a new father I am a new father July 25th has come and gone Another year since our wedding I had so many dreams now gone from my life Like the hair of a dog that is shedding But listen, one by one as I laid them down My heart was filled with a truth as light yet profound As the weight of my son I lift from the ground And who with gentle voice says, father, I love you When I was a child, I thought like a child I talked like a child. I reasoned like a child But love grew me up Love taught me that It’s not about me So now I’m living for love Because love set me free Decades pass like fading grass My child has grown in a moment I sang love’s song and he sang along But did I love him well? Has he known it Although my heart does reach for days gone past I don’t fear for the future I’m safe in the grasp Of a fierce, grand love that will never elapse The Son of God laid down his life for my pardon So I am a son, I am son, forever a son Of my Heavenly Father, my Heavenly Father My Everlasting Father

How long must I wander How long must I grieve How long must I hunger Will there be rest for me You’ve made me rest beside the water You gave me who was blind a new kind of sight You even went and made me a father After how I left the way, I didn’t think I had the right You taught me how breathe You helped me reach out for your hand But my heart is full of longing Longing that you taught me to name Oh, I’m aching to come home To be settled in your land Oh, my body needs belonging Belonging that I’ve not yet gained. How long must I wander How long must I grieve How long must I hunger Will there be rest for me

How lovely are your dwellings Yahweh of Armies My soul longs, and even faints For the courts of Yahweh My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God Yes, the sparrow has found a home And the swallow a nest for herself Where she may have her young Near your altars, Yahweh of Armies My King, and my God Blessed are those who dwell in your house They are always praising you Blessed are those whose strength is in you Who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage Passing through the valley of Weeping They make it a place of springs Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings They go from strength to strength Every one of them appears before God in Zion Yahweh, God of Armies Hear my prayer Listen, God of Jacob Behold, God our shield Look at the face of your anointed For a day in your courts is better than a thousand I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield Yahweh will give grace and glory He withholds no good thing From those who walk blamelessly Yahweh of Armies Blessed is the man who trusts in you

Going on a walk, going on a walk Going on a walk with my family We don’t have to talk, we don’t have to talk Words could only mock what is happening Going to CVS, going to CVS Going to CVS, oh, to buy for her A test for my yes, test for my yes I choose to give the best of my life to her Everything I have I give to you Let me buy the test on my debit card We share a bank account, yeah, that is true But everything I am loves who you are And who may be in you, who may be in you Who may be in you, Lord, how could I know But as I lead the way, as I lead the way You follow and you stay, oh, so here we go Everything you have you give to me Let me buy us bread on our debit card And for everyone you bring to our family Lord, help me go the extra mile and yard Another pair of feet, another pair of feet Another pair of feet for this tricycle Our boy is on the seat, boy is on the seat I can’t wait till he meets who we might be holding soon Everything I have I give to you Let me buy the test on my debit card We share a bank account, yeah, that is true But everything I am loves who you are And everything you have you give to me Let me buy us bread on our debit card And for everyone you bring to our family Lord, help me go the extra mile and yard Mile and yard