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Pharisee
02:55
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I'm a pharisee at best and it's running through my veins
If you've got flaws then you can bet I've got something to say
Well I don't look in the mirror, yeah I don't know myself
But when I look at you I'd say you're bound to go to hell
Don't ask me why I do it, why I put them all to shame
'Cause the very things that tie you up tie me up just the same
I'm a wretch in every way from my heart up to my brain
But there's still one thing that keeps me alive
The one who was slain
He said 'why don't you tame your tongue?
why don't you let your lips be still?
'Cause there's only one who speaks like that, my Father at his will
And yet he didn't send me out of hate or to accuse
I'm here because you're beat up
'Cause your battered and you're bruised'
But we're still living in that lake treading dirty water
And we preach out all our rules instead of love our sons and daughters
But that house up on the shore, it's not made of bricks and stone
If it was like the rest it'd wash away but no, it stands alone
With a structure like no other love is its foundation
With a sign up on the door that says it's here to claim the nations
But we're just drowning down in our rules and regulations
We think that we can learn to swim with help of condemnation
Oh but let's just face it, oh friends let's face it
Jesus didn't come to remind us of our scars
He came so he could place them on his head and legs and arms
And on his back he took the lashings, every one of them was mine
And the only hope I'll ever have came pouring out his side
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Every Song
03:09
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It doesn't matter how you play it, my ears don't hear a change
Every song and every note, it all just sounds the same
Hardly any words I can relate, hardly any reach my bones
Every song that I have come to hate is every song I know
What happened to all the pretty songs?
It's my empty mind and bitter heart being lost
What happened to all the better songs?
It's my empty mind and bitter heart being lost
So won't you sing a song that I have never heard?
And move this heart of stone with already written words
I could be a note in this symphony of worth
And hear it endlessly throughout the earth
Because it's not the way you sing that needs to change
It's the way that I hear it everyday
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Ship
09:18
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I just found out I'm afraid of burning
And you hide me well but have you kept me from learning the truth?
Maybe I just fear where I'll go when I leave
Maybe I hold onto a voice that doesn't sing
I've been floating by in this body
And I don't hear a sound
There's no one here to stop me
Is there anyone around?
The devil won't come around here If I don't believe
But he'll know where to find me if I'm hiding under your sleeve
'Cause I've been floating by in this body
And I don't hear a sound
There's no one here to stop me
Is there anyone around?
I was on that ship the day it went down
And I looked to the shore where they gathered around
They said
'If your God's real then let him save you. Pray that you don't die today'
So with the water at our waists we all started to pray
But then the water reached our necks
It hadn't taken very long
Then I realized you were there
And I've been getting things all wrong
Oh God have I been sinking myself?
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