The Moonlit Sunrise
by Ethnicity
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Second Chances
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The Sunday Show
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Ever Deeper
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License To Live
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A Time
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The Writer
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People Are People
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Temptation
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Devil Battle
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Be It Unto Me
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Blazing Light of God
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Walking In The Garden
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Sweet Chaos
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released 21 August 2011
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- Track Name: Moonlight Upon the First Sunrise
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Father in the Heavenly Homeland,
Like moonlight upon the first sunrise,
My heart goes out to You now
Your Light focuses upon my being -
Symbol of Night consumed in substance of Day
Here I pray, let there be Light the world over - Track Name: Second Chances
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So many times, I slip up,
Whether the fault is large or small
Doubt seeps in and causes me to fear
And all too often I give in
But God in mercy stretches out His hand to me
And in His grace, He picks me up and sets me free,
Gives me another chance to be what He’s called me to be -
A humble servant serving in the likeness of Christ
I thank the Lord for second chances!
I thank God for forgiveness!
Oh how wonderful His grace,
Oh how sweet His mercy!
Oh how I love… second chances!
Sometimes it’d be so great to freeze time for just a little while
To give my mind a chance to think
But I know that God is faithful!
He won’t let us be tempted above what we’re able.
He’ll provide a way to escape.
So, by His grace, I’ll trust His Word and cast aside my evil thoughts
Of doubt and worry and fear
Yet still in those times when I shy away from where I should be…
I thank the Lord for second chances!
I thank God for forgiveness!
Oh how wonderful His grace,
Oh how sweet His mercy!
Oh how I love… second chances!
Second chances
Second chances
Second chances - Track Name: The Sunday Show
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Got a busy day ahead,
Gotta wear the right mask,
Play Simon Says,
Straighten my tie just right,
Try to live life like I'm in the light
There's no two ways about it
Let's get this party started
It's time for the Sunday Show
Gonna say my lines, play my role
Gonna fake some self-control
Everything's gonna be alright
It's time for the Sunday Show
My real life they'll never know
That's just the way it goes
It's time for the Sunday Show
Everybody's lookin' at me funny
“Why you starin' at me?
I'm just like you. See?”
It's as if they can see right past
My eyes are like a hollow glass
They're trying to break into my brain,
But I won't let it happen again
It's time for the Sunday Show
Gonna say my lines, play my role
Gonna fake some self-control
Everything's gonna be alright
It's time for the Sunday Show
My real life they'll never know
That's just the way it goes
It's time for the Sunday Show
I see a hope in these Sunday souls
They're not trying to live life in control
But my mind is a prisoner of hypocrisy
Jesus, can You set me free?
Save me from the Sunday Show
'Cause it's so hard to let it go
Kick me off of my safe plateau
Cancel the Sunday Show
So much for the Sunday Show
I've found the One who really knows
His grace it overflows
Everything's gonna be alright - Track Name: Ever Deeper
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Looking out into the ocean of His wondrous love for me,
I see a new horizon, risin’ up to take a hold of me
It’s rising so much higher, higher than I ever dreamed to be
But I’m not afraid to take it; take a deep breath and then I’ll be…
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Lost in His love for me
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Lost in His endless sea-
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
The devil sees me divin’ so he tries to get a hold of me
Stretches out his ugly hands and off course he pushes me
A meaningless distraction slippin’ in to slip up me
But God’s got His hand on me and He knows that I was meant to be…
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Lost in His love for me
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Lost in His endless sea-
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
I am falling in His love,
Swimming in His crimson blood
Fin’lly the push has come to shove,
Shoving me to really see the riches of His Son
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Lost in His endless sea
Ever deeper, ever deeper
Ever deeper’s where I want to be - Track Name: License To Live
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Just got the license,
But not willing to take the wheel
So young and afraid
How could you ever reveal
Who you really are…
Sitting in the driver’s seat
Head is dizzy, chest is thumping
Your hands are pouring sweat
Thoughts like fishes are jumping
Amid the speeding cars…
You’d rather own and coast the car
Than go anywhere far
You try to convince yourself
Do you know what you possess
And how you’ve been blessed?
You’re meant for more than dust on a shelf
You say you’re content to stay
Here in the driveway
Don’t want to stop the flow
They’ll find their own way
Without you to interfere…
You look around to see
Everyone’s driving illegal
They need a new life
Soaring like an eagle
It’s you they need to hear…
But you’d rather own and coast the car
Than go anywhere far
You try to convince yourself
Do you know what you possess
And how you’ve been blessed?
You’re meant for more than dust on a shelf
You’ve been bought with a price
It’s time you let it show
You’re all stuffed up with pride
You just gotta let it go
This car is not your own
This license was meant for the road
Here you go!!
But you’d rather own and coast the car
Than go anywhere far
You try to convince yourself
Do you know what you possess
And how you’ve been blessed?
You’re meant for more than dust on a shelf
Take this wild world by storm
Pedal to the metal, this is why you were born
Greet the birds singin’ in the sky,
Let the world know you’re livin’ your life
Take charge, take the lead,
Sing praise to God, sing it in the streets
Don’t care what the world will think
Your life goes by in a blink
You have so much to give
You’ve been given…
A license to live - Track Name: A Time
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Let me take you back with me to a time long ago...
A time,
When time itself shuddered in the darkness,
When empty vastness filled the chasm,
When all the world stood endlessly silent,
What world there was
As yet one word was spoken:
“Let there be light!”
And the darkness surrendered;
Divided in two,
Now these names were rendered:
The light was called Day,
And the darkness was Night,
Forever a division of diametric spite
Two powers opposed like a brother gone bad
And badly to stain the perfection then had
A world at war, though invisibly seen;
A dark nightmare, an oiled machine
Yet in those first moments the Writer stood fast,
Perfection in His power, a pen in His grasp
And graspingly, thinkingly, ever so sure,
The Writer set out on His greatest grandeur… - Track Name: The Writer
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A blank canvas, a barren page
A pen unmoving, a hand unswayed
Words flow from the mind of the Writer
Life comes from the pen of the Writer
Words flow from the mind of the Writer
Life comes from the pen of the Writer
The Writer writes and a heartbeat starts
A new light invades the dark
The ink from His pen draws the form of men
His words can make us born again
He is the Author of life... amen
A newborn life, a precious soul
A story unfolding, a plot untold
My life was in the Writer's hand
My days marked out before they began
My life was in the Writer's hand
I was living out His plan
The Writer writes and a heartbeat starts
A new light invades the dark
The ink from His pen draws the form of men
His words can make us born again
He is the Author of life... but then
I don't want be a part of Your story!
I want my own hopes, my own dreams!
I don't want You to get all the glory!
I'm tired of You making a puppet out of me!
And somewhere inside came alive
A ravenous beast thirsting for life
A black-hole hunger with a wicked goal
“I must rise against the Writer's control!
So I’ll step up…
My life will be in my control!
I’ll take the reins…
Power is everything that I hold!
Now You can’t take this away from me!
No, I will control my destiny!
You thought You had me in Your strings
But now I will live like a king
Oh, you pulled one over on me then!
But now I’ll hold the pen!!
Ev'ry day I try to find my way out I know He's always with me
How can I escape His eyes? I must get away while He cannot see
I must flee.
Ev'ry day I try to find my way out I know He's always with me
How can I escape His eyes? I must get away while He cannot see
Mutiny… MUTINY!!
But His eyes saw me!! RUN!!
I was running from life's Lord
Hiding away with a sharp sword
Hoping His face I could ignore
Trapped behind this locked door
“Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 23:24
I'll finally escape His story
I'll find the key to glory
No rules to thwart my vict'ry
Master of my destiny
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.” - Romans 1:28
Filled with anguish, filled with sin
I thought this would make my existence begin
Filled with anguish, filled with sin
Looks like I'm running to You again...
The Writer writes and a heartbeat starts
A new light invades the dark
The ink from His pen draws the form of men
His words can make us born again
He is the Author of life...
Amen… amen…
Amen - Track Name: People Are People
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Every day you see somebody’s face
But you can’t always trace
The steps they take
Their lives behind the lines
Aren’t what you surmise
You’d be surprised
Black, the attitude of slack,
The constant attack,
Always on your back -
It’s all just a shadowed mask
Don’t get him back
Can’t you track
This simple fact
You’ve got to realize?
People are people,
And they wanna be
Treated like people,
And they wanna be
Known as people,
Individualistically
People are people,
And they wanna be
Greeted like people,
And they wanna be
Loved as people,
Without partiality
So you step up to the plate
You state your name
And ask the same
Found out he’s a martial arts machine
With a hefty dream
To meet the queen
Time and time again he’s tried
But he spent his last dime
On a one-way flight
We all have dreams somewhere deep inside
It’s all in stride
With livin’ our lives
I think it’s time
You fin’lly realize…
People are people,
And they wanna be
Treated like people,
And they wanna be
Known as people,
Individualistically
People are people,
And they wanna be
Greeted like people,
And they wanna be
Loved as people,
Without partiality
People… are people
People… a-a a-a a-a-are people
People… a-a-a-a a-a-are people
People… bee-dah buh-dah buh-dih dih-diddlium-bum
People… a-a-a a-a-are people
God made them to live as people
And He wants us to treat ‘em like people
‘Cause don’t you know:
We were made in the image of God,
Though we’re flawed
By sin through the fall
It affected us all
See, Adam and Eve
Ate of the tree
Eve was deceived
By Satan’s scheme
But God came to save,
Made the way
To take our chains,
Release us from the pain
That we feel ev’ry day
He sent His Son
Like a dove
From above
Showering His love
By the power of His blood
As if that wasn’t enough
He sets our hearts free
So we can see
Who we were meant to be
We were meant to be His
Receive His gift
And fin’lly be loved as people!
People are people,
And they wanna be
Treated like people,
And they wanna be
Known as people,
Individualistically
People are people,
And they wanna be
Greeted like people,
And they wanna be
Loved as people,
Without partiality
The way it was meant to be! - Track Name: Temptation
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Guard your thoughts, guard your hearts, guard your minds, here it comes…
Temptation sneaks like a snake in the grass on the scene
Our senses senselessly change until our minds are deranged
Whoa-oh!
You’re put to the test – the war with the flesh -
Inside your mind
Endlessly arrested by the detested
Former life
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh…
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh…
The hope like the dawn is the Spirit of God
Inside you, burning, it’s ready to take down the lies
In every trial you’re facing, there’s a way of escaping
Whoa-oh!
You’re put to the test – the war with the flesh -
Inside your mind
Endlessly arrested by the detested
Former life
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh…
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh…
The testing of your faith can lead you to God’s way
You’re put to the test – the war with the flesh -
Inside your mind
Endlessly arrested by the detested
Former life
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh…
Hu-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh…
You’re put to the test – the war with the flesh -
Inside your mind
Endlessly arrested by the detested
Former life
Don’t try to outwit it – run while there’s still time
Consider your flesh as dead while you are still alive
Hu-uh-oh… - Track Name: Devil Battle
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Black…
The color of darkness
Absorption of light
Antithesis of right
Hear the army approaching
A horned hornet army swarming
Glee pouring from their pores
Essence of depravity
Angels under gravity
Burdened by their choice of doom
They emerge from the black hole
Their sacred dwelling
Approaching the event horizon
Entering a new dimension
The abode of mortals
Here to speak deceptive sweets
A war with words
A fight of feeling
Spiritual swords
Faith revealing
Changing emotions
Twisting truths
Presenting notions
Corrupting youths
We’ve got to stand up against this!
This is a devil battle
Break out your heavenly machine guns
Storm their castle
Blind them with a billion suns
Make their clutches melt in flame
The captives can be reclaimed
Our only hope is the Light
That can break through the black hole
White…
The color of light
Reflection of divinity
Glimpse into infinity
We fight against the evil horde
Time is what we can’t afford
Leaves are falling from the trees
Sounding like a metronome
Beating in an endless drone
Whispering of the world’s end
Dust off your ancient swords
Words eternal
Emanation of ageless Light
Firm your feet, we’ll reignite
Blazing passion
Open your ears to the unseen realm
A war with words
A fight of feeling
Spiritual swords
Faith revealing
Changing emotions
Twisting truths
Presenting notions
Corrupting youths
Break the chains of the mortal!
This is a devil battle
Break out your heavenly machine guns
Storm their castle
Blind them with a billion suns
Make their clutches melt in flame
The captives can be reclaimed
Our only hope is the Light
That can break through the black hole
When all around we see the casualties are claimed
Dragged into darkness, screaming as they lose their names
We rise with armor torn, bruises and bloody stains
Looking to the Light that can pierce through the graves
This is a devil battle
Break out your heavenly machine guns
Storm their castle
Blind them with a billion suns
Make their clutches melt in flame
The captives can be reclaimed
We can’t treat this like a game
Our only hope is the Light
That can break through the black hole
We will break through the black hole! - Track Name: Be It Unto Me
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Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You see it should be,
As You see I need
(repeat)
Be it unto me, O Lord,
Be it unto me
Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You clearly see
‘Cause You see my desperate thoughts,
My confusion and pain
You see the hurt that I hide inside
Where I thought it was boxed up
But it’s not locked up from Your sight
Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You see it should be,
As You see I need
(repeat)
Be it unto me, O Lord,
Be it unto me
Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You clearly see
‘Cause You see the rain fallin’ down,
But I’m not alone
You see the sun peeking through the clouds
Breaking down the walls that I found
And You know that I’m bound for home
Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You see it should be,
As You see I need
(repeat)
Be it unto me, O Lord,
Be it unto me
Be it unto me, O Lord,
As You clearly see - Track Name: Blazing Light of God
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The wicked lurk in the darkness
The darkness is all they know
The wicked reek of the darkness
The darkness is their eternal home
Oh-oh...
The wicked laugh in the darkness
But the darkness is in control
The wicked feed on the darkness
But the darkness swallows their souls
All through the night they hunt and slay
Under the power of darkness' sway
With no regard for judgment day
But it will come and it will not delay
And God looked into the darkness
The darkness was oh so cold
And God stepped into the darkness
The darkness lost its hold
The darkness broke before the Light
No light had ever shone so bright
All hell then shrieked in horrid fright
How could there be this awesome sight?
God gave the prisoners the key
To loose their chains eternally
Now may the world finally see
The blazing Light of God can set them free!
Blazing Light, blazing Light!
Blazing Light of God!
Blazing Light, blazing Light!
Blazing Light of God! - Track Name: Walking In The Garden
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I was walking in the garden
With the Lord by my side,
Content with His presence
As I bathed in His light
His voice shimmered sweetly,
And this it did say:
“I love you, dear child,”
In the cool of the day
Walking, walking
Peacefully, peacefully
Walking, walking
What a dream, what a dream
I was walking in the garden
When before me stood
That tree of old mention
To know evil and good
It’s fruit glowed in brilliance
“I must taste its delight!”
So taking I tasted
And fell with one bite
Standing, standing
By the tree, by the tree
Standing, standing
Woe is me, woe is me
I hid myself from the Lord
To disguise my shame
But He called me and He found me,
Judged me for my blame
Leaving, leaving
Expelled from peace, expelled from peace
Weeping, weeping
How can this be? How can this be?
I was walking in the garden
With the Lord by my side
But I fell in judgment
From His face I did hide
Expelled from the garden,
I suffered alone
But He sent me a Savior
From His royal throne
Conquering, conquering
World at peace, world at peace
Conquering, conquering
Christ as King, Christ as King - Track Name: Sweet Chaos
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If You asked me to give up my whole world, how would I respond?
Lord, I’m trembling,
I’m dying
Terribly now
I wanted somehow
To pursue my aims!
But You’re throwing me down again!!
Why must my heart consume my mind?
Why must these lies have a hold on my life?
They're holding me down!
The devil’s claws clutch my neck
And he takes me down!!
But I’m wanting somehow...
To return to Your life
Why must my pride lift me so high?
To be brought... so... low
Down upon my face, on my hands and knees,
God, this is where You wanted me
So I will lay here and find my life
You better know what You're doing...
Can Your hope be enough?
Where is Your love?
It’s at the back of my mind,
But at the forefront now is a confrontation,
Leaving me all but wasted in this world.
The screaming death of my mind:
“Never, never, never will you succeed!
Never, never, never will you succeed!
Never, never--” but You’re breaking through my thoughts!
Take the chains off my mind!!
My eyes never see
What You want them to see
I always look away
I always look away
Turn... my eyes... to Your cross...
Where You died for me
Turn... my eyes... to Your cross...
Turn... my eyes... to Your cross...
Where I hung and died with You
So that I would no longer live
For my self or these selfish thoughts
Oh God...
Father... I hear You
If I have to give up my whole world, take it
Take it from me, ‘cause I can’t hold it anymore.
When I release to You my life
I find my need for You satisfies
You satisfy
You satisfy me
Jesus, You satisfy
I am a poor, wretched soul, Lord
And emotional as a train wreck
Teach me peace, teach me joy
Teach me love for You above all else
Teach me love for others above myself
And may I find myself secure in You,
Though dashed by life’s trials, beaten and bruised
For my life is not my life
My life is You
