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Through the moments and the days
I have asked and I have prayed
I have asked and I’ve received

Through the years and through the decades
I have asked and I have waited
I has asked and I’ve received

I will knock (the door will open wide)
I will seek (and I will find you)
I will ask and I will receive

I’ve asked for wisdom, I’ve asked for grace
I’ve asked for brothers, I’ve asked for a place to grow
I has asked and I’ve received

I’ve wanted answers I’ve wanted to know the way
Wanted things to be taken away
I’ve asked and I have waited

You never said how long it would be
Only that we should ask and we’d receive…

I will call on you, I will call on you, and you will answer me…
I will knock (the door will open wide)
I will seek (and I will find you)
I will ask and I will receive

I’ve not recorded this song yet. Come back soon!

It’s been so long
The blood has dried
The rain has long since washed it away
The centuries
That stand between
It’s all so far away

So where’s the good in this
Where’s the good in this
Show me the good in this

Another death
Of an innocent man
More villainy
False accusations
Lies and blood
Nothing to do with me

So where’s the good in this
Where’s the good in this
Show me the good in this

But when I come down
And rest here a while
Beneath this rip-tide love
Something’s tearing and falling apart
And heaven’s opening up

And all I see is love
All I see is love
All I see is love

This is a good day

Run

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I will run
At the first sight of you
As you come
Over the brow of the hill

I will run
Though you can’t look me in the eye
I won’t let you
Get all your words out

It’s so good
To see you coming home again
Coming home again

I will run
I’ll leave my dignity behind
What’s that anyway
When I get to have you
In my arms again

What’s that you say
You’re ready to be my slave
But I won’t let you
Get all your words out

And all is forgiven
As I run to you

© Paul Harvey, 2009 ]]> http://blogofsongs.com/run-2/feed/ http://blogofsongs.com/how-to-look-at-a-woman/ http://blogofsongs.com/how-to-look-at-a-woman/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:18:20 +0000 Paul http://blogofsongs.com/?p=275

How to Look at a Woman

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Sometimes you’re alone at night
You lay down your arms, give up the fight
Feast your eyes on travesty
She’s stripped off her dignity
Thrown herself into the trash
You get what’s left after that
Isn’t it as plain as day
You don’t know
How to look at a woman

The heaven’s declare God’s majesty
Man and woman, His unity
The love of Father, Spirit, Son
Mirrored in our union
Father help your sons to see
Show us
How to look at a woman

Jesus, as you walked this earth
With the prostitute and the adulteress
You could look at them and see
The beauty that lay underneath
Thick black mascara and low-cut dress
Could not obscure your little princess
Your little daughter needing love
You knew
How to look at a woman

Jesus, living inside of me
Be my eyes and let me see
Show me
How to look at a woman

© Paul Harvey, 2009 ]]> http://blogofsongs.com/how-to-look-at-a-woman/feed/ http://blogofsongs.com/dont-be-my-enemy/ http://blogofsongs.com/dont-be-my-enemy/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:15:43 +0000 Paul http://blogofsongs.com/?p=251 Don’t Be My Enemy

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Don’t be my enemy
Be my brother
Be my friend
Don’t be my enemy
When you don’t have to be

Don’t be my enemy
Be my sister
Be my friend
Don’t be my enemy
When you don’t have to be

Can you crawl, can you bow
Where I laid my life down
Can you repent the wrongs you’ve done
Where I paid the price for them
Don’t be my enemy

Don’t be my enemy
Be my mother
Be my friend
Don’t be my enemy
When you don’t have to be

Can you bow, can you bend
Where I laid my life down for my friends
Can you fall on your knees
Where I put away our enemity
Don’t be my enemy

Were you hurt by what I did?
But wounds from a friend can be trusted
See, I have wounds of my own

I left you free
I made a way
I made a way back to me
I left you free
I made a way
I made a way back to me

Don’t be my enemy…
Be my brother, be my fiend
Be my sister, be my friend
Be my mother
Be my lover, be my spouse
But don’t be enemy
When you don’t have to be

© Paul Harvey, 2009

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There’s someone standing at the gate
He is calling, calling out our names
And we recognise His voice
He is opening the gate to lead us out
He gathers us around Himself
He leads us out

Follow the Leader
Follow Jesus

There’s someone standing over there
And he is calling, calling out to us
But we don’t recognise that voice
We turn our backs on him and go the other way
But Jesus, we follow Him
He leads us out

Follow the Leader
Follow JesusThe thief comes only to kill and destroy
But the Son came to give you life
But the Son came to give you life in all its fullness… 

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As the deer pants for streams of water
My soul longs for you, longs for you
You, O God

My soul thirsts for you
When can I come and be with you
Be with you, my God

I hear them saying “Where is you God?”

Through the day you pour love on me
Your unfailing love, unfailing love
O God

And through the night I sing Your songs
Praying to God who gives me life
Gives me life, O God

I hear them saying “Where is you God?”…

Why am I so down-hearted?
Why is my soul so disturbed
Within me?

I will put my hope in you O God…

And I will yet praise you

Music © Paul Harvey, 2009

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Love shakes you awake in the morning
Rocks you to sleep at night
Love restores you soul
It wears your fingers to the bone

Like sunshine on a spring day, love just happens
Like the cross, you have to take it up
While you blink you can vow
It’ll take the rest of your life to make it stick

Love is hard
Love is easy
Love is hard
Love is good

Love brings you down to your deepest valleys
Leads you to your highest mountain tops
Tastes sweet as wine in the beginning
Bitter as gall when you have to part

Love asks you for everything you have
Gives you everything you hold most dear
Love gave you your very life and self
And now demands that you lay it down

Love is hard
Love is easy
Love is hard
Love is good

Love is there in the golden summer
There in the cold grey winter rain
There at the altar
Bleary eyed at the end of a long, hard day
Sometimes it flows like a river
Sometimes you have to build it stone by stone

It was there as they gazed into each other’s eyes
There for the sad, slow demise
A slow song and a slow, close dance
Love is there in the romance
And when it feels like it’s all dried up
Love is there in the choices that you make

Love is hard
Love is easy
Love is hard
Love is good

(c) 2009 Paul Harvey

The Exultet is an old, old prayer sung by the Deacon at the Easter Saturday Vigil Mass. It glories and revels in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and all He brought about. Since coming to know Christ I have loved this prayer.

It’s a long prayer and my version of it here is really long (got 16 minutes?). I’ve split the prayer into”parts” to make it a bit more digestible!

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PART ONE :: REJOICE
O Rejoice, all heavenly powers!
Sing, all choirs of angels!
Exult around God’s throne all creation!
Jesus Christ, our King, is risen!

Rejoice, O earth, in shining splendor
Radiant in the brightness of your King!
Christ has conquered! Glory fills you!
Darkness vanishes for ever!

Rejoice, O Church! Exult in glory!
The risen Savior shines upon you!
Let this place resound with singing
Echoing the mighty song of all God’s people!

PART TWO :: STANDING IN THIS HOLY LIGHT
My dearest friends standing here with me in this holy, holy light
Join me in asking God for mercy
That he may give me grace to sing
His Easter praises

May The Lord be with you
Lift up your hearts to Him
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give him thanks and praise

It is truly right
That with full hearts and minds and voices
We should praise the unseen God
The all-powerful Father
And his only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ

For Christ has ransomed us with his blood
Paid the price for Adam’s sin
The price owed to our eternal Father!
The price that we could never pay

This is our passover feast
When Christ, the true Lamb, is slain
When Christ, the true Lamb, is slain
Whose blood consecrates the homes of all believers

It is truly right…

PART THREE :: THIS IS THE NIGHT
This is the night
When first you saved our fathers
Freed the people of Israel from their slavery
and led them dry-shod through the sea

This is the night
When the pillar of fire destroyed the darkness of sin!

This is the night when Christians everywhere
Washed clean of sin and freed from all defilement
Are restored to grace and grow together in holiness

This is the night
When Jesus Christ broke the chains of death
And rose triumphant from the grave.

PART FOUR :: WHAT GOOD WOULD LIFE HAVE BEEN TO US?
What good would life have been to us,
Had Christ not come as our Redeemer?
Father, how wonderful your care for us!
How boundless your merciful love!

To ransom a slave you gave away your Son

O happy fault
O necessary sin of Adam
Which gained for us so great a Redeemer!

To ransom a slave you gave away your Son

PART FIVE :: MOST BLESSED OF ALL NIGHTS
Most blessed of all nights
Chosen by God to see Christ rising from the dead!

Of this night scripture says:
“The night will be as clear as day
It will become my light, my joy”

The power of this holy night
It dispels all evil
It washes guilt away
Restores lost innocence
It brings mourners joy
It casts out hatred out
It brings us peace
And humbles earthly pride

Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth
And man and God are reconciled!

PART SIX :: RECEIVE OUR OFFERING
Therefore Father in the joy of this night
Receive our sacrifice of praise our offering

Accept this Easter candle
A flame divided but undimmed
A pillar of fire that glows to You

Let it mingle with the lights of heaven
And continue bravely burning
To dispel the darkness of this night!

PART SEVEN :: MORNING STAR
May the Morning Star which never sets
Find this flame still burning
Christ, that Morning Star
Who came back from the dead
And shed his light
Shed His peaceful light on all mankind

Your Son, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen

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Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.

As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the victory win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.

As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.

And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy passiontide,
Yea, evermore in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.

Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suffering over past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last.

Words: Clau­dia F. Her­na­man, 1873.
Music: Paul Harvey (c) 2009