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

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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

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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

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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

The Singer

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Jesus, you are the light of the world
The light that shines in the dark
And the darkness has not overcome you
Jesus, you are the light of the world
The light that shines in the dark
And the darkness shall not overcome you

There’s nothing you cannot penetrate
Nowhere, you cannot shine love into
Jesus, the darkness shall not overcome
There’s no depth you cannot reach and there’s
No despair, you cannot shine hope into
Jesus, the darkness shall not overcome

He’s the light by your side
He’s the light at the end of the tunnel
And the darkness will destroyed
By the brigthness of His coming
So hold on
Hold on

There’s nothing He cannot penetrate
Nowhere, He cannot shine love into
Jesus, the darkness shall not overcome
There’s no depth He cannot reach and there’s
No despair, He cannot shine hope into
Jesus, the darkness shall not overcome

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Abide with me; fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away
Change and decay in all around I see
O Thou who changest not, abide with me

Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word
But as Thou dwell’st with Thy disciples, Lord
Familiar, condescending, patient, free
Come not to sojourn, but abide with me

Come not in terrors, as the King of kings
But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings
Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea—
Come, Friend of sinners, and thus bide with me

I need Thy presence every hour
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me

Words by Henry Francis Lyte 1793-1847
Music by Paul Harvey
This arrangement © Paul Harvey 2008

Read about the origin and writer of the original here.

With your thoughts and secret
And the many things you feel
With your needs and cravings
With all the love that you feel
With the need for love you feel

What do you mean
What do you signify
Walking on this planet
But you’re going to die
What do you mean?
What do you represent?
You’re body and you’re spirit
Do you feel your significance?

And all the things you’ve done
All the people you have known
You’re not as bad as some
But you feel you could be more
You need to feel you’re something more

What do you mean
What do you signify
A thousand miles a second
And you know you’re going to die
What do you mean?
What do you represent?
You’re body and you’re spirit
Do you feel your significance?

Do you feel it?
Do you know it?
Do you feel it?
Do you know it?

Words & Music by Paul Harvey
© Paul Harvey 2008