DARK SIDE
The morning starts the new parade and you wonder if the apparition’s real
Though you’re weary and afraid, you put on your mask and hide the way you feel
Comes the night a you’re alone with the feelings tha the day’s light kept within
The walls around you turn to stone and the conflict in your mind will soon begin
There’s a dark side deep within us all that wants to rise and shout
Our Father sent His only Son to croud the dark side out
So stand tall fight the demons in your head come in from the dark find the light of hope instead
You’ve got the power in your grasp stand tall and fight and hold onto it fast
As time goes by you realize you have a stabilizing force at work inside
It clears your heart it clears your mind it lifts your soul it turns the battle’s tide
Your faith can bring an inner peace to put your mind at ease
Your thoughts are pure your nightmares cease it cures your soul’s disease
So stand tall fight the demons in your head come in from the dark find the light of hope instead
You’ve got the power in your grasp stand tall and fight and hold onto it fast
Your power, you’re glory O Lord most high
STREET PREACHER
Well I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’ to remember what the young man said ‘bout my salvation
Y’see he was preachin’ to everyone within earshot, the people he’s addressin’, oh yeah, they show their aggravation
Street preacher! Why you yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone? Tell of His love, His sweet love
Street preacher! Don’t be yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone! Tell of his love, His sweet love
I know they mean well these megaphones of the righteous, but they turn off the weary and the lost
Who think all Christians are big mouth Bible thumpers and they think salvation comes at too high a cost
Street preacher! Why you yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone? Tell of His love, His sweet love
Yeah, street preacher! Don’t be yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone! Tell of his love, His sweet love
Love, love, need to tell the world today
Love, love, don’t turn the lost away
I was having dinner with some friends one summer night with a glass of wine in a small outdoor café
A young man approached us and said that he was right: “Instead of seeking heaven, y’all goin’ the other way!”
Then he told us that we were sons of the devil, we’re gonna burn forever when we die
I said, “what right, what right have you to judge us! Jesus said He saved us and our Savior doesn’t lie!”
Street preacher! Why you yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone? Tell of His love, His love, His sweet love
Yeah, street preacher! Don’t be yellin’ ‘bout your fire and brimstone! Tell the world of his love, His love, His unconditional love!
DEATH…YOU LOSE!
Death, where is your sting?
Your taunts to a child of God, they don’t mean a thing
You’re waiting for my ultimate fate to usher me through the doors of your cold, dark gate
Spread my ashes ‘cross the water or bury my bones beneath the sod
Let the deeds of my past become gossip fodder
Deliver my soul into the hands of God
Oh grave, where are your bounds?
I’ll be freed in the glory of God when the trumpet sounds
Delivered with a body that’s new, called home to the eternal feast with the chosen few
Spread my ashes ‘cross the water or bury my bones beneath the sod
Let the deeds of my youth become gossip fodder
Deliver my soul into the hands of God
Oh death, huh! Defeated at last!
By the grace of a loving God who won’t remember my past
Cast out at the moment of truth and dashed upon the rock that lies beyond the burden of proof
Spread my ashes ‘cross the water or bury my bones beneath the sod
Let the deeds of my past become gossip fodder
Deliver my soul into the hands of God
Spread my ashes ‘cross the water or bury my bones beneath the sod
The mistakes of my youth become gossip fodder
Deliver my soul into the hands of God
Into the hands of a loving God
