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Down this road

Posted April 28, 2007 * Comments(0)

I’ve been down this road before,

Though the seasons have changed,

I can see the way things were,

I see the way things have to be.

The Wizard Needs Food Badly

Posted February 26, 2007 * Comments(0)
The Wizard Needs Food Badly
Performed by Five Iron Frenzy 

I know that you’re probably mad at me.
I’ve come to expect that.
You know that you’ll never have all of me,
you’ve come to resent that.
You say “tomato”, I say “video games”,
you’re acting so solemn.
You’ll take the precious remote control from me.
Do I sound like Gollum?
(It’s) not that I’m escaping,
you charm me like the flame does moths,
it’s just that you’d prefer me docile,
like a narcoleptic sloth.

The wizard needs food badly,
the Voltron can’t be incomplete.
The things I love, you hate so madly,
I must not go down in defeat.

In the hunter-gatherer societies,
I’d bring home the bacon.
Public thought says men should try and be tame,
stirred but not shaken.
I say “baseball” then you start to cry,
I’m sorry I grieve you.
I think a motorcycle’s a good way to die,
this must bereave you.
I know that you try so hard,
and I’m not saying it’s a sin,
it’s just that they don’t feel my pain,
in Vogue or Cosmopolitan.

And I’m sure you have your reasons,
but listen to me please…
I want the G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu action grip.
I want Nintendo with the extra-graphics-microchip.
Tackle football with rocks,
and sticks, and knives, and pain…
I want a truck with the four wheel drive train.
You’d rather see me get good at bookkeepping,
I could clean house in the time that I’m not sleeping.
I live to serve you, and I don’t want to be rude,

but you should see that the wizard needs food.

Dandelions

Posted November 17, 2006 * Comments(0)

In a field of yellow flowers,
Underneath the sun,
Bluest eyes that spark with lightening,
Boy with shoes undone.
He is young, so full of hope,
Reveling in tiny dreams,
Filling up his arms with flowers,
Right for giving any queen.

Running to her beaming bright,
While cradling his prize.
A flickering of yellow light,
Within his mother’s eyes.
She holds them to her heart,
Keeping them where they’ll be safe,
Clasped withing her very marrow,
Dandelions in a vase.

Chorus
She sees love, where anyone else would see weeds.
All hope is found.
Here is everything he needs.

Fathomless your endless mercy,
Weight I could not lift.
Where do I fit in this puzzle,
What good are these gifts?
Not a martyr, or a saint,
Scarcely can I struggle through.
All that I have ever wanted,
Was to give my best to you.

Chrous 2
Lord, search my heart,
Create in me something clean.
Dandelions-
You see flowers in these weeds.

Bridge
Gently lifting hands to heaven,
Softened by the sweeted hush,
A Father sings over his children,
Loveing them so very much.
More than words could warrant,
Deeper than the darkest blue.
More than sacrifice could merit
Lord, I give my heart to you.

Performed by: Five Iron Frenzy
Lyrics: Reese Roper
Music: Dennis Culp

“His Plan For Me”

Posted April 13, 2006 * Comments(0)

When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ
And He shows His plan for me,
The plan of my life as it might have been
Had He had His way - and I see
How I blocked Him here ,and checked Him there,
And I would not yield my will,
Will there be grief in my Savior’s eyes,
Grief though He loves me still?
Would He have me rich and I stand there poor,
Stripped of all but His grace,
While memory runs like a hunted thing,
Down the paths I cannot retrace.
Lord, of the years that are left to me,
I give them to Thy hand;
Take me and break me and mold me,
To the pattern that Thou hast planned!

-Author Unknown