I've been doing some recording lately and am starting to form some solid goals as far getting good recordings of my songs. Right now I am recording scratch vocals and guitar. While I was working on that last night I took a break and started playing with my last two shows that I had recorded on my portable multi-track. I played a show at Burgie's in November of 2010. Listening back I am absolutely mortified by most of the hour I played. I had had a cold that week and it really shows on most of the songs. So these recordings are the ones that I feel are at least passable. Sorry I'm not updating the blog or performing as much as I want. Hopefully that will change this year as my new year's resolution is to sing more and eat less. I should be posting some of my last show from April 2011 soon.!
Window (Live Nov. 2010)
This room is hard to see
The blame lies with me
Cause I'm like a window
With time my light goes
The dirt in the air
Falls on me like my cares
And my light is fading
And this window is breaking
(Chorus)
The light falls on the outside of my glass
Reflecting all the worst things of my past
I'll finally come clean
And you'll see right through me
I'm see through
Darlin I want you
To see right through
Cause I'm like a window
With time my light goes
Honey don't you know
To see where to go
When my light is fading
And this window is breaking
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Let the dirt fall down
Let the light shine out
I'm see through
Broken (Live Nov. 2010)
Break me open
So I stand before You
Pure and confessed heart oh joy
Break me open
So I may cry tears of guilt
And through my pain and Your healing
I may be renewed
(Chorus)
You’ve broken me conviction of sin
For so long that I had held within
Dear Savior cleanse and make me whole
Dear Savior cleanse and make me whole
Break me open
Expose every little thing
So I may come to Your throne
So I may come to Your throne
Break me open
Purify my heart oh God
So I may serve only Thee
So I may serve only Thee
Chorus
(Bridge)
A year and a half away from You
A year and a half away from You
Lord Jesus never again
Lord Jesus never again
(Chorus)
How Was I? (Live Nov. 2010)
He finally lets her go
She breathes her last and now he knows
The pain is finally gone
And through it all he's been so strong
I wonder what he'll do
Will he start to fade away too
I wonder where he'll go
Pack his bags and hit the road
(Chorus)
How was I supposed to be anything but shattered there on his porch
When through the tears he asked me to carry her to where we'd lay her down
All I wanted was to sing her favorite hymn one more time in her ear
In her ear
I finally let her go
Put her shell in the ground and I know
She's in a better place
By Thy mercy and by Thy Grace
I wonder what I'll do
Will I start to fade away too
I wonder where I'll go
Pack my bags and hit the road
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
So come thou fount of every blessing
Tune her heart to sing thy praise
Streams of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise
Oh teach her some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Oh praise the mount she stands upon it
Mount of thy redeeming love
Oh praise the mount she stands upon it
Mount of they redeeming love
(Chorus)
Leave Your Lover (Live Nov. 2010)
You say you want to be with me
But you never spend any time 'round here
You say you want to hold my hand
But your always putting nails in them
You say you want to be my bride
But your already someone else's wife
Someone else's wife
(Chorus)
So don't you crucify me
For your own little pleasures on the side
And don't you pretend like it all didn't matter
When you promised that you'd give me your life
If you really want to be my wife
You've got to leave it all behind
Leave it all behind
You say you love my children
But you're always making fun of them
You say you'll give me everything
But then you waste yourself on worthless things
You say lets go get married
But your already sleeping with my enemy
Sleeping with my enemy
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Can't you see I love you
Come to me I love you
Can't you see I love you
Come to me I love you
Leave your lover in his bed
Leave what you think you love instead of me
Leave your lover in his bed
Leave what you think you love instead of me
(Chorus)
Can't you see I love you
Jesus Loves You (Live Nov. 2010)
We've been waiting so long for you
We've been waiting so long for you
We've been waiting so long for you
Welcome home
We've been hurting so long with out you
We've been hurting so long with out you
We've been hurting so long with out you
Welcome home
(Chorus)
Know that when this world makes your cry
And you don't have a place to turn
Please remember in this life
Jesus love you, So do I
We've been praying so long for you
We've been praying so long for you
We've been praying so long for you
Welcome home
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Jesus loves us this I know
For the Bible tells us so
Little ones to Him belong
We are weak but He is strong
Yes Jesus loves us
Yes Jesus loves us
Yes Jesus loves us
The Bible tells us so
(Chorus)
