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Quelle
04:40
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Evoke the forms that call your name
Draw the breath that fans the flame
Lose your life to truly gain
Shout it at the mountain tops
Until my face is black and blue
Lead me to the secret place
Spur me on to seek the truth
I’d give it all at the altar
Just to find my joy in you
Choose the weak to shame the strong
Use the fool to right the wrong
Give a voice to the unsung song
Shout it at the mountain tops
Until my face is black and blue
Lead me to the secret place
Spur me on to seek the truth
I’d give it all at the altar
Just to find my joy in you
Take me out of myself
Save me from this hour
Keep me at the source
Reach my very heart
Show me who you are
‘Cause it’s for this hour
That you have come
Shout it at the mountain tops
Until my face is black and blue
Lead me to the secret place
Spur me on to seek the truth
I’d give it all at the altar
I’d leave it all not to falter
Just to find my joy in you
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Chains
04:03
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Give me more than a moment
I want something real
Keep me where I can hold it
Give me something I can feel
Can you hear me?
Does my voice sound distant or strange?
Tell me clearly
How much can one man sustain?
‘Cause my heart’s tied up in chains
Like the clay to a potter
Profit better than gold
The deer panting for water
Knows it’s life for the soul
When I walk, will you keep me in step?
If I run will you keep me from stumbling?
[ Wisdom, where are you? ]
When I walk will you keep me in step?
[ Wisdom, where are you? ]
If I run, will you keep me from stumbling?
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Lay Your Treasure
05:13
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The wealthy man with the richest prize
Will never quite be satisfied
If riches are all he has in the end
It’s all a striving after wind
Where you gonna lay your treasure; where?
The foolish man folds his hands
He’s the first to speak and the last to stand
Empty words are quicker than the sand
It’s all a striving after wind
Where you gonna lay your treasure; where?
When crisis comes your way
And there’s nothing left to say
Where you gonna lay your treasure; where?
Where you gonna lay your treasure: where?
Will you cast away your stones
To see Jesus on his throne
Where you gonna lay your treasure; where?
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Enemy
03:27
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Who do you think you are?
Going ‘round and breaking hearts
Stealing joy and causing pain
Reaching all the darkest parts of me
You’re a thief, author of lies
Enemy; prey on the wise
With a lust for life
Clothe your wolves, and kill the sheep
Right through you my eyes can see
The weeds grow up beside the grain
Choking out the harvest for the seed
Darkness has no power here
No more shame, or guilt, or tears
Perfect love that casts out fear
Darkness has no power here
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Eulogy
04:30
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Absence makes the heart grow fearful
When you’re all alone
Ask for wisdom when the mind grows feeble
Hold your head up high when you approach the throne
Dying feels like death
When pride lets out its final breath
And all you have to do
Is grieve the loss of who you used
Shed the former self
Nostalgic notions on the shelf
No lover’s gonna free from this hell
Of losing who you used to be
Absence makes the heart grow fearful
When you’re all alone
Ask for wisdom when the mind grows feeble
Hold your head up high
When you approach the throne
Don’t want fear to be out
Only love to be in
Free me from my doubt
Hold me in your arms
Where I should’ve been
Absence makes the heart grow fearful
When you’re all alone
Ask for wisdom when the mind grows feeble
Hold your head up high
When you approach the throne
Dying feels like death
When pride lets out its final breath
And all that’s left to do
Is trade the lost for who you’re meant to be
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Like A Fool
03:12
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Drove by your house at midnight
As soon as I rolled in
Guided by the moonlight
To where it all began
A young boy who met his father
After eight eager years
Oh how his mind would wander
All his hopes and dreams and fears
A man who wants to know you
And the son I want to be
Haunting every part of me
Like a fool I still love you
And it pains me to say
Don’t know what I would do
If I saw you face to face
Would I finally forgive you
When mercy calls my name
A man who wants to know you
And the son I want to be
Haunting every part of me
Like a fool I still love you
And it pains me to say
Won’t let this love be lost one you
Not on my wedding day
The youthful eyes of truth
Gonna make me proud to say
That I’m a man who wants to know you
And a father to be
I know it’s hard to believe
Like a fool I still love you
And like a fool I’m gonna love them too
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Laugh Until I Cry
04:07
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Your heart was a highway
With kindness for miles
The truth in your eyes
The warmth of your smile
Hardly knew the hour
When God would call your name
In life we loved you dearly
And in death we’ll do the same
Wake me from this dream
Where I can’t hold you anymore
Hear the angels sing
The sweetest lullaby
Makes me laugh until I cry
I wonder what you’ll say
When you see the pearly gates
Ask Him everything you’ve pondered
When you meet Him face to face
Wake me from this dream
Where I can’t hold you anymore
Hear the angels sing
The sweetest lullaby
Makes me laugh until cry
Hard pill to swallow
Heavy hearts gone hollow
Didn’t want you go
Please say it ain’t so
Wake me from this dream
Where I can’t hold you anymore
Hear the angels sing
The sweetest lullaby
Makes me laugh until I cry
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Canary
03:45
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The canary who can’t sing mumbles through a melody
Softly indistinct like a child learning to speak
The balloon with no string, no hand to hold or carry me
Floating out of reach far beyond the eye can see
Say I love you to the rearview
Wanting more, but I’m not making any room
Pray with faith to make the mountains move
I love you more now than I ever knew
Church bells are ringing and babies are born
Everywhere I turn
Should make me laugh and fill me with warmth
Instead it makes me burn
A time to weep and a time for mourning
Season to die and lives to be forming
Dress the wounds and stay for the healing
Magnify that voice that I’m hearing
Old made new
Trust in you
Say I love you to the rearview
Wanting more, but I’m not making any room
Pray with faith to make the mountains move
I don’t know how
But I love you more now than I ever knew
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Wear me down from side to side
When I can’t see beyond my pride
Knock me off my horse too high
Let the scales fall from my eyes
Bury the beak when I start to crow
Steady the hand that bends the bow
Pull me out from underneath the wreckage
Of my fickle heart apart from you
Just like the pain of the ache knows the tooth
Just like the sayer who knows how to soothe
Is the voice convincing you
Fear tells the truth
I know love comes with wounds
And faith follows failure
But I know the story doesn’t end there
God, I hope the story doesn’t end there
Just like the pain of the ache knows the tooth
Just like the sayer who knows how to soothe
Is the voice convincing you
Fear tells the truth
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10. |
Sweet Louise
04:10
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We first held hands in 1962
Just one glance and we already knew
As sure as the color of the sky was blue
Found my forever when I laid my eyes on you
You were eighteen, and I was barely a man
I gave you a ring; you said, “Honey, I think that’s grand!”
As sure as all the yellow roses bloom
Found my forever when I laid my eyes on you
Sweet Louise, would you look at me now
You moved on, and I don’t know how
Dry as the ground that drinks all the rain
What I wouldn’t give to hear you call my name
Call my name
Through heaven and hell
In sickness and health
You stayed the same
For rich or for poor
You kept me warm
To your final days
You stayed the same
Sweet Louise, if I could look at you now
I know you moved on, and I still don’t know how
I’m as dry as the ground that drinks all the rain
What I wouldn’t give to hear you call my name
Call my name
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I’ll write you a letter every day
Chasing the memories on a page
Those old habits that I need to break
Lord knows, I need to change my ways
Hold me close, but hold me loosely
Pillar to post, but it’s you I’m choosing
What we have will not be shaken
Hope cannot be tamed or taken
Here’s the promise that I’ll be makin’
To keep my eyes on you
Gonna fill up the gas in the tank
Then I’ll buy you the prettiest bouquet
Sweetness so simple and so plain
When I hear you voice calling my name
I’ll be willing if you’re not ready
Be your rock when you’re unsteady
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12. |
Open Palm (feat. TAVIA)
06:27
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Peace and joy singing down the hall
There’s a miracle livin’ in these walls
Break the silence settled down
Like dust on the frames of an empty house
Oh, what a beautiful mystery
This love we’re livin’ in so free
I prayed to God this day would come
Where I’d call you father and you call me son
The open palm that received the dove
Knew every good gift comes from above
Oh, what a beautiful mystery
This love we’re living in so free
When I hear you say you love me
Still searching for all the clues
Learning to let go and lean in
To find that it’s always been true
Oh, what a beautiful mystery
This love we’re livin’ in so free
This hope, it lights up every room
Now my heart sings a different tune
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Charles Grace Fullerton, California
Charles Grace is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Orange County,
CA.
His formative years growing up in South Carolina left a unique mark, shaping not only the songs but the artist he would become.
During his time there, Grace studied classical guitar and Spanish at Coastal Carolina University. After college, he toured the Southeast.
The Wreckage is his debut album.
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