She Must And Shall Go Free - Lyrics - Derek Webb

Title: She Must And Shall Go Free
Artist: Derek Webb
Composer(s): William Gadsby, Derek Walsh Webb, Sandra Webb

Lyric:
Mercy speaks by Jesus' blood
Hear and sing, ye sons of God
Justice satisfied indeed
Christ has full atonement made

Jesus' blood speaks loud and sweet
Here all deity can meet
And without a jarring voice
Welcome Zion to rejoice

All her debts were cast on me
And she must and shall go free

Peace of conscience, peace with God
We obtain through Jesus' blood
Jesus' blood speaks solid rest
We believe and we are blessed

All her debts were cast on me
And she must and shall go free

Should the law against her roar
Jesus' blood still speaks with power

All her debts were cast on me
And she must and shall go free

All her debts were cast on me
And she must and shall go free

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Wedding Dress - Lyrics - Derek Webb

Title: Wedding Dress
Artist: Derek Webb
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
If you could love me as a wife
And for my wedding gift your life
Should that be all I?ll ever need
Or is there more I?m looking for

And should I read between the lines
And look for blessings in disguise
To make me handsome, rich and wise
Is that really what you want

'Cause I am a whore, I do confess
I put you on just like a wedding dress
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle

Or I?m a prodigal with no way home
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle to you

So could you love this bastard child
Though I don?t trust you to provide
With one hand in a pot of gold
And with the other in your side

'Cause I am so easily satisfied
By the call of lovers so less wild
That I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood

'Cause I am a whore, I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle

Or I?m a prodigal with no way home
But I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle to you

Because money cannot buy
A husband?s jealous eye
When you have knowingly deceived his wife

So I am a whore, I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle

Or I?m a prodigal with no way home
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle

Or I am a whore, I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle

Or I?m a prodigal with no way home
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle to you
To you

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Lover - Lyrics - Derek Webb

Title: Lover
Artist: Derek Webb
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
Like a man comes to an altar, I came into this town
With the world upon my shoulders and promises passed down
And I went into the water and my father, he was pleased
Oh I built it and I?ll tear it down, so you will be set free

Yes, and I found thieves and salesmen, living in my father?s house
And I know how they got in here and I know how to get ?em out
You see, I?m turning this place over from the floor to balcony
And then, just like these doves and sheep, oh, you will be set free

?Cause I have always been a lover from before I drew a breath
Well and somethings I loved easy, some I love to death
'Cause love?s no politician, no it listens carefully
So of those who come, I can?t lose one
So you will be set free, oh, you will be set free

I go on and take my picture, go on and make me up
Oh, I?ll still be your defender, you?ll be my missing son
Oh and I?ll send out an army just to bring you back to me
?Cause regardless of your brothers? lies, oh, you will be set free

Because I am my beloved?s and my beloved?s mine
So, you bring all your history, I?ll bring the bread and wine
Oh and we?ll have us a party oh where all the drinks are on me
And as surely as the rising sun, oh, you will be set free
Oh, you will be set free

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Bus Driver - Lyrics - Intimate Portrait - Caedmons Call

Title: Bus Driver
Album: Intimate Portrait
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
I am a bus driver and it's four in the morning
And I'm pressing out my clothes beside my bed
Fourteen years been on the job and with many miles behind
Still I'm up at three thirty to make sure I'm there on time

And my car gets me along just fin, to and from the station
But my castle is this Houston Metro Bus
My first stop is Ash bury and that sign's been gone for years
But same the people wait 'cause they know that I'll be there

What would you say if I told you that I won't be by today?
Would you say that I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know?

Well, I'm always there by five fifteen but lately I've been early
'Cause Judith likes to be in early to the bank
And she gives me conversation and a token good for riding
Says she's happy all alone

And then there's Charles in retail sales and I hope they pay him well
for the work that young man does
'Cause I've never seen the inside of a custom refrigerator
But I know that he's the first and last one there

What would you say if I told you that, "I won't be by today"?
Would you say that I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know, well and what do I know

And I wonder what they do all day and their respective works
Suppose they give money and take money away
And I'm just orbiting this town with the post office, my son
And I'm circling again

And I wonder how this world would be
Well if I was never here to drive this bus around from Ash bury to Main
I guess this town would be the same but with one bus' less exhaust
But that bank and retail stores, they just wouldn't be the same

And what can I see from the limited confines of my bus driving seat?
Only me and

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know
I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know

I'm just a bus driver, well they don't believe that
I'm just a bus driver, well they don't believe that
I'm just a bus driver, I say, "Don't believe that"
We're all just bus drivers and it's time to go home

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Standing Up For Nothing - Lyrics - Caedmon's Call - Caedmons Call

Title: Standing Up For Nothing
Album: Caedmon's Call
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
I can't stop staring at myself
My face reflected in this empty plate
I can't decide if it's the devil
Or if it's just something I ate

'Cause he's been down there all morning
He's patiently waiting at my gate
He's throwing rocks at my window
"Hey, won't you come on out and play with me?

And every day when I get up
I see folks trading in their crowns
For all these paper or plastic lives
An opiate for the masses hounds

And pride like a vestige of lives lost
The stench of the old folks coming around
Now with the news I heard today
I can't tell if this world is lost or found

You go, I'll be waiting here
And I'm awake, no I cannot sleep
So I'll sit upon this, rock is you
I ain't standing up for nothing

I've never seen my congressman
But I can't deny that he exists
'Cause I've seen his legislation pass
I've seen his name on the ballot list

The same I can't deny this fallen world
Though not my home, it's where I live
How can I preserve and light the way
For a world that I can't admit I'm in

'Cause I know who I say you are
But these crows can't be made to stop
So I'll sit denying by this fire
I ain't standing up for nothing

Lack of interest leads to
Lack of knowledge leads to
Lack of perspective leads to
Lack of communication leads to

Lack of understanding leads to
Lack of concern leads to
This complacency denotes
This approval denies the truth

But I can't stop staring at myself
It's my face reflected in this empty plate
And I know that it's the devil
So you lead, I'll be close behind

So you speak, I'll hang on your words
You've got to lift me from this hardened tree
'Cause I ain't standing up for nothing

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Stupid Kid - Lyrics - Caedmon's Call - Caedmons Call

Title: Stupid Kid
Album: Caedmon's Call
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
I think this place is swell
There's much familiar here
I get my laundry done
I haven't gotten phone calls in years

When I'm feelin' tired
I can turn off all the lights
With no one knockin' on the door
Pretend I'm not alive but

Daddy, it's Saturday
And I don't wanna go outside
And mow the grass today

Say, would you love me just as much
If I was just your stupid kid?
I said, would you love me just as much
If I was just your stupid kid?

Well they tell me that I'm bright
Sometimes I think they're right
But I guess I will ever know
'Cuz I won't go outside

Some days it's just so hot
And others it's so cold
Too much exposure to the sun
Will just make me look old

But daddy it's Saturday
And I don't wanna go outside
And mow the grass today

Said, would you love me just as much
If I was just your stupid kid
Say, would you love me just as much
If I was just your stupid kid

Well isn't it Saturday
Sure feels like Saturday
So, wake me Saturday
Daddy, it's Saturday

Well my watch is off to things I never seen
With these walls higher than the cost
Of opportunity

'Cuz I'm too big for my bed
And I've outgrown my shoes
But my fear of leaving
Is the one thing just can't lose

But daddy it's sat
I don't wanna go outside
And mow the grass today

Say, would you love me just as much
If I went out and got a job
If I never left your house
[Unverified]
If I never matter much more
I'm just your stupid kid

Would I love me just as much
If I was just your stupid kid

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Close Of Autumn - Lyrics - Caedmon's Call - Caedmons Call

Title: Close Of Autumn
Album: Caedmon's Call
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
When I'm cold and alone all I want
Is my freedom, a sudden gust of gravity
I stop wailing and kicking just to let
This water cover me, cover me

Only if I rest my arms, rest my mind
You'll overcome me and swell up around me
With my fighting so vain, with my vanity
So fought, I'm rolling over

'Cause in just the same way the stream becomes
Swollen up, swollen with cold up over the ground
When my heart draws close to the close of autumn
Your love, your love abounds

All this time I've been thinking, wondering
How would it be to breathe in deep
Guess I need to be careful when I ask
For a drink, just might get what I ask for

And I know just what you'd say to me
That's why I don't ask you, what would I ask you?
I'm like a bull-headed boy these days
Crying my toy is gone, you're shiny and new

'Cause in just the same way the stream becomes
Swollen up, swollen with cold up over the ground
When my heart draws close to the close of autumn
Your love, your love abounds

Guess I'll drop my anger here before
I float away and the chains around me
An awful lot of talking, I don't leave you
Much to say, you didn't ever leave me

And my greatest fear was you'd leave me here
A long time back my feet could touch the bottom

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Center Aisle - Lyrics - Caedmon's Call - Caedmons Call

Title: Center Aisle
Album: Caedmon's Call
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
Thank God I'm back in my car, and drivin' home and drivin' home
'Cause the air was thin and so cold back in there
It was my first time, won't be my last time
And the questions rise expectations fall in light of it all

There aren't words to say, words aren't remembered, but presence is
A good friend once told me and he was there, he was there
But she wasn't there and it's not fair and it's not fair

What crimes have you commited, demanding such penance
That couldn't wait for five more minutes and a cry for help?
'Cause this room is peaceful and this room is so quiet
And I hate the silence and I can't walk the center aisle

Well, I've been here for over three hours
Behind the flowers, so beautiful and young
And so alive and so in need of someone
Someone to talk to them, 'cause theirs are fragile lives

What crimes have you commited, demanding such penance
That couldn't wait for five more minutes and a cry for help?
'Cause this room is peaceful and this room is so quiet
And I hate the silence and I can't walk the center aisle

And I think about my brother
And how I just stood there
With my hands in my pockets
And my heart in my throat

Thank God I'm back in my car and drivin' home and drivin' home
But in that place I leave all my days of taking life for granted
And the words I wrote for her and my best friend crying
And a young girl lying on all our hearts

What crimes have you commited, demanding such penance
That couldn't wait for five more minutes and a cry for help?
'Cause this room is peaceful and this room is so quiet
And I hate the silence and I can't walk the center aisle
And I hate the silence and I can't walk the center aisle

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Not The Land - Lyrics - Caedmon's Call - Caedmons Call

Title: Not The Land
Album: Caedmon's Call
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Webb

Lyric:
So many miles behind
Still, I drive with the pedal down
I was off the map hours back
It's beneath the seat, I think
It's with two pennies and a match

And something else, I can't remember
But in the time that it would take to fish it out
I'll be another mile gone and I feel so wrong
Trying to feel right
In light of all the things I've passed
You'd think that I'd have learned

This is not the land was promised me
Even as far as my eyes can see
I'm so wound up, Lord, I can't even breathe
And I don't want words, I just want some peace
Some peace, some peace

It seems I've misplaced my faith
'Cause it's 11:12 and nothing's changed
Well, nothing except the channel I'm afraid
And the number there
No, it's the same

Oh, this must be the savior of the month
And what I must have, where's the night gone?
'Cause I'm so tired and out of shape
You've gotta get me up
But I can't get up today

'Cause it's been so long
Since I've felt right
All the rote, rehearsal, proof
You'd think that I'd have learned

This is not the land was promised me
Even as far as my eyes can see
I'm so wound up, Lord, I can't even breathe
And I don't want words, I just want some peace
Some peace, some peace

Break me, break me, break me
This is not the land was promised me
Gotta get out of bed, get something to read
And I gotta feed my brother, not my eyes
If not, then I'll be all I despise

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Piece Of Glass - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: Piece Of Glass
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Danielle Glenn, Derek Webb

Lyric:
Can?t believe that I did it again, wake me up from this nightmare
?Cause this monsters are wasting me away and taking my days
Everyday I live a bit less, one night leads to another
Even if I went back, would they recognize me or criticize me?

Who are you that lies when you stare at my face?
Telling me that I?m just a trace of the person I once was
'Cause I just can't tell if you're telling the truth or a lie
On you I just can't rely, after all you're just a piece of glass

Still I control this nightmare, when I call it answers
But I can't tell it when to come or when to stay

Who are you that lies when you stare at my face?
Telling me that I?m just a trace of the person I once was
'Cause I just can't tell if you're telling the truth or a lie
On you I just can't rely, after all you're just a piece of glass

Don?t talk, listen, hold me tighter
Stay with me just for a while
Until the sun shines stay with me
Just give me one more day

Who are you that lies when you stare at my face?
Telling me that I?m just a trace of the person I once was
'Cause we're not the same, you're just a picture of me
You?re gone as soon as I leave, you've lived my life for me
And you're no more than a piece of glass
You're no more than just a piece of glass

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Beautiful Mystery - Lyrics - Back Home - Caedmons Call

Title: Beautiful Mystery
Album: Back Home
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Aaron Alexander Tate, Derek Walsh Webb, Clifford W Young

Lyric:
I tried to know
Every mystery
Soon realized, no
It was too much for me

'Cause most things true
Are simple and complex
So it is with you
What else should I expect

You suffer the seeker
In you they abide

You are to me
A beautiful mystery
You are to me
A servant and a king
You're a beautiful mystery

You're like the water
I can feel but not grasp
Still you say all I've gotta do
Is seek and knock and ask

You are to the river
What hems it in and sets it free

You are to me
A beautiful mystery
You are to me
A servant and a king
You're a beautiful mystery

The truth is a river
Where the strong can swim down deep
The weak and the broken
Can walk across so easily

You are to me
A beautiful mystery
You are to me
A servant and a king

You are to me
A beautiful mystery
You are to me
A servant and a king
You're a beautiful mystery
You're a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful mystery
You're a beautiful mystery
You're a beautiful mystery
You're a beautiful

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Ballad Of San Francisco - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: Ballad Of San Francisco
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
So I'm walking down the street somewhere outside of San Francisco
And I don't really know my way around
And I'd love to stay a day or two and get into some trouble
But tomorrow I'll be in another town

And there's at least one coffee bar for every single couple
And there's at least a couple in this place
Strange the things you notice when the walls are closing in
And the walls are closing in on me today

So where, oh where, can I find someone, anyone
'Cause there's no way outta here
But here is where I live and so I guess that means
The carrot's gonna dangle for at least another year

And I love anonymity and I love being noticed
Just the same as anybody else
Years ago I told you how I loved to be alone
These days I'd be perjuring myself

So where, oh where, can I find someone, anyone
'Cause there's no way outta here
But here is where I live and so I guess that means
The carrot's gonna dangle for at least another year

It's like you gave me up, like I gave up drinking coffee
So I guess I would've done the same
And now I know I'm lost somewhere outside of San Francisco
But I'm still glad that I came

So where, oh where, can I find someone, anyone
'Cause there's no way outta here
But here is where I live and so I guess that means
The carrot's gonna dangle for at least another year

And where, oh where, can I find someone, anyone
'Cause there's no way outta here
But here is where I live and so I guess that means
The carrot's gonna dangle for at least another year

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What You Want - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: What You Want
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
You're softer than a cannon blast
But your effects much longer last
And I want you just like a hole in my head
But I need you like a meal and a bed

And you say, "Come on, I'm not what you're after"
But I know you're not just anyone, anyone

'Cause I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
But if you needed me
Then I could be someone

And you're an army in a horse
And you have taken me by force
And all the freedom in this world could not resist
The sweet temptation of your sweet elusiveness

So I say, "Come on" as the gate swings open
'Cause I know you're not just anyone, anyone

And I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
And if you needed me
Then I could be someone

And the lies always cheaper than the truth
But the lies all I've ever known of you
Maybe none of this is true

'Cause I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
But if you needed me
Then I could be someone

'Cause I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
But if you needed me
Then I could be someone

And I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone

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Can'T Lose You - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: Can'T Lose You
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
So you're gone and but I know you're not so far away
You're a call on the phone or a ride on a plane
But that just isn't the same, yeah well

Well, that's okay [Incomprehensible] because I was never home anyway
So now everyone's evolving and I am just the same
As I was ten years ago, but I don't know
Maybe a simple life is more the way to go
Yeah, but then again I?m mostly all alone

'Cause I'm losing everyone
But I know I can't lose you, no
And maybe my time will come
But I know I can't lose you

'Cause the older I get
Well, the more that life is making sense
And it's similar to traffic or being president
'Cause I?m not the one in control 'cause you grab a hold
And I'm just a hammer helping to nail the future down
And but it's getting hard making my friends leave town

'Cause I'm losing everyone
But I know I can't lose you, no
And maybe my time will come
But I know I can't lose you

But maybe I missed the nose right on my face
For what's just past it
And maybe I have the gift that everyone speaks so high of
Funny how nobody wants it

'Cause I'm losing everyone
But I know I can't lose you, no
And maybe my time will come
But I know I can't lose you
Yes, I know I can't lose you, oh

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Love Is Different - Lyrics - Long Line Of Leavers - Caedmons Call

Title: Love Is Different
Album: Long Line Of Leavers
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
Well, it looks like five thousand miles broke the camel's back
But it's not as though I had a plan to win you back
Because I don't know what I want
But at least I know that much
Now I'm afraid love came right up
And it slapped me in the face, but I did not know, no

'Cause love is different than you'd think
It's never in a song or on a TV screen
And love is harder than a word
Said at the right time and everything's alright
I said love is different than you'd think

So I won't expect a postcard from Trafalgar square
But I'd be lying if I said I didn't care
Because you can't just turn it off
And put a blindfold on your heart
But I'm off to a good start
We're a continent away, but I do not know, oh no

Because love is different than you'd think
It's never in a song or on a TV screen
And love is harder than a word
Said at the right time and everything's alright
I said love is different than you'd think

But maybe you're the dream I'm waking from
Well, I see you everywhere I go
Darlin', you are such a mystery to me
You know, don't you know that

Love is different than you'd think
It's never in a song or on a TV screen
And love is harder than a word
Said at the right time and everything's alright
I said love is different than you'd think
Well, I said love is different than you'd think

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Dance - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: Dance
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
My name is Mary
And I'm from Greenville, Mississippi
Yeah but this is where I live
Here in this old folks' dormitory

And every Sunday night
Sarah comes to see us
And she plays that old upright
But Sarah always seems to leave us

And when she plays
Something comes over me
Goes from my head
All the way to my feet

And I wanna dance
I wanna snap my fingers all night long and dance
I wanna move around the room just like a woman in a trance
All night, I said I wanna dance

I wanna wrap my arms around your neck and dance
I wanna listen to the music that's been ringin' in my ears
'Cause one day I'm gonna dance right outta here

I had three girls and a boy
But now one's gone up to Heaven
She's with her papa now
'Cause he left for lack of penicillin

The older that I get
I figure everyone is dyin'
They're all dyin' for a change
And I know I'm dyin' for some action

But days like these
Sunday seems so far away
So until then I'm gonna sit right here
And here I'll stay

I wanna dance
I wanna snap my fingers all night long and dance
I wanna move around the room just like a woman in a trance
All night, I said I wanna dance

I wanna wrap my arms around your neck and dance
I wanna listen to the music that's been ringin' in my ears
'Cause one day I'm gonna dance right outta here, right outta here

I'd marry you if you could dance that's what I said
'Cause where I'm goin' there'll be dancin' everyday

I'm gonna dance
I'm gonna snap my fingers all night long and dance
I'm gonna move around the room just like a woman in a trance
All night, I'm gonna dance

I'm gonna wrap my arms around your neck and dance
I'm gonna listen to the music that's been ringin' in my ears
'Cause one day I'm gonna dance right outta here

So one day I'm gonna dance right outta here
One day I'm gonna dance right outta here
I'm gonna dance
One day I'm gonna dance right outta here, here, here
One day I'm gonna dance right outta
I'm gonna dance

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Mistake Of My Life - Lyrics - Caedmons Call

Title: Mistake Of My Life
Artist: Caedmons Call
Composer(s): Derek Walsh Webb

Lyric:
I'm in love I've never been so sure of anything
But then again it could be a tumor in my brain
Tricking me into thinking that we were meant to be
Either way I'm about to shock my family
And my home town again, but this time I'm leaving

Once I'm gone, I cannot look back
I've got to trust this is right
'Cause maybe I'm on my way to find you
Or maybe I'm gonna make the mistake of my life

Since we met my life's been so up in the air
I'm here today but by next week I could be there
On the street struggling to support my newest vice
With a sign that says 'I will work for love advice'
'Cause I will mow your lawn if you'll tell me what I'm doing wrong

Once I'm gone, I cannot look back
I've got to trust this is right
'Cause maybe I'm on my way to find you
Or maybe I'm gonna make the mistake of my life

And I'll leave the car running
And I'll leave half the boxes packed
For the slim chance I'll go right back

Oh once I'm gone, I cannot look back
I've got to trust this is right
'Cause maybe I'm on my way to find you
Or maybe I'm gonna make the mistake
Or maybe I'm gonna make the mistake
Or maybe I'm gonna make the mistake of my life

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