Let’s Do It Again
Music and Lyric by Steve Bell

If we could roll back the time
And start at the beginning again
Knowing all we would find
Would we walk through it over again

Maybe it’s true
That we were out of our mind
cause oh would you would I
Have come to this table if we weren’t blind
To eat from this bread and to drink from this wine

Do you think we’d have the courage again
Knowing what we’d have to spend
What I’m asking myself
What I’m asking my friend
Would we do it again

By the look on your face
I know before you can speak
What the answer will be
Or we wouldn’t be here in this place

Maybe it’s true
That we’re still out of our minds
But oh would you would I
Forfeit this love would we forfeit this life
Only to feed on what we’ve left behind

Do you think we’d have the courage again
Knowing what we’d have to spend
What I’m asking myself
What I’m asking my friend
Would we do it again
Should we do it again
Let’s do it again

Can I Go With You
Music and Lyric by Bruce Cockburn
© 1978 Golden Mountain Music Corp.

When You ride out of the shining sky
To claim the ones who love You
Can I go with You
Can I go with You

When the angel shouts from the heart of the sun
And the living water flows down
Can I go with You
Can I go with You

When the earth and the stars melt like ice in the spring
And a million voices sing praise
Can I go with You
Can I go with You

Keeping Vigil
Music and Lyric by Jim Croegaert
© 1994 Rough Stones Music

In a hall outside a hospital room
A mother looks through the window to
Her baby’s face and takes her place
Keeping vigil
In this dark and unenlightened hour
Separated by the medical power
She reaches in and touches skin
Keeping vigil

And a candle burns with a flame of love
And a strength unlike any other
It may not prevail in the moment but
When all’s said and done
It’s a lover’s world

Broken pictures on the living room floor
Laboured breathing sounds of war
A body’s wracked under attack
Keeping vigil
Working puzzles in a parental mind
An empty place being left behind
Heart reaches out through the doubt
Keeping vigil

In a garden at the edge of the earth
Someone wrestles with a death or birth
Which is it now bloody brow
Keeping vigil
Walking on water was the easier part
Taking darkness out of every heart
Into His own this is alone
Keeping vigil

And a candle burns with a flame of love
And a strength unlike any other
And it will prevail in the end because
When all’s said and done He’s a lover
And a candle burns with a flame of love
And a strength unlike any other
And it will prevail in the end because
When all’s said and done
It’s a lover’s world.

Lament for a Nation
Music and Lyric by Steve Bell

I woke up late this morning
Tell you what I found
A patriot asleep at the wheel
When I hear our nation’s anthem
Of Canada I’m proud
Where have our night watchmen been

There’s a catch to history
When progress has no choice
But to leave behind whatever we’ve sown
And I saw it on the TV
Our fearless leader’s voice
Calling to end what we’ve known

For every heartbreak poets lend
A place where memory finds her bed
For every body there’s a stone
That divides the living from the dead
For every nation come and gone
You’ll find a melancholy song
Telling stories of her glory
For the ones who called her home

Well I love the open prairie
The gateway to the west
When I die right here lay me down
With open skies above me
A haven for unrest
How will her requiem sound

Alone Tonight
Music by Steve Bell / Lyric by Steve Bell and Byron O’Donnell

Still a ways to Manitoba
Been awhile since I’ve been gone
Been a day since we were talking on the phone
Still ahead the longest distance
Just the last few miles to go
Lord I pray there’s only one smile at the door

Will we be all alone tonight
Just to be what we both know is right
Will a candle be burning
Will love have a chance to ignite
Will the rest give us just one more day
Lord I hope she has planned it that way
All I want is to know
Will we be all alone tonight

 If my friends are all there with her
Oh the night will never end
And I’ll just have to smile and try to act surprised
spose they’ll laugh at all my stories
We’ll be glad I’m home again
But I’ll just die each time I look into her eyes

Oh how I miss her
I can’t wait till that moment at the door
Just like I rehearsed it
Over and over
Oh… 

Will the rest give us just one more day
Lord I hope she has planned it that way
All I want is to know
Will we be all alone tonight
Tonight

Remember Me   - Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
adapted from Psalm 25

To You oh Lord do I lift up my soul
You are the only recourse that I know
When shame denies me a place in Your fold
In Your love remember me

Show me a road with respect to the truth
Hold not against me the sins of my youth
There’s no one to turn to if You don’t come through
In Your love remember me

In Your love remember me
In Your love remember me
All because of Your goodness Lord
In Your love remember me

Yahweh confides in the ones who have faith
And shares from the secrets of old so they say
Dare I presume He would treat me this way
In Your love remember me

Show me Your favour Yahweh
Let it never be said that I’ve trusted in vain
It is Your reputation that makes me outrageously brave
Hold out Your mercy to me
Go ahead and correct me for the sake of Your name
It’s not much of a thread but my hoping is keeping me sane

Dark Night of the Soul – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
adapted from the poem The Dark Night by St. John of the Cross

Into the darkest night
With a heartache kindled into love
I took a chance
When at last I went out unobserved
My house being wrapped in sleep

 The hour made secure
And concealed the flight to my beloved
I took a chance
And left familiar treasures well behind
Too far for comforting

I went out by myself
Seen by no one else
A somewhat reckless journey from the start
Pressing through the night
Without light or guide
Save the fire that consumed my heart

I bless the starless night
A night by far more lovely than the dawn
Oh happy chance
To discover in the barren dark
The one I knew so well

And there with my love I rested
Fanned by a cooling wind
Wounded by love’s caresses
Suspending all my senses
Bless this happy night
That unites the lover and the loved
Oh happy chance
To abandon every wretched care
Among the lilies there

This Is Love – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell 

Father just before the hour comes

That was set aside to glorify Your Son
With a glory from before the world began
With a glory given to no other man

Protect the ones You’ve given me to love
I so desire that none of them be lost
They’ve yet to understand the mystery
Why the Son of God would wash another’s feet

But this is not the same
It’s a different thing
Altogether
This is not the same
It’s another thing
All together
This is love
This is love

My prayer is not for only these alone
But for those who follow after they’re gone
May they understand the love You have for me
As the kind of love that changes everything

They argue who will sit next to the throne
And I cringe to here them say Thy Kingdom come
They think they know what they’re getting into
We both know that they haven’t got a clue

But this is not the same

Here’s something that they won’t like
Someone’s coming to take the life
No one has to look farther than me
I am he
Some will trust in the things they think they know
They should think again and let them go
Put away the sword and get behind
And let me die

’cause this is not the same
It’s a different thing
All together
This is not the same
It’s a better thing
All together
This is love
This is love

Here by the Water
Music and Lyric by Jim Croegaert
© 1986 Rough Stones Music

Soft field of clover
Moon shining over the valley
Joining the song of the river
To the great giver of the great good

As it enfolds me
Somehow it holds me together
I realize I’ve been singing
Still it comes ringing
Clearer than clear

And here by the water
I’ll build an altar to praise Him
Out of the stones that I’ve found here
I’ll set them down here
Rough as they are
Knowing You can make them holy
Knowing You can make them holy
Knowing You can make them holy

I think how a yearning
Has kept on returning to move me
Down roads I’d never have chosen
Half the time frozen
Too numb to feel
I know it was stormy
I hope it was for me learning
Blood on the road wasn’t mine though
Someone that I know
Has walked here before