Stay Awake – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell 

 
We’ve been following this course for some time now
There have never been two moments the same
It’s not like we didn’t expect it
But something has changed
There’s an agony in all His expression
There’s an urgency and a dread in His wake
So what’s this density in my head
Somehow I can’t stay awake

There’s a part of me ready now
But mostly I just want to sleep one more hour
And it doesn’t make sense
I intend to defend this man
You all know how I want to help
And I’m trying to see
Is that blood on his brow
This chasm is steep
Yet I’m falling asleep somehow

What is this potion we’ve taken
What sinister magic is this
After all that we’ve seen and forsaken
And we lose by a kiss
All of us thought we were ready
All of us thought we were fit
Not one of us thought it would end
In a slumbering bliss

Trying to be ready
On my feet and steady
Jesus help me stay awake
Could somebody around me
Be poisoning my coffee
Come on give your head a shake
Stay awake

Psalm 121 – Music and Lyric by Glen Soderholm
 

I look unto the hills
Where does my help come from
From the One who has made
Heaven and earth

He will not let
Let you stumble
For He will not sleep
He who keeps Israel
Will not slumber

The Lord is your keeper
The shade at your side
Under the sun
Under the moonlight

The Lord will keep you
Keep your life
When you go out
And when you return
Forever more

Oh Love – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
Hebrews 1 / Psalm 8 

You master
Started it all
Laid the foundation
Fashioned the stars
But the earth and the sky
Will someday wear out
Like a worn out old coat
But not you, you stay the same
Never fade and never changeIt’s true
Faster and faster we fall
In a sickening spin
Tumbling carelessly
And voluntarily making it all
Appear like a dream of our choosing faculty
We’re so proud to be so free 

Oh Love
What are You thinking of
How could it be true that You are mindful of us
All day
I’ve been thinking this way
Passing the time
Sounding the name
That is echoing over the earth

You hover
Over the ruin
Scattering hope for
Gathering fuel for a raging night fire
A beacon of truth
No more reproduced on a page or chiseled stone
Now the heart is written on

But few long for
An end to the fuss
And clamoring din
Managing mess
Instead of fundamentally living on trust
Encouraging love
As the day approaches near
And our time is ended here

A Sorrow for Connoisseurs
Music by Steve Bell / Lyric by Steve Bell and Jamie Howison

Maria I’ll tell you right now
My old heart is finished and full
This child that you bring
That my eyes have seen
He’s the glory of Israel
He’s gonna tear your heart out
After you’ve loved so well

Love is like a fine wine that you take by the fire
It rolls on the tongue and it gladdens the heart
But what we’ve learned from the reckless
Who can’t get enough
It’s gonna break your heart
You know there’s such a fine line of comfort and pain
Love criss-crosses over it again and again
But your options are loveless so don’t be afraid
Just know before you start
Lady that’s how it works
Love is a sorrow for connoisseurs
You may not believe it right now
I don’t understand it myself
But an old man can make
Mysterious claims
Some things we just know
So we tell
He’s gonna tear your heart out
Even after you’ve loved so well 

Oh don’t you get it
I’m trying to explain
Sorrow is not the saddest thing
Don’t be offended
Let it sink in
Sometimes the best is hidden in
This strange, strange cross
Love is gain and love is loss

Diamonds From the Other Side
Music by Steve Bell / Lyric by Steve Bell and Carolyn Arends

From august shores and summers past
Low sun fire on the liquid glass
From facets on the surface of the bay

Burns the beauty deep inside
Returning when I close my eyes
To find me when I’m time and miles away
Calling me back again

Almost too much for human eyes
Diamonds from the other side

Deep the heavens – deep the dark
That hide the earth to show the spark
Of stars that wait on the other side of day

Now you see them – now you don’t
Regardless of the clouds you know
To close your eyes and there they are again
Holding you in their gaze

Almost too much for human eyes
Diamonds from the other side

The Water Runs – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell

You break from the city in the pouring rain
To settle in the middle of the Interlake
Where the green browns over in the summer sun
But under it all the water runs

As if that’s not enough – summer dies
It all freezes over and you’re buried alive
You gotta admit that you panic some
But under it all the water runs

The water runs
And courses deep
Beneath the imprint of these troubled feet
So much is done to stay the creep
And slay the fear that there’s nothing here
Or underneath

You carefully plan to minimize mistakes
You just get started and you break a leg
It’s not so easy when it’s not much fun
But under it all the water runs

Every single day now
I recall the fright
Sink a hole and pray now
Many times
Many times a night

Peace moon hovers and the forest sleeps
Sitting alone among the rustling leaves
I’ll retire when my pipe is done
Under it all the water runs

Somebody’s Gotta Pay  – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell 

Somebody told me about it and it burns me up at night
What kind of man would choose to spoil a child
Who do you call to make it right
Not gentle Jesus meek and mild
That’s for sure
’cause He won’t fight
So I can’t stop thinking about it – imagining that I
Could be the reaper grim enough to make it right
The problem is there’s no one with
Enough to lose to pay for this

Pleasing to You  – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
adapted from Psalm 19

The sun comes about
With a force and a strength
Bursting out from the ground
Like a hound to the race
It’s the same every day after day
Unto ages unending
I believe there’s more to this than were getting

Jesus My Glory   – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
adapted from Psalm 3 / Anglo-Genevan Psalter

Oh Lord how quickly grows
The number of my foes
Who wantonly oppress me
And multiplied are they
That rise to my dismay
And day by day distress me
Though heavy my despair
They scornfully declare
To my humiliation
That You oh God no more
Can help me as before
Or come to my salvation

But Lord You always are
A shield about my heart
A warrior fierce and free
Surrounding me
In the hour of my dread
You lift my weary head
All trembling subsides
And I cry
Jesus my glory
So I lay down and slept
In peace for I am kept
By His divine protection
The Lord is at my side
My safety He supplies
Whatever my affliction
Defended by His hand
I shall undaunted stand
While thousands press upon me
Though furious foemen wage
Their war with mighty rage
Yet none can ere defeat me 

But Lord You always are
A shield about my heart
A warrior fierce and free
Surrounding me
In the hour of my dread
You lift my weary head
All trembling subsides
And I cry
Jesus my glory
So I lay down and slept
In peace for I am kept
By His divine protection
The Lord is at my side
My safety He supplies
Whatever my affliction
Defended by His hand
I shall undaunted stand
While thousands press upon me
Though furious foemen wage
Their war with mighty rage
Yet none can ere defeat me