Lyrics

By Matthew Perryman Jones

I’ve been driving
On the highway
That leads to my hometown
All the memories
Buried inside me
I’m diggin’ up like treasure in the ground

My father told me
As I grew older
To keep on finding in the clouds
Dance with mystery
And as you hold her
she may whisper her secrets through the shroud

And I am listening now

CHORUS
A change is calling out
I can feel it’s breath
My fears are falling down
Right to their death
May they rest

We’re telling stories
Left in the distance
That touch that longing deep inside
Echoes of Eden
Our cries for freedom
They will lead us to that City glorified

Oh, I don’t want to hide

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones

Put your defense down
open up your heart and lay
all of it out
I know how hard it sounds
but loneliness will have it’s way
in feeding your doubts

CHORUS
I’m waiting on the light
waiting on the light to chance
I’m chasing out the lies
chasing out the lies
that keep you caged
I’m waiting, waiting on the light to change

No matter what’s inside
There is nothing you can say
to cause me to hide
You know I’m broken too
I’ve fallen far, I lost my faith
been found and made new

CHORUS

Oh, love won’t let you go
It bends and reaches low
Just let go

CHORUS

Written by M. P. Jones & N. Hubbard

I wanna rock-n-roll
I wanna give my soul
I’m wanting to believe
I’m not too old
Don’t want to make it up
Don’t want to let you down
I want to fly away
But I’m stuck on the ground

CHORUS
So, help me decide
Help me to make up
Make up my mind
Wouldn’t that save you (x2)

Watched it all go by
Was it really true
Is that what it was
Was that really you
Looking back again
Tracing back the thread
You said it was a mess
Was it just in my head

CHORUS

Something’s gotta break
You gotta swing the bat
Too many years of dying
Why is that

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones

Baby sleep in peace tonight
Angels bend to watch the sight
And may your dreams be sweet tonight
Dance the sky in sweet delight

CHORUS
And know I love you
I always will
It’s my favorite story
I have to tell

And Baby, let’s go far away
See this world that God has made
And know our hearts are in his hand
This lovely one who counts the sands

CHORUS

By Don Chaffer and Matthew Perryman Jones

O' Virginia
You been trailin' off too fast
You laid your dress down
In that old Kentucky grass
You said your baby was the prince of Persia
All he did was worship you
Do you remember what your daddy told you
When he would hold you

CHORUS
And when everything was going hazy
Did you ever think that this is crazy now?
O' but even though you missed the warning
There's a mercy born on every morning

O' Virginia
You been on the road too long
You learned the grinding
Yeah but you forgot the song
In your memory it's the angels falling
And the men all calling you
And when you answer at the door, you're there
Ready to share
But O' Virginia, there's nothing left

CHORUS

In the war between the blame and pity
Your words were smooth, but your teeth were gritty, girl
Cause you wouldn't lay down your defenses,
And admit the way you killed your senses
When everything was going hazy
You did not believe that this is crazy now
And, Virginia, though you missed the warning
The angels wept and prayed for mourning

O' Virginia
That young sweet and tender girl

By Matthew Perryman Jones

Here's to you when the rain hits too hard
When the battles that you fight just leave you scarred
When your tired to the bone and you got no strength to move on
Here's to you when the light has grown too dim
And your faith is just hanging on a limb
And your heart begins to doubt if you'll ever make it through

Oh, here's to you
Here's to you

Oh, when anger burns like fire beneath your skin
And you long for love, but you won't let love in
And your arms are folded tight across your chest, and you want let go

Oh, when fear rolls like thunder in your soul
And all the lies have got you under their control
And your mind is just too confused to see what is true

Oh, here's to you
Here's to you
Here's to you
Here's to you

And soon the sun will come with healing in its wings
To wash away your tears and make you new

Here's to you (x8)

By Matthew Perryman Jones

You were once a boy in tattered jeans
With skin dark by the sun
Eyes so wide and deep with reckless dreams
To carry you along

You were always talking ’bout the sea
The brilliant mystic view
You never seemed to shrink from mystery
That was life to you

CHORUS
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon

I see you in this height so sad and sweet
Your spirit burning bright
I know he whispers still in places deep
With flaming words of light

CHORUS (x2)

Written by M. P. Jones & N. Hubbard

I can’t sleep in this room
Still so far from finding you
I can’t see to dig beneath
These piles of dirt that cover me

CHORUS
Don’t let go, don’t let go
We can crawl out
Out of the shadows
Don’t let go, Don’t let go
We can find our way back home

Silence keeps the story straight
Fighting for the perfect state
Wave your flag. Oh, I believe
Hope is comfort, if not relief

CHORUS

There’s a heart that still can beat
With every breath that’s inside me
Find the spark that’s buried deep
It won’t go out, so please…

CHORUS

Written by Matthew Perryman Jones & Kate York

I hold a photograph
I get lost in the way it was
It’s like a treasure map
To all I’ve had
I found you along the way
I remember how you’d look at me
Skies are never grey in the past

CHORUS
Remember when falling stars were meant for you
We’d always find the love to fall into
Everything felt like April, May and June
We got so far without a clue

Each day’s a second chance
To make up for what I missed before
I come with empty hands
And a prayer
I’d forgotten who I was
‘til I stumbled through my history
I came to life because you were there

CHORUS

You can’t get that far
In a broke down car
That’s where we seem to be
Maybe all we are is a memory

CHORUS

Written by M. P. Jones & N. Hubbard

I wanna rock-n-roll
I wanna give my soul
I’m wanting to believe
I’m not too old
Don’t want to make it up
Don’t want to let you down
I want to fly away
But I’m stuck on the ground

CHORUS
So, help me decide
Help me to make up
Make up my mind
Wouldn’t that save you (x2)

Watched it all go by
Was it really true
Is that what it was
Was that really you
Looking back again
Tracing back the thread
You said it was a mess
Was it just in my head

CHORUS

Something’s gotta break
You gotta swing the bat
Too many years of dying
Why is that

CHORUS

Written by M.P. Jones and N. Hubbard

Sad like a melody
Full like a symphony
Striking a chord
Standing here looking blind
I stumble around to find
My way through your door

Do you want to know why?
Do you want to know why?

Hungry as starving fire
Killing to feed desire
What do you do?
We’re born into vanity
Bones feeling everything
Are we alone?

Do you want to know why?
‘Cause I want to know why?

CHORUS
Say it Amelia
Say it’s true
That life’s worth all the dying we do
Amelia

A beautiful melody
Sung by a symphony
Your striking a chord

Writer Unknown

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like motherless child
A long way from home

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
A long way from home

True believer
A long way from home
True believer
A long way from home

Written by M.P. Jones & Neilson Hubbard

My darlin’ you’re stalling now
Don’t you know where I’ve been
There’s fallout, there is no doubt
Where this is all going to end

CHORUS
Don’t fall in love
Don’t fall in love
Don’t fall in love with me

It’s a new trace
Some kind of Hollywood romance
We’ll isn’t that what you mean
The factory is shining
But it is not what it seems

CHORUS

Where does it hit you
When you’re alone
Do you let it get you
Or follow you home
How would you ever know

These buildings have ceilings
There is no mistake
We’re locked in a beginning
Well, do you know what this takes

CHORUS

Written by M.P. Jones, Katie Herzig, and C. Williams

Here we go again
It’s all the same
A familiar scene
But we call it by a different name
It’s an alibi of innocence
We work so hard for it all to just make sense
But it won’t make sense

CHORUS
When it falls apart the pieces fit
But you won’t see it ‘til you’re blinded
You can let it go or hold it tight
When you loose your life you will find it

Another day begins
Oh, it’s nothing new
These lessons come to me
Dressed in déjà vu
I thought I had it all sort of figured out
But she stripped me clean
And exposed my doubt
That’s what it’s all about

CHORUS

In the dark on my knees
Is when I hear her sing to me
Oh, why’s the truth so hard to take
The heart cannot go free ‘til it breaks

CHORUS

Written by M. P. Jones

Oh my love
Help me open up my heart again
Tear it open let the rain fall in
Wash this hardness underneath my skin

Oh my love
Let me hear your voice come through
I want to know the love inside of you
Make this dark heart believe in what is true

I know that in the dark
There’s a fear of letting go
I know it in my heart
That I fear what I don’t know

CHORUS
And this feels like letting go…
I’m letting go

It’s hard to trust
When your heart’s been broken times before
You pull the curtains and you lock the doors
And swear you’ll never go out anymore

I know that in the dark
There’s a fear of letting go
I know it in my heart
That I fear what I don’t know

CHORUS

Well, I’m steppin’ out
I can’t see and there is no sound
The seeming void becomes a solid ground
The sight I lost becomes the faith I found

CHORUS

Written by M.P. Jones

Inside the night
Across the holy river
When you arrived
A promise was delivered

I waited for you
Dreaming away all the while
How I adore you
My lovely little child

For you I’ll fight
I’d face a thousand armies
I’ll hold the light
And nothing can disarm me

I waited for you
Dreaming away all the while
How I adore you
My lovely little child

Written by M.P. Jones & N. Hubbard

Something’s in the air
Empty as smoke that won’t clear
Low lit bar a filled up car
Where you disappear
Secrets are a stain
That mess up your mind
But we love to play
Take your time to waste your time
While life slips away

CHORUS
Oh, what do you want to hear
What do you want...

Oh, where can you go
Where can you go
You’re stuck in the undertow
Oh no, it won’t let you go
It won’t let you go
You’re stuck in the undertow

Hold it with your hands
All of your hopes are in this one
A silent stare that won’t be there
After you’re done
The sun is coming up
Shining on top of dying weeds
Lonely lovers, tangled sheets
It won’t stop the bleed

CHORUS

Where can you go?
Can you swallow the sea?

By Matthew Perryman Jones

Baby sleep in peace tonight
Angels bend to watch the sight
And may your dreams be sweet tonight
Dance the sky in sweet delight

CHORUS
And know I love you
I always will
It’s my favorite story
I have to tell

And Baby, let’s go far away
See this world that God has made
And know our hearts are in his hand
This lovely one who counts the sands

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Neilson Hubbard

Rage won’t lie that far beneath
Something sinister that runs through your veins
Can you feel it burning out the seams
And has innocence forgotten your name
Do I look like a saint?
Until the curtain rolls,
Talking stops for the picture show

CHORUS
You got soul under your skin
What happens when you don’t know who to let in
Will we ever understand?
We’re just breaking out the windows

Deadly spies in submarines
Taking information for twisted games
I feel its turning all on me
A guilty finger points away from the blame
Now you look like a saint
Until the curtain rolls,
Talking stops for the picture show

CHORUS

How did we get so far?
Running to hide these scars?
Love’s not afraid of what it finds in the dark

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones

Put your defense down
open up your heart and lay
all of it out
I know how hard it sounds
but loneliness will have it’s way
in feeding your doubts

CHORUS
I’m waiting on the light
waiting on the light to chance
I’m chasing out the lies
chasing out the lies
that keep you caged
I’m waiting, waiting on the light to change

No matter what’s inside
There is nothing you can say
to cause me to hide
You know I’m broken too
I’ve fallen far, I lost my faith
been found and made new

CHORUS

Oh, love won’t let you go
It bends and reaches low
Just let go

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Neilson Hubbard

Sinking wishes in the water
I’ve thrown them out
Fumbling to the floor to wait
What follows now
Let it go
Only wishes wait

CHORUS
I’m taking a chance to find
what’s real inside
I’m taking a chance this time
On you
I’ve got nothing to lose

Climbing onto giant shoulders
And looking out
Longing eyes scan for a sign
Where are you now
I don’t know
So I’ll fall on faith

CHORUS

BRIDGE
I don’t mind facing it all
Well, do you now
I won’t lay under a fog
I’m moving toward you

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Neilson Hubbard

She finally broke it
I won’t cry
No, I won’t cry
She whispered the verdict
I won’t fight
No, I won’t fight

Wars like these
Come to wreck and waste
The years we build
We can’t replace

Retelling stories in the dark
That’s where it starts
Rewind the memories that never stop
They never stop

Wars like these
Are a wreck and a waste
The years we build
We can’t replace

CHORUS
Did you hear our voices
And all the King’s horses
Did the warning wash off the wall
On these wheels of worn tread
And all the words we said
Could one like you ever fall
Could one like you ever fall

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Todd B. Wells

Lord, I feel the weight of a mountain
Pressing down inside my soul
I can see the pillars fallin’
There ain’t nothin’ left to hold
The reigns are broken too
I can’t steer this
There’s nothing I can do
Except to throw my arms out

CHORUS
Take me to
A place where love can mend these wounds
Where mystery can dance with truth
And the broken soul finds refuge

I get so tired of fighting
Throwing punches in the dark
When mystery’s seduction
Keeps a blindfold on my heart
Oh, it seems too much
God I fear this
I’m longing for your touch
And for your kisses

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Can you calm this angry tide
The fears and rage inside
Won’t you lead to the place where beauty dwells
You go dancing on the hills
And I won’t rest until
You take me to the place where beauty dwells

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones & Neilson Hubbard

What really matters
When it's all been said
And don't know what we've done
Climbing the ladder
With a tighter fist
Looking out for number one
I will not let you drag me down

CHORUS
Maybe it's all not enough
I think we're feeling the weight of a broken love
We're stuck on a stage of parading lust
It seems it's always only one thing more
It's always only one thing more

What's in the mirror
Are there tired eyes
Lookin' back for something new
Is it any clearer
Does the loneliness of ambition bother you
I will not let you drag me down

CHORUS

Bridge
Nobody calls you by your name
Your hand's on the mouth of fear
All that you build will fall in flame
I will not let you drag me down
Seems it's always only one thing more
It's always only one thing more
Maybe it's all not enough
Maybe it's all too much
Maybe it's never enough
Seems it's always only one thing more
It's always only one thing more

By Stephen Foster (as performed by Matthew Perryman Jones)

Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
There’s a song it will linger forever in our ears
Oh! Hard Times come again no more

CHORUS
It’s the song, and the sigh of the weary
Oh! hard times, Hard Times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
Oh! Hard Times, come again no more

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay
There are frail forms fainting at the door
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard Times, come again no more

CHORUS

There’s a pale drooping maiden who foils her life away
With the worn out heart whose better days are o’er
Though her voice would be merry, its sighing all the day
Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

By Matthew Perryman Jones

I’ve been driving
On the highway
That leads to my hometown
All the memories
Buried inside me
I’m diggin’ up like treasure in the ground

My father told me
As I grew older
To keep on finding in the clouds
Dance with mystery
And as you hold her
She may whisper her secrets through the shroud

And I am listening now

CHORUS
A change is calling out
I can feel it’s breath
My fears are falling down
Right to their death
May they rest

We’re telling stories
Left in the distance
That touch that longing deep inside
Echoes of Eden
Our cries for freedom
They will lead us to that City glorified

Oh, I don’t want to hide

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones

You were once a boy in tattered jeans
With skin dark by the sun
Eyes so wide and deep with reckless dreams
To carry you along

You were always talking ’bout the sea
The brilliant mystic view
You never seemed to shrink from mystery
That was life to you

CHORUS
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon

I see you in this height so sad and sweet
Your spirit burning bright
I know he whispers still in places deep
With flaming words of light

CHORUS (x2)

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Zach Williams

Your breakdown was easy to see
But it took you away
Further from me
Sifting through mishaps and photographs
I think of you
Much more than I should
More than I should

CHORUS
And I'm falling down
Like it's holy ground
I'm looking for you again
I'm looking for you again

Slow regrets that live in the dark
I wrote them all down
But I know them by heart
I've counted the cost of this loneliness
And paid for the crime
And one day I'll die
With you in my mind

CHORUS
And I'm falling down
Like it's holy ground
I'm looking for you again
I'm looking for you again

I'm not letting you go again
I'm not letting this story end
I'm not letting you go again

CHORUS
And I'm falling down
Like it's holy ground
I'm looking for you again
I'm looking for you again

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Neilson Hubbard

I found you in a crowd of faces
Watched you slip through the spaces
I didn't get your name
You got away

I can't explain why my heart is breaking
One memory aching
I want to hold you now
Somehow

Oh, I can't get you out of my mind
Oh, you've there a while

A stolen scene in a perfect movie
A chance to see what it could be
You walked into the frame
Where you remain

Oh, I can't get you out of my mind
Oh, you've been there a while

We walk through a world and we're never quite sure
Of how we ever begin
The street lights and noises the unending voices
Oh where do we fit in

Oh, I can't get you out of my mind
Oh, you've been there a while
Oh, I can't get you out of my mind
Oh, you've been there a while

By Matthew Perryman Jones, Paul Moak & Chad Cate

Another train has left the station
And I'm just standing here
If I go now
Would you remember
Would you still hold me dear

Waiting for love to intervene
Save me
'Cause I don't want to leave

Stuck in between
Caught in the middle
What was and is to be
If I let go
I can't be certain
What will become of me

Waiting for love to intervene
Save me
'Cause I don't want to leave

I don't want to leave
I don't want to leave

I'm waiting for love to intervene
Save me
'Cause I don't want--

I'm waiting for love to intervene
Save me
'Cause I don't want to leave

By Matthew Perryman Jones, Lindsay Jones, and Eric Vinson

How can I forget you
The memories come and go
You're all I ever wanted
and all I've ever known
Can I be happy living with your ghost

The pictures tell the story
I took them off the wall
It's hard enough to get through
I still can feel the fall
Do you even think of me at all

CHORUS
I want you
Only you
I want you
Only you

I can start it over
and find somebody new
a beautiful distraction
Just a hand to hold on to
But if you asked me
would that love be true

CHORUS
No, I want you
Only you
I want you
Only you

I want to taste you again
like a secret or a sin
breathing out, breathing in
There's no one else for me but you

I want you
Only you
I want you
Only you

By M. P. Jones & Trent Dabbs

You're always bound to fall
there's nothing you can do
the weight of gravity begins
to pull you down again
so what are you to do now?
stuck between the hope and doubt
you get so close to clarity
makes you question everything

CHORUS
You're so far away
so far away from me
Is it starting to break
underneath my feet
You're so far away
Am I just out of reach?

We keep talking in circles
staring out with empty eyes
wanting to be known again
but so afraid of letting in
so do i leave it all to history?
will you ever answer me ?
do you still recognize my voice
or is it lost among the noise

CHORUS

While the world unravels
we're kicking at shadows
and everyone around us
is making up chaos
oh, I cannot find you
I'm walking like I'm blinded
am I saying anything at all?

You're so far away
so far away from me
Is it starting to break
underneath my feet
Is it set in stone
could someone tell me please?
Am I all alone?
Am I just out of reach?

By Matthew Perryman Jones & Trent Dabbs

Look me in the eyes
Tell me you don't feel a thing
Look me in the eyes
Tell me you don't feel a thing
I'm laying out my heart
and giving you everything

If it all goes wrong
are you just gonna walk away
If it all goes wrong
are you just gonna walk away
Well, get it out now
and say what you need to say

CHORUS
I'm gonna love you
baby, come rain or shine
I'm gonna love you
baby, come rain or shine
No one can love you
love you as good as I

I made up my mind
I refuse to let you go
I made up my mind
I refuse to let you go
lay it all on the line
this time we can take it slow

CHORUS

Let's live it like we're not afraid
Like it's never gonna fade away
Don't treat it like another day
Let's live it like we're not afraid

By Matthew Perryman Jones

If there was a chance that we could be lovers
I'd write you a book of handwritten letters
And burn them all up to the end
Just to start over again

If there was a chance that we could be lovers
I'd learn how to dance, how to hold without touching
Oh, love, where have you been?
I'll wait for your lead to come in

CHORUS
So tell me the secret
Is there a way into your heart?
'Cause I want to believe it
Or will I be wishing until the last falling star?

If there was a chance that we could be lovers
I'd swim seven oceans and keep going further
I'd hold my breath until you slipped
Those words that belong on your lips

CHORUS

Say a lie
It could be anything
Just stay with me tonight

CHORUS

By Matthew Perryman Jones and Katie Herzig

Angel wings spread over water-worn wishes
Guarding the dreams and the things left unsaid
Here we are wandering, aimlessly roaming
Lovers who linger and never forget
And when it's done we will walk where the road meets the sun

Waiting for you by the Santa Maria
How long must I stay with these letters from you
I don't know whether we'll end up together
But I'll always know that our love is true
And when it's done we will walk where the road meets the sun

Don't Disappear
(Darlin' I want you)
Don't leave me here
(And when the day comes)
I'll meet you here
'Cause I know that wishes come true
I'm finding my way back to you

Angel wings spread over water-worn wishes
Guarding the dreams and the things left unsaid
And when it's done we will walk where the road meets the sun

And when it's done we will walk where the road meets the sun (x10)