Breaking Out the Windows

Meghan’s Song
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

Breaking Out the Windows
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

Waiting on the Light to Change
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

Sinking Wishes
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 loose

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

All the King’s Horses
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

Refuge
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

Hard Times
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.

CHORUS

Echoes of Eden
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

Beneath the Silver Moon
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)