Throwing Punches in the Dark

1. Meghan's Song
2. Breaking Out the Windows
3. Waiting on the Light to Change
4. Sinking Wishes
5. All the King's Horses
6. Refuge
7. One Thing More
8. Hard Times
9. Echoes of Eden
10. Beneath the Silver Moon

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. One Thing More

   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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)