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Songs in Stained Glass (2009)
In The Name of God
There's a man on the phone to his wife in Prospect Park
Soon to be his widow
He tells her he loves her and then he hangs up
And jumps out his office window
There's a man with a plan and a Russian Kalikov
Ten years for this he's waited
He raises his hands and he prays to a God of love
But his eyes are full of hatred
Did you see a sign?
Did you read his mind
When you shed our blood
in the name of God, in the name of God?
Did you do this in remembrance of him
There's a wife in Kabul and a wife in Prospect Park
Both of them are weeping
There's a man in the sand and a man on Vesey Street
And both of them are sleeping
You did what you did, and you cannot take it back
But you don't want to, do you?
I wish I could be there, when you finally see his face
and he says 'I never knew you'
Do we see a sign?
Do we read his mind
When we shed this blood
in the name of God, in the name of God?
Did we do this in remembrance of him
House on a Hill
I was born in a house on a hill
Lived and learned on a house on a hill
Ran with the devil but I had my fill
Take me back to that house on a hill
I was shocked to learn, and shocked to learn I was
That I do love what the devil does
I walked down the hill, on down the hill I went
Now I do pay the devil's rent
I had done the deal, but once the deal was done
My undoing had begun
Ah, he ripped me off, that Mephistopheles
He done my soul just how he pleased
My son, do not defy, do not defy him more
His wrath will fall, you may be sure
If you knock on heaven's gates, but heaven's gates don't budge
My son, you best go see the Judge
I was born in a House on a Hill...
I've Got All The Answers
I've got all the answers
I've read all the books
I get all the ladies
I get all the looks
I've got all the answers
You can hate me if you want
But just know I put the bon in bon vivant
I've got all the answers
It's a blessed time
I turn that knowledge into cash
Like water into wine
I bought the silver lining
I own the golden rule
The ark of the covenant is my footstool
Come let us rest on my divan
It's made of fragrant cedar from the hills of Lebanon
Men they cannot grasp me
Women often do
You say, hey hey, no polygamy
Well, all the best to you
When I see my lines of concubines
Row by blessed row
I find there's still so much I need to know
One day the queen of Sheba came
To play a hand or two
I wagered half my kingdom
She bet her retinue
She played her jack of diamonds
I lay my queen of spades
She left without a sound or her pretty maids
Please give old Sheba my regards
She bailed and failed to realize I was holding all the cards
Boy you must take me at my word
To walk this path of righteousness is getting so absurd
I've got all the answers
Hallowed be my name
I'm the was, I'm the is, I'm the is to come
All pretty much the same
I've got all the answers
And I'm afraid we're done
Cause I won't be giving up a single one
I've got all the answers...
If You Possess My Heart
If you possess my heart
Why does it turn so cold?
Why is it so quick to sell wherever hearts are sold?
If you can claim my mind
Why does it stray from home?
Why does it avoid your eyes, content to be alone?
Have mercy, have mercy on me
If you have filled my lips
Why do they talk so rude?
Why do they keep the company of the callous and the crude?
If you direct my steps
Why are they not at rest?
Why do they stumble street to street in midnight wilderness?
If you look through my eyes
Half-closed, half full of tears
You'll only see the old regrets of thirty thousand years
If you are in my life
Remind me of your name
Though I am so much different now, I pray you are the same
If you possess my heart
Come claim it back from me
Though I still hold it prisoner here, it's only meant for thee
It's crying out for thee
Adonai
Adonai
I'm here in the dark and I'm ready to start with you Adonai
Adonai
In the thick of the night and my soul is in sight of the Adonai
Adonai
It's quarter to seven, I'm falling from heaven and Adonai
Adonai
I could be praying it, I could be saying it Adonai
I will sit here waiting for you, waiting for you, Adonai
You will sit there waiting for me, waiting for me, Adonai
Adonai
It's quarter to eight and I'm sick of debating with Adonai
Adonai
My reason is reeling I'm losing my feeling for Adonai
Adonai
I think in the end I could finally depend on you Adonai
Adonai
You've got to be patient with my situation here Adonai
Psalm 136
He made the heavens
His love endures forever
He does great wonders
His love endures forever
He spread the earth out
His love endures forever
Upon the waters
His love endures forever
Praise be to the king of kings
And to the Lord of Lords
Praise be to the God of Gods
Forevermore
He made the great lights
His love endures forever
The sun and moonshine
His love endures forever
He hung the stars up
His love endures forever
The night to govern
His love endures forever
He brought you, Israel
His love endures forever
On through the Red Sea
His love endures forever
But washed up Pharoah
His love endures forever
And his army
His love endures forever
Does he love me
His love endures forever
Will he love me
His love endures forever
His love endures, his love endures
His love endures forever
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