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Starhymn
Rain’s ‘a Falling
Books and Windows
Until I Rise
Wayfaring Stranger
State of Pride
This Wayward Heart
Better Days
Till We Have Faces
Death be not Proud
Symphony of Silence
I’ve been wandering through this life
Searching for the hymn that lies
Somewhere deep inside my aching heart
Like a gypsy song it plays
Haunting faint and far away
Like a memory I just can’t quite place
Sing stars the song of new creation to the earth
As she cries from the pains of its birth
Here in the halls of my cathedral of dust
Sing the hymn, sing the hymn, sing for love
I’ve been straining hard to hear
The ageless notes that sound so near
Been trying to fit them to these songs I sing
Notes that keep at night
Working till the morning light
Always hovering just outside my grasp
Sing stars the song of new creation to the earth
As she cries from the pains of its birth
Here in the halls of my cathedral of dust
Sing the hymn, sing the hymn, sing for love
Sing stars the hymn of new creation
Sing stars the hymn of new creation
Sing the hymn
Sing it again
Sing the hymn
Yeah sing for the King of Kings
And sing the hymn
Oh sing it for the King
Sing stars your song of new creation to the earth
As she cries from the pains of its birth
Rain on the roof as I’m lying alone
Is playing a lullaby countless years old
Sometimes I wonder as I’m lying in bed
If it’s the tears of God falling over my head
Mother Mary please pray for my soul
Lord Jesus have mercy on me
Father forgive me as I forgive others
Oh God, please set me free.
I haven’t decided how I feel about rain
The gloom that it brings or the life we gain
But you choose what you see when the rain does pour
Ain’t a doubt in my mind anymore
Mother Mary please pray for my soul
Lord Jesus have mercy on me
Father forgive me as I forgive others
Oh God, please set me free.
Oh Rain’s ‘a falling again
Oh I wish it would just wash out my sins
Because I’ve tried as hard as I can to hate
This mess I have fallen into of late
But no
Still the rain’s ‘a falling again
Oh I don’t know where to begin
Because I’ve tried to cry for this life I lead
But tears don’t come very easy these days
I wish your heart was a book and your eyes
Were windows through which I could see
I’d savor every letter and soak in every word
And forever would only seem a day to me
But in your eyes I hit a wall my dear
A wall so hard it knocked me off my feet
And when I reached into your heart I found a safe
That doesn’t seem to have a place for any key
I’ve been running hard
Trying to free my heart
But sometimes it feels like I’m running back to you
Apathy like steel
Is mostly what I feel
Do you have no heart my love?
Oh tell me love, tell me why you never left
Why you linger here to haunt me with your face
Because the moon is your eyes, the water is your laugh,
And the whisper of the wind won’t go away
I’ve been working out my heart so I never have to think
Because when I do, I spiral down to you
But I can’t keep this up forever, so I’m writing you this song
Because you seem to think you’ve always seen the truth.
I’ve been running hard
Trying to free my heart
But sometimes it feels like I’m running back to you
Apathy like steel
Is mostly what I feel
Do you have no heart my love?
Oh I took a train down miles of track
And stared for hours in the tinted glass
I was thinking how cruel is the irony
I can see through this glass like you see me
Oh but all I see outside is coal black
Standing in the dust beside the tracks
You never loved me, you say you won’t
I don’t want to believe you, but how can I know?
I wish your heart was a book and your eyes
Were windows through which I could see
I’d savor every letter and soak in every word
And forever would only seem a day to me
But in your eyes I hit a wall my dear
A wall so hard it knocked me off my feet
And when I reached into your heart I found a safe
That doesn’t seem to have a place for any key
I’ve seen a lot of people in this world
With tiny lights deep in their eyes
A glimpse of beauty through a chipped scratched glass
Still flickering as I pass
And I don’t know
Whether I’m just old
Or my conscience is cold from the dark
I hope I have
Just a spark to last
Through the night
Until I rise
Love is like a window to the heart
But sometimes I really hate my view
Because all I see’s distorted by the glass
So dusty chipped and scratched
And I don’t know
Whether I’m just old
Or my conscience is cold from the dark
I hope I have
Just a spark to last
Through the night
Until I rise
Through death until I rise
Oh God, until I rise
I’m a wayfaring stranger, my home is the world
I don’t have a house, no money or a girl,
Just the clothes on my back, this guitar in my hands
And I sing what I think as I wander these lands
Well not long ago, as I traveled my way,
I passed by a church, so I stopped in to pray
But the people were loud and distracting to me
So I picked up and left to keep traveling
Sometimes I pray for the good Lord to come
To right all our wrongs, and to judge what we’ve done
Oh Lord, come soon
Heal our wounds
Oh Lord, come renew
This world soon
So I kept to the road, I kept walking each day
I sang with the birds as I traveled my way
Oh the way of a pilgrim is the best way to go
Because I pray when I want and I don’t need a home
One day as I walked I was met by a girl
Who was singing some song about the end of the world
So I stopped and explained that creation is good
And God’s fixing it up like a good father should
Sometimes I pray for the good Lord to come
To right all our wrongs, and to judge what we’ve done
Oh Lord, come soon
Heal our wounds
Oh Lord, come renew
This world soon
Sometimes I pray for the good Lord to come
To right all our wrongs, and to judge what we’ve done
I’ve been living in the state of pride
The land of me myself and I
I never realized that hell starts today
Until I started trying to escape
I know enough of hate to say it’s cold as ice
Just like I’ve tasted freezing fear and been paralyzed
Some people say that hell’s a fiery burning lake
But Oh son that ain’t half as bad as the ice of fear and hate
I decided one day to run away
And I’ve been running hard to this day
Some people say eternal life has begun
And Oh that’s true, but hell has too, so wake up love and run
I know enough of hate to say it’s cold as ice
Just like I’ve tasted freezing fear and been paralyzed
Some people say that hell’s a fiery burning lake
But Oh son that ain’t half as bad as the ice of fear and hate
Let none admire the gold in hell,
The palaces which are indwelt,
By lonely men whose hearts of ice
Cannot be touched or satisfied
Beware the worst of hell is in
The hearts of men consumed by sin
The land of hate and fear and I
Is at its worst inside our minds
I know enough of hate to say it’s cold as ice
Just like I’ve tasted freezing fear and been paralyzed
Some people say that hell’s a fiery burning lake
But Oh son that ain’t half as bad as the ice of fear and hate
The wind against my back is blowing hair into my face
The windswept trees are crying leaves across my way
If living is walking the road called life
Then I must be lost or the roads just a lie
Because I can’t find it
After all this time
Cigarettes and emptiness are all I’ve got left at best
With restless dreams filling my nights like smoke
My heart bleeds these melodies like disjointed symphonies
These songs from my heart won’t stop bleeding
My thoughts are as scattered as the stars across the sky
My restless heart’s wandering all over tonight
I hope that this road I’ve been traveling on
Will lead me back home, Oh I’m hoping to God
Because I still can’t find
After all this time
Cigarettes and emptiness are all I’ve got left at best
With restless dreams filling my nights like smoke
My heart bleeds these melodies like disjointed symphonies
These songs from my heart won’t stop bleeding
This wayward heart
Has come so far
It’s beating hard
But I ain’t giving up tonight
Oh no
This wayward heart
Is so far gone
It’s played so hard
But I won’t give it up tonight
No.
Cigarettes and emptiness are all I’ve got left at best
With restless dreams filling my nights like smoke
My heart bleeds these melodies and all I can do is sing
These songs like lullabies to put me to sleep
But I won’t give it up tonight.
Oh lift your eyes and look around
Just leave the past and feel the sound
Of every beat your heart takes breathe the air of now
Because you can live in what won’t be
Inside a dream, and when that’s all you see
You’re living in a fantasy
So raise your glass to better days
And laugh about our yesterdays
Come what will, we toast tonight
To where we are right now in life
To better days
Oh lift again your troubled face
And let the pain begin to fade
Stop holding on so tight to all your pride and shame
Because you can live inside a cage
Of all the trespasses that people make
And when you cling to evil, evil clings to you
So raise your glass to better days
And laugh about our yesterdays
Come what will, we toast tonight
To where we are right now in life
To better days
I haven’t much left to fear from God
So I’m writing this down to prove all his wrongs
You took my one love, that was all that I had
And you won’t say a word when I question your plans
Hey child I know that you’re hurting inside
But you choose where you live and I can’t change your mind
Tell me my sin why you stole what was mine
Where is my guilt show me where is my crime
I guess love was my wrong, because it was all that I had
So give me a sign prove me wrong if you can
Hey child I know that you’re hurting inside
But you choose where you live and I can’t change your mind
Till we have faces
To meet face to face
There’s nothing I can do my dear
So you’ll just have to wait
Till we have faces
To meet face to face
To hear my own words as they are
In my heart is the answer you gave
I’m dying to talk but you can’t hear I know
You can’t hear my words over all of your own
Just listen my love, listen close to your song
If you heard all your words you would see what was wrong
If there was a judge between God and man
He’d make you to answer for the works of your hands
Hey Child I’m trying, trying all that I can
Just to get in a word but you don’t understand
You’re drowning yourself with the noise of your scars
If you’d just quiet down I’d sing with your heart.
If there was a judge between God and man
He’d make you to answer for the works of your hands
Till we have faces
To meet face to face
There’s nothing I can do my love
So you’ll just have to wait
Till we have faces
To meet face to face
To hear my own words as they are
In my heart is the answer you gave
Hey love
Listen close
Leave all of your ghosts
All your tears, all of your fears
Today
I dreamed
I was reading
All the words of my heart
I’ve been clutching so hard
Hey love
Yes love
Listen close
I know
Sing with me
I was wrong
Join me
I can finally hear you
Singing
Freely now
Free at last
You/I can finally hear the song that You’ve/I’ve been singing all along
Death be not proud
Death be not proud
Death be not proud
Death, some have called thee mighty and dreadful
But thou art not so
For those
Whom thou think thou dost overthrow die not
Poor death, nor canst thou yet kill me
Death be not proud
Be not proud
Be not proud
Oh Death be not proud
From rest and sleep
Which but thy pictures be
We gain much good, so tell me who is losing here?
You’re a slave to fate, to chance, to desperate men.
And friend,
Drugs and charms can give us better sleep
And soon you yourself will die
Death be not proud
Be not proud
Be not proud
Death be not proud
Be not proud
Death, when I die,
I shall rise:
Be not proud.
Death, when I rise
From the grave
On the last day
You will die.
Death be not proud
Death be not proud
Death be not proud
Be not proud
I sleep when sleep will come
And dance with shadows veiled by night,
When stars come out and shed their
shapeless tears, their light,
Pinpoints in the darkness, they are my song,
Wordless, eternally long, drawn from the
Hearts of gods, angels, fierce is
Their call, their draw, their everlong
Eternal song, nameless and faceless it
Rings, it rings as they whisper and sing
And sing, ages they have sung and will sing:
The song of wandering, of restless pondering
Of the homeless heart, the soul of the world
Summed up in an ageless endless note
That resounds, rebounds, reverberates in the
Halls of my humble human heart, though
Enclosed by walls of flesh, flashes of eternal
Sound pierce to the pews of my cathedral
Of dust, the minuscule monument and testament of God
To the gods, the angels. And the stars
Single note of silence cries in the darkness of the same:
The name unbegotten and unpronounceable,
Boundless, soundless, and unimaginably loud, deafening.
This note of seemingly infinite pain,
This lonely note that drives me near insane
Wandering always onwards, forever forward,
Never ceasing, ever resonating together
In the strangest nethers it fetters
The better souls, nay, the best, to restlessness.
Thus I sleep when sleep will come, but deep
Sleep hardly comes, it shuns me and runs
Always out of grasp, none who sing outrun deep sleep
And clasp it in their grasp, no, none who hear the song,
For sleep closes the ears; the song dies. Futile are
Tries to revive life in death, even temporary death.
So I wander on to the ringing of the soundless singing,
The forever note of no name, whose same sound
Is life itself, though disguised. For I cannot hide
And am always doomed to hear the almost-reconciled
Harmony of disharmonies echoing in my halls of dust,
My heart of lust, rusting ’till the day of the
Eternal crescendo: the symphony of silence.