Holy Ground
It’s a paradigm shift - an anomaly in the matrix,
We are walking,
Yes we’re walking,
On Holy ground
I have never seen it like this before
More people are talking
More people are walking
And they’re headed for the door
We’re through the looking glass
Standing on the river’s shore
The beast is rising up
We can’t go back no more
The siren’s song comes [...]
We call you from Gallipoli
We call you from Gallipoli - the Light Brigade - the River Kwai
From death camps on the Mekong, and from mountain’s cave and den
We call you from desertion to the wilderness and scented bed
From Flanders Fields and Auschwitz - from Stalingrad and Diamond Head
From hulls of sulking vessels where you [...]
Shifting Light
(My Window Sill)
Shifting light, shifting emphasis
Glancing down a darkened hallway
Watching for the sun to rise
Subtle nuances of light
Giving credence to the vision of our eyes
Tonal clarity, amber in the dance
Sunset on a hillside and on stone
And mortar, casting shadows
Sparkling on the lake
Walking hand in hand with wind upon the meadows
Grey and white, [...]
Charlie
Charlie is done in pencil
He can’t afford ink
Or artist’s palette
Or to be immortalized in song
There is no studio to have him sit
And capture subtle hues
Of the color of his eyes
Or hair
Or any of the lines that etched his face
From all the challenges of life
That made him strong.
These days if it’s important
Charlie has to [...]
The River Crossing
We are crossing a river
Deep and wide
And before we enter, let’s pray
And then I have something to say.
We have picked the safest way across
And we’ve tried to think it through
There are some of us who could cross alone
But they are reticent and few
The current is dangerous and swift
But cross the river we must
For [...]
Fool for Christ
Fool enough to follow
Fool enough to believe
Fool enough to take a stand
Fool enough to speak up
Fool enough to ask
Fool enough to listen
Fool enough to trust His Word
Fool enough to to play the fool
For all the fools who won’t
Fool enough to see the foolishness
Of all the great accomplishments of men
To watch the river carry
All [...]
Refugees
Bowing their heads as they go
Shoulders drooped
Discouraged
Tattered
Empty and stressed
Looking for something to save them
Longing for peace
Longing for rest
Battling out of the swift pollution
Crawling up on the shore
Bound for chains and slavery
Bound to suffer more
If only I could save them
There’s no choice but passing on
The time of escape from the horror
Slipped away and is gone
Men and [...]
The Fool
Twas then that I began
To play the fool
For all reason was abandoned
Good and Evil were embraced
So answer not the fool
Lest thou be just like him
For folly has an end
As the darkness yields to dawn
The sun will rise
The seeds will grow
We’ll reap a mighty harvest
Then we will be moving on
A fool to be a pilgrim?
You’re [...]
WAR
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the [...]
Lift up the voice of Lamentation
(Call to America)
Lift up the voice of lamentation
For destruction and the whirlwind are upon us
We were as children playing before the storm
Famine, sword, pestilence
We did not heed the call or warning
And they are come upon us unawares
For we were all as in the days of
Prosperity and merriment and festival
We played [...]
