Reckoning Day
The lions in the street bend their heads
For the reckoning day
Cause the interstate’s giving up her dead
For the reckoning day
Would you come alive everybody
Would you come alive everyone
Get up out of bed for the sound of the song unsung
Bury all your guns in the sand
Cause the temperature’s changed
And the blood shot eye of the sun
Stains the bones of the slain
Would you come alive everybody
Would you come alive everyone
Get up out of bed for the sound of the song unsung
The hour’s gonna take you apart
On the reckoning day
If the property lines of your hearts
Are drawn in the clay
Would you come alive everybody
Would you come alive everyone
Get up out of bed for the sound of the song unsung
The tide water’s taxing the shores of the washing away
The flood stands high at the doors
Of the houses you made
Would you come alive everybody
Would you come alive everyone
Get up out of bed for the sound of the song unsung
Lift up your head
Oh you gate
Lift up your eyes
All you who wait
Daughter and son
Ashes and dust
Come untied from the weight of the age
The Medicine
Driving by those trucker stops
The cheap motels made of concrete rocks
With a hole inside your chest
The size of a city block
And I remember the day
When you said you weren’t afraid to die
I don’t think you’re brave for it
I just think you’re more afraid of being alive
If I had the medicine
I’d give you the medicine
Cause I miss you son
I’d bring you back home if I was the one
But it’s four and ten
In the belly of the four AM
And your staring down the weekend
To silence the pain
And I’m wide awake
And there’s blood on the promenade
Here’s to waking up with that stone between your ribs
And you’re lying down again
You just pretend you don’t know what it is
When everyone around you says that you’re not the one to blame for it
But you’re the only one feeling the pain for it
So you’re gonna take matters into your own hands yea
If I had the medicine
I’d give you the medicine
Cause I miss you son
I’d bring you back home if I was the one
But it’s four and ten
In the belly of the four AM
And your staring down the weekend
To silence the pain
And I’m wide awake
And there’s blood on the promenade
If I had the medicine
I’d give you the medicine
Cause I miss you son
I’d bring you back home if I was the one
But it’s four and ten
In the belly of the four AM
And your staring down the weekend
To silence the pain
And I’m wide awake
And there’s blood
Skeleton Bones
Peel back our ribs again
And stand inside of our chest
We just want to love you
We just want to love you yeah
Peel back the veil a time
Let us see you with our naked eyes
We just want to love you
We just want to love you yeah
Skeleton bones
Stand at the sound
Of eternity on
The lips of the found
Grave stones roll
To the rhythm of the sound of You
Skeleton bones
Stand at the sound
Of eternity on
The lips of the found
Yeah so separate those doors
And let the sun of resurrection in
Oh let us
Adore the son of glory
Dressed in love
Open up your gates
Before him
Crown him
Stand him up
We want your blood to flow inside our body and
We want your wind inside our lungs
We just want to love you
We just want to love you yeah
Skeleton bones
Stand at the sound
Of eternity on
The lips of the found
Grave stones roll
To the rhythm of the sound of You
Skeleton bones
Stand at the sound
Of eternity on
The lips of the found
Yeah so separate those doors
And let the sun of resurrection in
Oh let us
Adore the son of glory
Dressed in love
Open up your gates
Before him
Crown him
Stand him up
Everything that breathes
Everything that breathes
Everything that breathes
Oh let us
Adore the son of glory
Dressed in love
Open up your gates
Before him
Crown him
Stand him up
Carbon Ribs
A thousand pairs of fiery eyes
Burn like a serpent down the highway 5
As the long amber tail to Los Angeles unwinds
I’ve got this resurrection down inside my skin
But for all my revelating
I just can’t make sense
Our of this gravity we’re in
Cause I’m a dead man now
With a ghost that lives
Within the confines of these carbon ribs
And one day when I’m free
I will sit
The cripple at your table
The cripple by your side
A thousand miles of pain I’m sure
Led you to the threshold
Of my heart’s screen door
To tell me what it is I’m dying for
Gravity comes
Like a cold cold rain
To lead me to the rope again
But someone is standing in my place
Cause I’m a dead man now
With a ghost that lives
Within the confines of these carbon ribs
And one day when I’m free
I will sit
The cripple at your table
The cripple by your side
The cripple at your table
The cripple by your side
And I sit beside you
And I sit beside you
And I sit beside you
And I sit beside you
Dress Us Up
Dress us up in your righteousness
Bring us in with a ring and a kiss
When you walk into the room you know we can’t resist
Every bottle of perfume always ends up on the floor in mess
You make us sparkle and you make us shine
Like the stars who sing on your chorus line
Through space and time we’ll harmonize
Where deeps meets deep like the ocean meets the sky
The sun and the moon
They come out of their grave just for you
The dead man and the cynical too
Come out of their grave
And it’s just for you
Cause the love of God is stronger
The love of God is stronger
The love of God is stronger
Than the power of death
Dress us up in the blood of a man
Who opened up his veins so that we would overcome
Hell and the grave in the power of his love
After these dark days he showed us how it’s done
And he still does
You make us sparkle and you make us shine
Like the stars who sing on your chorus line
Through space and time we’ll harmonize
Where deeps meets deep like the ocean meets the sky
Yeah
The sun and the moon
They come out of their grave just for you
The dead man and the cynical too
Come out of their grave
And it’s just for you
Cause the love of God is stronger
The love of God is stronger
The love of God is stronger
Than the power of death
His love is stronger, his love is stronger
His love is stronger, his love is stronger
Death in His Grave
Though the earth cried out for blood
Satisfied her hunger was
Her billows calmed don raging seas
For the souls of men she craved
Sun and moon from balcony
Turned their head in disbelief
Their precious love would taste the sting
Disfigured and disdained
On Friday a thief
On Sunday a king
Laid down in grief
But awoke with the keys
To hell on that day
Firstborn of the slain
The man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave
So three days in darkness slept
The morning sun of righteousness
But rose to shame the throws of death
And over turn his rule
Now daughters and the songs of men
Would pay not their dues again
The debt of blood they owed was rent
When the day rolled anew
On Friday a thief
On Sunday a king
Laid down in grief
But awoke with the keys
To hell on that day
Firstborn of the slain
The man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave
On Friday a thief
On Sunday a king
Laid down in grief
But awoke with the keys
To hell on that day
Firstborn of the slain
The man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave
He has cheated
Hell and seated
Us above the fall
In desperate places
He paid our wages
One time once and for all
Belly of the Lion
Dance and dance
We call living and dying
In the valley of the city
In the belly of the lion
Work all week long
All week long
You can lose your soul
In the concrete riverbeds
Rolling with the flow
Of the currents of the walking deads
Five o’clock comes and you’re a rolling stone
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
Listen to the rhythm
Of the pawn shop shore
Got you falling off your hinges
Like that old screen porch
It’s the interstate slipping in your pores again
You can ride the vein
From the corner store to Amsterdam
You can bleed the train
From the courthouse to the Vatican
But Friday she’s a ghost
And gonna slip right through your hands again
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
So dance and dance
We call living and dying
In the valley of the city
In the belly of the lion
Work all week long
All week long
You can lose your soul
In the concrete riverbeds
Rolling with the flow
Of the currents of the walking deads
Five o’clock comes and you’re a rolling stone
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
Days like these we’ve got nothing to sing about
Days like these I don’t know what I think about
Days like these who would’ve known
Philadelphia
You step through me
And the screen door hits the wood
And you’re packing all your things
You say you’re moving out there to Hollywood
And I can’t do a thing
You say there’s nothing for you
In this cardboard town
And every bridge you cross
You’re gonna burn it to the ground
You won’t listen to a word that I’m telling ya
So who’s running through the halls
In the houses of pain
That are staring back at me
Like the ocean from a plane
I swear I’ve seen your eyes
In the ghost of Philadelphia
I think about you late at night sometimes
When I can’t sleep
Cause I can hear the train
It’s always there
You just don’t know it
Till a quarter to three
You just can’t hear it in the day
When everybody’s got your number
In a plexiglass glass town
Where the birds ain’t got wings
But not on makes a sound
Cause they all know how to fly
Just I wouldn’t buy what they’re selling ya
So who’s running through the halls
In the houses of pain
That are staring back at me
Like the ocean from a plane
I swear I’ve seen your eyes
In the ghost of Philadelphia
I run into your old man every now and again
Mostly in the spring
Reminds me of our younger and more genuine days
You weren’t so out of reach
Still for all your running
You just can’t change a mile
Of the things you carry around
In the closet of your mind
And the days keep coming man
They never fail ya
You’re never gonna run away
From what you’re hanging round your head
You’re never gonna run away
From what you’re hanging round your head
You’re never gonna run away
From what you’re hanging round your head
You’re never gonna run away
From what you’re hanging round your head
And I’m never gonna run away
From what you said
Out of the Ground
The lights come out
And follow you around the block
Where the freight train stopped
For you
Cause I can hear you walking in
The city till the pavement ends
With houses crumbling
For you
Cause I’m
Coming up from out of the ground
Coming up from out of the ground
Coming up from out of the ground
For you
We’ve run from it
But it sleeps like the current quits
And would’ve stained my lips
But not for you
We fall apart at the seams
From day to dark
But it’s seeping into our sleep
For you
Cause I’m
Coming up from out of the ground
Coming up from out of the ground
Coming up from out of the ground
For you, for you, for you
One by one
Come undone
Come alive
Come alive
Ten Thousand
Then thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
Ball bearing drawn to the magnetic breath
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praise
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh’s shores
Where the blood of a husband silences wars
For the girl who rises to meet him
And she sings
World, I’ve overcome you
World, I’ve overcome you
World, I’ve overcome you
By my song and the blood of a son
Ten thousand rivers
Run red like my veins
Where the bones of men hum
Like a rattling cage
For sinew to cling to
And wind to remain
In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days
Breathing like a choir
Of holes in the ground
Where the cynical have lain
Where the cynical go down
Save the gravity of time
Lets go of her drowned
Like ten thousand sparrows
Unlocked and unwound
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh’s shores
For the girl who rises to meet him
And she sings
World, I’ve overcome you
World, I’ve overcome you
World, I’ve overcome you
By my song and the blood of a son
