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Curse Of The Faithful
02:33
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I’m here. I’m always here.
And you know that because you’ve tested me
You know that that’s what’s best in me;
That when it all breaks,
I’m still holding on.
There’s a story to tell
About the houses that fell
And the ones they left trapped underneath
Who stood in their places
With everything shaking
And everyone else trying to leave
And in some other story
About heroes and glory
Some greater soul saves the day.
But the curse of the faithful
Is watching the ones they love go away.
I’m here. I’m always here
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The Long Defeat
03:35
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I have joined the long defeat
That falling set in motion
All my strength and energy
Are raindrops in the ocean
So conditioned for the win
To share in victor's stories
But in the place of ambition's din
I've heard of other glories
I pray for an idea
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
I can't just fight when I think I'll win
That's the end of all belief
And nothing has provoked it more
Than a possible defeat
I pray for an idea
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
We walk a while we sit and rest
We lay it on the altar
I won't pretend to know what's next
But what I have I've offered
I pray for a vision
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
I pray for inspiration
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
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Loving You
03:43
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Loving you was easy
Before I had learned so much
Like holding on seems simple
Until it hurts just to touch
Loving me, I figure
Is quite a thing to choose
It might look good on paper
But it comes at quite a cost to you
This is how we know what
Know what love is
And what love can do
You will lay your life down
And I’ll lay mine down for you
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4. |
Laying Down On The Job
03:15
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5. |
But You Called Me
03:22
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I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
When you called me
And said this one life
Is more than the numbers
And more than time stacked up on time
It’s measured by
The nearness of your heart to mine.
I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
When you called me
And said all these years
You’ve searched for a place
To put both feet down
To call “home" for good
All this time,
You’ve been building wherever I stood.
I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
I had almost given up.
When you called me
Why do we fall down
If not to remember
Where our strengths come from?
Why do we fall down
If not to remember
How to get back up?
You have never given up
You have never given up
You have never given up
Keep on calling me
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Pour Me Out
02:48
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You can take
Take all my money
Take my credit and my cash
But you can’t take
What I have spent on love
That ain’t coming back
So pour me out
Upon my neighbors
My family and my friends
Pour me out
Take everything from me
And I will rise again
You take break
My reputation
Among some people I don’t know
But you can’t take
My faithful family
The love they give’s their own
You can shake
My motivations
Make me doubt myself all day
But you can’t take
The love I’ve given
I’ve already given it away
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7. |
Home
03:23
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I think I can remember now
What it’s like to love you
It’s not that I was wandering
I just couldn’t stick around.
And I’m sorry that, by leaving like I did
I know I probably hurt you
It’s not a choice that I made lightly
I felt like I had too.
Home means something new
It’s the place where there is more of me
And somehow also of you.
I listen to the songs we used to sing
They still mean so much to me
Their words in all their complication
Like life rafts in my soul
But I can’t sing a single word
Without the thought of your voice singing with me
That’s how they wrote the good ones
To be sung with the ones you know completely.
Home means something new
It’s the place where there is more of me
And somehow also of you.
Home, it’s where you learn to love at first.
Home, it’s where you learn to love while hurt.
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I’m here
I’m always here
And you’re right they want to burn it down
With you inside, straight to the ground
But I’m not here to save your from the flames
I’m just here to tell you I will stay.
I’m here
I’m always here
And you’re probably right to fear what’s next
It’ll cost you more than you can spend
And I’m not here to pay that price for you
I’m just here to hold you as you do
I’m here
I’m always here
I’m here because I choose to be
Despite all that’s been done to me
I don’t have much left that I could lose
So I’m here
And I’ll be here tomorrow, too.
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Justin McRoberts Concord, California
Author, coach, songwriter. East Oakland/SF Bay Area
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