So Much Beautiful

by The Restoration Project

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released 01 April 2003

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Track Name: Selah
Selah

She catches her reflection in building window, early in the morning
She can’t help but to see if she’s pretty enough
The wind sweeps up her hair so you can see the scar on the back of her shoulder
But it’s been so long
She doesn’t care

They’ve always been broad, her arms always strong
She’s always been proud she could hold her own
But now there’s no one to lean her head against
She’s not too proud to ask but she’ll close her eyes and say she won’t go back

She thinks of new songs as she walks down the streets of Austin
She waves to the bus driver on her way through Alabama
When she finally sees the ocean she reaches for her journal
To write about the blue in the ocean and the sky

And she sings…
I breathe in, my heart beats
I breathe out I know, I know you love me
I breathe in I hear the water roll
I breathe out
I breathe in, my heart beats
I breathe out I know, I know you love me
I breathe in I hear the water roll
I breathe out…selah

The same things break her heart every time she stops
She sees she’s still a little girl
But with her sun kissed skin and a chewed on pen
She writes and sings about what she knows

And she sings…
I breathe in, my heart beats
I breathe out I know, I know you love me
I breathe in I hear the water roll
I breathe out
I breathe in, my heart beats
I breathe out I know, I know you love me
I breathe in I hear the water roll
I breathe out…selah
Track Name: Together
Together

You think I haven’t noticed the hard work and tired face
And the time you have not taken for yourself
You asked me what I have to offer to you

You keep trying to do this thing by yourself
You hide in your house- make love to all the comfort
Keep tabs on what you do but in the end it will never prove
That you ever truly lived

Give me a chance to love you through this
And open your hands
Together is better than one
Its better than anything else you have

You asked me what I had to offer to you
Just the best years of my life
So the stories are in each other and the treasure here together
You may think you don’t belong here but you do

Give me a chance to love you through this
And open your hands
Together is better than one
Its better than anything else you have

I’ll stand here with you until we feel the earth move I know it will
When you’re free from this lifestyle rush hour, let the poverty and beautiful ensue
When we give to each other ourselves, let my inside all flow out
Screaming loud, loud love, loud, loud love
This is a better way to live

And I rejoice
Put my hands above my head
Girl you better dance, the sun shines down on you

Put my hands above my head
Leave the print of a kiss upon your face
And dance
Track Name: So Much Beautiful
So Much Beautiful

I’ve sung a thousand songs
Played a thousand words
To make a melody flow between my prayers
The events and what happens next
Because I’m too strong to admit
How little it makes me feel

These nights I lie awake
With seasons gone by and wait
The hours hold me down
Until there’s no strength left
To dream of better days

So I’ll take all these feelings I have and let them become a song
I’ll take the blood flowing in me and write it all down
Because I don’t know how to exist unless I sing it all out
And that’s the gift I give to you

Would you come alongside me and see how I’ve grown
And save me from myself before I tear myself down
And see where the years have worn my fingertips around
From so much beautiful


I’ve walked a thousand days
Stood on a thousand grains of sand
Against a canyon wall warmed by the sun and my hand
And melted ice pressed against the path
Where I kept walking

I remember the years waiting
On promises made at the mercy
Of my own adventure and catastrophe
Until they turned upside down
Beneath a beautiful flowing gown
And gave me something worth keeping

So I’ll take all these feelings I have and let them become a song
I’ll take the blood flowing in me and write it all down
Because I don’t know how to exist unless I sing it all out
And that’s the gift I give to you

Would you come alongside me and see how I’ve grown
And save me from myself before I tear myself down
And see where the years have worn my fingertips around
From so much beautiful
Track Name: Jerusalem
Jerusalem

I hear a whisper gently pulling and piercing all the same
A cloud of unknowing or the ecstasy of pain
And I feel my heart breaking, something stronger moving in
Peace beyond my questioning becomes a sword in my hand

I haven’t taken a step yet but I am on my way
I don’t have the words yet but I will know just what to say
The shadow above my head has all but passed away
A new horizon is rising today

I’m going to Jerusalem where the clouds don’t fill my head
On the road to Jerusalem where all the hungry babes are fed
And I will drink from the living water oh precious spring of life
On the road to Jerusalem I will walk, I will fight

The road less traveled that changes everyday
To find the strength to walk now I need the courage to pray
Though it seems at times that demons lead my way
I will not give up I will not break down, I feel you just the same

I haven’t taken a step yet but I am on my way
I don’t have the words yet but I will know just what to say
The shadow above my head has all but passed away
A new horizon is rising today

I will see in Jerusalem the miracle of faith
I will hear in Jerusalem the silence gone away
I will feel in Jerusalem the beat of my own heart
I sill sing in Jerusalem a new song

This breath is not my own-These words are not my song-These hands are not my own-The world I do not own-To Jerusalem I go-To Jerusalem I belong-To Jerusalem I go-I’m going home

I will touch in Jerusalem the hands that made my own
I will heal in Jerusalem all the pain that’s gone on
I will know in Jerusalem I am Home, I am Home

I will see in Jerusalem the miracle of faith
I will hear in Jerusalem the silence gone away
I will feel in Jerusalem the beat of my own heart
I sill sing in Jerusalem a new song
Track Name: What I Need
What I Need

What I need is a little romance
What I want is some love
Freedom, oh my soul

If I feel like moving a mountain today
If I say all the things I want to say
Will the sky fall down on top of me
Will the sky collapse into the sea

What I need is a little feeling
What I want is some joy
Freedom, oh my soul

So I’ll raise my hands and worship
I’ll raise my hands and I will sing
I’ll raise my hands oh Emmanuel
Thank you, thank you my King
Track Name: Prophet
Prophet

Do you ever feel the walls bend just a little
When you’re lying down and you look at them too long
And your heart might be hardened
Because nothing is sacred anymore

Sadness was a necklace I could hold in my hand
And love just confusion between the word and an end
But I have slowly stripped the ash from my dried out skin
And I understand thirst

I am a Jeremiah without the courage to speak what I see
The fire that keeps burning within my bones is slowly tearing you from me
I exist between denying the message that keeps me weeping and my hope
As I dream dreams for people and show them what we can all live without

We’ve raised ourselves so high we think we’re flying
Each time we start falling through the air
We know the earth is sick, we know people are dying
And we sit back and we stare

To presume the only things there ever was worth saving
Is the way we should live
Our prayers are scattered so why even bother
Changing

I am a Jeremiah without the courage to speak what I see
The fire that keeps burning within my bones is slowly tearing you from me
I exist between denying the message that keeps me weeping and my hope
As I dream dreams for people and show them what we can all live without

Today I saw a beautiful bird teaching a little girl how to sing
It flew against the canvass it was painted in the building
I see so many paintings on the walls as I drive by
Whenever there’s worth painting a poem or a song
I wish I were a painter to capture a moment and make it move
Instead of someone who keeps moving without the colors to express what’s been done

Like a prophet standing on a stone in the middle of town
Who’s become like a statue because no one listens anymore
And is consumed by the fire from the light that told him to speak of love
And to dream dreams for people and show them what we can all live without
Track Name: Ashes
Ashes

I remember the summer months when it was too hot to sleep
And the times the laughter would never end
And the hard night when you kissed me goodbye
And left me in the streets again

So I sing a song in the autumn air
To let you know I’m thinking of your eyes
The kindness you gave again and again
Even though I know you’d never stay

As I open up these scaled eyes and look across the sky
I see the ashes falling down from the fire I thought was life
You can forget me, I will survive
I will survive this time

You said it was nothing much of consequence
There would always be somewhere else to go
I say there is nowhere different from what I’ve ever known
Another service, another mission, and just more people without a home

As I open up these scaled eyes and look across the sky
I see the ashes falling down from the fire I thought was life

I was born in the city where you can’t be alone
The cars move fast and the noise takes on a life of its own
I sink into the concrete to find solitude beneath their feet
Marching the same blocks they were born on and the same places they will die
To hope and vision that someone would care and turn and listen
To their steps and learn their names and feel the years and the dreams that came true
The faith that got them there and then the greed that took it all away
And the fear, the fear that keeps them here
My veins fill and flow with pieces of glass shattered in the streets
From old heroine needles and 7-up bottles that fell into the cracks
And were never swept away
My heart pumps as the jump and do their dance in the streets
Little girls making rhymes while the cars make the buildings shake
And I cry out from the concrete, I cry out from the concrete
I cry out from the concrete until it is drowned out by the sirens and the train
Track Name: Goodbye Georgia
Goodbye Georgia

Goodbye Georgia, I fare thee well beneath the street lights where you sleep
I leave you to the ocean, the waters that surround you
I will not be here when you wake

I’ve seen too much trouble, too much greed
I’ve let myself decay on these streets
I cannot stay here any longer
Or to sweet Georgia I would surrender

Goodbye Georgia I fare thee well, perhaps some day you’ll turn and repent
I leave to see what might be changed
To gain perspective away from this place

Are these hands all I have to hope upon
They bring me stones for thirst and I can’t trust them anymore
So I crawl back to Sister Maragaret, put my head upon her chest and say
Will you love me again until I love
Until I love myself

Goodbye Georgia, I fare thee well beneath the street lights where you sleep
I leave you to the ocean, the waters that surround you
I will not be here when you wake
Track Name: So Close To Heaven
So Close to Heaven

All I’ve said before is washed away by this stream
All my fears are so faint
My eyes rise up with the mist on the lake
So I can turn and face the day

It’s hard to talk about what’s been done before
You weren’t there in the past
But today you waited for me with the sun at the trail
We’ll walk together up this path

We are so close to heaven, you and I
On this paradise
We are so young together, you and I
So let’s climb on before these young hearts fade away

And as we climb this rocky face
And guard each other’s steps along the way
I’m revealing thoughts I’ve never shown you before
Just to find out you’ve had the same

We are so close to heaven, you and I
On this paradise
And we are so young together, you and I
So let’s climb on before these young hearts fade away

Climbing on with courage we get from holy fear
To see God upon this mountain
And if we see the love up here today
How much more when we see it face to face

We are so close to heaven, you and I
On this paradise
And we are so young together, you and I
So let’s climb on before these young hearts fade away
Track Name: No Place For Tears
No Place for Tears

I don’t know who you are but I feel you in my heart
I have the sense to know when things are wrong
I don’t know what to do but lift my voice and pray
And use His name in every song I sing

Can I reach you with my hand across the oceans and the land
A single drop of water and my soul can’t understand
There are no words to match what I feel inside
And there’s no place for the tears that I cry

I’ve felt your tears at times in violent thunder storms
I’ve heard your cry through sirens on the street
Your blood washed days reflect in my red sunsets
But there’s no place for the tears that I cry

Can I reach you with my hand across the oceans and the land
To the heart of a shattered town
Where each soul falls asleep to the same piercing beat
Of soldiers marching through the grounds

Send my angels to that place to keep the children safe
In the violent wars of other people’s game
I don’t know your name but I have a song to sing
To sisters in a far away land

Can I reach you with my hand across the oceans and the land
A single drop of water and my soul can’t understand
There are no words to match what I feel inside
And there’s no place for the tears that I cry

Can you feel His hand
A prayer for healing and peace
There are no words to match what I feel inside
And there’s no place for the tears that I cry
Track Name: Coyote
Coyote

Rosa y la familia sigieron al coyote
Que cruzieran la fronterra
La promesa del norte
Y del coyote

The coyote cries silent
Roaming the desert lands
Are you a Christian friend?
I need a way out of Canaan
Do practice what you read in that book
Or do you see the lines they have drawn
Because the border is a fence a thousand miles long
And the faces all say to me that’s where you belong

En el norte el coyote los dejó
En el desierto para el muerto
Rosa a alquien le clamó
Pero el silencio a ella contestó
Bienvenidos hermanos y hermanas
Que Dios vaya con ustedes

The coyote cries silent
Roaming the desert lands
Are you a Christian friend?
I need a way out of Canaan
Do practice what you read in that book
Or do you see the lines they have drawn
Because the border is a fence a thousand miles long
And the faces all say to me that’s where you belong

The coyote follows the North star leaving her children in the desert
Mourning her babies in the sand
If they survive the night no one will speak of the coyote anymore
They’ll say it was a dream
We just have to move on

Rosa se encontró una fuente
Aqua de misericordia que su familia salvó
El coyote desepareció por la fronterra
Mientras la familia se quedó
Track Name: Hope of Glory
Hope of Glory

You are everything good that I see
Every perfect gift of grace
I pour my heart out and ask you to fill it
Let that goodness be in me

So every time that I wander
In every miracle I see
I will recognize your face
Praise your name and lift my hands on high
To forever proclaim
The Hope of Glory

You are everything pure that I know
Every gentle thing I touch
I pour my heart out and ask you to fill it
Let that gentleness pour out

Because the road is long and when the wells are dry
I sometimes forget
You have gone before me Lord
So I can praise your name and forever proclaim
The Hope of Glory

You are everything beautiful
Every fresh and new morning
I pour my heart out and ask you to fill it
Let that mercy be in me

So every time that I wander
In every miracle I see
I will recognize your face
Praise your name and lift my hands on high
To forever proclaim
The Hope of Glory