Bebo Norman Album

It's a better place
Standing high upon this mountain
I've seen your face
Full of the light that holiest height can show
Blessed hand is why you you've given
But you've been given all you'll ever need
To know

Chourus:
So walk down this mountain
With your heart held high
Follow in the footsteps of your maker
With this love that's gone before you
And these people at your side
If you offer up your broken cup
You will taste the meaning of this life
Hey hey

Well it's a common ground
And I see you're all still standing
But just look around and you'll find
The very face of God
He's walking down into the distance
He's walking down to where the masses are

Chourus
This life

We're standing in a place of peace
And this is how the world should be
How the world should be
(Walk down this mountain with your heart held high)
How the world should be
(Walk down this mountain with you heart held high)
How the world should be
(Walk down this mountain with your heart held high)
How the world should be

Chourus
-music fades-
Hey hey

I'm walking in an open field looking for some space to fill
I believe there's something left to hold
So even when the sun goes down and there's no one around
I'm standing in the freedom of my soul

And the truth of the matter is still the same
It's that you and I, we will not be here forever
The truth of the matter is still the same

I'm ready to stand
Ready to stand
Ready to stand
Ready to stand
Stand, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know, I know, know I

I can see the earth from here, I can see it shake in fear
I can see it falling to its knees
But you know I'm not the same, my burden is a burning flame
I hold it up for all the world to see

But the truth of the matter is still the same
It's that you and I, we will not be here forever
The truth of the matter is still the same

I'm ready to stand
Ready to stand
Ready to stand
Ready to stand
Stand, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know, I know, know I

I'm walking in an open field, looking for some space to fill
I believe there's something left to hold
And I can see the earth from here, I can see it shake in fear
I'm standing in the freedom of my soul
So even when the sun goes down, and there's no one around
Even when the sun goes down, even when the sun goes down
Even when the sun goes down, even when the sun goes down
Even when the sun goes down, even when the sun goes down

I stand
Ready to stand
You know, you know, you know, you know
I stand
Ready to stand
Stand, ready to stand

A shapeless piece of steel
That's all I claim to be
This hammer pounds to give me form
This flame, it melts my dreams

I glow with fire and fury
As I'm twisted like a vine
My final shape, my final form
I'm sure I'm bound to find

So dream a little
Dream for me
In hopes that I'll remain

And cry a little
Cry for me
So I can bear the flames

And hurt a little
Hurt for me
My future is untold

But my dreams are not the issue here
For they, the hammer holds

And the water, it cools me gray
And the hurt's subdued somehow
I have my shape, this sharpened point
What is my purpose now?

And the question still remains
What am I to be?
Perhaps some perfect piece of art
Displayed for all to see

So dream a little
Dream for me
In hopes that I'll remain

And cry a little
Cry for me
So I can bear the flames

And hurt a little
Hurt for me
My future is untold

But my dreams are not the issue here
For they, the hammer holds

The hammer pounds again
But flames I do not feel
This force that drives me, helplessly
Through flesh and wood reveal

A burn that burns much deeper
It's more than I can stand
The reason for my life was to take
The life of a guiltless man

So dream a little
Dream for me
In hopes that I'll remain

And cry a little
Cry for me
So I can bear the pain

And hurt a little
Hurt for me
My future is so bold

But my dreams are not the issue here
For they, the hammer holds

This task before me may seem unclear
But it, my maker holds

I got a little hope in my pocket
I want to share of it with you
Just be careful that you don't drop it
Don't worry if you do
'Cause I've got broken down inside me
And I might just need some help
But I will get by
Hey, hey

And I've got demons in my history
Got bone beneath my skin
I've been taken by a mystery
Yes I've been taken in
And sometimes voices down inside me
Try to fight me for myself
I will get by
Hey, hey

What have I got to live for
If there is nothing beating in my chest
And what have I got to live for
When this world starts turning
It's burning me up
I'm alright

I used to think love was just a barter
Second hand coincidence
What doesn't kill you just makes you harder
So I use my common sense
Keeping cold to keep my distance
Til you took my pride away
Now I will get by
Yeah, yeah

'Cause what have I got to live for
There is nothing beating in my chest
And what have I got to live for
When this world starts turning
It's burning me up
I'm alright

But I am not afraid
No I am not afraid

And I will not go crazy

I got a little hope here in my pocket
Want to share of it with you
Just be careful that you don't drop it
Don't worry if you do
'Cause I've got voices down inside me
And I might just need some help
I will get by
Hey, hey

What have I got to live for
There's nothing beating in my chest
And what have I got to live for
When this world starts turning
Burning me up

When my heart is hurting
I'm learning about love
When this world starts turning
It's burning me up
I'm alright

She turned her head as if to hide;
There was just nowhere to go.
'Cause standing tall on every side
The mighty fear of letting go
She said, "My God, I'm so ashamed.
Thirty years; a tragedy.
I still believed that he could change.
But he pulled me down, like gravity.
He broke my will, but it's deeper still...
...deeper still."

She told me morning was the time
When the sun burned bright and clean
And love grew fragile on the vine,
All wrapped up in gold and green.
"Because after all, we know we all
Are after all the same things.
But for the sun no rain would fall;
And it burned him up and turned him mean.
This fire that kills me, it's deeper still...
...deeper still."

Tonight I rose up with the moon,
And looking down from high above
I saw a world carved and confused
Into valleys deep in need of love.
And falling down all thick with grace,
Heaven's cloud of mystery
Was filling every empty space,
Down to the depth of human need

(Love that heals me, love that heals me)
This love that heals, it's deeper still (Love that's deeper still)
(Love that heals me, love that heals me)
This love that heals, it's deeper still... (Love that's deeper still)
...it's deeper still

I don't know why
I always run
Is it fear of the fall?
Or fear of the touch

And I don't know where
The angels sleep

I don't know how
To really love
I've never stood still
Long enough

I don't know where
The angels sleep

But I am alive
Standing strong
I'm no farther forward
Just farther along

Hold onto my pride
I'm digging deep
It's pulling me down
And I am no closer
To thee

And I don't know where
The angels sleep

I don't know how
To see you
A friend from before
Is different somehow

I don't know where
The angels sleep

And I don't know when
I'll love again
But I don't trust myself
To just let you in

I don't know where
The angels sleep

But I am alive
Standing strong
I'm no farther forward
Just farther along

I've held onto my pride
Digging deep
It's pulling me down
I am no closer
To thee

And I don't know where
The angels sleep

Its taken ten thousand days
To get stuck in my ways
It offers no grace
I cannot stand this place
With love and my faith
I walk away slowly

I don't know where
The angels sleep

I don't know where
The angels sleep

You're waking me up from my daydream
Making me look up from my precious world
Forcing me to see your point of view

This broken sidewalk, not so broken as
The man who likes to walk, jumping all the cracks
Pushing his old bike, he's sure to smile at you

I was looking for the quick way home
But you were happy just to be alone
Something magic must have caught my eye
I saw the secret of the man inside
I saw the secret of the man inside

It's not the sun-baked brick lines in your skin
Thick with chain grease, aged and clumsy hands
It isn't struggled words you fight to say

Beneath the man-suit, beneath your purple skin
There is a boy who don't know that he's a man
He simply close his eyes and he can fly away

I was driving in the same old car
But you were dreaming of a land so far away
I was looking through my corner eye
But you were singing with the man inside
You were singing with the man inside

Some think they got a lot to offer
some think they got a lot to give
Those people think they own this world
but some people know to truly live

I can tell by this crack of light
Oh girl this is gonna be, it's gonna be a beautiful day
And I can tell by this stretch of silver
Spreading all out across the curves of your face

And for the love, for the love of God
I've gathered up my pride, I've gathered up my bits and bone
And in a world that broke me down
I'm standing up, but not alone

'Cause this is a healing song, oh and I've got a heart that fails
But love is pushing me along, I'm lifting up above this veil
This is a healing song, oh and I don't know if you can tell
But love is pushing me along
I'm pressing up against the rail, pressing up against the rail

I can smell the summer in the air
And I swear I can almost see, I can almost see my soul
Son, I know that it don't seem fair
But I'm turning away from here, and oh Lord, I am coming home

I've got friends here that love me
I've got all this mercy beating in my blood
And I've got friends here that love me
And that's something good, that's something good

You and I, we've come so far
We've come so far, we cannot look back
I said you and I, we've come so far
We've come so far, we cannot look back

I said you and I (you and I, we've come so far)
We've come so far (you and I, we've come so far)
We've come so far (you and I, we've come so far)
We cannot look back (you and I cannot look back)

I said you and I (you and I, we've come so far)
We've come so far (you and I, we've come so far)
We've come so far (you and I, we've come so far)
No, we cannot look back (we cannot look back)

I didn't know
How I'd love you
When I walked into your life
Now I have a heart I cannot keep

And the greatest of fear
Is that you'll leave me here
Stranded in this water
So deep

So don't you turn away from me
Because my heart and my hold
Are in your hands

If I don't seem certain
It's just a common fear
From a common man
But I'm in your hands

Just so you know
I have never done this sort of thing before
I've never given up my very soul
But I have heard a voice
Like none I've heard before
And it's a voice that never grows old

So don't you turn from me
Because my heart and my hopes
Are in your hands

If I don't seem certain
It's just a common fear
From a common man
But I'm in your hands

So don't you turn away from me
Because my heart and my hopes
Are in your hands

And If I don't seem certain
It's just a common fear
From a common man
But I'm in your hands

I'm in your hands

I know
I'm in your hands

A page is turned by the wind to a boy with curly grin
With a world to conquer at the age of ten
But as history unfolds and the storybook is told
He finds salvation not at the hands of man

And the God of second chance
Picked him up and He let him dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, preparing him the one
To hold him up when he comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And now a man, here you stand
Your day has come

A page is turned in this world to reveal a little girl
With a heart that's bigger, as it is unfurled
By the language in her soul, that's teaching her to grow
With a careful cover of love that will not fail

And the God of second chance
Picked her up and He let her dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, preparing her the one
To hold her up when she comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And grown up tall, here you are
Your day has come

Beneath the air of autumn, she took him by the hand
And warm beneath the ardor, she took his heart instead
And high upon the mountain, he asked her for her hand
Just for her hand

A page is turned in this life, he's making her his wife
And there is no secret to the source of this much life
When the grace falls like rain is washing them again
Just a chance to somehow rise above this land

Where the God of second chance
Will pick them up and He'll let them dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, they're sharing with the one
That holds them up when they come undone
Beneath the sotrm, beneath the sun
And once again, here you stand
And once again, here you stand
Your day has come

The time is ours, your open arms
These frozen fields, all here at Selwood Farm
This swollen love reminds me of
Your spilling soul that somehow always fills me up

Every word is true
Gathered hearts are here just to sing their soul to you
And every word is true
I'm happy when I'm here with you, oh with you
At Selwood Farm

I see the sisters smiling
I see the light upon their face
Here is the promise that fills this place
There is an edge of winter
But there is fire that keeps us warm
This is the harvest at Selwood Farm

And these are the sons and daughters
They turn in the leaves then come inside
I welcome the healing of all my pride
And this is a day worth keeping
This is a day worth dwelling on
This is the day at Selwood Farm

And I don't know why, but my heart just smiles
And I know that each day we're growing older
But I still know the way
So take me to the day
Take me to the day
At Selwood Farm
Selwood Farm

Lay down softly in our sorrow
Lay down sister to die
And cover over, my sweet Father
Cover over her eyes

Your broken body, it cannot weather
The years your youth still longs to spend
So go down graceful, sleep with the angels
And wake up whole again

‘Cause it was not your time; that's a useless line
A fallen world took your life

But the God that sometimes can't be found
Will wrap Himself around you
So lay down, sister, lay down

Slower passing are the hours
To tell this tale that takes its time
But the finest moment, no man can measure
Is to look your Savior in the eyes

So take her tender to Your table
Take her from this killing floor
To taste the water that is forever
Let her be thirsty no more

It was not her time; that's a useless line
A fallen world took her life

But the God that sometimes can't be found
Will wrap Himself around you
So lay down, sister, lay down

And the God that sometimes can't be found
Will wrap Himself around you
So lay down, Rita, lay down