Michael W Smith

[fox69]

"Love Me Good"

"Love Me Good"


Sometimes I feel like this world is just one big gigantic merry-go-round
You gotta hold on tight or you get hurled through the air
Yeah, life is a 3 ring circus With clowns and freaks and camels and such
And you never know when you might be attacked by the bears

[Chorus]
Give me love, give me love
Love me good
Give me love, give me love
Love me good

Sometimes I feel like I'm afraid of my own shadow and then
Sometimes I can feel as bold as Gengis Khan
But I could never live in a yurt on a diet of Mongolian barbeque
I conqure the world for a moment Then the moment is gone

[Chorus 2x]

[Bridge]
Let us take a moment now to bow our heads and pray
if only to give thanks for making it through another day

Sometimes I wish I was in a movie or some 70's TV thing
Where everything gets neatly wrapped by the end of the show
Yeah, but this ain't Hollywood and this sure ain't the Brady Bunch
and how this plot's gonna all pan out I don't really know

[Chorus 3x]

 

[fox69]

"Love One Another"

"Love One Another"



I had a dream that I was speaking
With a prophet from the land of wise
In a crowd of people from the land of troubled hearts
I said, "We've come here for answers
A solution to our world's demise"
He said the journey would be long
But here is where you start

Love one another
Love one another
Work it in to work it out
There can never be enough
Love one another
Love one another
'Cause you know without a doubt
You can change your world with love

It was a simple conclusion
But I thought that it was rather profound
Just a fundemental law that we should all live by
I took it in to tomorrow
Yeah, I walked the earth but I never found
Any corner of the world
Where this did not apply

Love one another
Love one another
Work it in to work it out
There can never be enough
Love one another
Love one another
'Cause you know without a doubt
You can change your world with love

And looking out I saw no method to the madness there
Like in a vision from the Isle of Patmos
I was scared
It was a revelation
Love is getting rare

The people of the land united
And in my dream, we all agreed
That we should start again
And this would be our creed...

Love one another
Love one another
Work it in to work it out
There can never be enough
Love one another
Love one another
'Cause you know without a doubt
You can change your world with love

 

[fox69]

"Lux Venit"

"Lux Venit"


Lux venit, lux venit, lux venit sur sum corda
[means hearts look up-ward]
Lux venit lux venit, lux venit arise shine for your Light has come.

[solo]

In grace, in might, the Babe lay in stable stark
Redemption's Light pierces through the shadow's dark

Alleluia
Lux venit, lux venit, lux venit sur sum corda
[means hearts look up-ward]
Lux venit lux venit, lux venit arise shine for your Light has come.
Shine for your Light has come

 

[fox69]

"Matter Of Time"

"Matter Of Time"



If I could I would tell you why
The first time I saw her I could touch the sky
I turned to stone...and I could not speak
She had the ability to make me weak

Always wishing... always hoping
That she'll get the message from the
Bottom of my heart
Let's together...share forever
It's just a matter of time

I had to wait and just let her breathe
That's never been easy for a man to see
She moved slow... and she took her time
She kept me guessing what was on her mind

It's just a matter of time
Let's forever...be together
It's just a matter of time
It's just a matter of time

 

[fox69]

"Memoirs: A Trilogy"

"Memoirs: A Trilogy"


[The Voice]

Follow the footsteps
Or travel down your own road
Designing your fate
Hear what your heart says
Still you decide which way to go
Your life's an open gate

[CHORUS]
'Le bon et 'le mal
These are the voices
We nous somme liberti'
We make the choices

Echoes of laughter
Dancing in distant corridors
With the tears of hearts undone
Dreams we chase after
Give us the key to any door
We are what we become

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Holding and reaching
We face the calm, we face the fear
As we learn to win and love
Voices and speaking
Still we hear what we want to hear
Our life is ours to choose

[CHORUS]

[Good King Wenceslaus]

Good King Wenceslaus looked out on the feast of Stephen.
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.

Hither page and stand by me if thou knowst it telling
Yonder peasant, who is he, where and what his dwelling?
Sire, he lives a good league hence, underneath the mountain,
Right against the forest fence, by Saint Agnes' fountain.

Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me pinelogs hither
Thou and I will see him dine when we bear them thither
Page and monarch forth they went, forth they went together
Through the rude winds wild lament, and the bitter weather.

Sire the night is darker now, and the wind blows stronger
Fails my heart, I know not how, I can go no longer.
Mark my footsteps my good page, tread thou in them boldly
Thou shalt find the winter's rage freeze thy blood less coldly.

In his master's steps he trod where the snow lay dinted
Heat was in the very sod which the saint had printed
Therefore Christian men be sure, wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing.

[Hark the Herald Angels Sing]

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyus strains

Gloria O Gloria in excelsis Deo [x4]

Come to Bethlehem and see
(Gloria O sing Gloria)
Him whose birth the angels sing
(Gloria O sing Gloria)
Come adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord the newborn king

Gloria O Gloria in excelsis Deo [x4]

Angels we have heard on high
(Gloria O sing Gloria)
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
(Gloria O sing Gloria)
Jesus Lord of heav'n and earth
With us sing our Savior's birth

Gloria O Gloria in exelsis Deo [x8]

Alleluia

 

[fox69]

"Miracle"

"Miracle"


A rebel heart
A restless soul
I lost my sight
I lost control
A cry for hope
Could I be saved
You found a way
You found a way

Your miracle is burning bright in me
I was a slave, and now I'm free
I'm lifting high these broken chains
You always find a way
I am a miracle
I am a miracle

Impossible
The war was lost
Before Your blood
Before the cross
My shame no more
My curse no more
You made a way, yeah
You made a way

Your miracle is burning bright in me
I was a slave, and now I'm free
I'm lifting high these broken chains
You always find a way
I am a miracle
I am a miracle

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
I once was lost
But now I'm found
[x2]

Your miracle is burning bright in me
I was a slave, and now I'm free
I'm lifting high these broken chains
You always find a way
I am a miracle
I am a miracle
I am a miracle
I am a miracle

 

[fox69]

"Missing Person"

"Missing Person"


Another question in me
One for the powers that be
It's got me thrown
And so I put on my poker face
And try to figure it out
This undeniable doubt
A common occurence
Feeling so out of place
Guarded and cynical now
Can't help but wondering how
My heart evolved into
A rock beating inside of me
So I feel such a stoic ordeal
Where's that feeling that I don't feel

[Chorus:]
There was a boy who had the faith to move a mountain
And like a child he would believe without a reason
Without a trace he disappeared into the void and
I've been searchin' for that missing person

Under a lavender moon
So many thoughts consume me
Who dimmed that glowing light
That once burned so bright in me
Is this a radical phase
A problematical age
That keeps me running
From all that I used to be
Is there a way to return
Is there a way to unlearn
That carnal knowledge
That's chipping away at my soul
I've been gone too long
Will I ever find my way home

[Chorus:]
There was a boy who had the faith to move a mountain
And like a child he would believe without a reason
Without a trace he disappeared into the void and
I've been searchin' for that missing person

He used to want to try to walk the straight and narrow
He had a fire and he could feel it in the marrow
It's been a long time and I haven't seen him lately
but I've been searchin' for that missing person

 

[fox69]

"More Love, More Power"

"More Love, More Power"


More Love, More Power,
More of you in my life.
More Love, More Power,
More of you in my life.
I will worship You
with all my heart.
I will worship You
with all my mind.
I will worship You
with all my strength.
For you are my Lord.
[repeat 2 times]

More Love, More Power,
More of you in my life.
[repeat 10 times]

 

[fox69]

"Move In Me"

"Move In Me"




I am only human, struggling to find
Confidence in all that I believe
You are only holy, You are love defined
And You have said to ask and I'll receive

So, I have come to pray that You will come and fill
The hunger here inside me to grow
Stronger in the faith, there's a longing and a need
To have You ever closer, come fill me

'Cause when You move in me, it's like a symphony
The timeless melody that soothes my soul
Though silent I can tell that You're alive and well
'Cause I can feel You move in me

What they try to tell me is that Your love is false
What they try to tell me is that Your love is false
And faith is just a way I choose to feel and that there was
No meaning to You upon the cross and I should reach for
Something that is real

And when those words are said, the questions in me start
And I don't have any answers until I stop thinking
With my head and start listening to my heart
And there I find my assurance, I tell them

'Cause when You move in me, it's like a symphony
The timeless melody that soothes my soul
Though silent I can tell that You're alive and well
'Cause I can feel You move in me

 

[fox69]

"Never Been Unloved"

"Never Been Unloved"



I have been unfaithful
I have been unworthy
I have been unrighteous
And I have been unmerciful

I have been unreachable
I have been unteachable
I have been unwilling
And I've been undesirable

And sometimes I have been unwise
I've been undone by what I'm unsure of
But because of you
And all that you went through
I know that I have never been unloved

I have been unbroken
I have been unmended
I have been uneasy
And I've been unapprochable

I've been unemotional
I've been unexceptional
I've been undecided
And I have been unqualified

Unaware - I have been unfair
I've been unfit for blessings from above
But even I can see
The sacrifice You made for me
To show that I have never been unloved

Unaware - I have been unfair
I've been unfit for blessings from above
But even I can see
The sacrifice You made for me
To show that I have never been unloved

It's because of you
And all that you went through
I know that I have never been unloved