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Small Things
04:16
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Age is a funny thing
You think that you’ll grow up into
A better version of you
But I’m just not feeling it now
It seems more like I’m just breaking down
More like I’m just fading out
CHORUS:
And I keep feeling like I’m fighting uphill battles left and right
With no strength to survive them
I’ve been freaking out over the small things I won’t ever change
They get stuck in me and I’m like, can I get somebody to help?
Everything feels so wrong
Like I’m trapped inside of the floor
Where small things become so much more
And I can’t stop now, though moments ago, all was right,
Now I can’t even get to sleep tonight
Still I lay here trying
How was I supposed to know that the fog never fully clears?
Where am I supposed to go, where these struggles disappear?
Or can you really find me here?
If I’m not alone, I don’t need control to find joy in my life
So I let it go, in the hope that you can find me here
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More Than the View
03:36
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There are places in the cosmos where there’s beauty in the corners
Many dreamers become foreigners to see
‘Cause their homes had all the problems, only leaving didn’t solve them
Will you help me? I don’t want to be deceived
CHORUS:
If you’re not there, then I don’t need it
If you won’t come along, then I don’t want to walk that way
If you’re still here, then please don’t leave me
‘Cause I want to be with you more than the view
Out of fire, heard you calling, in my failures, I was falling
But you knew it, so you came ‘round to declare
Breaking pavement, shutting shutters, closing doorways, opening others
Now I’m thankful as I’m looking up ahead
Find me in this moment
Take these hands and lead me
Only where you are
‘Cause to be honest, I feel broken, I’ve been searching, I’ve been hoping
So if you’re moving, will you stop and show me where?
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Cumulonimbus
03:24
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I was hoping that all of your mountains
Would burst right open with hope on the wind
But they’ve hemmed in, like the snow of Caradhras,
All of the plans you had
I wish I were as wise as the wizard
So I could bring you my timely advice
But I’ve got nothing but tears for your sadness
Here on the other side
CHORUS:
But you carry life in those lungs
And it’s seldom lightweight
So don’t fear all cumulonimbus
Sometimes your rain becomes someone else’s grace
People run to attack all their problems
Honesty’s just a title they take
‘Cause they’re not open and don’t want to solve them
Truth wears a mask of shame
If you give love that’s as wide as an ocean
You might get left in the loneliest place
But don’t you dare try to bottle it up
‘Cause I’m going to find you there
There’s no storm that’s meaningless
And rest will come soon
There’s will in this water for new life
But most good things sprout unseen
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In the Background
05:09
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River, wide enough to wade the countryside
Deep enough to bear me many miles, until I stop to sit a while
Aching, like the sliver of a crescent moon
A silver line against the midnight blue, awaiting red and yellow hues
And I, alike, feel trapped in my own bed until the sun should rise
Forgetting the billion suns still burning overhead
CHORUS:
And they’re singing, holy, holy
Singing, holy, holy
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
Broken, like an oak struck by a lightning storm
Its long life shortened in a moment’s harm
Now just a stump on forest floor
And I, alike, feel broken from within, too angry to admit
This storm is pouring life back in the ground again
CHORUS:
And it’s singing, holy, holy
Singing, holy, holy
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
Crimson, like the holly seen at Christmastime
Like the color of a sacrifice
Like the heart that gives me life
And I, unlike, so self-absorbed and hurt, remember him who died
Who walked into the darkness just to bring his light
Who’s waiting even now for when he should arrive
CHORUS:
And he’s singing, holy, holy
Singing, holy, holy
Oh, he’s singing, holy, holy
Singing, holy, holy
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
In the background with my Father
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5. |
Resurrection Song
04:29
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Jesus, we told you Lazarus was sick
We don’t know why you didn’t come
‘Cause we believe you are the one whom God has sent
But we don’t know why our brother’s gone
If you’d have been here, he would be alive
If you are God, why did you let him die?
Mary, let me cry right here with you
But don’t forget who I am
For whoever believes in me, though he should die,
I will let him live again
‘Cause sometimes troubles come so you might see
How God is glorified when you believe in me
CHORUS:
Let the darkness fall, know I am stronger still
Though his heartbeat stopped, see how I will, I will
Take him who dies under the dirt and let him walk out in the sun
I am the life and the resurrection
I can feel the weight of sin across my shoulders
I know my time has finally come
I am kneeling in this garden alone and bleeding
Trying to let your will be done
I can feel my hope is fading fast
Oh, Father, I am begging, let this pass, but even still
Let the darkness fall, I know you’re stronger still
Though my heartbeat stops, I know you will, you will
Redeem this broken body for broken bodies yet to come
CHORUS:
So let the darkness fall, my God is stronger still
Though your heartbeat stops, see how he will, he will
Take him who dies under the dirt, and let him walk out in the sun
He is the life and the resurrection
He is the life and the resurrection
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Any man can claim to start a fire
Anyone can go and swing a sword
You can Christianize some instinct or desire
And in seconds just be bored
If truth is rising, you feel stuck on the ground
If love is moving, you feel unmoved somehow
CHORUS:
If you feel some isolation when you ponder your salvation
It might be a cave you found
If you’ve bolted up your door and yet you’re asking, “is there more?”
Well, while you’re staring down at pavement
Remember it’s people’s hands who made it
Remember God loves people everywhere
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7. |
I Am Here for You
03:19
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I don’t know if we both knew what we were getting ourselves into
When we said, “I do,” but here we are
It seems like many things in life get magnified by fear and pride
And compromise shows our faults like the canyon lines
And I’m sorry for when I make a landmark of mine
But I want you to know that wherever we go, I’ll stay near
CHORUS:
Because I am with you
Because I am for you
Because I love you
Until our dying days appear, let me be clear
I am here for you
As the moon is bound around this earth
And the two spin round the burning sun
So to you I will always belong
As we dance in the light of God
And I know it isn’t easy, and the path feels rough and broken
But we are not alone on it
‘Cause the God who said he made this is the one who comes to save it
Every time I fail it, as he says
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8. |
Carry Your Heart
04:45
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Do all of your ends feel frayed and tired
Like the weight of the world has quenched the fire in you?
Like the grip of electricity,
Are you trapped inside anxiety’s control?
Do you feel that ache on the inside?
Do you know the one who takes it?
CHORUS:
He can carry your heart, he can carry your heart
If he could carry his cross to the place of the skull
He can carry a faith to the depths of your soul
He can carry your heart, he can carry your heart
If even death couldn’t make his body stay buried
Then the one who loved you better than any other can carry your heart
Is everything you’ve ever done wrong
Hanging strapped on your back, just dragging you down to hell?
Do you know that there’s a narrow climb
That the weakest and the weariest take to find relief?
Do you feel that weight hanging on you?
Do you know the one who takes it?
Don’t you know the children of the freedom
Are the ones who can dance at the valleys and mountains alike?
Oh, but don’t you know the burden of the free
Is to go and be the hands and the feet
Of the one who brought them all to life
As their lungs ring out the line:
CHORUS:
“He can carry your heart, he can carry your heart”
So stand up child, live up to your calling
Look to the one who is desperate and falling
And carry your heart, go and carry your heart
Cause if you have joy and peace in Christ
Would you look to your neighbor and lift up his eyes
When he asks where to look for the joy that’s inside, say,
“The one who loved you better than any other can carry your heart”
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9. |
Come to Life
06:08
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Gaze, gaze into the pools
My gathering of thoughts and dreams of
Possibilities that, as a roaring fire
Blaze, colors of the leaves
In uncreated trees, a forest of glorious praise
CHORUS:
Away I pace among the rising light of day
A gentle, rippling, life-sustaining song of grace
As green as grass descending on the hills in waves
And waves of joy halt passersby
As everything I sing of comes to life
So rise! Souls of every size
Young mysteries of life come to me and open your eyes
Awake! Love and think and speak
Be ye living plants or beasts that
Divinity’s waters bathed
Jadis, you just couldn’t see
That the harm you meant for me
Would grow into a beacon
A lamppost that will stay
Until a later day
When, once again, I’ll take your intentions and upend the grave
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10. |
Hello Darling
04:50
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Hello darling, it took me a long, long time to write this song for you
You called me darling and held me in your arms
You gave me so many things in such little time
And it’s so hard, ‘cause now I wanna hold you close, but there’s just
The empty air, and it makes something in my gut sink like a stone
CHORUS:
Through the years, it has not been any clearer
Why I’m still here, but there’s a truth that draws you nearer
That as we say goodbye, there’s one saying hello darling to you
That’s just about it, there’s already too much to fit in these lines of your life
So I’ll just keep playing songs, keeping you and who you’re with
In my heart, on my mind
After all, all these memories are just their moment’s afterlife
So, in honor of you, I’ll offer every darling here some advice
CHORUS:
Through the years, it may not be any clearer
But don’t you fear, because Jesus is drawing nearer
So as you say goodbye
Oh, as you say goodbye
Oh, as you say goodbye, there’s one saying hello darling to you
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11. |
(Just a Sec)
00:49
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12. |
The Story's Still Alive
04:37
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Sometimes, I know, it sounds too much like fairy tales to be true
While our broken world by its physics spins aloft
Some days, I know, it feels like faith has flown away from you
And then years go by without you ever feeling a spark
CHORUS:
But don’t you know?
The story’s still alive in you
We have this hope:
There is no shadow where His light cannot shine through
And He is with when you’re in this darkness, too
So don’t let the story die in you
Somewhere, I hope, there’s gonna be a place where we can run
Where these dungeon doubts get dispelled like the clouds at dawn
But somehow, for so long, there’s only been grey over the sun
And you wonder, has it ever really shone?
Every breath your lungs have taken’s a gift to you
Every step your feet will make is faith on faith on faith
And every time that you look up and see a star is burning,
Don’t you see how light so far away can pierce the dark to reach you?
CHORUS:
Even if you don’t know
If the story’s still alive in you
Won’t you turn to hope?
There is no shadow where His light cannot shine through
Even if it takes a lifetime to prove
Don’t let the story die in you
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Graham Jones Arlington, Texas
Graham Jones is a Texan singer-songwriter who traces the story of the gospel with thoughtful lyrics and rich melodies.
Inspired by six-string storytellers like Jon Foreman, John Mayer, and Andrew Peterson, his music is honest, joyful, and contagious with longing.
Graham serves as the worship pastor of The Fields Church and works as a musician for Texas Winds Musical Outreach and Baylor Hospitals.
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