VERSE 1

We are paper lamps
We're unlit candle stands

Waiting for your hands
To set our fires alight

And guide our way through darkest nights


We all stand in need
We're sand castles by the sea

And without your reach
It would surely be our demise

We'd wash away in highest tides



CHORUS

But,
Whenever we call you you are there
Whenever we're drowning you're our air
Wherever we look, you are there

Whenever we whisper silent prayers
You always listen you never fail
Whenever we need you you are there

BRIDGE

We are loved
We are loved
We are children of the God of love

Why
do you love us so much

The one
Who spoke existence into existence
Was thinking of you
Us

Little us

Before
Beginnings even began

Look at you!
You can't even fathom it
Begin to imagine
The love that was lavished

On you

They say we drown
In this love
Like in an ocean

How?

You drown in oceans
Because oceans have depth
length and width
A surface to which
One may come to draw breath again

You can't drown

In an ocean
So vast
It ran through your future
In your past

Before there were even paths
To run through

All of infinity
Was trailblazed by love for you

There is no air to go to
In this ocean

Why

Are we
But dust in the sky
Worth lashes in your side?

Worth

The glance
To even be considered
The apple of your eye

When you
Place in us your breath
The normal pattern of life to death
Can't help but go from death to life

For death is an ending
But you are our everlasting beginning

Made to rise by your
Resurrection

God
You are so much perfection
That making us a mere reflection
Makes us diamonds

Don't sing your life in falsetto
Just to reach a higher tune

There's nothing wrong with being mellow
It doesn't mean you'll catch the blues

But maybe rolling along the lines
A flat made you a minor key

You only need a few more notes
To turn it 'round to harmony

But what is music really
But a few notes on a page

Just because you're an old hymn
Doesn't mean you have to age

Maybe this is just too much
To say in just one song

Just because you're life isn't Beethoven
Doesn't mean it's wrong

There was a machine
That cranked and rattled

There was a machine
sputtered and clattered

All questions were battled
Inquiry shattered

A class taken faster
Than all minds could fathom

Discoveries scattered
Fleeing the merciless

Mega machine that
Cranked away

Endlessly tearing
Through anything

Everything that could be thought
Or changed in a way

Now in a void
Empty of knowledge

The machine stood motionless
Somewhat in awe

The only thing
It failed to discover

Was that it could not
Uncover it all

We all write
A sound dreamed in a mind's silent night

A sinking song with chords so heavy
And notes so light

They have no choice
But to take flight
Anyway

We all paint murals
On a canvas far and wide

But our painting is but a pixel
For the picture is bigger

When our words collide

Summer falls to autumn's grip
As skies fade to grey

Green is siphoned from the leaves
By autumn's chilly, windy thieves

A swift swarm of burnt Amber
A growing flame;

A leaf tumbles from a tree
Tossed about the solemn breeze

For from its home it must now flee
To join its brothers

A single glowing ember
A remnant of September

Now lay strewn amidst the others
To be trodden by winter's feet

Where are you
Amidst the trees?
Hiding?
No, not you
You noble valiant thing

I thought you were a king
Not a refugee
Leaping from page to page
From thought to age
Evading the tinkerer's jail
Of memory
Paid ransom by some other script

Take a rest
You've been running for infinity
But you've finally run right into the wrong time:
Yours
Pass into potential's clearing
long enough
For my swift stab
Aha!
"Penned" to paper

Shall we begin
The inked interrogation
To see what lies within, o suspect
Accused of rhyme?

Love anew
Love that lasts

Love the same
as ages past

Spark of interest
Catching eyes

Masquerades
of love's disguise

I've been hit
I'll confess

With the arrow
through my chest

I've been smitten
Through and through

Face made crimson
Nearest you

But this truth
I'll never tell

For this one
Is not for sale

Now I stand
No way to buy

The only one
that caught my eye

Maybe the archer
Made a blunder

This arrow
Burns my heart asunder

Eldredge
A simple knot

It was all I had
My only souvenir

From my travels

I had only worn it on special occasion
And thus

All events of significance
Wrapped up in a few turns

Of a piece of cloth

Eldredge
A simple knot

Maybe the life
I thought I’d live

Was snagged on another loop of thread
And wrapped up forever

Or
Maybe

All that’s needed
Is to tie another

In air we breathe
In air we thrive

The Pale blue shroud
The fortress high

A prison from
the starry expanse

That bears us up
On wings to dance

And hurls
The aerial oceans down

And smothers us
Until we drown

In sunsets
Bathed in tangerine

In air we thrive
In air we breathe

Oh how the winds of time have worn this house,
Sweeping away the vibrance that once surrounded it,
Leaving empty chairs at our table,

Gone,
In an instant ;

The wooden ladle,
Still in the dish,
Still warm,

After the commotion,
The constant locomotion,
The dust has settled,
And time grinds to a halt,

Oh, what great treasures are woven into these walls,
Every scratch, every crack,
A story,

Oh great house,
Oh great kingdom upon a time
Once ;

A sea,
Where the gulls call legends above,
In the open firmament of our memories,

Ascending,
And returning,
Dodging the salty spray:
Decay,

Held aloft by the winds of recollection,
An ever present mental convection,

A watched *** that never boils,

A memory that never fades...