Album Lyrics

On the edge of the city there's a dangerous place

The people call it Market and Vine

It's full of all the broken dreams of yesterdays

And children too young to be so wise.

She's thirteen and pretty, been two years on her own

She sells the only thing that she has

In this part of the city she's left all alone

She believes it's too late to ever go back.

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For the street is a place the warrior reigns

Only the strong will survive

But under the hate and the fear that remains

The children are praying down Market and Vine.

Just north of the city there's a place real nice

Where people can move and be safe

It's full of pretty churches and steeples so high

The ministers don't have to be brave.

They talk about Jesus, even talk about His blood

But words can be cheap when they talk about His love

They keep on building bigger, keep on saying they care

But seldom will you ever see just one of them there.

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He's worked hard for his money now he's wealthy and proud

He can buy anything he'd ever want

But deep in the heart of the city tonight

Lie the broken remains of his little girl.

She's looking for answers and a place to be safe

She's hiding from her dad's heavy hand on her face

She's living unprotected in a world of fear

She's praying every day hoping someone would hear.

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When your heart is surrounded by a bitter cold

You're losing your ground to a stronger foe

You're trying with all of your might

To just survive in the battle zone.

When all your desires, everything you believe

They're lost in the fire of never-ending sin

You want to do right but can only do wrong

You're deep in the battle zone.

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You've got to fight in the name of the Lord!

Got to fight you can win this war!

Fight by the blood of the Lamb

Till the devil gives in oh-h-h.

When your heart's been broken by a wicked lie

You've given up hope, now you want to die

Everything you're hearing inside your mind says

'You haven't got a chance'.

When the fear inside you is growing strong

You're wondering why everything's gone wrong

You're tired of fighting and you feel

Like you're all alone in the battle zone.

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When you know you're weak, running out of control

Another defeat, you'll be down on the floor

You want to do right but can only do wrong

You're deep in the battle zone.

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Maybe tonight you will find a real reason for living

Maybe tonight you will find a new love

Maybe tonight you will find a good reason

For not giving up - maybe tonight!

In the winter of your life when love has grown cold

Your feelings like ice push you far from the Lord

Your heart is on fire from thoughts that you own

You choose what is right, then do what is wrong.

Maybe, just maybe...

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Maybe tonight you'll find a reason for living

Maybe tonight you'll find a new love

Maybe tonight you'll find a reason for not giving up

Maybe tonight.

In a storybook tales evil always will lose

You wish in a well, your dreams then come true

But life as we live it just isn't that way

That's why He sent us, that's why we came.

Maybe, oh-h-h maybe...

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Maybe tonight, oh tonight, maybe tonight!

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How many times will you keep making me prove to you?

How many times will you say no?

How many times will all these messages to your heart

Keep going on and on and on?

Until all tomorrows have faded into yesterdays

My love will be forever, forever calling you.

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Always and forever I'll be there

Always and forever I will care

I'll never leave you

I'll always be with you.

Always and forever I'll be there, oh-h-h

Always and forever I will care

I'll never leave you

I'm always there for you.

How many times will you keep running away from me?

How many times can this go on?

How many times will you refuse the love you see?

It goes on and on and on.

Until all tomorrows have faded into yesterdays

My love will be forever, forever calling you.

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Have you wanted to run away?

You're trying to find a place to go

And you've dreamed of a lasting love

That heals all the things you've done.

I know your thoughts

I know the hurting inside

How deep in your heart

You're ready to give up and die.

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Just follow Me tonight and your heart will feel My unending love

It's a love that can heal all the pain and hurt

Just follow Me tonight on a never-ending journey of hope

For I am the Lord.

Do you feel like you're all alone?

Your world has become a cold, hard stone

Do the answers just seem to fade?

It's hard to find your way.

I know your thoughts

I know the hurting deep inside

How deep in your heart

You're ready to give up and die.

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I'm going to stand on a mountain, going to wave my hands

Tell all the people, going to tell every man

God is gathering His warriors

To execute His anger and to do His word.

Listen everyone to the sound of my voice

You better get ready, better make a right choice

Sinner wake up for the day of the Lord

Will send you to die for deeds you've done.

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Oh-h-h it's time, time for a decision

Oh-h-h it's time, time for a decision

He will come in fire on a cold, dark day

To punish the world for its iniquity

The land will burn and the trees will die

Every man's heart will be terrified

The sun and the moon no longer will shine

Stars will fall, it'll be a sign

The heavens above they will rattle and shake

And every man's heart will hide in the caves.

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(Recitation)

Matthew 24:29-31

"In those days the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light,

and the stars will fall from the sky,

and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky,

and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn,

and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky

with power and great glory."

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Two will be working on the job that day

One will be left, one taken away

The trumpet will sound and the winds will blow

The day and the hour no single man knows.

Listen everyone to the sound of my voice

You better get ready, better make a right choice

Sinner wake up for the day of the Lord

Will send you to die for deeds you've done.

If you're trying to decide the kind of life that you'll live

You're thinking there's time to make your mind up between

The devil and his demons or the Son of God

You've already chosen - you've already lost.

The devil, he will promise you a world on a string

A moment or two he'll make you feel like a king

But when you start believing that you've got it made

He'll tear you apart and say 'It's time to pay!'

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Hellfire and the devil to pay

Burning alive for all eternity, yea

Hellfire and the devil to pay

There'll be hellfire and the devil to pay.

Nobody else can choose for you the way that you live

But you can bet you'll get back in full whatever you give

If you think it's a party and the party is sin

Remember that the devil doesn't keep any friends.

Everybody's going to be there on the Judgement day

And look into the holy eyes on Jesus' face

Some will be ready, some say they don't care

For those who never take the time to prepare

I want you to know, there'll be...

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I need the fire

Holy Spirit fire

Burning in my heart, driving out the dark

I've got to lay my life completely

In the fire

Holy Spirit fire

Help me, Lord, I pray, answer me today

Send Your all-consuming, burning holy fire.

I'm tired of trying to live my life

Through my desires

I'm tired of saying that I am right

When I know I'm wrong

I'm tired of giving so many reasons

For living life this way

My sin's so strong, I can't go on

There's no other way.

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I'm tired of fighting when I know

That I've been compromising

I'm tired of saying all the words

When I can't believe.

I'm tired of living like a failure

Living a lie each day

My sin's so strong, I can't go on

There's no other way.

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I need the fire, I need the fire, fire today

I need the fire, I need the fire, fire today.

When Julie was only just a little girl

She stayed in her room all alone and she played

With a friend in her make-believe world.

She didn't want anyone to ever know

Her mommy and daddy had told her and told her

She'd never be any good.

Julie believed in everything she heard

And hear that her daddy didn't want her

Julie was not like the other little girls

Julie had no one to love her.

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Julie, where are you now?

Oh, Julie, where are you now?

Now Julie has grown beyond the little years

The place she had known in her make-believe home

Has faded and gone away.

Still every night in the quiet she hears

The sound of her heart still breaking apart

Because of the early days.

But deep in her mind she really wants to be

The kind of a girl her daddy wanted

So many years have come and gone she thinks

No one ever will love her, oh.

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Can you see the little boy pretending to sleep

With his head half under his pillow

His make-believe world are the covers, the bed

That surround him among all the shadows.

The lumps in his bed become make-believe friends

They'll fight 'till they win when the trolls come in

Mommy and Daddy forgot little Danny again.

Can you see the little girl pretending to smile

As she tries to put on a brave face

She wraps her little arms around her little dolls

When she sees her daddy with his suitcase.

She holds on real tight when he says 'goodbye'

He drives out of sight then she starts to cry

'Cause Mommy said Daddy won't live with them ever again.

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Jesus said we must all learn to believe

In our hearts like a little child

Then we tear at our lives through our sin and our pride

When the heart of a child will forever survive

For the Lord won't allow them to cry through the night

He will come in His power, stay by their side

Heal all the hurting and then make it right

In the morning they'll rise, they'll see with new eyes

The Lord is the Life, the Light of every little child.

Can you see the little child left all alone

In the hearts of people now older

It's crying out loud for the friend that has gone

To a world children aren't wanted.

Oh, oh, give us the heart once again of a little child.

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O establish my heart and my steps in Your law

Don't let an iniquity overcome my life or I will die

Deliver me from all the power of sin

constantly purge and burn me within.

Your holy fire, Your holy fire

Your holy fire, Your holy fire.

Lord, examine me now in my mind and my heart

Give me understanding and teach me to walk in Your way until I die

Don't let me wander from all that You've said

Let the words I sing, let the way that I live.

Be holiness, Your holiness

Your holiness, Your holiness.