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by Greg Willson

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1.
Come Out 03:26
I walk this world in pain Craving something bring me back again But I steal away. Oh, I’m Living in my cave Or am I dying in my own grave I cover up in shame Come out, come out wherever you are No more hide and seek Our stories are not all told It’s the telling that makes us bold But it’s safer to withhold. And I’m Singing of lament And hearing one sound that won’t relent Its a song that I have dreamt, and it goes The rain upon this place Is life leaving its trace Fills the loss that it replaced, and my Hands come off my face I’m rid of all my disgrace The light is my embrace, and I’m Life, it takes all
2.
I look in my heart What monsters we are The horrors we’ve wrought And many more I’ve thought But I am with you and you with me I will not send you Into that darkness alone It’s a wonder that good exists Within the stones and sticks We throw them when light persists We bring death through emptiness
3.
Lights on in our room Just the way you left it And they stay burning brightly Since the day you left me Empty closets full of stuff No more dropping off or picking up Waking up to alarms, not your touch And the lights stay on You're gone, and you're gone, and I'm not The alarm wakes me up Not your morning touch Empty closets full of stuff The abundance mocks me I long for a home but I'm not homeless I lay here all alone in a bed too big for one The lies we believe Fuels the lives we lead But you're not coming back From your grave in the ground I know you couldn't help it I know you couldn't change a thing But I have a hope that's hopeless And I can't change a thing The end of war is peace But the future looks bleak I hear one day all suffering will cease But until then…
4.
We’re all crippled darkened souls Trying to find something that works And we hold on to it tight Even if it’s not something that works We are used up and are beat up Can we find our way again To the place far away From abuse outside and within We all want to find our way home The dreams we have they mock us They throw sand in our eyes Did we escape to the desert Only so they could watch us die? There is a hope to redeem To what was or what could have been I can’t buy it’s a lie This whole life that we live To our chains Don’t look back Oh look on To the hope we have Don’t look back To the chains That we all Used to have But look on To the hope That will be Our promised land
5.
I walked up the great hill I was still and silent there I heard the birds sing Felt the longing for a home Sounds became deafening Did not want it to stop Though it hurt inside And made my fears alive There is a sense of life I'm striving for And in the end I don't want regrets to win There is a voice calling To a place of definition And in this road of suffering And despair and hope and longing I fell it deep within I know it's you calling me I don't want regrets to win
6.
The breeze moves slowly through the trees I think of you and your mystery I am left with empty dignity Hearing tales told of the world And the weakness in men who are often bold Some things just can't be bought and sold Emptiness now, you're my friend Take your place now, til the end It's a much deeper place that we all face And the weight inside, oh it spurs our haste But speed has not the power to erase Nothing comes clean that is bound with string Unless there is an unraveling Then you will see all that I have seen Heaven and earth and all that's in between Then you will see all that I have seen Heaven and earth and all that's in between
7.
Walking this town, where do my feet lead me? They lead me to you, lead me to you I follow the sound down to the North Sea It leads me to you, leads me to you My heart's let me down My body is grounded for now But still you're around Lead me to you Kicking my legs to the beacon that calls me It leads me to you, leads me to you my limbs are so cold, my weak soul agrees Oh I pray, lead me to you, lead me to you My heart's let me down My body is drowning soundly But still you're around Lead me to you My fears will be roused, were they just sleeping They lead me to you, lead me to you When I am held up, I know I don't hold up It leads me to you, leads me to you My heart's let me down It took on the water and drowned My body has found It's hope is high, but still it is bound And yet more profound: It leads me to you
8.
High and Low 05:40
I slapped the face of the one who kissed me I said I'm sorry but I lied Empty hopes, oh I'm still left hungry You said you loved me and you lied My appetite is like a fig tree Cursed and set free from its life It slowly fades and now it haunts me Telling what would be so I lie We all get robbed Everything gets stolen We all grow up Everything a burden This drive inside is a wild escapee Swinging idly at the sky I let him roam this barren country So why is it me with the black eye? The search for what cannot be broken Lost or taken consumes my time It must exist and the proof rests within All that's broken in our cries I search high and low
9.
I know moonrise I know star rise I walk in the moonlight I walk in the starlight And lay this body down I walk in the graveyard I walk in the graveyard I lie in the grave And stretch out my arms And lay this body down I go to the judgment In the evening of the day And my soul and your soul Will meet in that day To lay this body down
10.
Wheels turning as i drive Caught under blue skies Landscape comes into view Light gleams in and all is new One day, home Green trees pass me by Though I'm sitting still The difference between What I see and what i feel They say home is where the heart is But mine's subdivided On either side I find Where I've left and where I'm going I don't always know where I am and I'm not always sure the way but I'm wandering to the home where I've never been I've got no place to go now But I'm not meant to stay Driving further down the road And the familiar fades away One day, home

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A collection of songs about home: our longings, disappointments and celebrations.

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released February 3, 2015

recorded, mixed and mastered by Greg

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