Thrive

THRIVE-NEWSBOYS Giving It Over I was a teen flat-liner on the joy screen Dead in the water of life as we knew you offered me drink, I wanted more than a sip But I couldn't let go of the straws I was clinging to Giving it over, giving it over I was flat on my back, I'd slid 'til it hurt Giving it over, giving it over You put my head in the clouds and my feet in good dirt My head in the clouds and my feet in good... Dirt Devils were crowding my head With lies they spread They'd convinced me of what fools know isn't true Quick as an Outkast rhyme you took me back in time Back to the first love I ever knew Giving it over, giving it over Got my broken heart healed and removed from its cast Giving it over, giving it over Yeah, I'm giving myself to a true love at last Giving myself to a true love at last You don't know where the wind's gonna blow And since you can't take it with you better give it away before you go Yeah, I'm giving it over Greed is the word, it's a verb Wants to bind us all Bind us together like a platinum truss Giving it over, giving it over I'm putting my heart into treasures that don't rust I'm giving it all over to a face I can trust You don't know where the wind's gonna blow And since you can't take it with you ] Better give it away before you go Yeah, I'm giving it over Music by Peter Furler and Steve Taylor / Lyrics by Steve Taylor ©©2002 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Soylent Tunes / SESAC Live In Stereo This field guide's got no soul Digging for the sacred In a man-made hole The soil gets harder The shovel won't behave I just dug myself Into a six foot grave I need a new dimension Got to Supersize A Jacobean ladder To a parallel prize The walks by faith The sight lines lie How am I gonna tag along With one tin ear And one glass eye? Well I... I can't get there from here When every sense is in mono Walk by faith, you appear I want to live in stereo I can't get there from here Without a G\od-directed go Walk by faith, you appear I've gotta live in stereo I quit, I fold, I'm done Trying to scale Everest Sherpa-less Ain't fun The best-laid plans Are in my other pants The base camp's buried In an avalanche I need a new dimension Got to Supersize A Jacobean ladder To a parallel prize The walk's by faith The lone wolf dies How am I gonna follow you With blue man ears And snow blind eyes? Music by Peter Furler / Lyrics by Steve Taylor ©©2002 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Soylent Tunes / SESAC Million Pieces (Kissin' Your Cares Goodbye) They all fall Like a million raindrops Falling from a blue sky Kissing your cares goodbye They all fall Like a million pieces A tickertape parade high And now you're free to fly Carryin' a millstone malaise It's been pulling down your gaze You pound the pavement It don't give or care This weight ain't yours to bear Why you holdin' grudges in old jars? Why you want to show off all your scars? What's it gonna take to lay a few burdens down? It's a beautiful sound When they all fall Like a million raindrops Falling from a blue sky Kissing your cares goodbye They all fall Like a million pieces A ticker tape parade high And now you're free to fly When that muffled sigh Says you're barely getting by Cut your burdens loose and just simplify Simplify This is not your floor You're going higher than before Drop the weight now Wait for the lookout guide Look outside As they all fall Like a million raindrops Falling from a blue sky Kissing your cares goodbye They all fall Like a million pieces A ticker tape parade high Now you're free to fly You've gotta lay that burden down You're gonna lay that burden down It's time to leave your burdens in a pyre Set a bonfire 'Cause when you lay your burdens down When you lay your burdens down When you drop them burdens What a free-fall What a thrill Bury them all In a landfill Music by Peter Furler / Lyrics by Steve Taylor and Peter Furler ©©2002 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Soylent Tunes / SESAC Thrive Down here in the valley Every shadow You see Has its own story Down here in the valley Every puddle of mud Comes from tears and blood And it's so hard just to get warm That the chill turns into despair Will You lift me up with tender care? Will You wash me clean in the palm of Your hand? Will You hold me close so I can thrive? When You touch me, that's when I know I'm alive Down here in the valley Nothing's able to grow 'Cause the light's too low Folks spend their days Digging 'round for diamonds and gold 'Til they just get old And they don't know anything else They don't know they're breathing bad air But I'm tired of living like this And my soul cries out, "If You're there... Call me up to Your side Draw me up to Your light Let it blind me Lord, refine me Refine me out of my mind Music by Peter Furler / Lyrics by Peter Furler and Steve Taylor ©©2001 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Soylent Tunes / SESAC Rescue Old as the hills, new everyday It's in the bones like it's DNA First taste is sweet 'til it rots in your mouth Another old friend who rats you out All of the time in this life Can't loose the ties that bind They shackle our feet, we trip, we fall We crawl I was born in the mess of it all Then You rescued me, rescued me Lord, with a touch of Your hand Another captive free again Who else in heaven could do this but You? You rescued me, rescued me Lord, with a love out of mind Oh, You know I love it when Everyday I am rescued again Over the years your nature's way Is turning wrongs into roles you play Caught in a spell that's overcast You gain perspective, it doesn't last All of the time in this life Can't loose the ties that blind you They're new everyday, old as the fall The fall And I was born in the mess of it all Every day, every way, every Every cheap imitation All of my imagination Even my self-preservation Is yours in time Music by Peter Furler / Lyrics by Peter Furler, Steve Taylor and Phil Joel ©©2002 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Soylent Tunes / SESAC / Ariose Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / Near Bliss Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)/ ASCAP It Is You As we lift up our hands Will you meet us here? As we call on your name Will you meet us here? We have come to this place To worship you God of mercy and grace It is you We adore It is you Praises are for Only you The heaven's declare It is you It is you Holy, holy is our God Almighty Holy, holy is his name alone Holy, holy is our God Almighty Holy, holy is his name alone Music & Lyrics by Peter Furler ©©2001 Dawn Treader Music (admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) / SESAC Cornelius And every generation's got The fearless few who can't be bought They don't take polls or look around They act on truth, and then they stand their ground Come up and see the world stripped bare The free indeed They breathe a rarified air Yeah, they got spirit Yeah, they got game And some get christened With a righteous-sounding name Cornelius And every generation knows The doers do, the posers pose 'Cause every time the plop goes fizz Another yes-man gets his Come up and see the big man's boss The mind clears out when you're taking up the cross Yeah, his burden's easy No, it don't chafe It's God's safe harbor Why play it safe? Cornelius Core-strong like a centurion I want to be Cor