Artist/Band:
Neal Morse
Lyrics for Song: Testimedley
Lyrics for Album: So Many Roads [2009]
Testimedley
1. Intro - Instrumental
2. Overture No. 1 - Instrumental
3. California Nights
Let me take you back to where it all began
Out there on the fast track
Where the mountains stand
Against the sand... in L.A.
Music every night, hung-over everyday
I was gonna make the big time
I could feel it in my fingers when I'd play
Sing it now
I woke up in motel rooms under western skies
Living for the summer moon and the party of life
There's nothing worse than L.A. days
But those California nights
The barely kept me alive
I woke up in motel rooms under western skies
When I think of the things I did
On those party nights
ITS ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD
THAT I AM STILL ALIVE
I believe God's grace kept me alive...
I believe it, how about you?
God's grace kept me alive
God's grace kept me alive
4, Colder in the Sun
Grace kept rolling off
Like so much rain into a broken cup
It stayed a while but soon was on its way
Just like a prize fighter
Who can hear the count but can't get up
I'll sleep a while and fight another day
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
I was growing colder in the sun
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
Closed to everyone
Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window
I was growing colder in the sun
5. Somber Days
Breath Blew right out of me
Like wind across a window ledge
My old forgotten ways
Came rushing back on me
The world that held no interest
Gave way to somber days
So many somber days I felt so all alone
(In my suffering I was home)
So many somber days I was so unaware
Of almost anything ..but my suffering
How can our sight become so severely limited
We cannot see beyond the step we're
About to take, the love that we did not make
The years so swiftly gone
So many somber days I felt so all alone
(In my suffering I was home)
So many somber days I was so unaware
Of almost anything ..but my suffering
And I felt unsure under a winter sky
And I would waste away
Coldest sun, seemed so far away
Who can heal this heart that's made of clay?
If you're feeling down today
If you're dreading your next breath
Your hurt down to the bone
There is someone here with us
God is close as your next breath
He won't leave you alone
For your somber days when you feel all alone
(All your suffering He has known)
Through your somber days
When you feel like no one cares
(Touch your memory; he is there)
Through those days...
All these somber days
(He will walk with you all the way)
No matter how it hurts please stay here
One more day, help is on the way
They'll be no more suffering
6. Sing It High
Can somebody shout "Hallelujah,"
Oh, come on now...
Can somebody shout "Hallelujah,"
"Hallelujah,"
Can somebody give me an "Amen."
The church sang and danced
and the band cranked up to ten.
They talked about living water,
They sang about Jordan wide
I never felt so out of place in all my life.
Sing it high, sing it low,
sing it everywhere you go,
Jesus will deliver you from suffering.
He's the way, He's the goal,
He's the song in your soul,
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring.
Oh, I heard it ring in my heart
You know I did, you know I did
I felt something
Something kept calling me back there,
Oh, the love of the people so strong,
Soon I was dancing and clapping and singing along.
Yes I was
Sing it high, sing it low,
sing it everywhere you go,
Jesus will deliver you from suffering.
He's the way, He's the goal,
He's the song in your soul,
Listen with your spirit and you'll hear it ring.
I heard it, you know I did
Acoustic Guitar Solo
7. The Promise
Princes, principalities, legals and legalities
They have no more power before us
There's a light that we can see; there's a new reality
Can't you feel he's reaching for us
There's a light that we can see; there's a new reality
Can't you feel he's keeping his promise NOW!
8. I Am Willing
Jesus, is it true what they are saying?
You know in my heart I've been praying
'Cause I feel something, is this You that I feel?
Hold me and show me You're real.
For I am willing,
and I am broken,
All I want is the life You have spoken
Oh Father, if I give you my life
You come turn my night to day
For I am willing,
You don't have to break me
Take all that I have, don't forsake me
Oh Father, come and take me, now.
Take me, now
Jesus, spirit deep as the ocean,
I need You and not just emotion.
If You can truly live here within me,
Let this be our great beginning
I am willing,
and I am broken,
All I want is the life You have spoken
Oh Father, if I give you my life
Will You come turn this night to day?
For I am willing,
You don't have to break me
I don't know why you died, just to save me
Oh Father, come and take me, now
Take me, now
Take me, now
Take me, now
Take me, now
Take me, now
I want Your freedom Lord
I want Your spirit Lord
I need Your love in my heart
so desperately
so desperately
I don't want to go on like this
I will wait for you
I will wait for you
I will wait
As long as it takes
For the real thing
8. Oh, to Feel Him
In a moment lost in time,
My life in front of me lay
From my birth to that day,
I caught a glimpse of freedom
And there I stayed,
while the people prayed,
Until He came in, at last
I waved goodbye to my past,
And walked into the kingdom
And I knew it was Him,
I knew it was Jesus
Like the wind you cannot see,
I felt His spirit touching me
Oh, to feel Him,
I knew this was Jesus
There my heart was cleansed of sin,
I can have the world
But oh, to feel Him
And I knew it was Him,
I knew it was Jesus
Like the day of Pentecost
When His love poured out to all the lost
It's real, it's real, it's real
I knew it was Jesus
And there my heart was cleansed of sin,
I can have the world
But oh, to feel Him
to feel Him
Don't give up on me now
Who is with me?
One, two, three,
9. Rejoice
Rejoice,
for the King is here,
yes He's with me now
Whispering in your ear
To see a sight, the birth of sound
The God of Heaven to earth come down
Rejoice,
for the King has come,
Let your spirit move now
Let His will be done,
Reflection of God's window pane
Let dew of Heaven fall like rain
To see a sight, the birth of sound
The God of Heaven to earth come down
His glory lives in sensurround
Yeah
10. God's Theme 2 - Instrumental
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