Kerry Livgren Lyrics

"Reconstructions" LYRICS

ONE GOLDEN THREAD
by Kerry Livgren
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Unbound from a secret place, I feel Your presence
I long to behold Your face, the hunger burns,
As the wheel turns

I know there's no release,
Forever is the tie that binds
My heart is still at peace
I'm hanging on to You

One golden thread, reaching out between us
One slender cord, binding me to You
(A bridge across the Great Divide)

Love's journeying against the tide, confounding reason
War rages when the worlds collide
Holding fast, in this mold I'm cast

Long road, dark shadows fall,
And danger is in every step
My heart is still at peace
I'm hanging on to You

So tired from the constant fight, slow desperation
My desire is Your delight,
don't let me fall
From the upward call

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WALKING THE WIRE
(With No Apologies to the
Supreme Court)
by Michael Gleason
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Little men in high places
Sitting in the judgement seat
Little men, big disgraces
Fan the flame but feel no heat

Time and again the voice of a remnant cries out
Time and again it's lost in a thunderous shout

Walking the Wire,
One foot in paradise and another in the grave
Walking the Wire

Little men, secret places
Faceless names deciding fate
Little men, fatal cases
Stem the tide, it's getting late

Time and again their message is painfully clear
Time and again their choices turn hope into fear

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WE DRAW THE LINE
by Kerry Livgren
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Volatile changes completely arranges the view that you take
Slow dialectic produces eclectic exchange
Truth seems to flow in patterns of light
Illustrating wrong from right

Your dark design, that's where we draw the line
One step behind, that's where we draw the line

Desperate victors are finding their vectors to sheltered domains
Moral depravity pulls us like gravity
Hearts melt like wax, reformed in the heat
Recreated, made complete

Culture's chasm's deep, into it vile corruptions creep
Wield redemption's blade, works of the pure will never fade

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NO STANDING
by Kerry Livgren
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Underneath the outer layers we're progressing
Like the rivers ever moving to the Sea
As the Earth and all of Heaven are declaring,
So are we

As the Potter's Wheel is turning we are molded
So the chisel of the Sculptor sets us free
Being fashioned in the Image once intended
Endlessly

No standing, no standing still
No standing, no standing still

As the wind is blowing, Spirit in us moving
For the work that's once begun will reach an end
And the end is really only the beginning,
As we ascend

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ALL IN TIME
by Michael Gleason
©1997 Kerygmatic Music

The silent confirmation
Selling our souls to the clock
Buying money with time, With no good reason or rhyme
We fall into the system
We’re taken in by a world of ambition and schemes
But it’s not what it seems

Working for tomorrows of glitter and gold
Watching while our lives turn steely and cold
We hear ringing clear

All in Time, Live every moment
All in Time, There’s no sense in wishing life away
(We were meant to take it day by day)
All in Time, Don’t lose this moment

We rarely make connection
Some of us dream of the future and some of the past
And the present is last
We miss the real direction
Turning the hours into days and the days into years
And then collecting the tears

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EXILES
by Kerry Livgren
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Distant home, across the Earth we roam,
Leaving all that we possess behind us
Known by name, we make no earthly claim
Waiting for the One we seek to find us

Exiles of another kind, with our maker intertwined
Vessels on a sea of love
Aliens to Mother Earth, waiting for the second birth
Vessels on a sea of love

Out of bounds, no boundary surrounds
No one's worldly object of desire
Nations fade, but this foundations' laid
Shaped in the divine refiner's fire

Eyes are fixed on the goal ahead
So alive but to the world we're. dead
Inside out and upside down
Each man stands on the rock he’s found
Twice removed from the Human Race
We found our peace in a hiding place
Strangers livin’ in a foreign land
Now we fall, but in the end we'll stand

Exiles of the World
Exiles of the World

No release for prisoners of peace
Willing to be slaves of our own choosing
Promising to serve no mortal king
Gaining so much more than we are losing

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LIFE OF CRIME
by Michael Gleason
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

One mind, One soul, One-sided and we’re outa control
Like a shot in the dark, We take aim-never hit the mark
Wide-eyed with tunnel vision, A telltale sign of the human condition
One pride, One power, One religion.....

I don’t buy this game, Same old lie
We just change the name

We’re still running into the wind
And leading a Life of Crime
Though we deny it, We show our colors under the gun
We’re still running into the wind
And living on borrowed time
Don’t try to hide it
We can’t undo the things that are done

One fist, held high, One voice claiming world dominion
No truth, We try to reduce it to pure opinion
No judge, No jury, No guilt if we take away the rules
One war, One rebellion
One world full of fairytale fools

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YOU ARE THE DISTANCE
by Michael Gleason and Kerry Livgren
©1986 Kerygmatic Music

Sometimes I see a little black, see a little white
Sometimes I almost understand
One moment coming into view, then slipping out of sight,
But never quite at my command

If You call me by name,
Can I ever become all that You became?
So true was Your aim

You are the Distance, but oh, so near
How can the one that I love be the one I fear?
There is no peace til’ You choose to appear

I think I see a little wrong, see a little right,
But through this veil it's seldom clear
Seems like I'm sittin' in the dark waiting for the light
A deafening silence in my ear

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No substitutions, I keep telling you
These institutions let you down
Morals and Dogma talk in circles
All conversation leaves you dry

Sooner or later you'll surely find the bottom is dropping out
And still you're falling behind
We just can’t stand alone

All fall down, Each one reaching for the higher ground,
All fall down, Not one righteous man among us found

Beyond delusion, our self-confidence
This grand illusion seals our fate
False independence is true captivity
Just one conclusion lies in wait

When comes tomorrow the Sun,
And all your works are seen,
And after it's all been said and done,
There is no in-between

No mortal is an island, in the middle of the Sea
Upon the Holy Mountain, is the Judge who holds the Key
Without the Savior's pardon, there is no purity

And when tomorrow comes you’ll find
The bottom is dropping out,
We see we’re falling behind, you just can’t stand alone

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Is this the light, or just illusion?
Too many choices make it hard to tell
And sinking deeper into confusion
You recognize the feeling all too well

You wish that someone would just tell you what to do
The indecision has put you under pressure
There's a shadow and it's hanging over you
To face the music

Don't wait, too late
Make straight the Highway to the Heart
Take care, beware
Prepare a Highway to the Heart
And today is the day

Living your life in desperation
Is just a symptom of the real disease
Running in circles, no destination
Just the delusion that you do as you please

You feel uneasy and it comes as no surprise
Hearing footsteps closing in around you
No point in running, no point in telling lies
So face the music (the bell will surely toll)

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Fear for your life, just when you thought you were safe inside,
Dangerous place, You are expendable they decide,
Another statistic infanticide

Surrounded within, you rest in your innocence
How could you know, you can’t stay alive in the

Free Fire Zone
Free Fire Zone
Now they’re opening fire
(I fear for your life) (no chance to survive)
in the Free Fire Zone

No longer sacred, our children, ending a life that has just begun
Blood on the ground cries for vengeance,
Who will defend you O, little One?

Now the nightmare’s begun, unwanted lives are undone
How can you live with the shame?
Can it be true that your hearts are so cold, souls have been sold,
Life is so cheap, nothing you’d want to keep.

Life is a gift, you were given a page in the Book of Eternity
Waiting outside in the Maelstrom, they took away what you’ll never see

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I was living on an island in the middle of a sea
I was peering through a window when your light fell down on me
I was walking in a garden, when I fell from such a height
I was waiting for the morning, of a long and empty night

Bright Star still shining, Bright Star still showing us the way
Bright Star, still shining
As you rise across the heavens now
The world can see your love is alive

Now I seem to hang suspended, far below, but high above
As my broken life is mended, I can see no greater love

You’re burning so bright, the power of your light
Is melting my heart of stone
Create me anew, the image of you
Is all I long for, live and die for,
I give it all to you