Carolyn Arends Music Lyrics
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This Is The Stuff
Riding along on a big yellow school bus
Elmer's glue and a brand new lunch box
Writing my name for the very first time
With a pencil that was bigger than me
From jumping rope and skipping school
To doing things that grown-ups do
Life goes by like, that big old bus
If you miss it, it's history
Paper dolls and paper weights
Scraped up knees and hearts that break
Dreams to dream and plans to make
Love to give and love to take
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This is the stuff
The smallest moments
This is the stuff
I need to notice
This is the stuff life is made of
Walking along as my life unravels
Looking back at the road I've travelled
All the things that matter most
Have caught me by surprise
Misty eyes and silent prayers
Promises and secrets shared
Friends that keep you up all night
Laughing till you cry
Life's made up of little things
Ties that bind and apron strings
New beginnings, old routines
Love and heartache in between
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I Can Hear You
Leaky faucet dripping in the kitchen
Rubber squealing - watch out in the alley
Mr. Marley's probably late for work again
Birdie singing - telling me to get up
Such a soothing sound floating on the wind
I just keep listening
Funny how You speak to me
In such mysterious ways
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I can hear You
I can hear You
It's so amazing how Your voice keeps breaking through
I can hear You
There's a church bell ringing out the hour
Like an old friend calling through my window
With the laughter of the children playing down below
You've got a way of getting my attention
In the rythm of life, everywhere I go
Somehow You let me know
If I'll only stop to listen
You're in everything
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I can hear You
I can hear You
I can hear You
I can hear You
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Seize The Day
I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin
She is an author, or maybe a poet
A genius, but it's just this world doesn't know it
She works on her novel most everyday
If you laugh she will say
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Seize the day - seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day - pray for grace from God's hand
Then nothing will stand in your way
Seize the day
Well I know a doctor, a fine young physician
Left his six figure job for a mission position
He's healing the sick in an African village
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says "We work through the night so most everyday
As we watch the sun rise we can say....
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I know a man who's been doing some thinking
He's as bitter and cold as the whiskey he's drinking
He's talking 'bout fear, about chances not taken
If you listen to him you can hear his heart breaking
He says "One day you're a boy and the next day you're dead
I wish way back when someone had said....
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Well one thing I've noticed wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living
So I'm singing my songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want - I'll still say....
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Alter Of Ego
I am talking too loud when there's so much
I should be hearing
I am walking too proud when I know a fall is nearing
I am thinking too much for someone who knows so little
I am spinning so fast, I'm landing in the middle
Of this cold familiar place where I struggle to save face
And I lose all of the things that matter
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I don't want to be here again
Bowed at the alter of ego
I've sacrificed most everything
Here at the alter of ego
I've got just four friends I will let advise me
Me, myself and I and the evil twin inside me
We talk each other up and we bring each other down
'Cause there's nothing we like more than the ever present sound
Of the voice inside my head, once again it's led
To losing all the things that matter
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I need a touch of love, I need a thrust of grace
A push, a shove, a slap in the face
'Cause I have gazed too long at the person in the mirror
As I turn away, I'm finding things are clearer
I will set my sights on Someone so much higher
Not on what I want, but on what I require
To travel to the place where at last I can embrace
All the things that really matter
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Love Is Always There
His love is always there
No matter where you are
His love is always greater than your fondest hopes
And bigger than what you're afraid of
There is no heart so lost it cannot be found
There are no hopeless circumstances
There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town
'Cause there are always second chances
Until this life is over, there is no point of no return
'Cause everywhere you turn
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His love is always there
No matter where you are
His love is always greater than your fondest hopes
And bigger than what you're afraid of
Wherever you may go
You haven't gone too far
Love is always there....
...Is no night so long it can stop the sun
From taking over come the morning
And there's no road so wrong it can keep anyone
From finding home around the corner
So even in your darkest hour
Even when it's more than you can bear
You've always got a prayer
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Like a light in the window
Love calls you in from the dark
Like a tireless suitor
Heaven pursues your heart
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Reaching
There's a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of reach
And later on in my high school
It seemed to me a little cruel
How the right words to say always seemed to stay
Just out of reach
Well I should not have thought it strange
That growing causes growing pains
'Cause the more we learn the more we know
We don't know anything
But still it seems a tragic fate
Living with this quiet ache
The constant strain for what remains
Just out of reach
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We are reaching for the future
We are reaching for the past
And no matter what we have we reach for more
We are desperate to discover
What is just beyond our grasp
But maybe that's what heaven is for
There are times I can't forget
Dressed up in my Sunday best
Trying not to squirm and to maybe learn
A bit of what the preacher preached
And later lying in the dark
I felt a stirring in my heart
And though I longed to see what could not be seen
I still believed
I guess I shouldn't think it odd
Until we see the face of God
The yearning deep within us tells us
There's more to come
So when we taste of the divine
It leaves us hungry every time
For one more taste of what awaits
When heaven's gates are reached
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I believe that's what heaven is for
There's a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of reach
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The Power Of Love
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So many living for the love of power
Wanting more until their final hour
The day has come for us to be part of
The ones who find a ruler in the power of love
Oh lei de lei de lei de lei the power of love
Rich man - your pockets are full
Money - it burns a hole in your soul
Poor man - with the hungry heart
You can be the place where the changes start
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Nations - your raging must cease
Listen - The Prince of Peace
Is calling those with hearts to hear
To rise up in His name where there once was fear
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You Take My Soul By Storm
There's an eerie stillness in my soul
A cold complacency
It's been too long since I felt the HOly Ghost
Stirring in me
But I know it's just the calm before the storm
Soon a light will pierce the dark
'Cause almighty God, You'll move heaven and earth
To move in my heart
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Like the mighty winds of a hurricane
You'll come rushing in when I call Your name
And let Your love come down
You take my soul by storm
Then I'll feel your Spirit moving me
And You'll lift me up where I need to be
'Cause when Your love comes down
You take my soul by storm
You take my soul by storm
There's a strange new fragrance in the air
The promise of sweet rain
I know it won't be long till the force of Your love
Sweeps me away
Whenever I have let this distance grow
Between Your heart and mine
You have poured out Your spirit on my thirsty soul
So I know this time....
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What I Wouldn't Give
Sacrifices never made, desperate prayers I left unprayed
Forgiveness not asked for, love not confessed
Compromises all refused, coat of armor not removed
Everything guarded till nothing was left
But the image of a face I can't forget
The bitter, lasting taste of my regret
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What I wouldn't give to be younger and wiser
What I wouldn't give to be yours once more
What I wouldn't give to be less of a miser
And give you what I wouldn't give before
All the lines I wouldn't cross, battles won while love was lost
I build my fortress with blood, sweat and fears
Terrified you'd run away, I made sure you couldn't stay
I packed all your bags, I cried all your tears
I locked the door behind you and I knew
I'd give anything just to be with you
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My situation's tragic
My condition is so sad
What I wouldn't give you
Cost me all that I had
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Home Fires Burning
I still remember our first December
The warmth of your touch and the spark in your eyes
We took desire and built us a fire
I know it will last us the rest of our lives
So let it rain, let it storm
We'll keep believing 'cause love keeps us warm
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We are making our way,
We are twisting and turning
Through it all we can see
That every day we are living and learning
We're finding a way to keep
The home fires burning
Days turn to years, we live through our tears
We laugh at our fears 'cause we've known from the start
Though life makes us older it can't make us colder
As long as this flame still remains in our hearts
So let it rain, let it storm
We'll keep believing 'cause love keeps us warm
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Sure there are days when some misunderstanding
Lets in a cold winter chill
But the fire never dies 'cause you and I
Always remember to tend to the embers
And I know that we always will
I know we always will be.....
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All Is Well
Bones will ache
Hearts will break
When living takes it toll
Tears will fall
Still all is well with my soul
Storms will come
Hide the sun
And leave us numb with cold
Rains will fall
Still all is well with my soul
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All is well that ends well
And in the end I'll be with You I know
All is well that ends well
And so...all is well with my soul
Eyes will see
Tragedies
And mysteries unfold
Nights will fall
Still all is well with my soul
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