1.My Father Laid His Hand On My Shoulder

Don Chaffer

All the malice I've felt
Toward the people who've hurt me
Was a dark lonely hole
Where I ended up dirty

Trying to make sense
Of what's fair and what's ugly
So I drew my conclusions
And I stated them smugly

When the adrenaline rush
Of the wave of rage passes
And I'm cold in that hole
And there's mud on my glasses

I don't care anymore
To issue all my subpoenas
Or seek revenge on my foes
Fulfill my grave-like agreements

Though the world is a winter
Growing colder and colder
I remember the warmth
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder

In my nightmares I've seen
All the wrath and destruction
Of my dark enemy
And his lethal deduction

That if I've ever felt helpless
If I've ever felt fearful
Then he had right to accuse
Pierce my side with his spear full

But when I was shamefully weak
And knew I should have been bolder
I was strengthened again
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder

It's not my duty to judge
There's another who does so I am asked to forgive
To release and to trust though

It's not my duty to die for the Sins I've committed
I'm allowed to run freeI've been fully acquitted

All the days of my life
And when I'm years and years older
I'll remember the day
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder
All the days of my life
And when I'm years and years older
I'll remember the day
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder
When my Father laid His hand on my shoulder

2.The Razor Light

Don Chaffer

You set the table in your spirit
Entertain the devil for a while
And then you laugh at all his jokes Insisting it's alright-

It's okay to smile
But you are

Dancing with the demons
And walking on the wall that borders hell
Thinking "Right now, I'm not testing God,
"But always wondering how you'd feel if you just fell

I'd like to say that it was simple
Like a dog you don't want pregnant so you fix her
But it's a matter of unconscious sin
I don't know if you know it, but you're been brewin' up a strychnine elixir
Because you're

Are you walking darkly
To avoid the razor light
Did you lose the taste of flesh and blood
When you threw up late last night
Is your soul in some fine limbo
Between bitterness and lust
Can you talk about the cross these days
Without wincing in disgust

3.Unwind

Don Chaffer

Okay, here,
You got my ear
I found my way outta town
I'm finally just sittin' down

Grinding gears and iron tears
They've kept my mind occupied
Didn't notice that I almost died

Lately I been lost
God, I been turned around
I've gotten so tangled up
I need some help just to get unwound

I had a dream on a bed of steam
That I got into a number of fights over a garden of earthly delights

Silver Sue and the camera crew
They been talkin' bout my name in lights It's been a forty long days and nights

Now Diamond Joe, he's a gigolo
And I been tryin' to get through to him
About the ocean that he's tryin' to swim

How it's a lie that he could rely on some mystic saltwater seals to hear his last breath's appeals
And save him before he dies

I been awful close to the fire
Tryin' to get some folks to look up higher
Cause there ain't much time
Before the Earth's goodbye
The lightning flashes once then it splits the sky
And the ones
He's known
They're headed home

5.I Am In My Being Here With You

Don Chaffer

The deepest ties are the hardest to understand
But the warmest to embrace
And today I am assured of this
At the seeing of your face

In giving up myself to you
I'm becoming more complete
Darling, we're in the face of mystery
But we're drawing from its heat

I'll swallow all the problems
I will swallow all the pains
I'll drink this life together
Down to the blood inside my veins
I'll swallow all the pleasures
I will swallow all the smiles
I'll drink the life I have with you
Down through the years and through the miles
A song is in its singing
A gift is in its bringing
And I am in my being here with you

I've seen in you an ocean front
I've seen in you the skies
And sometimes I when I'm suffering
I find comfort in your eyes
When the whole world starts to shaking up
Right underneath my feet
I remember,
Darling, we're in the middle of a mystery
But we're drawing from its heat

I love you so much
It sometimes makes me weep
It's so simple to say
But it runs so deep... so very deep

6.He Will Come

Lori & Don Chaffer

Soon it will be hammered into what she calls her silly head
That she really isn't silly but she's beautiful instead

But every time she gets a hold of something pretty, it slips away
So she keeps hoping that someday soon

He will come. He will come
He will comfort all that's hardened
Change the deserts into gardens
And we all will see His face.
He will come.
He will come.
He will soften all the starkness
Break the chambers of our darkness
And we'll all be overwhelmed

She spilled her coffee in her Chevy on the way to work at 8:05
She always thought that she was clumsy and she hated it and wondered why

She can handle any tragedy that happens but not little things like this
So she keeps hoping that someday soon

Within the world of a girl, the words she hears they mean an awful lot
And the music in her mind when she gets older has the lyrics she was taught

And when she gets to heaven all the right things will be said
And He will look on her with favor

All my scars will turn to fountains
All my valleys into mountains
And we all will see His face

All you watchmen lift your voices
Then every boy and girl rejoices
When we'll all be overwhelmed

8.Take Jericho

Don Chaffer & Kenny Carter

We're gonna take Jericho
By blowin' them horns
We're gonna take Jericho
By blowin' them horns
'Cause that's what my Lord said to do
We're gonna take Jericho

By blowin' them horns

We're gonna lift Him up
When we're way way down
We're gonna lift Him up
When we're on the ground
'Cause that's what my Lord said to do
We're gonna lift Him up
When we're way way down

We can see Jericho coming
Down down down down down
Come on, brother, blow your horn
Cause you know that Jericho is coming
Down down down down down down down down down

We're gonna cross that sea
Walkin' on dry land
We're gonna cross that sea
Walkin' on dry land
'Cause that's what my Lord said to do
We're gonna cross that sea

9.Go Find John

Lori & Don Chaffer

Go find John
Hiding in the backyard
Crying cause his hands hurt
All the thorns
Crying for you to

Go find John
Scattered and bewildered
Swallowed by the dirt there
All alone

Go tell him
I told him
Go tell him
He's welcome to come home
Go tell him

I know him
He's tried and tried and nothing works at all

Go find John
Drunk to kill the pain there
Lying on a strange bed
All the seed
On the ground

Go find John
Floating in the ocean
In her dark apartment
All alone