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Carry the Dream
04:26
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Our God of hope - help us to dream
Beyond the shores - of where we’ve been
Our God of light - of brave new life
Our living stream - help us to dream
With the rich and the refugee (carry the dream)
With the lost on an angry sea (carry the dream)
With the prisoner in front of me
Carry the dream
With the brave on the freedom march (carry the dream)
With the tired and cold of heart (carry the dream)
With the poet who strikes the spark
Carry the dream
With the prophets who shake the door (carry the dream)
Who speak of love as the higher law (carry the dream)
With every pilgrim who came before
Carry the dream
Our God of flight - free us to fly
Beyond the fear - that chain’s so tight
Our God of spring - sweet earth’s release
Help us to dream - our God of peace
refrain
Our God of hope - help us to dream
Beyond the shores - of where we’ve been
Our God of light - of brave new life
Our living stream - help us to dream
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Drawn From The Grass
04:15
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Drawn from the grass that grows by the stream
Blow right through me Lord
Slow baked in the oven till we’re no longer green
Blow right through me Lord
Blow through me Lord
Blow through me Lord
All that’s not needed is trimmed right away
Blow right through me Lord
Sound holes are carved so the music can play
Blow right through me Lord
You get me up in the morning and play me all day
Blow right through me Lord
Give me rest in the evening it’s a very long day
Blow right through me Lord
May the notes that blow through me be constant and sweet
Blow right through me Lord
So they lift up the hearts of the people we meet
Blow right through me Lord
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Like Mary and Joseph
04:36
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Cars driving by on a hot Christmas morning
Filled up with children lit up with smiles
Filled with the thought of a grandmother’s cooking
Filled up with thoughts of the tree
I haven’t always lived by the roadside
I had a family, I had a bride
But now we’re scattered like dice from an egg cup
Still have that aching inside
Like Mary and Joseph, there’s no red carpet treatment
Like Mary and Joseph it’s a long way from home
There doesn’t seem to be even a stable
And this is the morning that Jesus is born
Across the park are some carollers singing
Joy to the world is the song that they bring
And it’s the tenderest love that they’re bringing
To the people sitting under the trees
I don’t know much about God or the Bible
I don’t even know if he’s there
But I remember the birth of my baby
And the colour of my baby’s hair
Like Mary and Joseph ...
Past open windows, laughter just spills out
All of the voices they weave into one
And this voice speaks of a family united
together, cause Christmas has come
When I was young I was as strong as a gumtree
And when I spoke my family listened to me
But I’m a man who spoke often in anger
Now no one listens to me
Like Mary and Joseph ...
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Nick of Time
03:26
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The ship was holed, the ship went down
All but me, of the crew were drowned
I held onto a table floating past
I thought I’d breathed my last
The sun went down, like a winking eye
The sea was still, the moon high
In my delirium I thought I heard the captain cry
But it was you I heard, you who threw the line
And you saved me, in the nick of time
Yes you saved me, when all hope was gone
And you saved me, the ocean was so strong
And you saved me – in the nick of time
I’d never seen a kinder face
I’d never felt, such embrace
You pulled me into your lifeboat safe and dry
In the nick of time
And you saved me, in the nick of time
Yes you saved me, when all hope was gone
And you saved me, the ocean was so strong
And you saved me – in the nick of time
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Sea of God
04:47
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Jesus looked down, on the Jordan
Jesus looked down, on the Jordan
Jesus looked down, on the Jordan
For the drowning, day had come
Jesus sank down, in that water
Jesus sank down, in that water
Jesus sank down, in that water
And he rose up into the sun
We are rivers, who love the ocean
We are travellers everyone
Let the waters, overflow us
The sea of God, holds everyone
The Holy Spirit, fell upon him
The Holy Spirit, fell upon him
The Holy Spirit, fell upon him
The voice proclaimed him, beloved son
We are rivers, who love the ocean ...
The Spirit sent him, into the silence
The Spirit sent him, into the silence
The Spirit sent him, into the silence
Into the shadow, the desert stone
We are rivers, who love the ocean ...
We’re all invited to flow together
We’re all invited to flow together
We’re all invited to flow together
For we are many – we are one
We are rivers, who love the ocean ...
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What We Must Learn
03:38
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The desert calls us like a lover
Like a teacher – commanding us to grow
So we’ll walk the barren land and dry river bed
Don’t know quite how were fed
But something in us grows
What we must learn – and it is the work of a lifetime -
Is to carry with us - back to the marketplace
The faith and strength that we find in the desert
We must carry back – the coals from our campfire
Not only in order that we survive
But so that others may warm themselves at our hearth
At our hearth
This desert fire is such a scorching wind
Burning up everything - Taking everything that’s dry
And from the blackening the greening comes
Shooting up to the sun - so miraculous and new
What we must learn ...
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Island of Mercy
02:43
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Island of mercy, harbour for hearts
With no obligation, to relive the past
All is forgotten, the slate painted clean
Everything, shining and green
Island of mercy, sub tropical spot
Each day a blue day never too hot
A place to lie down and let the trouble subside
Oh, oh, haul us all in – oh, oh, haul us all in
Oh, oh, oh
Island of mercy, house of no dream
No big aspiration nothing obscene
Everyone welcome except the extreme
Oh, oh, haul us all in – oh, oh, haul us all in
Oh, oh, haul us all in – oh, oh, haul us all in
Oh, oh, oh
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John Coleman Hobart, Australia
John Coleman is an Australian singer/songwriter in the acoustic folk/rock tradition who has produced eleven albums of original songs The most recent is Falling Into Light - a collection of songs for meditation - his final collaboration with Noel Davis. Many of John’s songs are inspired by and explore the spirituality of the L’Arche and Quaker communities to which he belongs. ... more
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