sarah masen
Carry Us Through Lyrics
Seasons Always Change
You’re a vision all undone
You are the best kind of dreadful
I’ve ever been a part of
We’re having so much fun
There are some angels in the snow dear
And in the summer we will know dear
Seasons always change
Everybody knows that everybody says that And the sun shines through the rain
And the Wind makes us afraid don’t give because we learn to love that way
You’re a vision on the run
You are a change in the direction
When we are making some connections
We’re having so much fun
And the angels watch the mystery
Of everyday you and me
I trust you know that I love you
Soon we will play when the cool rolls off the day There’s goodness and there’s
pain
And the heart goes round again
And for now it never ends
And so you take another day
Because the tenderness it breaks us
And we learn to love that way
Can we learn to love through our mistakes
Can we take our visions all the way
Is there fear that things will always change
Let it go let it go
The Double
He’s got a double for his stunts
He’s got a way of pushing men out the door
You’ll think he’s brave until he’s touched
Nothing like constancy to show us what we’re made of
Here’s a man with a time when he thought he’d liked you too much Now he’s
changing his mind he’s all right alone
He likes the colors on the couch
And the way he hang his things on the wall
He’ll break a sweat to stop the rust
Something like frailty is always underneath us
Here’s a man with a time when he thought he’d liked you too much Now he’s
changing his mind because it’s never enough
And he’ll tell you he’s grown to know better than to commit to subtlety To
subtlety I know you’d like to rip it up and take a swing at the sky But broken
it won’t fill you up
Though you’re taking it in and you’re breaking a sweat
Watch it spilling out watch it spilling out
Wrap My Arms Around Your Name
Mystery’s walking on my head again
In a pattern figure eight
Round a turn cross a path again and again and again
Save communion for the holidays
And keep perception at a safe arms length Does hallelujah wear the same old
face I’m okay yeah okay fine okay
What I really want is
To wrap my arms around Your name
To wrap my arms around Your name
Do all the angels sound the same
To wrap my arms around Your name
To break the cycle cynical
Keeping man inside his head
Wisdom offers up her best advice
And I’ll run to her side and ask why and ask why
I’ll scrape the bottom ‘til I’m good and ready old
And take the cup of kindness while searching for the gold
For the gold for the gold
Tomorrow’s filling up like yesterday
Something’s constant underneath this place
Shape this prayer to sing with such a grace
For today just today or someday
What I’d really like is
To wrap my arms around Your name
To wrap my arms around Your name
Salvation’s forever taking place
To wrap my arms around Your name
Hallelujah
Carry Us Through
I took a train headed home
Where the colors stream and my thoughts they go
I was looking Lord for the
Wind to blow
Come carry us through
Sometimes theres doubts
When the dogs they bark
And you’re just not sure what is in the dark I start to cry but then the Wind
goes by
To carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
Looking for the Wind to blow
To carry us through
When we think that it’s over
Baby we find new things to be afraid of
We can pray till we’re older
And believe that there is hope even in the night
There is hope
We grab existence by our defeats
And somehow laugh when we are weak
We’re being made strong from underneath
Carry us through carry us through
Take off of your shoulders
The burdens that you carry of your own regret
Someone else needs holding
And it’s very hard to smile when you are all stuck inside yourself
So we close our eyes and we see the Light
There are so many to hold on tight
Don’t be afraid to pray just like a child Lord carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
I been praying Lord I’m so overdue
Lord carry us through carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
Carry us through carry us through
But Lord come on where are You
You come carry us through carry us through
Come carry us carry us through
75 Grains of Sand
Penny’s got a new outlook this year
At least that’s what she’d like to hear
Though I’d beg to differ
Because all is still the same back home
Started with the world on fire last fall
Seems it was the spark of something small
That grew with conviction
A personal mission
And what she wouldn’t give
To hold them in her hands
Those seventy-five little grains of sand
April was a night of nothing new
But holding what she thought was true
Dawn only backwards
A sunset to start her day
And everything she used to choke at school
Swallowing the whole of untold rules
Filled with desire all set on fire
And what she wouldn’t give
To hold them in her hands
Those seventy-five little grains of sand
A glimpse of the now
That would change the then
Those seventy-five little grains of sand
And all is falling quite undone
She’s letting go letting go for what’s to come
Hope sometimes can blind the heart
Calling light what breathes like dark
Mistaken provisions
Can lengthen the distance
And shatter our own visions
What we wouldn’t give
To hold them in our hands
Those seventy-five little grains of sand
A glimpse of the now
That would change the then
Those seventy-five little grains of sand
Mercy sure thing
The tension is evidence that I’m alive and able to respond To the movement of
Spirit the good the terrible
Mercy I cannot see without closing my eyes
Must be a plot 75
Jenni's Face
Don’t know much about Love Think it starts with belief
I’ve seen it there for healing
Can feel it beneath my feet
Don’t know much about Love Don’t think it can replace belief
I can feel it when I’m kneeling Coming up from underneath Wondering at the
mystery
Hoping with a German grace Because there’s my cousin Jenni’s face She wants to
do it right
She wants to do it right
Friend works in a factory
My father he does too
They work as an assembly line
For the UAW
And it’s beautiful in Detroit
Because someone’s getting through And it’s work at building delight It’s what
we do
It’s what we do
Hope’s personified
In my baby brother’s eyes
He says breathing’s no mistake
You embrace that idea
Praying for direction
And hoping with a German grace
There’s always cousin Jenni’s face
She wants to do it right
Fragrance of Pink
Too small to come in
Exploding with sunshock and moonfire
It’s too much to choke down
I’m crashed by the nature of freedom
I’m too cracked to thrice mend
And I’m sweating my need for redemption chile guilt beads on my skin
I’m broke from my fallen condition
So come catch me in love again and again
I’ll spin light around your name forternal again I’m confessing my needs
whispering beautiful sweets
In a fragrance of pink
(In stark orange and green)
(It’s my own fragrance of pink)
Move towards my dark side
Because I’m threatened by mystery and matches But I’ll pick up the cup
And swallow my past full of ashes
Glory I’m undone
I’m stretched out on the water of wisdom Fill me up until I drown
From sucking the nectar of being found Sucking the nectar of being found
Stories In My Pockets
Monday’s got us running to our knees again
It seems we’re always waiting on the floor
Our destination Sunday is full of the unknown
But we’re building our own bridges to the shore
In hopes for so much more
Silent eyes are watching we’re beginning to explore
But the lights are growing dim because we are poor
Isn’t this the place we’re practicing belief
Seems we’re always looking at the door In hopes for so much more And the
stories in my pockets are the best I’ve ever lived
So what if they don’t sell sell sell
I’ll take you out for coffee and we’ll talk about D.C.
And Philly underneath October moons
Fall is walking us into a cold December wind
And maybe we won’t last too long
But maybe we will make it to play a brave new song
Mixing up the failure with the new
In hopes for something true
And the paintings on the walls here are the best we’ve ever done An experiment
in abstract dreams
And the colors are colliding in strange redemptive hues
What we got here is a good slow burn
What we got here is a good true thing
A good true thing, a good true thing
Stories in my pockets are the best I’ve ever lived
And so what if they don’t sell sell sell
I’ll take you out for coffee and we’ll talk about D.C.
And Philly underneath October moons
And Colorado’s sweeping news
And L.A. keeping four ‘in time
You’re always setting dreams on fire
Always setting dreams on fire
Beautiful Dream Visions
Wondering if the birds are insecure
They talk as if they know which way is down
Learning how to fly is just like learning how to swing
You never know until you try
The sky’s a wonderful place
Kind of like the garage where my mechanic friend creates
Kaw is just out of reach when needs are holding to the ground Look up look down
I think you’re sinking
The pen’s a rusty old sword cutting
It’s infectious when I’m looking hard and wanting so much more Beautiful dream
visions in color
Beautiful dream visions in color
Beautiful dream visions in color
Beautiful dream visions in color
In color in color in color
Tears Like Flowers
Things are getting clearer now like water like healing
Time is moving everything faster than I’ve ever felt before And tears are like
flowers
Pulled up by the sun
Feeling like a coward
Under my own gun
And the mystery the mystery of
When the wind falls through places such as stone
Similar to flesh sometimes
When the water is scarce
And your tongue is so dry
And you’re looking so scared
But then you know why
Because it comes down like it knows who and where you are So you cry healing
waters come on down
Healing waters come on down
And the moonlight touches it’s brother
And darling does it have to end with two
Because someone’s undercover and they’re staring hard at you And they want to
be discovered want to know what’s true Can you run like you know who and where
they are
So they cry healing waters come on down
Healing waters come on down
Keep holding on
Giving out the best that you can give
Sometimes we’re nor that strong
Keep praying for the healing don’t give in
Don’t give in
Healing waters
(You’re not in this alone)
Cleansing waters
(You’re not in this alone)
