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    • Thicker Skin (2020)
    • Counting The Days (2020)
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    • Justice or Mercy (2020)
    • Been Gone So Long (2020)
    • Tell Lucy that i love her (2020)
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    • Fear & Desire (2018)
    • St. Christopher's Inn (2018)
    • Just One (2016)
    • Home For Good (2016)
    • The Man That You've Become (2016)
    • When the Sun Goes Down (2016)
    • Good Friday (2016)
    • The Very First Time (2016)
    • Without A Sound (A Song for Susan) (2016)
    • Young Man's Prison (2016)
    • Ashes in the Snow (2016)
    • Reckless Son (2016)
    • We Come to Each Other (2016)
    • Can't Keep Looking Back (2016)
    • Ride Again (2015)

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  1. Like A River
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Lyrics

At night I pray to rise before the sun is up
For a moment to myself and the fading memory of my dreams

I wipe my eyes and I fill my cup
And try to pray for someone else, cause I have everything I need

Then daylight spills across the room and the work of yesterday resumes
Mistakes are made in every plan to face all that the day demands
I can only hope to grow and learn to let it go

And live like a river flows
And let love be like water flooding everywhere I go
And give with all my heart and soul
Surrendering to everything I know I can’t control
And know my life is not my own

I step into the air and I hold my breath
One foot before the next, and make my way on down the streets

And ask myself why I just can’t connect
Because I see myself in every stranger that I meet

The drifters and the orphan boys
The businessman collecting toys
The outlaws with their smoking guns
The princes and the favorite sons
It’s who I am, it’s what I’ve done
So for each and every one

I’ll live like a river flows
And let love be like water flooding everywhere I go
And give with all my heart and soul
Surrendering to everything I know I can’t control
And know my life is not my own

Oh it’s a promise I’ve made
But will I do anything to keep my word?
Or will I just be too afraid to free the voice inside me that’s dying to be heard

Singing live like a river flows
And let love be like water flooding everywhere I go
And give with all my heart and soul
Surrendering to everything I know I can’t control
And know
My life is not my own

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