Stone Water Wood Light

Honest Man (EADGBE)

We don’t have any money / And the money we don’t have, we keep on givin’ away / We got a debt so deep that the willows weep / And the horse ran away with the hay / When the drought dried up the water / the people all felt the pain / The river banks got wider and hotter / And now they’re tryin’ to sell us the rain / The farmer out in the dust dry field got sued for the seeds he sowed / And the hero of the hometown team’s doin’ time / He went crazy when his home foreclosed / The guilty party in the whole darn thing / Signed a book deal for seven figures / He’s in a minimum-security cell right now / He says, ‘I saw the light / Fixed my life overnight / And wrote a new book to help you fix yours’ / CHORUS / It goes on and on / How much can we stand / I been searchin’ this whole wide world / It’s just the same old thing again / The cycle goes on and on / How much can we stand / I been searchin’ this whole wide world / There ain’t no room for an honest man / You can raise your voice but when there’s too much noise / Then nothing you say gets heard / So you get sound bite trained for a loud campaign / And suffocate under the weight of the words / You started off good in the neighborhood / When the people saw the truth in your eyes / But then the crowd moved and the big newsmen / Turned your honest words into lies / CHORUS / You may have had the best intent but you’ll wonder where all that good went / There ain’t no room for you there ain’t no room / Power brings great sacrifice honesty always pays the price / There ain’t no room for you there ain’t no room / The stories keep on growing thin but as long as the money keeps pouring in / There’s no need to change what we do / CHORUS

Keep On (EADGBE)

Everybody’s talking about what everybody knows / I just keep on walking cause I still got miles to go / I bought what they were selling but it didn’t work for me / I found my way to rescue underneath my own two feet / CHORUS / Keep on…/ They say Jesus fought temptation his will was never turned / But I’m a simple man who’ll stumble gotta keep knowing the things I’ve learned / I can stand at every crossroad testify to what I lack / Or keep on walking forward carrying only the marks upon my back / CHORUS / I don’t know why I’m still alive I should be dead by now / In this dark hour I will trust the power and the sweat upon my brow / I’m weary from deception the road is hard to see / So if you are the praying kind would you pray for me, pray for me / CHORUS

I Need Jesus (EADGBE)

Sunday I was wrapped in linen they say I didn’t make a sound / Preacher man drenched my head in water proclaimed the lost one had been found / But that morn’ don’t remember I was just a baby boy / CHORUS / I need Jesus to save my soul / I need Jesus to make me whole / Front porch my momma’s friends were singing old songs that comforting refrain / Lord, Lord, where are those righteous people once saved who called upon your name / This town I never knew you you’re all strangers to me now / CHORUS / I need Jesus to save my soul / I need Jesus to save my soul / I need Jesus to make me whole / It ain’t the water / it ain’t the people / it ain’t the building nor the steeple / It ain’t your family / it ain’t your friends / it’s the one and only son of man / Take me down beside the river only my savior and my soul / Wash me of all the sins I carry I see I’m ready to go home / I’ll be wrapped white in linen I will finally be free / CHORUS / I have Jesus to save my soul / I have Jesus to save my soul / I have Jesus to save my soul / I have Jesus to make me whole

Beauty (EADGBE capo 3rd fret)

He’s just a man without a country sometimes his own worst enemy he wants to fly / She walks the line with grace and beauty but she carries the weight of her family tree / And she never cries / CHORUS / And they fall into each other’s open arms / It’s another soul that reminds them who they are / And that beauty is still beauty when it’s scarred / She rescues him from the darkest places with a mercy he alone cannot find / Recovering the night, she steals back the night / He speaks into this new story told refining trust to the depths of her soul / They hold up the light, together they hold up the light / The water shimmers like the stars / Hand in hand they scatter their broken stories far / With every truth they rewrite who they are in this love / CHORUS

Great Affection (DADGBE)

I’m tired of going to battle when it don’t mean a thing / I want to be fighting for love and the freedom that it bring / But the light I need is fading though I’m staring at the sun / Help me see through blinded eyes how numb I have become / CHORUS / I need to be seized by the power seized by the power / Seized by the power of the great affection / I want to be seized by the power seized by the power / I want to be seized by the power of the great affection / There are orphans in the trenches fighting for their lives / Held captive by injustices so evil and devised / And millions of thirsty people with simple basic needs / I feel each story but walk away and don’t do anything / So wreck my heart and make me different than I’ve been / Your love will make me strong so I can walk on in / I want to join the saints as they come marching in / CHORUS

Good Fire Burnin’ (DADGBE)

Death’s no stranger ‘round here / But there’s no need to fear / The soul of a man will never die / There’s a good fire burning inside / CHORUS / There’s a good fire burning inside / There’s a good fire burning inside / The Good Lord knew about the dark, dark night / So he set a good fire burning inside / Old temptation’s flame / Always calls your name / But remember Christ was crucified / For the good fire burning inside / CHORUS / God heard Israel cry / So God sent Moses a sign / The voice that spoke in the bush that night / Was a good fire burning inside / CHORUS

What I Do (EADGBE)

Another night / another day / Even the sunsets all look the same to me / even the sunsets look the same / This strangers face / his weary eyes / Homeless words that fall as I pass by / They hit the ground as I pass by / CHORUS / It’s what I do / it’s what I do / It’s what I do / it’s what I do / I got no change / Won’t play that game / Nor have the time to fake like I want his name / Don’t need his story or his name / Yeah, winter’s cold / and it’s getting worse / But I know my lines so well rehearsed / they are oh so well rehearsed / CHORUS / I climb the stairs / And turn the key / My place is always dark and empty / there’s nobody waiting there for me / I used to dream / Of something more / But lately I am all that I’m living for / how can a wealthy man feel so poor / CHORUS

Hold On (EADGBE)

People can be so cruel / You know that I can too / You’ve tried, I know you’ve tried so hard to protect yourself / But I slipped past the guard and stole your heart / CHORUS / I’m going to hold on hold on to you / I’m going to hold on hold on to you / You lied and turned me down / My pride judged and held you bound / Oh you know we hurt each other that’s what friends and lovers do / We got to fight for forgiveness the more you give the more it comes back to you / CHORUS / If love is going to win this war it’s the little victories / So hold on to me / CHORUS

Something Good (EADGBE)

Another morning here we go you’re feeling like you’re down and low / do something good / This little town has beat you down you can’t even to make a good sound / do something good / Harsh words you could say won’t take the pain away you’ll just be new noise in the neighborhood / So don’t give up don’t be done cause you’re not the only one / do something good / CHORUS / Take a walk take a run sit and talk with the one you love / do something good / Sing loud dance hard make some music drop your guard / do something good / Hit the road, somewhere new stop for days don’t pass through to something good / Be courageous do your part, love well finish what you start / CHORUS / Meet a stranger make a friend learn their name don’t pretend to do something good / You can take it to the city streets / You’ll be surprised who you might meet when you do something good / CHORUS / When everyday feels the same and you just don’t know why you hurt this way / There’s a better story to tell when you love someone well so give yourself away / Do something good / Watch the sun fade away tomorrow is another day to do something good

Carry Me

Carry me to the gate called beautiful let the door swing open wide / You might see me as a broken vessel but to this body I am not tied / I do not need your gold nor silver your money can’t heal me / I have more to give to you if you look in my eyes and believe / Cause every morning the rising son reminds me I should pray / Death did not come knocking we’ve been given one more day / CHORUS / I can’t wait for that day of glory when freedom finally finds its way / These feet will dance me through the gates of splendor we’ll all be forever changed / CHORUS

Dry Bones (EADGBE - capo 1)

What if the weight of the world wasn’t too much to carry / But what if your body was too heavy for your bones / What if you never shed a tear for your condition / Because you never felt alone / When the doctors came with no explanation / In disbelief at what their eyes had seen / You smiled and said ‘well, that’s my story / I am who I am supposed to be’ / CHORUS / That’s why I dance with the bones I’ve been given / I live like it’s my last day to shine / Cause when that mighty trumpet sounds you won’t find me hanging ‘round / I’m gonna leave these dry bones behind / It takes a village to raise a child / And a baby boy to bring us some hope / You can be the king of your own castle / But I want to live like heaven is my home / Like the sweet hymns we sing / I will find peace when I hear Gabriel’s song / And just like a miracle I will be made brand new after I’m gone / CHORUS

Stone Water Wood Light (EADGBE cut capo 2nd fret)

Your grandfather showed me how to speak true but rarely used words to say it / I always knew by how strong his house stood while the seasons around him were changing / After forty long years as a company man there was little to show at the very end / All the years lost in that long paper trail for the legacy of loving his family well / I just knew by the rock on which his house stood while the seasons around him were changing / CHORUS / And when I think of home in this story I write / It’s full of stone water wood and light / When I was younger foolish and free I built my own castle aimlessly / It was drafty and cold full of cracks that leaked no fire I lit would bring enough heat / Then your mom came along and wrecked my heart tore down each wall in my story / She drenched the fires that burned, and quenched my thirst clearing some room for glory / CHORUS / Now there’s a dog at my feet as I rock you to sleep under this magnolia tree / It’s weathered well through these storms soon enough you’ll explore all its branches / Probably climbing higher than you’re supposed to be / The day will come when you will fly into this dark world on your own / Of all the things handed down I hope you will know / The light of our love will never leave you alone / So when you think of home in this story you write / Let it be of stone water wood and light / Stone water wood and light

Lyrics: Stone Water Wood Light

Stone Water Wood Light