The City Makes The Man

Good Thing (EADGBE capo 2)

Keep putting one foot down in front of the other / Don’t think about where you will be in a year / You don’t need to know every road you will travel from here / There will be many who will cross in your path / Jokers who rule and kings who will make you laugh / Don’t be fooled into trying to be like one of them / Chorus / Like the river road with every gentle turn / The longer you walk the more you see and learn / Where you began may not be where you return / And that’s a good thing, yes that’s a good thing / Listen to the silence and the way the wind speaks / Or how the river rolls past the rocks and the trees / No one told them how yet still they have found their way / Chorus

Never Want To let You Go (EADGBE)

From the first time I met you love light was shining through / There’s so much more here than meets the eyes / As you held my heart my soul slowly fell into / The mystery and beauty of you / I never want to let you go / We could talk for hours and never say a word / And still know what’s on each other’s mind / That’s the gift of the moment where your gentle touch / Speaks to what I’m going to find / I never want to let you go / I don’t know what I’ve done to receive such love / But I’m grateful / I love it when you’re falling asleep right next to me / Your breathing quiets my soul / Just before you start to dream you squeeze my hand / Like you’re letting me know, you’re never gonna let me go / I don’t know what I’ve done to receive such love / Yes, I’m grateful

The City Makes The Man (DADGBE)

I have a healthy fear of falling deeper in love with you / It runs me right up to the edge granting me the view / I close my eyes and feel the wind pushing from below / I could sway so many different ways, no one really knows / The city makes the man. The city makes the man / There’s concrete coursing through the veins, blacktop beneath my feet / Strangers dressed as though they care crowding around me / With a heart as cold as steel and stone and a tempered face of glass / I don’t know who’s staring back at me in this reflection that I pass / The city makes the man. The city makes the man / All this noise pours like water over stone / Why am I more lonely when I am not alone / Somehow hoping the fervor of, my own voice will set me free / I’ve climbed to the top of this mountain to bellow back down to the sea / There’s no rescue when I am done. No answer meets my ears / But the power of a silence still breaks me down to tears / The city makes the man. This city makes the man

Ashes (EADGBE capo 4th)

Quietly everyone has gone / the fire lingers, the rain falls down / Around this table is where you belong / remembering stories you can build upon / Chorus / We are more than skin and bones / When the thunder rumbles and the lightning flashes / You are never meant to be alone / but I come from a long line of ashes / With nails, wood, mortar and stone / tired hands have dreamed this home / Don’t abandon this hope you’ve known / cause the weeds are waiting to entangle and grow / Chorus / Just like my father and his father before / This soul will burn forever and rise after this body is no more / So let’s pour the wine and drink it in / raise a toast to where we’ve been / All our broken words, unspoken sins / and all the ways we have forgiven / Chorus

Everything You Need (EADGBE capo 1)

You, tethered and worn / beautifully torn and tired from all you’ve seen / Take, the time you need, the air to breathe to find relief in the in between / You have everything you need / You have everything you need / Love, where you are, let your heart find the rhythm that it seeks / Rest, your weary soul, so it will know the ways it longs to be released / You have everything you need / You have everything you need / Don’t be afraid there are no words to say / Just like the day you first came into this world / You have everything you need / You have everything you need / So come rest here with me / Where you have everything you need

Strong (EADGBE)

When the words have left you but the tears still come / And the road seems longer with every mile you run / You want to stop but you don’t know how / And every breath within you wants to give it all up now / When you’re tired, so tired / Chorus / Climb on a back that’s strong / Cause you’ve been laboring alone for too long / This weight you carry may never be gone / So climb on cause this back is strong / Your story is a hard one unlike anything else / No one knows your secrets cause they’re yours to tell / There’s no way to fix the hurt that happened in your past / You need to learn a little kindness and give it to yourself / Chorus / You may feel abandoned that everyone has let you down / But we all feel that way some days so reach out your hand before you fall / Chorus

Nothing Can Separate

Even in the darkest night / Even when I can’t seem to get things right / Somehow you always bring the light of day / nothing can separate / Love fights fiercely for us / When there is nothing left to give I need to give in to trust / Despite the painful words I might say you always choose to stay / Nothing can separate / nothing can separate / Chorus / You care for me with a mercy so sweet that is sometimes hard to receive / When I get lost in between the peaks and dark valleys / You paint the skies and bring them to me / This tattered heart knows how to run / Scattering the wreckage and leaving love undone / All the pieces left behind should mark this a sad and lonely life / But nothing can separate / Chorus / You care for me with a mercy so sweet that is sometimes hard to receive / When I get lost in between the peaks and dark valleys / You paint the skies and bring them to me

Beloved (EADGBE)

You say I am beautiful in You / Help my eyes to know that truth / Give this tired heart the courage to let love through / I want to believe that I am beautiful / Chorus / I am beloved / I am beloved / By the grace of the One who made who I am / I am beloved / There are voices that ring loud / Like gongs and cymbals they resound / They’re trying to tell me where my worth is found / I know I’m broken, but I’m not bound / Chorus / You will always reveal to me the depths of your love in my own need / Making broken pieces new this will always be true / Chorus

Took Me In (EADGBE capo 3)

The branches of this new family tree are cracked and broken just like me / Reaching higher their roots run deep as they shelter me still / The past lingers with subtle weight as voices haunt and stake their claim / I fight myself to keep it straight I was never known until / Chorus / You took me in / You took me in / You took me in / I will never be the same / Forged in fire and cast in fear generations built on unshed tears / Lets break the cycle find what reveals we’re stronger than the dam / Chorus / The water follows this new bloodline traced from redemption seeds come words of grace / Wisely spoken not just filling space my story breathes again / Chorus / I am here for a reason / You gave me something to believe in / When you never let me pass by / Chorus

Redeemed (EADGBE)

Let’s open up our eyes beneath these deep blue skies / To hear the songs of our brothers / This journey’s long to keep walking strong we need to help remind each other / We’re always in between the sight and the unseen climbing this mountain higher and higher / We don’t need more monuments only trails of deep footprints / Where we dug in to carry those who were tired / When l forget the goodness of God / I hope you’ll help me see / Walk with me towards that shining light singing this song over me / Chorus / I am redeemed / I am redeemed / No matter what we’ve done or past songs we’ve sung he is always making us new / It happens every day we give our lives away and lay down our burdens for truth / I will forget the goodness of God / And I hope you’ll help me see / Walk with me towards that shining light singing this song over me / Chorus / I’m always singing something as I march through these days / Keep singing over me this song of amazing grace / We don’t need a perfect voice to sing this song out loud just a heart that’s willing and able / To rest in perfect love knowing all that has been done and that we all have a place at this table / We are redeemed / We are redeemed / We are redeemed / We are redeemed

Lyrics: The City Makes The Man

The City Makes The Man