It's Me

You tell me of all these guys who don't treat you right
How they are only using you for the night
How there are no conversations, it's just physical
And at the end you are just miserable
You are just looking for someone good
So I give you words of inspiration that you seem to have misunderstood
Because the next night you are back with the same guy
Living just one big lie
Trying to live in denial
Just doing anything for survival
You say you wish the right man would come out in the clear
And I just want to yell out he is standing right here
The one man who knows your every flaw
Has seen you when out come the claws
Who has seen you cry yourself to bed
But you still pick those other guys instead
And I'm just left out in the cold
But you come running back, broken, just looking from someone to hold
So I stay here, my mind not spoken
My heart has slowly become broken
Because I am just left in the shadow
These feelings you never will know
You say you want to change your ways
But it remains the same every single day
Maybe one day you will see me in front of your eyes
And stop living this life of lies
 I will wait here until you see
That who you want has always been me

Your Personal Boulder

You walk into the room and it’s like my pain is instantly gone

When I was feeling so weak, you came and made me strong

When I thought I had lost all hope

You came to take away the rope

To empty my gun and throw the bullets away

You sweep me away with everything you say

My day is better with just the sight of your silhouette 

Call me Romeo and I will call you Juliet

I would trade away a hundred years

To be with you in your biggest fears

To dry away your wettest tears

To clean you up after you’ve had too many beers

I will take you at your worst and at your best

Because any moment with you leaves me so blessed

So take your burdens and throw them over to me

Your rock is what I want to be

You’ve got me going crazy

Got me picking off petals of a daisy

Like, “she loves me, she loves me not”

Just hoping that I can land on “she loves me a lot”

I will always treat you well, like the Lord tells

Because, like Him, my love never fails

Let me be your base, your foundation

If you have any problems come to me with no hesitation

When you feel the tears falling know I always have an open shoulder

Lean on me, your personal boulder

And when I feel down, can you promise me something?

You’ll stay by my side and won’t go a running?

Because I will stumble and I’ll have those days

I know, though, that you’ll be that one girl who stays

For we will have problems, but we will make it through

Through it all I will never stop loving you

Two separate bodies bonding into one soul

Finally making us two whole

So lean on me when you can’t move on 

And I will always carry you along

Wait for the Day

They’re asking me what’s my main goal in life

Honestly, it’s just to try and find the light

Because my whole life that’s what I have been seeking

But, it’s been hiding from me, the light's been sneaking

I jump and run after it but I just can’t reach

Life and love, I fail them each

They’re pressuring me, I just can't take it

Maybe I really don’t have the smarts or the wit

I am failing before I can even advance

Trying to find happiness, even if it is just a glance

They’re talking behind my back

About all the skills that I lack

How I am just doing this whole thing wrong

And it has been going on for far too long

But they don’t know where I have been

And the battle that I have to fight within

They don’t truly know what my mind does

Or how broken it once was

Lying in the street, broken in a million pieces

Each moment this brokenness decreases

But I need some help, need some support

If I really want this pain to export

If I want this front to finally be removed

I guess I really just want to get approved

Want to be loved and comforted

Just want my dreams to be supported

You can hate them but I still will pursue

Because who are you to say this dream can’t come true

But for now I am just in the dark

Quietly trying to make my mark

Maybe one day it will be seen

And I can finally become clean

Or maybe my whole life will be hidden away

Guess we will just have to wait for the day

Ignorance is Bliss

We send our prayers to God expecting them to be answered in an instant

So fast, we don’t take the time to listen

We speak our first words, expecting them to be His

But we’re moving so fast that we don’t even know what His will is

So how can we know if His will is what we follow

When all of our prayers seem to be so hollow

Trying to please ourselves and not God’s pleasures

Trying to live for all these earthly measures

Trying to flee from all of the storms

But maybe these are opportunities for His light to form 

But we just want to live in the darkness

Just trying to satisfy our own selfish wishes

Like we can do it all on our own

While, in reality, it was only through Him that we’ve grown

But we just try to take all the credit

Never occurring that we only have it because God spoon fed it

But we continue to live so arrogant

And to this fact we are all so ignorant

Thrusting our judgement on everyone we see

Never looking at the men we came to be

We say that we trust in the Lord, but when the storm hits we fear

Like we have completely forgotten that He is here 

So to us He calls our, “Ye man of little faith”

Because if we can’t trust in Him then the faith is fake

We are all racing to our lives peak

Never taking the time to listen to Him speak

So after it all His will we still miss

And our excuse is that ‘ignorance is bliss’

Humanly Corrupted

I’m walking through this world with just me and my own

This place is so strange, it can’t be my home

I can feel myself being so distant

Like my home is just lying away in the distance

Not from this world, not from planet earth

I have been lost since my very birth

Alien born from human flesh

I portray human skin, nothing more nothing less

I have no bond to this planet

All I want to do is flee it

Because I am just in this battle, the world vs. me

You say I’m just exaggerating this pain like a hyperbole

But the wound left is so real
Pain here is all that I feel

With all these reminders of how I am so different

Maybe it’s true that I am just ignorant 

But all I know for a fact is that I am lost

And planet Earth is where I was tossed

I’m just trying to find my way out

Trying to find my escape route

Maybe I was just thrown here for a mission

But I guess I just don’t have the intuition 

Don’t have the guts, don’t have the nerves

Maybe theres something I missed that I didn’t observe

They’re saying that I’m crazy, I need to go to therapy

That I need some clarity, and that they say that with sincerity

But I’m not listening, I’m full of mutiny 

Running from purity, ‘cause that’s just what we do humanly

I’m broken, confused, screaming out for some savior

Someone who can free me from all of my failure

Someone who can bandage me up for repair

Someone who can rid me of all this despair 

I have all these burdens that are getting too heavy

I’m getting prepped to toss them, I hope someone’s ready

I need someone to take the wheel to steer

Because my vision is blocked with so much fear

I need someone who doesn’t know my past

Because all those who know, they never seem to last

They run away quicker that Usain

Turning back to yell, “You are insane”

Yeah, but I guess that’s the truth

Exactly what we’ve been taught since our youth

To judge, to hate, and to exclude

This world can be a little crude

But this world could have been done so beautifully
Instead we have corrupted it so humanly 

Old and New

I don’t know what I’m doing, not even a little

I act like I have it all together but in reality I’m so brittle 

I am cracked and scarred and cut and bruised

I have been trampled on and abused

I’ve been kicked while I’ve been down

I have been the laughing stock of the town

I’ve been on rock bottom, I’ve even called it home

I’ve been living this life with no where to go, I just go out and roam

Roaming around with no true destination

This life giving me no sensation

It’s got me feeling all numb

For some kind of feelings, I’m just looking for some

I guess you can say that I seem hopeless

Like I’m drowning in the ocean, left out here boatless

But I have been found

By the Man who wore the thorny crown

What was before impossible is no more

I thought I didn’t have the smarts, but the Lord has so much wisdom in store

I was too tried, but He gave me rest

Felt like I wasn’t loved, but His love is the best

I said I couldn't go on, so He carried me

I carried too many burdens, but He said throw your worries on Me

I was confused, so He showed me the path

I thought I was too dirty, He provided me a bath

I was full of stress, so He eased my mind

In Him love is all that I find

I couldn’t forgive myself, but He had already forgiven

Because grace is exactly what I was given

Earned through faith alone

And it is through Him that I have grown

Through Him that I was given a second life, a second try

To the old one I just wave goodbye

Because my home is with the Lord

It is with Him that my heart and soul is stored

My Mission

Living for God has become my only mission

He’s got me fully, I am under submission

I am submerged in His grace

Just living for the day to where I can see His face

Just living in His light, hiding from the night

He has sent us all here to continue in His fight

Fight for mercy, love, and forgiveness

For us to all unite in a perfect bliss

To bow down before our creator

To come to know our true savior

To live for Him in all that we do

Because, Lord, all we want is You

So hear the words that I pray

That the whole world will hear the words You say

Lord, allow You to be behind my every action

Because without You I am only a small fraction

We all need You to become whole

But the devil has got us all fooled

Saying that we are content with these worldly pleasures

But compared to You these things don’t even measure

He’s telling us that we need a huge money pile

If we can ever truly have a smile

But, Lord, You say that you come for the poor

You want the ones who love You to their very core

To where You are our only idol

This one fact is so very vital

We can place no other above

Because You are the one who gives us all our love

I’m on my knees, Lord, pouring out to You

Give me a task that You want me to pursue

Head bowed, eyes closed, trying to hear

I feel You so near

Feel you filling me from within

Releasing me from all my past sins

Grace bestowed on me, so undeserving

I’m here, Lord, here for serving

Daily I will pick up my cross

Because without You, Lord, I am lost

So, Lord, give me my cast to cast Your people

Collect them all for Your steeple

Lord, I am here to serve

Because all of me is the least that You deserve

The Prayer

Lord, save me from me

Release me from my own behaviors

Allow You to be all that I see

Allow me to set my eyes on my Savior

Free me from my selfish ambitions

All these actions to just better my lifestyle

Please change all my selfish intentions

For You are the only thing that can make me truly smile

Allow me to live by Your word

To be able to live for only You

For You are my saving Lord

I just want to do all that You want me to

Lord, when I get knocked down to the ground

Allow me to turn to you for a lift

Allow me, even in a crowded room, to hear Your sound

For prayer with You is a tremendous gift

Allow me to turn to You in the good and the bad

To go to You as I turn to a friend

Because You know the life I’ve had

And yet you still stick with me until the end

You know my triumphs and You know my struggles

You know my successes and my fallouts

You know these personas that I juggle

You stick with me through all the doubts

Please Lord, blind me of these earthly desires

All these things they tell me to pursue

Because they burn in me like an untamed fire

Starting to burn me all the way through

But you come to set the fires out

Come to rescue me from my own self

You are all I need, I couldn’t live without

Allow me to never let my Bible dust up on the shelf

Lord, let You be all that I hear

Allow you to be all that I see

For You are all that I love and all that I fear

And life with just me and You is how I want life to be

Lord, give me the strength to know what is You

Lord, please tell me what to do

Please give me guidance in this journey 

Lord, let me live for You all three

Live for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Allow me to know Your life and to mirror it

Lord, I just want to make you proud

And to scream Your name on a roof so loud

Lord, You are all that I need

Thank You for sending your Son to bleed

To go through torture and dismay

Lord, You will never betray

Lord, please purify my whole being

Until You are all that I am seeing

When we can live together for eternity, I can’t wait till then

And in Jesus’ name, amen 

Up to You

You say you've seen to many things go wrong
And youve seen these things for way to long
That everything around you is broken
And it's like everything you had has been taken 
You've cried too many tears
And this life has given you to many fears
You say that you are surrounded by hypocrisy 
That we wouldn't believe all that you've been forced to see
That this world is filled with too much hate
That there is no way you can ever have faith
That there is too much wrong for anything to ever be right
That there is too much darkness to ever see the light
That life has cut you just too deep
Your life is a sad book, just read it and weep
Life has kicked you to your knees, but never to pray
His rules are too strict for you to ever obey
You've been humiliated and laughed at
You've been pushed down and had trash thrown at
You feel alone in this world with no chance
And you're just looking for anyone to take your hand and dance
You look for love in all the wrong places
Your life is a book, but you're only in the early pages


Christ came down for people like you
He doesn't care about what you do
He doesn't care about where you've been
He came to wipe away all sin
He doesn't come for the healthy and the rich 
He came for those who reek with stench 
He came to stitch up your wounds
To take you out of your entrapping tombs
He came to free you from your cage
He came here to turn the page


The world is filled with evil things
And pain is what this world will bring 
But He came to offer us so much more
He has eternity of serenity for us in store
He has come to free you from your current state
It is never to late
He is standing next to you, in you, and all around you
Accepting Him is all you have to do
And your past is wiped giving you a clean slate
And He gives you an eternal plate
To where you will never again go hungry
You will be forever filled with His word and peace
He came to give you love
To make you pure as a dove
To blind you from this world and set your eyes on Him
His light will always be bright, won't ever go dim
He doesn't say that it will be easy 
Doesn't say that pain is just history
Because you will still hurt and you will still cry
But He will now be felt on your side
He will carry you through the storm
Your heart of stone will become warm
He came down to make your life brand new
And the rest is up to you 

Letter to God

Dear God, I don't know exactly who you are
Or why you seem to be so far
Like you're in the distance hiding away
If I yelled would you even hear anything I say? 
Because I am down here feeling so alone
And your current destination is unknown 
The tears begin to drop down my face
My heart is broken, I'm left looking for a replace
My mind corrupted by what I see around me
With all this destruction I am wondering how you can ever be
I am left, with no hope at all
Every time I feel things are going right, I fall
How can you allow this? 
You watch over everyone, but why is it me you always miss?
You say that you will never abandon
Well then can you tell me where you've been? 
I guess that's all I really have to say
Signed, just another man trying to find his way
PS I don't know if you are even real
But if you are can you please fix this brokenness I feel

Dear son, I hear your pleas and I hear your shouts
I know your skepticism and I know your doubts
I know you feel that I am never near
But I want you to know that I am always here
When you cry, my tears fall harder
Tears fall in masses to flood the earth's water
I know this world is full of pain
But believe me, those who hurt here have eternity to gain
Because I don't come for the rich, I come for the poor
Because eternity with me can offer so much more
All those times you fell to the ground
It was me who picked you up and carried you around
Please don't feel abandoned, because I will never leave
I love everyone whether they do or don't believe 
This world is corrupted, but my kingdom is not of this place
It once was, but was forgotten with little trace
So this place became the place of evil
But eternity of wonders for you is in my will
I love you, my son, until the very end
Signed, your Father, creator, and your best friend
PS your pain is gone with just a snap of my finger
Eternity is long and this pain is just a short stinger 

This Chance, One Chance

With each moment, your life grows shorter

You can’t get younger, you only grow older

Less chances,and opportunities become rare

So better make a move, don’t just sit and stare

Because one day you will look back

At your life and your track

Will you like what you see? 

Will you like the person you’ll be?

Or will you be filled with regret and sorrows?

Left with broken promises and a broken tomorrow

Each chance may only come once

So when it comes get up and pounce

Don’t let life slip through your fingers

Because it goes fast, it doesn't just linger

It may leave in just a flash

Be gone and thrown in the trash

Taken to the dump and lost forever

This life is a journey, more of an endeavor

Life’s an undiscovered island, waiting to be explored

But for so long this island has been ignored
So maybe its time to pay some attention

Life is short, doesn’t get an extension

So don’t just sit and write some things on a list

Because they won’t become something you do, just be something you wish

Go out and take advantage of what you got

Go out before the opportunity is rot

Life is short, getting shorter by the second

Take advantage of this chance, you may not get a second

Two Sticks

We all just want to change the world
To make this a better place

To make an impact that will not soon be forgotten 

Lead a movement that has never before happened

Give speeches that will inspire many

And lead massive crowds to take a stand

But we fear that people won’t follow

That we will be stuck here alone

So we don’t even pursue this

We just sit back and wait for someone else to do the work

But if you don’t take a stand, then who will?

If everyone follows then who is the leader?

No movement has ever started without someone taking a chance

MLK wasn’t the only one to have a dream, but he was the only one to share

And if no body was to follow, he didn't worry

He just had to speak his mind
To tell the world its broken

To speak the minds of thousands

While the rest all stayed silent

If no one ever took a risk, we’d still be living in caves

And if no one banged two sticks together we’d have no fire

So next time you have a dream, bang those sticks

Take a chance and see what happens

If even one follows then you have made a difference

Because a crowd doesn't just appear, it takes time

One person joins, then comes another

Soon enough your movement is in action

But if you never pick up the sticks, the world will never know

Have a dream, speak the dream

Make your dream fire

Life I'm Wishing

I don't know what I'm doing, not even in the slightest
Trying to live a life that is so righteous
But I lose my ways, and take my eyes off the goal
And go back to living life like a fool
When I close my eyes, I see it all going right
But when they open, I lose sight of the light
I look all over, for where it must be
But then I realize it is hidden in me 
That in me is the power that I need
In ever single vein of the blood that I bleed
Inside my heart, is the love that I search for
All I need to do is open up the door
And release it out, let it take over my being
And live the life that in my dreams I am seeing
A life that is lived to the fullest
Not trying to be the kid that's the coolest
But to live this life for giving, not for receiving
To live a life of truth, not for deceiving 
So I dig deep, and find what I'm missing
So I can finally live this life that I've been wishing 

Find Your Path

Life's like a hike, we're all trying to reach the mountain top
So many paths, trying to pick left or right
There are forks that go different ways
Paths that just lead in circles
And you find your self just back where you started 
So it's time to get back
Or you just make your own path
Because sometimes it's not about deciding the right path
But just to decide at all
To decide to move forward
To decide to go on


Life is a hike but we don't all go in the same direction 
We go off the path and build our own
And the mountain is now filled with paths
Each path unique to the hiker
Some go safe and just follow a predetermined hike
No creativity added
Just a follower 
But those who go off the path
They are the creators of their journey
Of their destiny, of their timing to the top
Whatever that top is 
Wherever you decide the peak is


Life is a hike to no particular destination
It's just a journey
Create your own path to your serenity
To where you find peace
The mountain top is where you say it is
Go on the path, go off the path, switch paths
Do whatever path you want to do
Life is a hike to the mountain top
Find your path 

Doubt

In my head I hear so many voices
So many strange noises
They intercept all my thoughts
When it's silent I hear them all talk
Trying to convince me that I'm crazy
That I've been diagnosed but forgot with a mind so hazy
So I'm just walking around trying to deny
But I tell these voices they're full of lies
Tell them to move on, get out of here
Stop whispering in my ear
But they don't leave
They say these words are true, you must believe
But I can't and I won't, so I try to tune them out
And continue living in the doubt

Trapped

I just need to relax
Feeling like I'm in prison, Azkaban 
Dementors just sucking out my soul
Leaving me with just my own pity
My own depression, my sad memories
My own failures become all I see
And happiness becomes a feeling I've forgotten
Like it has never happened
And this pain is all that I've been living
And my heart starts to drop
And the tears begin to fall
Like I'm in the moment all over again
It feels so real
And I'm trapped, I can't escape
The cage is locked, no key to be found
I scream for help but no one hears
I'm trapped
The demonator stares right through me
But im gone
Gone off to the past
To my pain
To my misery
No escape
The pain has taken over
I'm left to drown in my sorrow
Until my soul is returned, I am trapped

Regrets

My mind fills with regrets 
All of those moments I will never forget 
When I had you but never gave you a chance
But I have never been more happy than the first time we danced
The first time we kissed
So nervous that I though I was gonna miss
So excited that I danced in the street
Probably still my greatest feat
But I guess I was just afraid
I wish I would have just stayed
But I ran away like i wanted nothing to do with you
But really I was just afraid that I would end up loving you
And I feel that's still what I'm feeling
Our moments together in my head reeling 
Over and over, wishing I could just go back to those days
And switch all the things that I did say
I would give anything for another day with you
I would pick you over everything, it's so true
But maybe it's just too late
But I'm still praying it is fate
But I just don't know how to express this 
Maybe my opportunity I just missed

He Answers

You're saying you're hurt, you cant go any further
You're too tired, you can't go on
To that He says, jump on my shoulder
I can carry you along

You say you're thirsty 
But you don't deserve a drink
To that He says, you're worthy
I don't care what anybody thinks

You say you're hungry, you haven't eaten in days
It's been so long since there's been food on your plate
To that He says, I don't know what you've heard of my ways
But my kitchen is always open, you don't have to wait

You say that you are lost
That you have fallen off track
To that He says, I know where you've been tossed
And I am here to bring you back

You say you've been doing it all wrong
And that you don't know how to pray right
To that He says, stay strong
And keep running towards my light

You say that you are too bad
That you don't deserve grace
To that He says, I know the life you've had
And I am here to forgive, love, and embrace

Live It

We speak these words that we don’t live by

Like we are living some big lie

Speaking of how we’re a Christian

But when we’re at church we’re not listenin’

To the passage and its meaning

We lie there, eyes open, but day dreaming

Then leave with a conscious so clear

Then go live a life impure

Chasing after things this world has corrupted

We go in with good meaning, but it gets interrupted 

But we don’t give that a second thought, we’re forgivven

Doesn’t mean we have to go with this life we’re livin’

Christ came down, giving us a second life

Stabbing our old ones with a knife

Knocked them down, out of existence

Took away the chains of resistance

Tore out our heart of stone

Giving us a new life, new body, just a clone

Same looks, but repaired on the inside

Say goodbye to your old self, he’s gone off and died

New body with a new mind

With Jesus on your side to help you through the grind

New eyes, no longer blind

New thoughts, thanks to a new mind

So many questions, He is the answer

Don’t let the doubt eat you up like a cancer

He’s the cure

He came down and death is what He endured

So dont just say you believe, live it

Live it so loud the whole world can hear it

So all this love from Him that you feel throughout

Live that way from the inside out

Won't Stop

Think I care about your opinions?

Think that they can ever hurt my feelings?

That they can put me down, in any kind of way

I don't really care, about anything you say

I wont stop trying, wont stop believing

This dream of mine, I will keep living

It may come true or it may come crashing down

But in the end at least I know the truth will be found

In light and darkness I still know my track

You can hunt me down, I ain’t never going back

I am here for the journey and I will never stop

I will keep on going until I reach the top

And if I never do, and I just fall

I will never regret anything at all

It is worth the try, worth all the trouble

And if the success gets big I will stay humble

You can put me down with all of your words

But my trust and worries is all of the Lord’s

Whatever His will prevails, I will follow

Even if it means this dream I must swallow

But none of you, can ever make my quit

Because to this all I have already commit

So its on, forever, we’ll see where it goes

And my true destination only the Lord knows

Cloverfield

All these jokes to cover my insecurity
Stopping myself from any maturity
Afraid to grow up, afraid of any change
Afraid to mix it up and rearrange
Out my mouth comes all these daggers
Leaving those around wounded and staggered
Cutting my inner mouth before exit
I just wish these words would never exist
I don’t know why I say them
As if I had a broken brain stem
My nerves saying stop, but they dont get the message
And the painful lines just keep on pressin’
But I am just a verbal bully
The reason why I will never know fully
I guess it started off as jokes
Then led to some pokes
Soon enough turned to slaps
Making sure they’d all collapse
Next my fist tighened
And I can’t help but be a little frightened
Just hoping that it would all be over and yeild
Cuz it’s starting to feel a bit like cloverfield
This unknown monster destroying me
And destroying all that I could ever be
Eaten me from the inside
Like my inner evil and good just collide
So I’m begging for this to stop
For this persona to drop
But this will only happen if I make it
This is my habit, and I must break it
So if I must cut of my tongue then I will
Because this cloverfield I no longer want to feel

Smile On

Count your smiles not your tears
Live in courage not in fear
Smile for no reason
Every moment, every season
When the sun is shining
When the rain is pouring
Smile as the tornado comes in
Smile when the storm ends
In good and in bad
Smile even when you are sad
Smiling makes you live longer
Smiling makes you stronger
Makes you want to keep moving on
So to that I say smile on

Smile because of your mistakes
And what has come to take their place
For those things would have never happened
Smile as if you were laughin’
As if you just had your “perfect” day
Smile with every word you say
Forget about all the pain
Because a smile gives you more to gain
Smile because your heart beats
Smile because of all your feats
In darkness and in light
Smile because it is right
From ear to ear, show them teeth
Bury those pains beneath
Never let that smile be gone
So to that I say smile on

Smile on this windy road
Smile because the way this river flowed
Down the stream to this place
Give a smile for everyone to embrace
Smile because you love where you’re at
Show that smile so fat
Smile because of your family
Smile because all the beauty you see
Smile because it feels so good
Smile because you should
Forget all your worries
Live this life like a happily ever after story
Smile because it can never be wrong
So to that I say smile on

Friends

Its the carefree moments with all your friends
The moments you wish would never end
Just sitting and talking all night
And you know everything will be alright
The nights of smiles and laughter
Still find yourself laughing after
And you can’t wait to do it again
You just cant forget how fun its been
Yet, it still finds a way to get better
The jokes just get so much funnier
And its like the world is always good
Just how you wished it always would
Finally finding that happiness
And wondering where its always been
It feels that you have finally found your home
And you don’t feel so alone
You wish these days would go on forever
You wish they would end never
Like, please sun down set
Please, just not yet
Give me some more time here
In this place with nothing to fear
There is nothing like those moments with this group
Giving me all I need to recoup
To buckle down for a nothing day
Because I know you guys won’t be to far away

Number One Fan

They be like “why you so different, why you so strange”
Like all they want me to do is change
“Why can’t you be like them,
Why can’t you be like him
Why do you do what you do”
I guess I’m just something new
Something that y’all haven't before seen
Guess I just came from a brand new gene
I walk around invisible, because the world just can’t see
The dreams that I have and what I want to be
What I want to do and what I have in store
They can’t picture it because they’ve never seen it before
But its coming soon, like a new restaurant in town
Better bet its gonna have the best burger around
It’ll open up eyes to what was before impossible
Because with God on your side it all comes possible
From a dream to a reality with just His will
And it was all paid for on the cross, Christ paid our bill
So its on just as soon as you imagine
And I will create something that never has been
So you can go on with all the doubting
All the hating and all the shouting
Call me names and throw your stones
Won’t leave me with any broken bones
With any marks or any scars
My dreams are way up in the stars
But He brings them down to me now
Leaving you all asking how
So you can say that I can’t
That I won’t, that I have no chance
But I’ll just show you that I can
And I will make you all my number one fan

Never Let the Smile Fade

Theres moments when we get down
Try to smile,but all we can muster is a frown
No motivation, no determination
Because life is filled with too much frustration
When we feel like we have no hope
We get pulled in by the most unlikely rope
And find happiness in the most unlikely of places
And are given the most undeserving of graces
Then we finally feel the smile reappear
And can finally see life again so clear
And we now can’t help but smile
It just stays on our face a long while
From ear to ear, eyes full of twinkle
And our hearts full of sprinkle
Full of hope and full of love
Feeling as pure as a dove
Like nothing can ever go wrong
You haven’t felt this in so long
So embrace it, love it, never forget it
When you get down, dig deep for this feeling and relive it
Never again let the small worries
Allow your vision to get all blurry
Life is short and unexpected
Just take it in and enjoy it
Never let the smile fade
Let that smile be your aid

Make Me You

I sit here worshipping like its just me and You
Trying to listen to what You want me to do
Looking for what You want me to peruse
For what will bring light upon only You
Show how You lived Your life with Your death in mind
In hope that You would be what we would all find
Because we all search, but sometimes were are searching blind
And without You we may not be strong enough for the grind
But when we grow weary you carry us forward
You came to share with us Your Father's word
To show us our true Lord
But many said you were absurd
Not from this earth, You were given hate
But You overpowered for You were too great
We may have never lived for You before, but it's never to late
Because in the end You are all of our fate
We can run, but we can never hide
In the end Your word is what we all want to abide
This whole life is filled with so many strides
But we won't know where to go without You, our tour guide
So I am here, to say I want to follow You
I want to do every thing you want me to do
I know that all Your words are true
Please stick to me like I'm covered in glue
Take me and make me new
Take me and make me You

Wait and See

My heart beats fast when you are near
But it has no reason to beat when you aren’t here
It screams, it shouts, begging please come back
Give me a little pinch, give me a little smack
Make sure that I am not asleep
I give you my heart, it is yours to keep
It beats to the tune of your voice
And it only beats for you, my number one choice
If you left my side, I’d be left with nothing
Because when I’m with you I know that I have something
I love you, I need you, I want all of you
When you are with me my life finally feels true
It has meaning and I have a reason to move on
But that will end, if you were ever gone
I lay in bed eager to wake up and see you
Because every day with you feels brand new
The feelings, the butterflies, return so fresh
And I will never love you any less
Take my hand and never let go
I hope these feelings you will come to know
Take my heart, secure it like a treasure
These feelings, I can never measure
Please don’t ever leave
This can be the something big, if you just believe
In me, in us, and what we could be
We can be the real thing, just wait and see

Dream for the Stars

I'm tired of sitting and watching as my life flies by
Time for me to take a step and reach up for the sky
I'm about to give this whole thing my all
And I'm gonna reach the top or you will see me fall
But I won't stop until I reach my conclusion
Because I got to solve for all of this confusion
Find out what I want and then I will pursue
I will fight this whole battle until my dreams come true
So you can fight with me, standing on my side
Because in the end at least you know I tried
So watch out stars im coming right for you
And I will reach up to them, and do what I must do
This dream will become my whole obsession
And all these writings are my full confessions
I write each poem like dear diary
I got my bars set so high they're begging "please don't higher me"
So the stars, the sun, my dreams; won't come crashing down
They will stay high forever, as long as I'm around
You won't see me stop, you won't hear me quit
Because I love the challenge, every little bit
Time for me to move and put this dream in action
Can't wait to see the whole worlds reaction

Inner Child

Remember the days of mud pies
Before we lived a life of lies
Just running around with no cares
When we felt obligated to do all double dares
When all the girls were full of cooties
Before we got so obsessed with all their booties
Kickball and four square every recess
When we were our parents dolls to dress
So excited for show and tell
And all the tests to see if we could spell
Competitions of who could jump further off the swing
Flying kites every spring
When the coach pitched to us and there were no strike outs
Before we were all playing to impress the scouts
The excitement we got for those beans and franks
Didn’t worry about no money in the bank
Before the stress of college and life
When our parents didn’t trust us with a knife
When we ate all sandwiches without the crust
But now our thoughts are filled with lust
Back when life couldn’t get better
When we thought we would always be writing in cursive letters
Oh man, I miss all those days
Miss all my care free ways
Miss the smile that was always there
Back when life was always fair
But that is over and it's time to move on
But that inner child in me will never be gone

Living

I sit here thinking, what was I made for
I have ideas, but I just don't know for sure
Don’t want to get lost in this world of corporation
I’d rather do something of more importance
We all get lost in the idea of money
Thinking having it will make our days more sunny
Thinking it will make the grass greener
And to get it we will portray any demeanor
The competition of biggest house, nicest cars
And our dreams get lost up in the stars
Get so far, we can’t even remember
We get lost in this life, just another member
No care to help those around me
Just trying to be as successful as I can be
When the cash doesn’t pour, I’ve got nothing
So I forget about the money and try to stand for something
Stand for change, and I’m starting with myself
Pick my dreams back up that I left up on the shelf
Life's to short to worry ‘bout the bills
I’d rather get up and live for the thrills
Live in the moment, forget about the plans
Back to the days when we played drums with pots and pans
Live life with a smile everyday
Change my life to live a different way

To give, even when I have little
Because this life is just too brittle
Time to get lost in the art of giving
Time to get lost in this thing called living

Discover

We’re so quick to judge what we don’t know
But maybe we should first see the plant before we sow
See what the book has to offer, deeper than the cover
Because the unknown is left for us to discover
We can’t judge a case based on the accusation
And we can’t build a skyscraper before the foundation
And we will never know something unless we try
You will never be accepted if you never apply
You’ll never catch a fish if you never cast
You can’t hear the answer to a question never asked
The world is a field for us to play
Try everything, don’t delay
Go out and live like theres no tomorrow
Opinions are for us to make, not to borrow
Find out what you truly enjoy
FInd what truly brings you joy
Don’t relay on just what you’ve been told
Go out and discover, go out and be bold
You’ll never get a hit if you never step up to the plate
You might just be missing something great
Start fresh now, let yourself decide
This life is your own roller coaster for you to ride
You never know until you know
The world is waiting; go, go, go

Broken Reflection

You look around and everyone's gone
You look back at your life to look for what went wrong
For what pushed them all away
And what made you say what you would say
You look in the mirror and think the reflection is full of lies
Because you can't even recognize your own disguise
Like you are staring at a complete stranger
And your true self is in some danger
Danger of extinction of existence
Because you left him behind and ran too far a distance
So you go back to your left tracks
But it seems you slipped away in the cracks
So you're stuck with the person you've become
And you can't undo what you have done
Because you tried to be bigger than this place
And you lost all your old ways
You look around but theres no trace
A new reality you’ve come to face
You can break the mirror, but it won’t change your reflection
You no longer have your old complexion
Lost your self and found this beast
And your the one who loves yourself the least
Maybe one day you can get the kiss from the beauty
And respawn back to your old life like Call of Duty
But until then you're stuck alone
Because your old life you’ve broken with a stone

Destiny

You tell me that I can’t do all the things that I’ve wanted
And those have been the words in my nightmares, leaving me haunted
But it’s a new year, and it’s a new me
And there’s gonna be new things that you're gonna see
Things this world has never imagined
But I was created with those things envisioned
I am on this world, but will never be a part of it
I may walk the ground, but I will always be apart of it
I was sent here to do the work of the Lord
And you all tell me this sounds absurd
But that’s because you let this world consume you
Let it convince you that this is the only life that’s true
That there is no eternal living after here
But, truth is, that eternal life has always been living so near
My destiny is to show you that great place
To show you all of the Lord’s ways
The mission that has been carried since the beginning
Since before this Earth ever started spinning
Before the births of Adam and Eve
I just want to get this whole world to believe
We don’t need to see the wind to know it is blowing
We have never seen the wind but its there, we all are knowing
This machine that we call human beings
Have so much destiny that the Lord was seeing
The free will to be whoever and whatever we want to be
He doesn't throw Himself on you or me
He just waits for us to finally call His name
And from that day forward we will never be the same
With the Lord possible is anything
Because He is the creator of everything
So when you say that I can’t do something
I’ll show you I can do everything through the King

Muted Words

I just wish I could tell you how beautiful you are
But I am left to observe this from afar
I can’t seem to find the words to tell you
When you are near I just don’t know what to do
You get my heart beating like its trying to escape
I feel like your just flying around with a cape
Superhuman and I’m just not worthy
I try to plan my speech but it just gets too wordy
So I am left standing here mute
I am so overwhelmed ‘cause you are so darn cute
But if these words never get said
I hope that they can at least be read
I just wanted to say seeing you makes my day
You’re so gorgeous in every single way
The way you tilt your head when you smile
And I just love your style
I love your laugh, it just gets the butterflies fluttering
Not having you has got me suffering
But these words will only stay on this page
And stay locked up inside my cage
Hopefully one day this can become our fate
But for now I just sit here and wait