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God-shaped Hole
03:18
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Another short-lived love affair
Evaporates into thin air
And you take up the same search again
So get your headphone fix
Throw some new things in the mix
And pray you find a better friend
What if these things are not the answer
With all the questions they can bring
What will help you find your way back home?
And tell me how will you be dancing
When there are no songs left to sing
And all that’s left is just a God-shaped hole
(A God-shaped hole)
A-God shaped hole in all of us
No matter where we place our trust
The puzzle pieces just don’t fit, they never fit
A God-shaped hole in you and me
No matter who we try to be
There’s always something that we miss
Cos all this music that you're hearing, it’s only moving air
So ask yourself just what it is that makes every little hair
Stand up on the back of your neck, reality check!
Are you connecting to that something that’s as high as you get?
You could be climbing up the ladder while you waste time on the ground
A God-shaped hole in all of us
No matter where we place our trust
‘Cos He can give and take away
And what remains?
A God-shaped hole in everyone
The struggle’s only just begun
And I don’t know when I’ll be done...
Cos we need something, we need meaning
Chasing nothing, empty dreaming
So much potential, hidden in you
Ain’t tryin'a fill it with no magazine
Ain’t tryin'a fill it with no big pipe dream
Ain’t tryin'a fill it with no cigarette
Ain’t tryin'a fill it with no tv set
Ain’t tryin'a fill it with no glass of wine
I ain’t tryin'a kill it with no overtime
I try to fill a little day by day
Put in to action all the words we say
'Cos we need something
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Until Peace Comes
04:35
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Well the war won’t stop til a brother puts down his gun
And a mother teaches justice to her son
And tell me how, how can we make war of nations end
If I still say hurtful things about my friends?
And oh my brother, do you have the time?
Sing out my sister, if you can answer this question of mine:
Said isn’t it time, isn’t it time for peace to come?
When most of mankind will say they’re still waiting for someone
It’s been two thousand years since a poor Shepherd showed us how
But all that I know is that we cannot give up now
Cos we gotta try harder, and we gotta be stronger
And we gotta love deeper, and we gotta sing louder
Louder until peace comes
Tell me why was I born in a clean hospital bed?
When there’s babies got no rooves over their heads
And tell me why, why was I given freedom for no fee?
When there’s people lying in jail cells for their right to believe
And isn’t it time, isn’t it time for peace to come?
When all the world’s children sing along to the words of the same hit songs
It’s been six thousand years since a man named Krishna, He did come
And what have we learned? How to shoot automatic guns
So we gotta try harder and we gotta be stronger
And we gotta love deeper and we gotta sing louder
I said I’m gonna try harder and I’m gonna be stronger
And I’m gonna love deeper and I’m gonna sing louder
Louder until peace comes
And I know peace don’t come from presidents
You gotta build it in your heart
They call peace a cause but it’s an effect
And it takes love to make it start
So isn’t it time, isn’t it time for peace to come?
So try harder, try harder, try harder
And be stronger, be stronger, be stronger
And love deeper, love deeper, deeper, people love deeper
And sing louder, sing louder, sing louder,
Louder until peace comes
Until we don’t need no more peace songs
I’m gonna sing my heart out, you can sing along
Gonna sing louder until peace comes
Louder until peace comes
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Problems
03:55
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Did you make your name, or was it the other way round?
Did they lay the blame, or did you just pull yourself down?
In all that I’ve found it seems like you’ve been hard-done by
Throwing you around and you don’t even know why
I know you got problems chasing your tail
Teach yourself come-backs and learn how to fail
Out with the boys now they’ll do you no good
Fix all your problems, I wish that I could
One moment you adore – a flash and you’re throwing harsh words
You’re building up walls and crying when your hands get burned
It seems we got a live one, sleeping with the lights on
Choking on your words ‘cos you never know the right ones
Stealing what you don’t need, hunger like a child’s greed
Making all our hearts bleed
I know you got problems chasing your tail
Teach yourself come-backs and learn how to fail
Out with the girls now and they think they’re so ‘hood
Fix all your problems, I wish that I could
She said ‘You’re lucky you can play guitar
I don’t know what my talents are, I never got that far
Takes all my energy just tryna act hard and thinking
If my daddy loves me why I gotta live with grandpa then?’
After the teacher called me in and told me
You were never coming back again
My heart sank deep down ‘cos I’d lost a friend
I’ll never know how your side of the story went
I know you got problems chasing your tail
Teach yourself come-backs and learn how to fail
Out with the boys now they’ll do you no good
Fix all your problems, I wish that I could
Cos we’ll always have problems, that’s the way that life goes
You can learn from them or let them take hold
But you don’t have to listen when they say you’re no good
Fix all your problems, I know that you could
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Hardship
02:29
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Yeah I know you’re going through hardship
I pray to the Blessed Beauty that He never lets your heart slip
The enemy he’s got a harsh grip
But when it’s God that flips the script you’re well-equipped
Spiritual battleship armed with friendship you never trip
Like a child you skip along the path to peace until the scales tip
They try to strip you of nobility, but they’re foolish see
‘Cos your purity streams from your lips
See the end in the beginning, the beginning in the end
In the enemy find a brother, in the stranger find a friend
I never had to live those words quite like you do or my Faith defend
But you inspire me to pick up a pen and write verses
Though this is rehearsed it’s from the heart
The world bursts, splits at the seams and falls apart
But through long-suffering you’re building the whole thing anew
I wanna tell the world ‘bout the struggle that you’re going through
I know you’re going through hardship
I pray to the Blessed Beauty that He never lets your heart slip
The enemy he’s got a harsh grip
But when it’s God that flips the script you’re well-equipped
Spiritual battleship armed with friendship you never trip
Like a child you skip along the path to peace until the scales tip
They try to strip you of nobility, but they’re foolish see
‘Cos your purity streams from your lips
Yo they can’t see that you’ve been free since you believed
Only fooling themselves when they think you’re in captivity
But love is the greatest weapon it refuses to fight
Only knows how to bring us closer and to show us the light
That guides in darkness when all you see is heartless cruelty
Mirror forth His beauty and I know of a certainty
That His Providence is disguised as calamity
So after the crisis, there’ll always come a victory
I know you’re going through hardship
I pray to the Blessed Beauty that He never lets your heart slip
The enemy he’s got a harsh grip
But when it’s God that flips the script you’re well-equipped
Spiritual battleship armed with friendship you never trip
Like a child you skip along the path to peace until the scales tip
They try to strip you of nobility, but they’re foolish see
‘Cos your purity streams from your lips
I know, you’re going through…
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There is a Sign
02:52
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O SON OF MAN!
For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words)
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I Created Thee Rich
03:06
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O SON OF SPIRIT!
I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting.
(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words)
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In the Rose Garden
03:59
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In the Rose Garden of changeless splendor a Flower hath begun to bloom, compared to which every other flower is but a thorn ... Arise, therefore, and, with the whole enthusiasm of your hearts, with all the eagerness of your souls … strive to attain the paradise of His presence … Whoso followeth this counsel will break his chains asunder … will attain unto his heart's desire …
(Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh)
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Let Your Heart Burn
02:27
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks)
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Rosanna Lea UK
Rosanna Lea is a singer-songwriter from Cornwall, UK.
She plays guitar, ukulele and drums, crafting soulful songs about the people and places she encounters.
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