EP title Heal a Broken World. These are my five favorite submissions for February Album Writing Month. The other nine (out of 14) are in the next post B-side.
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Five song titles:
Kindness of Strangers
Thy Will Be Done
Glory
Hand of Jesus
Hitchhiker’s Testimony
Verse and chorus for Kindness of Strangers
When lightning fills the sky or the streets are full of danger, I hope for someone like you. When my car is broken down, or I’m feeling broken hearted, I hope for someone like you.
The kindness of a stranger can heal a broken world. You can make a different today.
Verse and chorus for Hand of Jesus
Are you lost without a compass? Are you circling in the dark? Do you need a new direction? Are you hiding in the crowd?
Will you take the hand of Jesus if he speaks to you out loud?
You can hear him in your dreams, You can hear him when you wake, He is calling out your name. Come home. Come home.
Verse and chorus for Thy Will Be Done
I ttravel to the desert to lift some grains of sand. I look up to the sun and feel a greater hand. I hear a voice around me, Tell me, Tell me son. Tell me all your troubles and let my will be done.
I tell my troubles to the Lord, with an open heart. I trust that he will guide me, a beacon in the dark. God is here to walk with me, Let Thy Will be done.
Glory is an instrumental here, but I wrote these lyrics:
In the stillness of the morning, feel his presence, call his name. Dear Lord Jesus, I surrender my decisions to your grace.
In His Glory, Christ the king. He is risen, praise his name.
Lyrics for Hitchhiker’s Testimony
I stick out my thumb in the morning mist, Nobody sees me, Nobody cares. Here I am on the road of life, Nobody sees me, Nobody care.
A car appears out the mist. Driver asks Do you need any help? I ask for a ride to town. We get to talking and I share my concerns about my loneliness. Driver says, I am headed to church, come in and sit for a while.
When I sit down the driver is gone. The lesson is from Matthew:
I am with you always
With that line, I start to cry. After the sermon the pastor stops by. He asks how I got to town. I tell him Tracy gave me a ride. He says, there is nobody here by that name.
It dawns on me, what happened. God sent an angel for me. Saved my life. That’s why I believe.
In my ear I hear the driver’s voice:
I am with you always
