Name: only the light
Duration: P00H04M42S
Description: This song was inspired by seeing a radio tower driving home one night and I thought about being up there on top of the tower. To me that was the loneliest place in the world next to a single flashing bulb(besides the fact that I'm afraid of heights). Sometimes we all feel like we are up there.

only the light

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This is the first of three albums that I did with Elijah Mosely at threshingfloor audio. We did this whole album on a Yamaha digital 12-track in an old warehouse he rented. The material on this album is probably some of my best. It is a testament to doing the best you can with what you have!

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This song was inspired by seeing a radio tower driving home one night and I thought about being up there on top of the tower. To me that was the loneliest place in the world next to a single flashing bulb(besides the fact that I'm afraid of heights). Sometimes we all feel like we are up there.

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it's on you
it's on me
it's all right
to show it

happy roads
happy heart
happy you

right on man
ride on through
take your land
you own it

faith and love
faith in love
love the truth
You are the truth

aim high
don't think it is
so far from reality
when

only the light of Jesus can come in and fill me up
all the flashing lights and the worldly parasites just won't do

I have felt the cold winds blow through my bed at night
and all the wickedness of the day
just takes shape and runs through my mind

it's not always on the mountains
sometimes it's in between
we learn to be happy
we learn to be free
and i swear that i heard you
laughing in the falling snow
you have changed all i hope for
you have changed all i know

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from public radio by mark mathis, released February 15, 2005

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