BACK to Sound Theology page | Disc 1 lyrics SONGS AND LYRICS FOR SOUND THEOLOGY DISC 2, by JONATHAN RUNDMAN 1. I Love You With All of My Mind 2. Carol of the Bells 3. I Don't Want To Go To Hell 4. Failing Rockstar Attempt 5. Arise, My Soul, Arise! 6. Wide Awake 7. A Better Place 8. Easier 9. Dumb Summer 10. Minneapolis 11. If I Ever Get There 12. Waiting for the Rain 13. No Time To Breathe 14. Deadly Life 15. Oswiecim 16. I Want Jesus to Walk With Me 17. Closed Out... 18. You Don't Speak For Me 19. Are You Speaking Through the Radio? 20. The Glasses Song 21. The Stars Start to Take On That Same Old Shine 22. Row Out the Boat 23. Dance of the Confirmands 24. Bright Funeral 25. Godforsaken 26. Texas Kyrie 27. What Wondrous Love is This 1. I LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF MY MIND old heart and soul, they're so overrated they only do two-thirds of the work that needs done i wanna love you and love you completely and use all my senses and beautiful reason i love you with all of my mind i love you with all of my mind i've wondered and studied and i've come to find i love you with all of my mind some people say i'm too calculating that i bury my feelings and my heart's gone cold but i've seen emotions, they change like the weather so i don't just want to feel, i want to know i love you with all of my mind i love you with all of my mind i've wondered and studied and i've come to find i love you with all of my mind 2. CAROL OF THE BELLS i prayed to God to help me fall in love and bless me with my young heart's desire and on Sunday when i went to church i saw this girl in the Bethany handbell choir she rings G and she rings A i can't wait to hear her play they don't trust those notes to anyone else Carol of the bells in the middle of the C major scale she's the girl that i been dreaming of so let me tell you something about that church there ain't no better place to fall in love she rings G and she rings A i can't wait to hear her play they don't trust those notes to anyone else Carol of the bells standing in her driveway her father's at the door there's a light in her window where's Carol? where's Carol? come on out she rings G and she rings A i can't wait to hear her play they don't trust those notes to anyone else Carol of the bells 3. I DON'T WANT TO GO TO HELL i don't want to go to hell ain't no singin' in hell i don't want to go to hell ain't no preachin' in hell i don't want to go to hell 4. FAILING ROCKSTAR ATTEMPT oh my God, don't let me slide into anger and contempt over this failing rockstar attempt how much of this depends on me? how much depends on you? i hear about vocation and i wonder if it's true did you set a path for me or do i make my own? i want to have my liberty but i don't want to be alone oh my God, don't let me slide into anger and contempt over this failing rockstar attempt a while ago it looked like all i knew would bust apart and like a man possessed i drove that car back to the start now everything has held together but i ain't the same i got a new bad attitude but kept the small-time name oh my God, don't let me slide into anger and contempt over this failing rockstar attempt 5. ARISE, MY SOUL, ARISE 6. WIDE AWAKE i'm wide awake i feel the cold i see the star i see the child i'm wide awake i see the men who traveled far across the miles i see the gifts they bring i hear the songs they sing and i open up my eyes and i'm wide awake i'm wide awake i see the weak i see the sad i see the lame i'm wide awake i see the broken people crying out his name and now the sick are clean and now the blind can see and i can't believe my eyes and i'm wide awake i'm wide awake i see the nails i see the blood i see the thorns i'm wide awake i cry the tears i feel the pain i hear the scorn but i wipe my tears away when Sunday morning came and i saw the empty grave i'm wide awake 7. A BETTER PLACE (by Michael Hall) everyone is mighty and everyone is weak everyone thinks they'll live forever and they're sure they're gonna die next week everyone is damned and everyone is graced but you made this a better place everyone is an artist and everyone's a bureaucrat everyone is a good guy and everybody is a rat everyone is beautiful and everyone is base but you made this a better place everyone is sacred and everyone's just a bag of flesh everybody is a star and everyone's just second best everyone lives forever and disappears without a trace but you made this a better place 8. EASIER some people strongly believe that they should not have strong beliefs some people have formed a group of people who refuse to form groups yeah, it would be so much easier to leave this faith behind but easy's often stupid and rarely wise yeah, it would be so much easier to go out on my own but easy ain't no good when you're alone i've heard opposing arguments and as far as i can tell some people go gay to heaven and some go straight to hell yeah, it would be so much easier to leave this faith behind but easy's often stupid and rarely wise yeah, it would be so much easier to go out on my own but easy ain't no good when you're alone i've never been bad at badness so the good king came down from the castle yeah grace is free but it ain't cheap and it proves that faith is worth the hassle it feels like a hassle but it's worth it yeah, it would be so much easier to leave this faith behind but easy's often stupid and rarely wise yeah, it would be so much easier to go out on my own but easy ain't no good when you're alone 9. DUMB SUMMER dumb sun in the stupid sky dumb August June July be so happy when autumn comes why'd it have to be so dumb? Oh no dumb summer ain't gonna think don't think i can look out dumb summer come and gone and back again dumb summer but i don't know why i just want it to pass me by don't know where it's coming from why'd it have to be so dumb? Oh no dumb summer ain't gonna think don't think i can oh boy dumb summer come and gone and back again 10. MINNEAPOLIS yeah it's fine we all got friends there the men are polite the women have blonde hair but when people move there they never leave there minneapolis 11. IF I EVER GET THERE i got a long way to go, i'm on a narrow road but i ain't looking for some fountain of youth no i ain't scared of growing old no i ain't afraid of the divine truth and if i ever get there i'll let you know send you my address from my new home and if i ever get there i'm gonna settle in and watch the rest of my life begin if i ever get there yeah, they ask me if i'm ready for the long long ride yeah, i got all i'm gonna need i got a beautiful girl here at my side i got the love of God and a book to read and if i ever get there i'll let you know send you my address from my new home and if i ever get there i'm gonna settle in and watch the rest of my life begin if i ever get there now, way way way up in the sky or deep down under the ocean wherever i am when i walk towards the light i guess i'll have what i need to cross the Jordan if i ever get there i'm gonna climb up into that noisy old bus they'll shut the door and away we'll go yeah, they got enough seats for all of us me and CS Lewis and EA Poe and if i ever get there i'll let you know send you my address from my new home and if i ever get there i'm gonna settle in and watch the rest of my life begin if i ever get there 12. WAITING FOR THE RAIN some call it vast others a waste hide your face when the winds begin to blow see what you want keep your eye on the sky turn the dirt and call it home but don't you question why we're not alone? you got silos up above, silos down below, silos caught between heaven and hell when is the harvest? no one can tell we're still waiting for the rain what you build or grow is what you call your own but you're not looking deep beneath your yield we all see behind that "do not enter" sign and there you sit pretending it's not real but we cannot till what's planted in that field you got silos up above, silos down below, silos caught between heaven and hell when is the harvest? no one can tell we're still waiting for the rain we tend the land, tend the land and it changes hands we tend the land you got silos up above, silos down below, silos caught between heaven and hell when is the harvest? no one can tell we're still waiting for the rain we're still waiting 13. NO TIME TO BREATHE my eyes were on the roadsign when i saw the falling plane there was no way now to stop it it was headed for the ground again and there was no time for me to do nothing there was no time for me to leave there was no time to think and no time to breathe so i watched the lifeless engines as they touched the tops of trees and i wondered as it drew closer was it gonna fall on me? and there was no time for me to do nothing there was no time for me to leave there was no time to think and no time to breathe so i watched the falling airplane as it fell out of the sky and i wondered is this my last day? is this my time to say goodbye? and there was no time for me to do nothing there was no time for me to leave there was no time to think and no time to breathe 14. DEADLY LIFE there's a holy miracle every single night when we lie down in our beds and turn out all the lights we breathed ourselves another day we beat all the odds we survived this deadly life and gave it back to God we didn't starve or thirst to death or fall to some disease we weren't lost or all alone or left outside to freeze there was no freeway accident or collapse of the sun we didn't die the victim of some punk kid with a gun there was no right-wing terrorist or killer flash flood we weren't sent to fight no war we got no tainted blood we weren't in the path of some drunk man at the wheel the day was rough but we got through so every night we kneel because there's a holy miracle every single night when we lie down in our beds and turn out all the lights we breathed ourselves another day we beat all the odds we survived this deadly life and gave it back to God i was at that city church where they circle around to pray an old man with an african face had a simple prayer to say he said "thank you lord for giving me every breath i take and thank you lord for giving me this new day" there's a holy miracle every single night when we lie down in our beds and turn out the lights we breathed ourselves another day we beat all the odds we survived this deadly life and gave it back to God 15. OSWIECIM when you're drowning in the water you long to breathe the air you know the truth of goodness when you're deep down in despair you only see injustice when you know what's right and fair the more of something you can't have the more you're sure it's there every day, every day i remember every day i remember oswiecim you're only sure of hatred for it's contrast to true love you only know you're down below in relation to above you only fear the vulture because you've seen the dove whatever is beyond your reach that's what you're certain of every day, every day i remember every day i remember oswiecim they say "how can you believe in anything when there's so much evil in the world?" ah, but did they not just answer their own question? they know of goodness and it's definition every day, every day i remember every day i remember oswiecim every day, every day i remember every day i remember oswiecim 16. I WANT JESUS TO WALK WITH ME i want Jesus to walk with me i want Jesus to walk with me all along my pilgrim journey Lord, i want Jesus to walk with me in my trials, Lord walk with me in my trials, Lord walk with me when my back is almost breaking Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me when i'm in trouble, Lord walk with me when i'm in trouble, Lord walk with me when my heart is bowed in sorrow Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me 17. CLOSED OUT... Sunday morning Indiana at the church where i was a guest they had hymnals and a steeple and the letters LCMS yeah I guess i saw it coming you could call me a pessimist but i walked up to the altar for to share in the eucharist and the pastor passed me by he would not let me take the bread and wine and my heart froze and tears came to my eyes closed out of close communion people stepped down in the quiet i was shaking i was out of breath he said "may this body and this blood bless you and keep you in the one true faith" so i sat there like a stranger with nothing it was all i had yeah, i knew that we were different but i didn't know it would hurt so bad and the pastor passed me by he would not let me take the bread and wine and my heart froze and tears came to my eyes closed out of close communion closed out of close communion 18. YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ME yeah, when you speak for me you don't speak for me yeah, when you speak for me you don't speak for me my faith is not erotic my faith is not narcotic not at all psychotic nor is it robotic i've been given a brain and so i'm gonna use it i've been given my freedom i don't wanna abuse it i've been given a gift and i won't refuse it 19. ARE YOU SPEAKING THRU THE RADIO? out on the edge where the sky hits the land there's a field of transmitter towers broadcasting signals for hundreds of miles 50000 watts of power i never draw the blinds at night i need to see those flashing lights are you speaking thru the radio? was that message for me? i don't wanna miss the information i don't wanna lose the frequency we got antenaes underneath our skin we're tuning in every day we got satellite cars and transistor houses keeping the quiet away each and every night's the same i wait here listening for my name are you speaking thru the radio? was that message for me? i don't wanna miss the information i don't wanna lose the frequency 20. THE GLASSES SONG i got bad vision so i gotta wear glasses and it seems like forever since i've seen with my eyes i sleep with my glasses in reach of my bed and there's something so sad about waking up blind a drunk needs whiskey and a sinner needs Jesus and i need my glasses on just to get by and i drank some whiskey and i pray to Jesus but nothing's gonna bring the sight back to my eyes i got bad vision so i gotta wear glasses and it seems like forever since i've seen with my eyes i sleep with my glasses in reach of my bed and there's something so sad about waking up blind sometimes when i'm wearing my glasses i see things clearly that i wish i couldn't see like the faces of all of those pretty young girls who say "a man who wears glasses is no man for me" i got bad vision so i gotta wear glasses and it seems like forever since i've seen with my eyes i sleep with my glasses in reach of my bed and there's something so sad about waking up blind 21. THE STARS START TO TAKE ON THAT SAME OLD SHINE the stars don't shine like they did before the telescopes all say the stars don't fall to the earth no more but i do anyway i remember way back when when they wanted my attention still i look at them and then the stars start to take on that same old shine just like the nights when it all was mine constellations all combine the stars start to take on that same old shine the stars get tired of the same old view hour after hour the stars get tired of finding new resources for power i ain't no astrologist with chains of stars around my wrist but i can see what can't be missed the stars start to take on that same old shine just like the nights when it all was mine constellations all combine the stars start to take on that same old shine the stars are listed on a page in diagrams and maps the stars all burn and spin and age waiting to collapse they're burning out but i don't care i cannot stop myself from staring i can see them everywhere the stars start to take on that same old shine just like the nights when it all was mine constellations all combine the stars start to take on that same old shine 22. ROW OUT THE BOAT row out the boat into deep water into deep water and let down your nets row out the boat into deep water into deep water and see what you catch you been workin' all week and you ain't caught nothin' Simon better take my advice row out the boat into deep water and you'll be in for a surprise row out the boat into deep water into deep water and let down your nets row out the boat into deep water into deep water and see what you catch there is a love like the water is deep and more than you ever could wish for you ain't gonna need those nets anymore from now on we got people to fish for row out the boat into deep water into deep water and let down your nets row out the boat into deep water into deep water and see what you catch 23. DANCE OF THE CONFIRMANDS 24. BRIGHT FUNERAL have a bright bright funeral for me when i die not some gloomy dirge parade to tell me your goodbye have a bright bright funeral 'cause love don't stop at death and the hands of God are reaching out beyond our blood and breath leave them dress-up shoes at home that tie you hate to wear you can come just as you are me and God don't care if my sweetheart outlives me let her know how much i loved her you can take both my guitars and give them to my brother just have a bright bright funeral for me when i die not some gloomy dirge parade to tell me your goodbye have a bright bright funeral 'cause love don't stop at death and the hands of God are reaching out beyond our blood and breath don't go spending fourteen grand to carve my name in rock and buy up some small square of land and a six foot box you can give my eyes so they can help somebody see and the students at the med school they can have the rest of me just have a bright bright funeral for me when i die not some gloomy dirge parade to tell me your goodbye have a bright bright funeral 'cause love don't stop at death and the hands of God are reaching out beyond our blood and breath 25. GODFORSAKEN i was young i held the world in my hands i walked the narrow way for all to see when the rain crashed down and washed away my dreams i overlooked the love you have for me godforsaken why do i feel this way your promise is right before my eyes godforsaken it's all very plain to see that i will never be godforsaken i'm still young but i'm not the boy i used to be no no no no the world no longer turns for me alone but it's for freedom that i have been set free and in your love i know i've found a home godforsaken why do i feel this way your promise is right before my eyes godforsaken it's all very plain to see that i will never be godforsaken 26. TEXAS KYRIE in peace let us pray to the Lord Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy we pray for peace from above we pray for our salvation Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy we pray for peace in the world we pray for wellness in your Church we pray for the unity of all Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy we pray for this holy place we pray for all who gather here Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy oh Lord, help us, save us oh Lord, comfort and defend us Amen 27. WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IS THIS