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Years Ago
03:24
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Sunlight swift over days that are the same
All drawn to their end like moths to a flame
Lines are written across your changing face
Does your pilgrim heart wander to that place?
So beautiful through the viewfinder
Catch the light, make a reminder
Only we of exuberant youth discern
Flesh and flower must fade and to dust return
Rhyme and reason our bodies articulate
There is only withering for those who wait
So beautiful through the viewfinder
Catch the light, make a reminder
I recall that night
Full of heat and light
In that masquerade
You stayed out too late
Come back to me
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2. |
Love and Fear
04:35
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Father, Father, since the day you rescued me
I’ve searched my heart to find the place where you could be
Called your name till I was deafened by the sound
But you were nowhere to be found
Could it be that I am so possessed with sin
You couldn’t find a way for me to let you in
And still you promise that you’re close enough to love
When heaven feels so far above
This present world
Love or fear
Far or near
God in every form appearing
The lion or the lamb
The fire or the ram upon the altar
In my heart I see the tearing of the veil
But in my hands I see the hammer and the nail
No song or sermon did I hear that could explain
Or articulate my pain
When you look upon the faces of the saved
The broken bodies that you gather from the grave
Think of all the saints turned sinners you would find
Without heaven on the line
And hell below
We’re united in the victory that you won
But it’s a strange divided thing that I’ve become
Where half is in the sun and half is in the shade
Half in love and half afraid
In the end I am a creature of desire
Driven always by the flesh into the fire
If all the good in me is given from above
Tell me what it is you love
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3. |
X
05:57
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Running all the time
Running all the time away
Till we face ourselves
We say the words
We make an end
Nothing but the truth
Nothing but our honesty
That’s all we have
If nothing more
Then nothing less
And I cannot see the sun
There’s nothing in your eyes
Nothing in your gestured words
But still I dare
To hold my breath
In this empty air
And I cannot see the sun
I cannot show you
The love you taught me
Now every loving dream
Is another world between
And these my sentences
They are my terms to come
But already you’re further than I feel
You’re further than I feel
You have always been the one
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4. |
Over Oceans
05:54
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The memory of a love
Suspended like a dove
Above the flood
And now that everything was gone
The hollow moon still shone
Upon the sea
And I was standing in the tide
When an ocean opened wide
Inside my lung
And the water turned me blue
Choking on the very thought of you
Over oceans you will wander
While my heart grows fonder for your absent love
I’m calling out to you
Up above the sea, oh so far away
Sometimes it’s you I find
Running like a river through my mind
Though the water’s over everything we knew
With the grief gone underneath to get us through
And it seemed to me the surface of the sea
Was a mirror gathering light upon the shore
To illuminate our history
But the waves erase where they break forevermore
Over oceans you will wander
While my heart grows fonder for your absent love
I’m calling out to you
I’m reaching out for you
Through these parting waters
Over oceans you will wander
While my heart grows fonder for your absent love
Now all my love collides
In you, in you, in you
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5. |
The Road
03:10
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I’m parting with the past for good
So leave my eyes those tender tears of yesteryears
No more sweet sorrow
I’m holding on to hope for now
The thread that leads me through the night and to the light
Into tomorrow
Well the wheel it turns away
Where it goes no one can say
But there’s nothing to it but to lay
One foot on the road
As summer fades the autumn paves
The way ahead in gold
Or so I’ve been told
But I have no clue
And neither do you
I’m tending to this tender earth
I’ll leave old pastures
Take my grace and make a place
For good things to grow
Well the wind it churns away
Where it goes no one can say
But there’s nothing to it but to lay
One foot on the road
As summer fades the autumn paves
The way ahead in gold
Or so I’ve been told
But I have no clue
Well how about you
(Lay your weary heart upon the ground)
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6. |
Moon in the Sky (bonus)
03:51
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Moon in the sky
Sun in the sea
The face of the ocean belies the emotion beneath
Even the eye
Sometimes deceives
Sunk in the blue are the false and the true sides of me
Well the moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea
The man in the eye can’t compare to the memory
The moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea
The man in the eye cannot stand to the memory
Where are the years
Promised to me
Gone long ago with the river that flows to the deep
The heart that yearns
Is itself deceived
By the old masquerade of love learned from the page and the screen
Well the moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea
The man in the eye can’t compare to the memory
The moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea
The man in the eye cannot stand to the memory
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Joshua Phang New York, New York
Joshua Phang is a singer-songwriter from Singapore currently based in New York.
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