1. Time Time 2. That Extra Mile That Extra Mile 3. Newness Newness 4. The Forgotten The Forgotten 5. Nailed Nailed 6. Indigo Sunrise Indigo Sunrise
7. Loss (instrumental) Loss 8. Philia Philia 9. Light and Life Light and Life 10. Hello My Brother Hello My Brother 11. Bamboo Bamboo 12. Sorrowful Wind Sorrowful Wind
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Time
Everybody’s busy
Everybody’s rushing around
Tell me why you’re busy
Am I too slow to share your ground.
Martyrs to your manic
Why can’t you just slow down
Molecules of frantic
Faster than the speed of sound.
The depressed and lonely
Trying to reach out to someone
Everybody’s busy
Can’t you see the harm that’s done.
Where are we all going
Taming time or running away
Why’s the climate changing
No more a community.
Everybody’s rushing around
Tell me why you’re busy
Am I too slow to share your ground.
Martyrs to your manic
Why can’t you just slow down
Molecules of frantic
Faster than the speed of sound.
The depressed and lonely
Trying to reach out to someone
Everybody’s busy
Can’t you see the harm that’s done.
Where are we all going
Taming time or running away
Why’s the climate changing
No more a community.
Is this all we’ve got
When the people engage
Faceless, graceless talk
On a facebook page
Incriminate
Technological diety
Will you ever want
Friendship face to face.
Time to talk
Time to walk
Time to be
Time set free.
So how can we be breathing
Snatching time then spitting it back
Never really hearing
The pendulum swings till the wasteland cracks
Burning every minute
Caring nothing for anything else
Humans breaking limits
We’re going to die in a climate of self.
When the people engage
Faceless, graceless talk
On a facebook page
Incriminate
Technological diety
Will you ever want
Friendship face to face.
Time to talk
Time to walk
Time to be
Time set free.
So how can we be breathing
Snatching time then spitting it back
Never really hearing
The pendulum swings till the wasteland cracks
Burning every minute
Caring nothing for anything else
Humans breaking limits
We’re going to die in a climate of self.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
That Extra Mile
I can taste the salt in the air
I can feel the storm in my hair
I can sense the cloud’s angry mood
I can hear the waves’ mocking tune
I can’t read the words in the sand
I can’t know what I don’t understand.
Come sing me a lullaby
With kindness and a smile
Our time here will testify
We went that extra mile
I will love you forever now
If you quiet this pointless storm
Beat the weather somehow
And welcome in the dawn.
I can feel the storm in my hair
I can sense the cloud’s angry mood
I can hear the waves’ mocking tune
I can’t read the words in the sand
I can’t know what I don’t understand.
Come sing me a lullaby
With kindness and a smile
Our time here will testify
We went that extra mile
I will love you forever now
If you quiet this pointless storm
Beat the weather somehow
And welcome in the dawn.
I can hear the planes overhead
I can see the sky turning red
I can feel the fear on the ground
I can’t let this threat take me down
Come sing me a lullaby
With kindness and a smile
Our time here will testify
We went that extra mile
I will love you forever now
If you cease this pointless war
Face down the enemy
Embrace a better world.
I can see the sky turning red
I can feel the fear on the ground
I can’t let this threat take me down
Come sing me a lullaby
With kindness and a smile
Our time here will testify
We went that extra mile
I will love you forever now
If you cease this pointless war
Face down the enemy
Embrace a better world.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Newness
Take me up high
Where eagles fly
On mountain crags
Looking down on my life.
Newness of mind
And newness of kind
I’ll climb this mountain
Till I get it right.
Look in my eye
And tell me why
You can’t see newness
Cause I really try.
Lost in this mist
My mind resists
The urge to stumble
No I will not die.
Rock of Ages in my sight
Choices swirling round about
Sobbing underneath the cross
Saturated.
I climbed up to fall back down
Hard against this blood-stained ground
Mountains soaring all around
This is newness.
Where eagles fly
On mountain crags
Looking down on my life.
Newness of mind
And newness of kind
I’ll climb this mountain
Till I get it right.
Look in my eye
And tell me why
You can’t see newness
Cause I really try.
Lost in this mist
My mind resists
The urge to stumble
No I will not die.
Rock of Ages in my sight
Choices swirling round about
Sobbing underneath the cross
Saturated.
I climbed up to fall back down
Hard against this blood-stained ground
Mountains soaring all around
This is newness.
Newness of mind
And newness of kind
I’ll walk this valley
To the other side.
Shadows appear
And mockers jeer
I’ll move these mountains
No I will not hide.
Rock of Ages in my sight
Choices swirling round about
Sobbing underneath the cross
Saturated.
I climbed up to fall back down
Hard against this blood-stained ground
Mountains soaring all around
This is newness.
And newness of kind
I’ll walk this valley
To the other side.
Shadows appear
And mockers jeer
I’ll move these mountains
No I will not hide.
Rock of Ages in my sight
Choices swirling round about
Sobbing underneath the cross
Saturated.
I climbed up to fall back down
Hard against this blood-stained ground
Mountains soaring all around
This is newness.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
The Forgotten
Forgotten old memory
Pushed to the back
Never remembered
Nothing more than that.
To many we are hidden
To God we are in vision
Do you even know?
Who I am?
The human brain
Can’t even contain
One molecule of memory
To keep us sane
They fail each time
To keep us in mind
We are the forgotten
Tossed to the side.
Did you forget to call me
Forget to email back
Something is broken
Nothing more than that
To many I am worthless
To God I am redeemed
Do you even know
What that means
Pushed to the back
Never remembered
Nothing more than that.
To many we are hidden
To God we are in vision
Do you even know?
Who I am?
The human brain
Can’t even contain
One molecule of memory
To keep us sane
They fail each time
To keep us in mind
We are the forgotten
Tossed to the side.
Did you forget to call me
Forget to email back
Something is broken
Nothing more than that
To many I am worthless
To God I am redeemed
Do you even know
What that means
All I ever did
Was care too much
Words they once spoke
Have no meaning now
Only God can save my heart
From this lonely place
Only God loves for real
And means what He says.
Spinning tops
And dizzy heights
Don’t contribute
To our lives
Only a caring touch
Gives to us so much
Words that speak
A thousand truths
Kept in faith
Forever yours
Where are we now?
Forgotten in the crowd.
Was care too much
Words they once spoke
Have no meaning now
Only God can save my heart
From this lonely place
Only God loves for real
And means what He says.
Spinning tops
And dizzy heights
Don’t contribute
To our lives
Only a caring touch
Gives to us so much
Words that speak
A thousand truths
Kept in faith
Forever yours
Where are we now?
Forgotten in the crowd.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Nailed
Nailed to a cross
Hated and crushed
My Saviour, my Christ there died.
Laid in a tomb
Till on the third day
My Saviour, my Christ did rise.
Nailed to my fears
Held in contempt
I’m trying to comprehend
Jesus forgave
While nailed to a cross
So why can’t I do the same?
Hated and crushed
My Saviour, my Christ there died.
Laid in a tomb
Till on the third day
My Saviour, my Christ did rise.
Nailed to my fears
Held in contempt
I’m trying to comprehend
Jesus forgave
While nailed to a cross
So why can’t I do the same?
Nails fix me here
Pierced by my will
I’m trying to pull away.
Slowly I’m freed
Toward all I need
Forgiveness can rise in me.
I can be, can be
Freed…
I will be, will be
Free…
Pierced by my will
I’m trying to pull away.
Slowly I’m freed
Toward all I need
Forgiveness can rise in me.
I can be, can be
Freed…
I will be, will be
Free…
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Indigo Sunrise
Indigo sunrise
Full of promise
To my eyes
In the dark
Quietly
Wavelets whisper
A new day
Blue dawn sky
Lead me home
Carry me across the ocean
Sail into
Trade wind routes
I need to get to where I’m going to
I was called prodigal
Now I’m naked with nothing at all
Reach out to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me.
Full of promise
To my eyes
In the dark
Quietly
Wavelets whisper
A new day
Blue dawn sky
Lead me home
Carry me across the ocean
Sail into
Trade wind routes
I need to get to where I’m going to
I was called prodigal
Now I’m naked with nothing at all
Reach out to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me.
Indigo, dark to light
Promises that can end this plight
Dizzy living
It spun me around
Around and around
Till it left me no ground
Then I heard His still small voice
Remembered His love
But I’d made my choice
Gotta go home to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me.
Indigo sunrise
Blue dawn promise across the sky
Close my eyes and look inside
I’m thinking that I’ve found my sight
Dazzle me with the honest truth
Guide me to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me
Indigo sunrise.
Indigo sunrise
Blue dawn promise across the sky
Indigo sunrise
Full of promise to my eyes.
Promises that can end this plight
Dizzy living
It spun me around
Around and around
Till it left me no ground
Then I heard His still small voice
Remembered His love
But I’d made my choice
Gotta go home to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me.
Indigo sunrise
Blue dawn promise across the sky
Close my eyes and look inside
I’m thinking that I’ve found my sight
Dazzle me with the honest truth
Guide me to a Father Who
Loved and lost me
Now He calls me
Indigo sunrise.
Indigo sunrise
Blue dawn promise across the sky
Indigo sunrise
Full of promise to my eyes.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Philia
Moving through the halls of time
Ancient corridors
Love, found as friendship
Philia, philia
What is this love of friends
How do we survive
Friends found and friends lost
Philia, philia
I would give you my trust
My gift to you
Take it and treat it well
Be a friend
I will fill myself
With the love of God
I could be Philia
Philia….
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Light and Life
Walking on a line
Straight enough to shine,
Could it be the road
To light, to light?
Lookin’ for a spark
Lead me through the dark
Take me to the heart
Of life, of life?
My world’s never free
Seems to lie to me
Lookin’ this way for
Some truth, some truth.
Speak to me some sense
Take away my fence
Why do we pretend
We’re sure, we’re sure?
(chorus)
Light and life
I’ve arrived
Maker of my soul.
Light and life
I’ll survive
Saviour of my soul.
Straight enough to shine,
Could it be the road
To light, to light?
Lookin’ for a spark
Lead me through the dark
Take me to the heart
Of life, of life?
My world’s never free
Seems to lie to me
Lookin’ this way for
Some truth, some truth.
Speak to me some sense
Take away my fence
Why do we pretend
We’re sure, we’re sure?
(chorus)
Light and life
I’ve arrived
Maker of my soul.
Light and life
I’ll survive
Saviour of my soul.
I have found the way
Learning everyday
How to give and how
To grow, to grow.
Despite the life I lived
I know that He forgives
Shows me how to live
With hope, with hope.
(chorus)
Light and life
I’ve arrived
Maker of my soul.
Light and life
I’ll survive
Saviour of my soul.
Light and life and truth
Light and life and faith
Light and life and hope
Light and life and Love
Learning everyday
How to give and how
To grow, to grow.
Despite the life I lived
I know that He forgives
Shows me how to live
With hope, with hope.
(chorus)
Light and life
I’ve arrived
Maker of my soul.
Light and life
I’ll survive
Saviour of my soul.
Light and life and truth
Light and life and faith
Light and life and hope
Light and life and Love
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Hello My Brother
Hello my brother
Can you tell me where you are
Is your life a sacrifice
To the choices of your heart
Has it turned to solid stone
Weighing down upon your life
Did you simply conform to what
You thought… might be right?
Where are you going
My fellow countrymen
To the fairground rides that thrill
For a moment held in time
Or to the bloody fields
Among the many hidden mines
Where the senses meet your fears
And your mortal life unwinds?
Can you tell me where you are
Is your life a sacrifice
To the choices of your heart
Has it turned to solid stone
Weighing down upon your life
Did you simply conform to what
You thought… might be right?
Where are you going
My fellow countrymen
To the fairground rides that thrill
For a moment held in time
Or to the bloody fields
Among the many hidden mines
Where the senses meet your fears
And your mortal life unwinds?
Hello my brother
Can you tell me where you go
Hello my brother
I’d really like to know
In the light of the daytime
When the sun’s still shining
In the dark of the night
Where the shadows claimed your rights
What is life?
Hello my brother
Can you tell me who we are?
Empties left on a doorstep
Underneath the dying stars
Or could it plainly be
We were formed to be loved
In the grasp of eternity
Is the truth what you want?
Can you tell me where you go
Hello my brother
I’d really like to know
In the light of the daytime
When the sun’s still shining
In the dark of the night
Where the shadows claimed your rights
What is life?
Hello my brother
Can you tell me who we are?
Empties left on a doorstep
Underneath the dying stars
Or could it plainly be
We were formed to be loved
In the grasp of eternity
Is the truth what you want?
Music © J. McAlpine and G McAlpine. Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Bamboo
Take, take, take, take
Take it all like a bamboo invasion
Mistake, man takes
Stop it now for the sake of the land
Mistake, man takes
Take it all from the poor of a nation
Take, take, mistake
No more food in the palm of our hands.
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
Take, take, take, take
Take it all like a bamboo invasion
Mistake, man takes
Nothing left in the heart of a man
Mistake, man takes
Sap the soul, bleed the heart of a nation
Take, take, mistake
No more give, cause they can’t even stand.
Take it all like a bamboo invasion
Mistake, man takes
Stop it now for the sake of the land
Mistake, man takes
Take it all from the poor of a nation
Take, take, mistake
No more food in the palm of our hands.
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
Take, take, take, take
Take it all like a bamboo invasion
Mistake, man takes
Nothing left in the heart of a man
Mistake, man takes
Sap the soul, bleed the heart of a nation
Take, take, mistake
No more give, cause they can’t even stand.
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
Stripped away
Nothing left to say
Ripped away
Vulnerable and bare
Stripped away
Nothing left to say
Ripped away
Vulnerable and bare
Stripped away
What more can I say
Did you pray?
Tomorrow’s not today.
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
God has, saved my soul
Stripped away
Nothing left to say
Ripped away
Vulnerable and bare
Stripped away
Nothing left to say
Ripped away
Vulnerable and bare
Stripped away
What more can I say
Did you pray?
Tomorrow’s not today.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness
Sorrowful Wind
Like a landscape, shaped by ice
Glaciated, chiseled lives
Circumstances, words like knives
Turned our dreams, into lies.
I can’t I can’t understand
Why the people behave
So bad, so sad
Cruel words and a cold silence
Where love should be in it’s place
Its bad, so sad.
Glaciated, chiseled lives
Circumstances, words like knives
Turned our dreams, into lies.
I can’t I can’t understand
Why the people behave
So bad, so sad
Cruel words and a cold silence
Where love should be in it’s place
Its bad, so sad.
I’ve been walking
The strangest road
With the lonely
Shivering in the cold.
Drifting slowly
Sorrowful wind
Take me onwards
Please let me live.
I’ve been walking
The strangest road
Man of sorrows
Carrying this load.
Drifting slowly
Sorrowful wind
Takes me onwards
He makes me live.
The strangest road
With the lonely
Shivering in the cold.
Drifting slowly
Sorrowful wind
Take me onwards
Please let me live.
I’ve been walking
The strangest road
Man of sorrows
Carrying this load.
Drifting slowly
Sorrowful wind
Takes me onwards
He makes me live.
Music & Lyrics © J. McAlpine for CMM/Climate Change Music 2011
Album: Newness