Track 1

Indestructible (for Diane)

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Superman was a comic book hero. I was the ruler of my suburban home and job, when my legs were knocked out from under me, And it's been so long since I watched from the floor. Oh, Father! Where are we going? Oh Father! Where can we be? Suddenly my life seems so heavy with indestructibility. So why do the people I know look differently at me? Did I throw a stone that landed in their stomach? I see the world through the same old eyes, But don't know the faces staring back at me. Oh, Father! Where are we going? Oh Father! Where can we be? Suddenly my life seems so heavy with indestructibility. Superman was an underachiever. And they say my acumen still reigns supreme. But now I'm left clinging to the only Vine. Still holding on to things I can't see. Oh, Father! Where are we going? Oh Father! Where can we be? I've seen the simple life and life's not so simple. Oh, Father! Where are we going? Oh Father! Where can we be? Suddenly my life seems so heavy with indestructibility. .

Track 2

Crucible

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Killing time, piecing planks of wood together For so long I can't remember the day it all began. Crucible, mortar and pestle of my life, Holds all my favors. Save me lest I die. Restless sky, endless sea of rolling gray. Do you know why I can't believe in rain? Can I see things I've never seen before? Yes, I believe in things I've never seen before! Labor long, labor hard for those who take the fall. A daring plan! Destroy the One who saves them all. Restless sky, endless sea of rolling gray. Do you know why I can't believe in rain? A domicile of arkable proportions. A wooden hole in which to hide. Restless sky, endless sea of rolling grey. Do you know why I can't believe in rain?

Track 3

One Ton Pile

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Duty calls but I'm not answering. All this ringing makes me frantic. My days remain without end. One more straw on a one ton pile, The weight of Your benevolent smile, Could carry me onward all the while, I know when I'm up against the wall. You love when there's nothing to love. Dig deep and show grace from above. Change lives. That's not easy to come by nowadays. Faith calls when I least expect it. I fall when I least expect it. You call when I least expected you to call. I know when I'm up against the wall. Have patience with my ridiculous style Have patience with my sunset smile Have patience with me. I know when I'm up against the wall.


Track 4

Dressed Better Than Solomon (for Lily)

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

There's a Lily on the wall. But they can't stand floral patterns. They'd strip it away if they only owned the walls. A mote of dusty vision, Hovers at the corner of the eye, And calls with a voice unheard, From a cold blue sky. She looks so fine in her white robes and lace! I know some time I live to see the face, When she's dressed better than Solomon. All we have is a promise. But I believe that a Promise is good enough, To one day see the face, A response to the name of Lily. A mote of floral vision Now stands with our creator God, And looks ahead with hope, To hold our hand some day. She looks so fine in her white robes and lace! I know some time I live to see the face, When she's dressed better than Solomon.

Track 5

400

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Is it just me? Or, do you see the mystery you write with failing eyes? I know it seems I'm far away but I assure you I'm not wearing a disguise. I claim my truth for myself. I'm sane and my sanity will testify against your intellectual wealth. So, gather 'round, despise the truth in all it's simplicity. You love a pack of lies! I'll bet you think I'm sleeping! Bet you think I'm dreaming to myself! Four hundred strong gather in battle of a sacred rite. Four hundred wrong. Four hundred more are gonna see a sight! I rain down fire on a sacrifice. I rain down fire on your fools delight. So, gather 'round, despise the truth in all it's simplicity. You love a pack of lies! I'll bet you think I'm sleeping! Bet you think I'm dreaming to myself! I said, "I Am That I Am!" A cross of wood, a nail of iron, and a crown of thorns. These three elements of blood, pain and death; you can call your own. My face, my name; the door to paradise. My grace, my shame to justify, to sanctify, to call you home. So, gather 'round, despise the truth in all it's simplicity. You love a pack of lies! I'll bet you think I'm sleeping! Bet you think I'm dreaming to myself!

Track 6

Matthew B

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

To the ends of the Earth I'll travel, To see myself come undone. Though the thread of my life unravels. I can watch my own surgery begun. Deflecting internal reflection, Seems a distant view of my hope. He's plainly disturbing my ocean, And begs me to get back on the boat. Hammer blows on my head, Pacing the floor it's better unsaid that I'm hurting, And I'm knee-deep in the painful lessons, I can't keep or deny, or even ask why. When I look in Your eye I'm frightened, Of the power you hold over me. Do you choose to abandon, Adrift to my fate. Or to cleanse me, to give love for peace. Most dangerous happenings befall me. The beggar before the King. Those debts are a mountain before me, But you claim you don't see a thing! Hammer blows on my head, Pacing the floor it's better unsaid that I'm hurting, And I'm knee-deep in the painful lessons, I can't keep or deny, or even ask why.

Track 7

What Job Says

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Chosen. Flaming arrows all around your head, From an unseen bow and archer. What Job says is not a function of Your grace. He'll fall down. I promise you! Then the day comes when hope begins to fall. And night comes flowing from your veins. And life turns to wormwood and covers up the sky. And you don't know why. Stricken, Curse the sky and let's have done with this. I'll collect the pieces as they fall. What Job sees is not reality in the eyes of God. He cannot know the accuser is near. Then the day comes when hope begins to fall. And night comes flowing from your veins. And life turns to wormwood and covers up the sky. And you don't know why. Oh Lord, help me! Oh Lord, take me now! Help me to see reality. Can this be my reality? I've spoken. Scrape my sores with the shards of my life, But I'll not curse the Lord before you. Then Job hears God's deliverance in a voice on the wind. "you will live by faith and not by sight." Then the day comes when hope begins to fall. And night comes flowing from your veins. And life turns to wormwood and covers up the sky. And you don't know why.

Track 8

Halo

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Whenever my eye fails to fall, You come cover me With kisses so bright they light up the sky. What kind of right have I to smile? When darkness surrounds I can't see nothing at all. I don't see nothing at all. Who put this halo around me? When comforting darkness devours, I can claim it all my own. No fair! Not fair! I declare it to be the honest truth of my soul. When darkness surrounds I can't see nothing at all. I don't see nothing at all. Who put this halo around me? No surprises, no trials, no pain. But what have I gained?

Track 9

Terminal Velocity

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Terminal Velocity. Or my escape from dealing with ferocity. You once stood in my shoes, Familiar from a distance, The stranger I can't loose. I throw out my resistance, To the cause of my redemption, Strangely giving shape to my fears, wants and desires. Maybe if I run more. perhaps then I'll fly. Collecting things to carry, Crosses I can bear. I can fill my schedule with nothing but my cares. Tape record semantics. I've need of my excuses. The blessings that come pouring on my head, Seem of little use. Maybe if I run more. Perhaps then I'll fly.

Track 10

Tower

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

You're the only one. You said He came along and stole all your fun. In this alien sky, it's handing in a claim check on the Sun. My day is at hand. Small disabilities or signs from the end. Can you still be surprised, When the awful tower you build vanishes 'for your eyes? Don't think that 'never' is so far away. I don't think I ever told you the day I'd come. Don't let it slip away! Your arrogant pride. Hung on a flagpole and hung out to dry. It's your 'vanity fair', properly on display for all to see. No quake or fire. No satisfaction nor hint of desire. Just a still, small sound. While the awful tower you build comes crashing to the ground. Don't think that 'never' is so far away. I don't think I ever told you the day I'd come. Don't let it slip away!

Track 11

Let Us Sing Christmas

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 2001

Merry Christmas The sentiment slips through and falls to the floor Seems something happened. Seems I don't feel the same way anymore. Where is Mom and Dad and where is Santa Claus when you need him? When did Christmas die and why am I so bitter when they say... Let us sing Christmas. Let us sing joy for the time of the year. Let us be hopeful. Let us seek peace in the time of our fear. Let us sing Christmas through the year. Children laughing at each other. Is there nothing more cruel. People dying while I sit here with nothing to do. How can you speak of love and who gave me this heart of stone? What's the yuletide song and why am I so bitter when they say... Let us sing Christmas. Let us sing joy for the time of the year. Let us be hopeful. Let us seek peace in the time of our fear. Let us sing Christmas through the year. When Christ came, he came in a conquering song. He came as a baby. In patience suffering long. He knows I feel this way and he knows what bitterness is. In Him our happiness, In Him our peace. So I say... Let us sing Christmas. Let us sing joy for the time of the year. Let us be hopeful. Let us seek peace in the time of our fear. Let us sing Christmas through the year.

 

Carrots

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

Watches go deeper

To trimming the make-believe

To covering the scenery.

Tie me to your strings

To drag all around you go

Digging up the greenery.

Why show me all these things

To dangle carrots 'for my eyes

Paint a rainbow in the skies.

Time has no distance

Whether you have been or gone

Render where you so belong.

Do I eat bread alone?

Do I dig this selfless hole?

Is not my blood my own?

 

Shameful lies. (No, I won't bow to you)

I can see through your disguise (Nothing you can do)

Shameful lies. (You're not my paradise)

I can see through your disguise (Carrot's 'for my eyes)

 

Why do you offer

Food for my weary days

Water for my dying ways

Why do you offer

Things that you cannot give

Places that you'll never live

The mule of my suffering

Has many places yet to go

Many things you cannot know

So why do you call me

 

I won't fall or stumble at your feet

I won't taste the end you seek

It is written That man cannot live by bread alone

And it is written That you shall not tempt the Lord your God.

Jonah And The Whale

Words and Music © 1999 Eric Medley

I won't go to Nineveh

Nothing I want to see there

Awfully long way to go for nothing

I won't go to Nineveh

I can go there any day

What can you possibly see in those people anyway?

 

Now It seems I'm pleading from the belly of the fish that swallowed me

 

I will go to sea now

I will run and hide away

I will go to sea now so disobedient

Where can I possibly go

Where God doesn't see me

Step out on the water and sink like a stone

 

Now it seems I'm pleading from the belly of the fish that swallowed me.

Now it seems I'm dying. Three days now, my soul's been crying from the fish that swallowed me

 

I will go and tell them exactly what I'm supposed to say.

What a wasted speech! They'll never listen anyway

So, I'll just sit and wait here, underneath this vine,

and wait for fire from the sky

 

Now it seems I'm pleading from the belly of the fish that swallowed me.

Now it seems I'm dying. Three days now, my soul's been crying from the fish that swallowed me


Bitter

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

So this is Winter ice It covers my very soul.

I know it's the last time I'll see you again.

Where is my brave heart? Where is my strong arm?

Where are you going?

 

I know you see me bitterly crying Three times. Why won't you talk to me?

 

You warned me before

the crowing indictment

If your eye turned to me I'd burst into flames

I don't know you at all

Don't you know what you're doing?

 

I know you see me bitterly crying Three times. Why won't you talk to me?

 

Do you love me? Then tend to my flock.

I know that you love me. Then care for my sheep.

 

All my deeds fail me. I cannot save you.

This cry in my heart is stuck in my throat.

Will you ever forgive me? Do you know what I'm thinking?

 

I know you see me bitterly crying Three times. Why won't you talk to me?


Bronze And Iron

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

I followed my eyes to a day to believe in a faith that was given to 'nothings'

A beautiful word, wonderful sentiment to a cold piece of stone

But the fault's not my own.

 

Don't trust me me with all your promises

Don't feign your delight in my will

Don't sacrifice all your pain to me

And don't promise me love

 

Bronze was the sky Iron was the ground

No matter how hard you tried I could not be found

The substance of redemption was a child's game.

But it's not the same. No, it's not the same.

 

Don't trust me me with all your promises

Don't feign your delight in my will

Don't sacrifice all your pain to me

And don't promise me love

 

Come see if I'll not be faithful

Come see my forgiveness

Come taste and see

Oh, this jealousy


Sometimes

Words and Music: Eric Medley ©1999

Someone's taken my place

and stolen my eyes and placed me in a darkened room

with no wall I can see

and I've finally found

the thing that separates us, keeps us reaching,

keeps us bound.

And your saying to me

that God paid everything, finally, wholly.

 

Sad eyes losing patience,

Sunshine getting lost to the rain,

Sometimes my faith is faithless,

so, why keep your hold on me?

 

Shall I cast it away ?

Shall I crawl on the floor

and reach for my pocket change

to pour in your bleeding hands?

Then you say to me

that you know the number of my days

and the count of my tears?

Then I say I believe that God paid everything

finally, wholly.

 

Sad eyes losing patience,

Sunshine getting lost to the rain,

Sometimes my faith is faithless,

so, don't loose your hold.

 

 


Dew point

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

Dear Lazarus you have shamed me

for today I know what you meant.

Rest easy in the daylight 'cause all my money's spent

What's the dew point of indifference

when fog can't kill my mind.

Let me tell them of my fever.

Some hindsight of one so blind.

A cool drink of water

just a drop on my tongue

and a kind word from you lips

 

Oh Today! Don't wait for tomorrow

 

Take the children to the altar, for the Lord might call them today.

Take a candle to your sister or the dark might blow her away

A cool drink of water just a drop on my tongue

and a kind word from you lips

 

Oh Today! Don't wait for tomorrow


My Absalom

Words and Music: Eric Medley ©1999

He drove me away from my home

How could he dare

How could I bare his anger toward me

He'd end my life if he could

Why can't he wait Why can't he wait for the right day

Yes I see you must stop this And I see my way in it well

But I just can't let him go

 

Please take him alive The only thing that matters to me

Please take him alive My son, My Absalom

 

I know what you set out to do

How I disperse Why don't you care, push back the pain

Please think of some new thing to do

So no one will know No one will see that he claims my heart

I cannot fault him

After all, he is what I made him to be

To follow in his father's footsteps

To be just like me

 

 

All those things aside Just come back alive

We'll deal with the rest tomorrow

If tomorrow comes

 

Please take him alive The only thing that matters to me

Please take him alive My son, My Absalom

 


Marching Toward Jerusalem

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

Marching toward Jerusalem

On a gray steed

In a robe of white On a road of green

On a bright blue day

 

See him praying in the garden

See him lying on the ground and he's racked with pain

with the weight of the world on thy head

 

Through the markets and the temple

Through my hallowed halls

As if I cared what happens

As if I understood a single thing at all

 

See him praying in the garden

See him lying on the ground and he's racked with pain

with the weight of the world on thy head

 

To die instead of me he's marching

to lift me up he's falling

 

Watch the hammer fall once on foot, twice on hands

As I held the nails And he beheld my shame

 

See him praying in the garden

See him lying on the ground and he's racked with pain

with the weight of the world on my head


 

The Killing Wall

Words and Music: Eric Medley © 1999

From the mountain top to the valley below

In the distance the storm that demands so much time from my soul.

Symbols tumbling through, ancient meanings glow,

singular purpose, singular goal.

 

This crown of thorns, this painful truth,

I take all the stones thrown at you.

 

It's gossamer skin on a plate of steel.

It's life's way through death, your secret appeal.

I stand between your judgment while you stand in your lies,

They can't condemn you, nor do I.

 

This crown of thorns, this painful truth,

I take all the stones thrown at you.

 

I take what was mine and make it yours

and take what was yours and make it mine, I'll make it mine.

This crown of thorns, this painful truth,

This killing wall, it pulls at you

Your crown of thorns, your shameful truth

I take all the stones thrown at you.

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Oxygen

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Breath, just don't stop breathing!

And, maybe I'll be waiting 'till tomorrow.

Let's not major in the minors

My finger's not writing on the wall.

 

When I fall, I will fall hard

When you call, I will fall for you.

I will someday fall on you, call on you.

 

Oxygen, just don't stop taking in oxygen,

Next time I'll be paying for the ride.

Seems they found you at the station,

waiting for security to arrive.

 

Cause when I fall, I will fall hard

When you call, I will fall for you.

I will someday fall on you, call on you.

 

We don't think about the dreamers,

barely breathing above the tide,

Best luck betting on Messiah,

as if you dare to show that side.

 

Cause when I fall, I will fall hard

When you call, I will fall for you.

I will someday fall on you, call on you.

Another Day

Move aside and crumble at the feeling.

Watch the tide roll away revealing

all the closeness that you get from waiting

as the waves come tumbling over you.

Once upon a time, you came and stared at nothing.

While the smile danced in your head like clay.

All the cheerful inspirations that you shattered,

while you clamored for more.

 

All of this quiet desperation

screams in your head at night

then you wake to find tomorrow's

just another day.

Called the fire down from heaven.

and cast aside the Baals and the heathen

and watched the water turned to dust

and blown back on our own.

All the validation you get from seeing.

and all your hands can do is tremble,

as her wrath comes rolling down,

and who is this woman any way?

and why does she hate me so?

 

All of this quiet desperation

screams in your head at night

then you wake to find tomorrow's

just another day.

 

When others might say I am a brave man,

I have a strong heart

You say, "Where are you going? To a place I can't find you?"

(I'm doing fine) Yes, I'm the only one.

(I'll be alright) Yes, I'm the only one who loves You,

who hates You

who makes You

who breaks You.

 

... and when nothing's left but cleansing stillness,

why do I miss you so?

 

All of this quiet desperation

screams in your head at night

then you wake to find tomorrow's

just another day.

 

 

Drown Me

See how water runs down my face through the pool of my eye,

and falls to the river that rises above me and covers the sky.

I know you have come for me, planted the seed in my heart.

Won't you drown me?

Take me to the bottom, to the place in your heart,

where you found me?

A place where I find new peace of mind, a new sense of time,

and a reason to believe.

See now your daughter, see now your son with the stars in his eyes,

with robes flowing like a river, covered in righteousness,

cleansed by the blood,

I know you have come for me, planted the seed in my heart

Won't you drown me?

Take me to the bottom, to the place in your heart,

where you found me,

A place where I find new peace of mind, a new sense of time,

Won't you drown me?

Take me to the bottom, to the place we're meant to be,

where you formed me,

To that place in Your heart.,

High Life Crisis

Cling,

I'm on the horns of a dilema,

here comes the storm, the nasty weather. What's become of me?

See,

I knew before. Yes! I knew better. Here comes the rain

and now I'm getting wetter. What's become of me?

 

I know what's mine, I know it's mine,

Because I'm free (You're so far away from me...)

 

Be,

Am I supposed to hammer my existence?

Supposed to lighten up, lower my resistance?

You hold me to that claim?

It's me, it's all about me. Makes me so jolly.

I'm so confused, hateful and happy.

Don't hold me to that claim.

 

I know what's mine, I know it's mine,

Because I'm free (You're so far away from me...)

 

Sleep,

hoping this time, time to go lightely

Life's suppose to rhyme, pull the noose tightly,

there's smoke in front of me.

 

I know what's mine, I know it's mine,

Because I'm free (You're so far away from me...)

 

 

Unwholesome Animals

If we paint on our colors would we win the prize?

If we get on the airplane, do we then own the skies?

If I made all my choices, could I begin to see

the permanent downfall, the horror inside me?

 

Unwholesome animals, lost.

What more can be denied?

Once You visited my loss and cast it all aside,

and threw me in the flames

and I'll never be the same.

 

If we painted all our colors, would You despise,

and call for an accounting? Do we then own our lives?

When I made my 'so-called' choices, did I really know

all there is to know; the way I should go?

 

Unwholesome animals, lost.

What more can be denied?

Once You visited my loss and cast it all aside,

and threw me in the flames

and I'll never be the same.

 

Sometimes you don't know what you're saying.

Something's already come and gone,

Seeing's not believing,

patience is a virtu,

a game seeing what belongs...

 

If I could see the colors through some distant night,

Suppose it's just a dream blended into white?

I'm afraid of my choices, could I be so wrong?

But, I won't be so long, now that You've found me.

 

Unwholesome animals, lost.

What more can be denied?

Once You visited my loss and cast it all aside,

and threw me in the flames

and I'll never be the same.

 

Man Of Clay (Diane's Song II)

Little man of clay

why am I made with this fragile mind,

where water undoes me, where fire unwelds me

when all is done,?

I've just begun...

 

I can't concentrate.

Seem's you'lll have to wait to see me fly apart,

with no time to hold a krewe for my well-worn day.

 

I've just begun.

My life is run

My only song is left unsung...

 

What a thing this Love Divine!

A willingness to just let go.

From a hard-wood floor life seems so much more

than a gift of time.

What a waste of precious life to dally with this heart so cold.

But I hope and I pray that You'll be so bold.

 

'Cause I've just begun...

 

I've just begun.

My life is run

My only song is left unsung...

 

It's In The Little Things

It's in the little things

the instruments of change

a timeless intuition

that scrambles in the end

 

a faith for remenicing

a jewel for your crown

a covering of innocense

a final falling down

 

don't bother me with details

I've no need to be complete

or covered in my inocense

where nothing can succeed

 

It's in the little things

not borne of winds of change

that faith and reason converge

The hand of God arranged.

 

   

 


 

SHINE

 

Indestructible

Crucible

Worms For Sale