V1 For the longest time you were my religion But there are sins of love that can never be forgiven I am left here with all I sacrificed Praying at the altar of my pride PRE CH Was it heaven or a veil in disguise? Did I bow to the devil in your eyes? CH I gave you my soul, I fed every flame Built a temple all in your name Faith can fall just like kingdoms do The love that I worshiped was never you You were my religion But now I’m born again in truth V1 Through the fever of each and every kiss The taste of Judas lingered on my lips I have fallen here upon my knees To question all that I believe PRE CH Was it heaven or a veil in disguise? Did I bow to the devil in your eyes? CH I gave you my soul, I fed every flame Built a temple all in your name Faith can fall just like kingdoms do The love that I worshiped was never you You were my religion But now I’m born again in truth BRIDGE Your love was gospel wrapped in gold Only every vow was bought and sold Now silence tolls where choirs once sang I bear the cross where our future hangs CH I gave you my soul, I fed every flame Built a temple all in your name Faith can fall just like kingdoms do The love that I worshiped was never you You were my religion But now I’m born again in truth For the longest time you were my religion There are sins of love that can never be forgiven
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V Don't say you love me unless it's what you really mean I know what is lonely and all that is in between I’ve been through the motions, been caught in the scenes Where promises fade like forgotten dreams C So don't hold me close just to let me go Don't say the words if they’re not in your soul I need truth, not a whisper or a lie If you don’t love me, then just say goodbye V2 I can feel the silence, the space in your eyes You’re hiding the truth beneath all the cries I’ve danced with the shadows, I’ve stared at the sky But I can't keep chasing a love that’s a disguise C So don't hold me close just to let me go Don't say the words if they’re not in your soul I need truth, not a whisper or a lie If you don’t love me, then just say goodbye B I don’t need the drama, don’t need the pain I just want the peace that comes with the rain So if you’re not certain, then set me free 'Cause I’d rather be alone than lost in uncertainty C So don't hold me close just to let me go Don't say the words if they’re not in your soul I need truth, not a whisper or a lie If you don’t love me, then just say goodbye If you don’t love me, then just say goodbye…
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Forgiveness V Resistance in redemption forms the carnage from contempt Inside this prison that is slowly being built Surrounded by darkness little room to escape Bound by a heart that can only bend and never break C The taste of bitterness with blame Seeking a purpose for the pain A path out of the past light is revealing Through forgiveness you’ll find freedom V2 Resentment in relation to moments that arise Build walls of what was that divide from the divine Frightened from the comfort that has settled in Trapped in a time and place no longer real C The taste of bitterness with blame Seeking a purpose for the pain A path out of the past light is revealing Through forgiveness you’ll find freedom B Mercy leads a way across the passage of regret Where forgiving others starts when you forgive yourself There is beauty in the broken breaking out of what has been The pieces that have scattered begin The change from hurt to healing Through forgiveness you’ll find freedom
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Your kind of love makes it hard to think Your kind of love drive a man to drink I know my heart has a price to pay Laying down my money and woman You can keep the change Cause I can't get enough of your kind of love Your kind of love can't be fenced in Your kind of love turn saints to sin I know my soul is drowning in debt A deed on my dreams ain't got no regrets Cause I can't get enough of your kind of love Your kind of love cause a body to move Your kind of love got its on kind of grove I know my life will never be the same Living so much different and woman I'll keep the change Cause I can't get enough of your kind of love
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First time I saw her I fell for her forsake how and why She had legs built like bricks and a down home Georgia smile If my heart ain’t broke it damn sure been bent A knockout with American eyes and a rolling river rebel accent Chorus: Southern lady won’t you rock me tonight You make everything feel so right I sit mesmerized by her wooded watershed walk And the skipping stone sound of her mounted tailor tempted talk She got an elegance once shy like a breeze blowing breath back An independent vulnerability as if a sweet summer rain passed Chorus Southern lady won’t you rock me tonight You make everything feel so right
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Dancing on my desire texture tricked out gold Step the beat in perfect time reach for a hand to hold To be my guide on this ride out to find if love is In what we take or is it in what we give? I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know Driving in my devotion death grip at the wheel Keep it all between lines that start to disappear Across the road find the flow want to know if love is In what we take or is it in what we give? I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know Fate wielding words truth be told they’re all in vain Ways of this world I don’t know just what to say How to define what love is in all of this Try as I might i don’t know just what it is I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know Across the road find the flow want to know that love is In what we take and in what we give
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V1 Baby here it is 3 o’clock in the morning Thoughts of you are like a thief coming without warning I’ve just been trying to get on with my life Thought I had left you so far behind CH you don't leave me be haunt every one of dreams Baby what can I do I still love you, still love you V2 I don’t know why I should even care The way you treated me all I did was just try to be there and I don’t guess it would make much of a difference to you now If you knew after all that I still want you anyhow CH cause you don’t leave me be haunt every one of dreams Baby what can I do I still love you, still love you Bridge I Thought all these years would dry up these tears but time don’t heal all wounds I guess I’ll always love you
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v1 Swimming through Shadows in memories I have a wound in the waves bleeding out my past I'm going under hard to stay afloat a wound in the waves scarring up my soul C I'm treading water lately not sure how long that I can How can I not be going crazy when all around me says I am? v2 sinking in silence through moments I have the blood in the brine covers up my path making shallow attempts in matters so deep the blood in the brine camouflages my need C I'm treading water lately not sure how long that I can How can I not be going crazy when all around me says I am? Bridge breath is wasted fighting for air the depth is changing lies I tell myself C I'm treading water lately not sure how long that I can How can I not be going crazy when all around me says I am? I'm treading water save me not sure how long I will last
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V1 I feel summer baby coming on strong I see you in your favorite faded t-shirt got your tight blue jeans on I declare you look so fine the way you’ve been moving let me tell you woman I wanna get lost in your arms tonight V2 I know days go by oh so fast let’s see how long we can make this night last you and me and a bottle of wine as the sun starts setting all I wanna be getting is lost in your arms tonight BRIDGE baby this moment now is all we need let life amaze us as the season changes on this warm evening breeze V3 time’s a beast I’ve giving up trying to tame it’s a raging river a runaway freight train It’s just gonna keep going on by as it keeps moving all I wanna be doing is getting lost in your arms every night
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V1 Baby where you going with your eyes so blue You think this world will treat you true So many lessons yet to be learned Love isn’t always given no matter how much it is earned V2 What are you seeing with your smile so bright Think you can keep it burning through the dark of night For it will dim many times from now Just don’t let it ever go all the way out CHORUS: As you go in search of gold through life’s pain and pleasure May you come to know the search itself is the treasure V3 Baby how are you holding your heart open so wide Think it will stay protected as you pass through time It is not easy when it breaks Many of the pieces never fit back in place CHORUS: As you go in search of gold through life’s pain and pleasure May you come to know the search itself is the treasure Baby where you going
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