Episode 50 – Review of the album Jars of Clay with JB Floggington

Balm in Gilead

Psalm

Psalm 50

Jars of Clay’s self titled album review

Liquid

Arms nailed down / Are you telling me something? Eyes turned out / Are you looking for someone? This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know Blood stained brow / Are you dying for nothing? Flesh and blood / Is it so elemental? This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know Blood stained brow / He wasn't broken for nothing. Arm nailed down / He didn't die for nothing / He didn't die for nothing This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know 

Sinking

It's not my problem anymore / You see it never really was So you can stop caring as you call it / And I'll be fine right here You see that I can play / A pretty convincing role So I don't need you / I don't think I need you But you see through my forever lies / And you are not believing And I see in your forever eyes / And you are forever healing You can't hear what I'm not saying / And I can hold out long enough Treading water I keep from sinking / I'm not one for reaching You see that I can play / A pretty convincing role So I don't need you / I don't think I need you But you see through my forever lies / And you are not believing And I see in your forever eyes / And you are forever healing

Love Song for a Savior

In open fields of wild flowers / She breathes the air and flies away She thanks her Jesus for the daisies / And the roses in no simple language Someday she'll understand / The meaning of it all He's more than the laughter / Or the stars in the heaven As close as a heartbeat / Or song on her lips Someday she'll trust Him / And learn how to see Him Someday He'll call her / And she will come running She fall in His arms / The tears will fall down / And she'll pray I want to fall in love with you (x4) Sitting silent wearing Sunday best / The sermon echoes through the walls A great salvation through it / Calls to the people Who stare into nowhere / And can't feel the chains on their souls He's more than the laughter / Or the stars in the heaven As close as a heartbeat / Or song on her lips Someday we'll trust Him / And learn how to see Him Someday He'll call us / And we will come running We'll fall in His arms / The tears will fall down / And we'll pray I want to fall in love with you (x4) We want to pray It seems to easy to call You 'Savior' / Not close enough to call You 'God' So as I sit and think of / The words I can mention To show my devotion I want to fall in love with you (x4)

Like a Child

Dear God / Surround me as I speak The bridges that I walk / Across are weak And the frustrations fill the / Void that I can't solely bear Dear God / Don't let me fall apart You've held me close to you / But I have turned away And searched for answers / I can't understand They say that I can move the mountains / And send them falling to the sea They say that I can walk on water / If I would follow and believe With faith like a child Sometimes, / When I feel miles away And my eyes can't see your face / I wonder if I've grown to lose The recklessness I walked in / Light of you They say that I can move the mountains / And send them crashing to the sea They say that I can walk on water / If I would follow and believe With faith like a child They say that love can heal the broken / They say that hope can make you see They say that faith can find a Savior / If you would follow and believe with faith like a child

Art in Me

Images on the sidewalk / Speak of dream's descent Washed away by the storms / To graves of cynical lament Dirty canvases to call my own Protest limericks carved / By the old pay phone And in your picture book / I'm trying hard to see Turning endless pages / Of this tragedy Sculpting every move / You compose a symphony And you plead to everyone / See the art in me Broken stained glass windows / The fragments ramble on Tales of broken souls / An eternity's been won As critics scorn the thoughts / And works of mortal man My eyes have drawn to you / In awe once again And in your picture book / I'm trying hard to see Turning endless pages / Of this tragedy Sculpting every move / You compose a symphony And you plead to everyone / See the art in me

He

Don't try to reach me / I'm already dead The pain when it grips me / For things that I've done Well I try to make you proud / But for crying out loud Just give me a chance to hide away Exhaustion takes over / Will this someday be over? Fearful tears are running down / The pain you've laid don't speak a sound Don't take my heart away from me / And they think I fell down again Daddy don't you love me / Then why do you hit me? And Momma don't you love me / Then why do you hurt me? Well I've tried to make you proud / But for crying out loud Just give me a chance to hide away Exhaustion takes over / Will this someday be over? Fearful tears are running down / The pain you've laid don't speak a sound Don't take my heart away from me / And they think I fell down again A teardrop falls / From up in the heavens Drowning the sorrow of angels in high For the least of the helpless / The hopeless, the loveless My Jesus, His children, / He holds in His arms He loves you, He sees you, / He knows you, protects you, He needs you, He holds you

Boy on a String

The marionette has your number / He's pulling your arms and legs 'Til you can't stand on your own / Dragging your conscience on the stage And your heart gets rearranged / And you cannot tell you mentor / From you Maker Look at the crowd bleeding with laughter / Or the way you entertain at beckon call They don't see behind the lights / Or the painted background / They just like to see you fall But you don't really mind / And you're just wasting time You don't feel anything / You're a boy on a string I feel a sadness like Gapetto / Watching the life that he created run away Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion / And holding the remains / Of puppets that had rotted away One day the curtain will not open / And all of the crowds will go away Someday those strings will choke you / But until that day But you don't really mind / And you're just wasting time You don't feel anything / You're a boy on a string

Flood

Rain, rain on my face / Hasn't stopped raining for days My world is a flood / Slowly I become one with the mud But if I can't swim after 40 days / And my mind is crushed by the crashing waves Lift me up so high that I cannot fall / Lift me oh Lift me up / When I'm falling / I'm weak and I'm dying I need you to hold me / Keep me from drowning again Downpour on my soul / Splashing in the ocean, I'm losing control Dark sky all around / Can't feel my feet touching the ground But if I can't swim after 40 days / And my mind is crushed by the crashing waves Lift me up so high that I cannot fall / Lift me oh Lift me up / When I'm falling / I'm weak and I'm dying I need you to hold me / Keep me from drowning again Calm the storms that drench my eyes / And dry the streams still flowing Casting down all waves of sin / And guilt that overthrow me

Worlds Apart

I am the only one to blame for this / Somehow it all ends up the same Soaring on the wings of selfish pride / I flew too high and like Icharus I collide With a world I try so hard / To leave behind To rid myself of all but love / To give and die To turn away and not become / Another nail to pierce / The skin of one who loves More deeply than the ocean / More abundant than the tears / Of a world embracing every heartache Can I be the one to sacrifice / Or grip the spear and watch / The blood and water flow To love you, take my world apart / To need you, I am on my knees To love you, take my world apart / To need you, broken on my knees All said and done I stand alone /Amongst the remains of life I should not own It takes all I am to believe / In the mercy that covers me Did you really have to die for me? / All I am for all you are Because what I need / And what I believe / Are worlds apart And I pray To love you, take my world apart / To need you, I am on my knees To love you, take my world apart / To need you, broken on my knees I look beyond the empty cross / Forgetting what my life has cost And wipe away the crimson stains / And dull the nails that still remains More and more I need you now / I owe you more each passing hour Battle between grace and pride / I gave up not so long ago So steal my heart and take the pain / Wash the feet and cleanse my pride Take the selfish, take the weak / And all the things I cannot hide Take the beauty, take my tears / The sin-soaked heart and make it yours Take my world all apart / Take it now, take it now And serve the ones that I despise / Speak the words I can't deny Watch the world I used to love / Fall to dust and thrown away I look beyond the empty cross / Forgetting what my life has cost Wipe away the crimson stains / And dull the nails that still remain So steal my heart and take my pain / Take the selfish, take the weak And all the things I cannot hide / Take the beauty, take my tears Take my world apart, take my world apart / I pray, and I pray, and I pray Take my world apart / Worlds apart

Blind

Cynical, just your way / You play the doubting Thomas / Feel the scars and wipe the stains So you fight, and retreat / And talk yourself out of believing / in any peace that you can't see Blind words you call / Blind words will fall You're logical, you can't find / any reason to believe in love / you are blind Crucify, and deny, pass the blame and burn the mission / Till dust remains and wash your hands Blind words you call / Blind words will fall

Four Seven (secret track)

We have this treasure / in earthen vessels to show that this power / is from God, and not from us

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