All is Vanity (Ecclesiastes)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Wisdom is good, it puts eyes in your head
But it’s foolish to think it’ll save you from death
Both the fool and the wise man are numbering their breaths
And in the end, all this wisdom is just meaningless

Verse 2:
Pleasure is nice, the taste and touch
But with all your indulgence, you can’t get enough
You can chase every pleasure around every bend
But in the end all this chasin’ Is just chasin’ wind

Chorus:
Oooh all is vanity
Oooh all is vanity
You feel eternity, and it’s beating in your chest
So you know in your soul it’s not all meaningless

Verse 3:
Beauty is sweet to the beholder’s eye
And you know it when you see it
‘Cause it echoes the Light
But age and opinion bid beauty goodbye
And in the end the beholder just changes his mind

Chorus

Bridge:
If there is restlessness, could there be rest?
If there is hunger, could there be fullness?
If there is restlessness, there must be rest!
If there is hunger, there must be fullness!

Chorus

Tag:
You feel eternity, and it’s beating in your chest
So you know in your soul it’s not all meaningless

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097301. Key: G (capo 5 D). Tempo: 72 bpm.
Written March 2011, Finished October 2015. From Ecclesiastes 1-3.

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Behold, Behold (Revelation)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I see a city coming down
Like a bride in whitest gown,
Purely dressed
I see the pilgrims coming home
All creation finds shalom;
The promised rest

Pre Chorus:
The Lamb of God will be her light
The sun will have no need to shine

Chorus 1:
Behold, behold
God makes His home with us!
He’ll take his throne, forever glorious!
The curse will be undone!
O come lord, Jesus come

Verse 2:
The Lord will banish every sin
All that's broken He will mend;
And make new
And we will see Him face to face
As He wipes our tears away;
Death is through

Pre-Chorus 2:
And all the ransomed and redeemed
From every tongue and tribe will sing

Chorus 1

Bridge:
At last the darkness
Will surrender to the light
But we unveiled in glory will forever shine
At last the powers of hell
Will drown in lakes of fire
But we will freely drink
The crystal streams of life
Come thirsty taste and see
Come hungry to the feast
Come weary find your peace
The Bride and Spirit sing
Come! Come!

Chorus 2:
Behold, behold
God makes His home with us
He’ll take his throne, forever glorious!
Behold, behold
God makes His home with us
He’ll take his throne, forever glorious!
The curse will be undone
Oh come, Lord Jesus, come

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP) and Sean Carter.
Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music & Sean Carter
CCLI # TBD, Key:G, Tempo: 64 ppm
Revelation 21-22

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Emmanuel (Every Promise Yes in Him)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Blessed seed of Abraham
Born the nations now to bless
Promised son of mother Eve
Come to crush the serpent’s head

Christ the sinless lamb of God
Every law in Him complete
Slain to ransom rebel hearts
Raised for us a great high priest

Chorus:
He is here, He is here!
Emmanuel, God draws near
At long last, He has come!
Emmanuel, the Promised One

Verse 2:
Isaiah’s servant suffering
By His wounds we are healed
Son of man in Daniel’s dream
Glorious myst’ry now revealed

King of kings on David’s throne
His rule and reign will never end
He will bring the exiles home
When His advent comes again

Chorus

Bridge
The one the prophets longed to know
(Emmanuel)
The first, the last, the cornerstone!
(Emmanuel)
Every promise finds its yes in Him!
Spirit with us til we sing this song again

Chorus (2x)

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097304. Key: A (G capo 2). Started February 2012, Finished October 2016.
Gen. 12:1-3, 3:15; Heb. 4,10; Isaiah 53; Dan 7:13-14, 2 Sam. 7:12-16; 2 Cor.1:20

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Eve’s Lament (Genesis)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I wandered far away with my love
I feelthe tall grass on my legs
The sun is warm, the birds are singing
I should’ve run when I had the chance

Verse 2:
I felt him sliding up beside me
His words they played upon my pride
I felt the lie wrap all around me
I let his whisper hypnotize

Chorus:
Did He really say it? Why is He keeping you down?
Don’t you want to taste it? Freedom without Him around?
Don’t you want to know? Don’t you want to choose?
You want it, don’t you? Don’t you?

Verse 3:
I took the fruit of my desire
Sweet the poison in my mouth
Awake, awake the the fall, the fire
The lie constricts, the curse clamps down

Chorus

Bridge:
Shame the venom running through my veins
A curse, a cancer and my deathA
nd every childof mine, will feel the serpent’s bite
But one will crush his head
But one will crush his head
Oh come and crush his head!
Crush his head!

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097299. Key: D (C capo 2) Tempo: 68
Written September 2013. From Eve’s Perspective.
Lies in Genesis 3, promise of Genesis 3:15

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Fullness of Joy (Psalm 16)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
O God, You are my refuge
I know without You
I have no good thing
O God, You are my portion
My chosen portion
You are what I need

Pre-Chorus 1:
No other god beside You
You hold my lot and fill my cup
Oh beautiful inheritance
You are enough!

Chorus:
In your presence, there is fullness
There is fullness of joy
At your right hand,there is goodness
Boundless goodness
Forevermore
I choose you Lord

Verse 2:
O God, you go before me
You’re right beside me
In my darkest night
My God, you hold my future
My hope it rests secure
In the finishedwork of Christ

Pre-Chorus 2:
My heart is glad
My soul rejoices
You hold me fast, you won’t let go
Your ways are good, and good for me
I’m yours and yours alone

Chorus

Bridge (2x):
Your holy one has risen up
He’s overcome the grave
The path of life isopened wide
For he has made a way

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097302. Key: Db (C capo 1). Tempo: 129.
Written August-October 2016 for Hope Mommies Retreat
Psalm 16

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He Has Made a Way

Lyrics

Verse 1:
On the edge of that sea
The waves are high and the water deep
At your back an enemy
With chariots and swords
Don’t you fear, stand your ground
The Lord’s gonna fight this battle
You have only to shut your mouth
Believe and don’t get rattled

Verse 2:
Watch that man raise his staff
Watch that sea divide in half
Your enemy gonna need a raft
When the waves come tumblin’ down
Lift your voice when you reach the shore!
Sing that song and praise the Lord
The Promised Land it lies before
Children, go on down

Chorus:
He has made a way!
He has made a way!
He has made a way!

Verse 3:
Sinners come to a chasm deep
With heavy chains, we’re bound to sink
He comes on over here to lead
To that Golden Shore
Come on y’all, it’s solid ground
Grab a friend, and come on down
Our chains are gone
We’re homeward bound
To that Golden Shore

Chorus

Bridge:
I was at the bottom of the sea!
(He has made a way)
He reached on down and delivered me!
(He has made a way)
Now we are bound for God’s good Land!
(He has made a way)
Let’s walk with joy as we follow Him!
(He has made a way)
He has made way!

Chorus:
He has made a way!
He has made a way!
He has made a way!
He has made a way!

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP).
Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097300. Key: F (Capo 1 E) Tempo: 80 bpm
Written October 29, 2015 - February 12, 2016
Exodus 14-15

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Only the Sick Need a Physician

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Who is this man who sits with the sinners
Who dines with the drunkards
And loves the unclean
Oh who is this man who won't cast a stone
But honors the harlot
Who washes his feet, sayin’

Chorus:
Come, scarlet letters
You outcasts and debtors
I will call you my friends
I'll sit at your table
You broken and fatal
‘Cause only the sick need a physician
Oooooh

Verse 2:
Who is this man who calls God a father
The son of a blue collar carpenter man
Who calls us unclean, like tombs full of bones
We keep our religion,but whitewash our sin
Sayin’ be born again

Chorus

Verse 3:
And what kind of God would hang on a tree
Despised and rejected and nailed to the wood
You saved all the others, but can’t save yourself?
We don’t need you Jesus,we’re well and we’re good
And you're nailed to the wood
We never understood
There is none who is good! So

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097305. Tempo: 80. Key: A (G capo 2)
Matthew 9:9-13, John 8:3-11, Luke 7:36-50, Luke 15:1-2, John 15:18, Matthew 23

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Pave Every Road

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Pave every road with repentance
Bring the proud heart low
Let the humble heart sing
Break down all your walls, your defenses
Swing wide your gates
For the coming of the king

Verse 2:
Lo, he has come to rebuild the ruins
Lo, he has come set them captives free
I know he has come
To bind up the brokenI
t's the year of his favor
The year of Jubilee

Verse 3:
People livin'in the darkness
Lift up your heads and see the sun
I see a new day dawnin'
It brings good news for everyone

Bridge (2x):
I see the sun risin’
I see the sun risin’
I see the sun risin’

Verse 4:
One day we'll all hear a trumpet
He will return with reckoning
I'll follow my king into glory
Who here is comin with me?
Who here is comin’ with me?
Who here is comin’ with me?
Yeah!

Bridge (2x):
I see the sun risin’
I see the sun risin’
I see the sun risin’

Outro (2x):
Get up, get ready
Get up, get ready
Get up, get ready
For the king to come

Who here is comin’ with me?

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097303. Key: G (Capo 3 E). Tempo: 110. Written March 2015.
Isaiah 40:3-5, 61:1-4, 9:1-2

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The Two Lost Sons (Luke 15)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I have been the younger son
Chase my pleasure, chase my fun
Build castles in the sand
My own Promise Land

When my kingdoms crumble down
The famine comes, I bottom out
Well I can hear your voice Call for yourlittle boy

Pre-Chorus 1:
But you were more of a means than a Father
You were drownin’ my dreams underwater

Chorus:
My child, my child I’ll run out to meet you
Come into my house What’s lost can be found
My child, my child come into the party
All I have is yours Don’t stand outside my door
All I have is yours

Verse 2:
I have been the elder son
Slavin’ til the work is done
Just tryin’ to earn my keep
Nothing comes for free

Bitterness was in my blood
From all this tryin’ to be enough
But you love that wayward son
Oh but look at what I’ve done

Pre-Chorus 2:
You were more of a means than a Father
I acted like an employee,
Not a son,not a daughter

Chorus

Bridge:
Don’t let your pride get in the way
You don’t need to earn my love
Don’t let your guilt get in the way
You don’t need to earn my love
All of those rules that you keep or you break
You don’t need to earn my love
There is a Son that has already paid
You don’t need to earn it
You don’t need to deserve it
Come home, come home!

Chorus

Outro:
Come into my joy!
All I have is yours

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097306. Key: E. Tempo: 150.
Luke 15:11-32. Based on Tim Keller’s Prodigal God

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There is a Mountain

Lyrics

Verse 1:
There is a mountain only the lame can climb
There is a table only the hungry find
Only the beggar will have the currency
When need is all you need

Verse 2:
There is a victory only the conquered gain
There is a glory that you get when give up your name
Oh the peace when you finally yield yourfight
In surrender rise

Chorus:
Come with open hands in need
Come hearts broken, bended knee
A gift can only be received
Received

Verse 3:
Come to the mountain, He carries the cripple to the feast
Come to the table, come sit,He has saved you a seat
Come and eat and drink without money and without a cost
He has paid it on the cross

Chorus

Bridge:
The King bends low to wash our feet
To give himself as an offering
To lead us home to that wedding feast
We taste it now, at last we’ll eat

Of that richest food, oh that well-aged wine
The shroud will lift, our tears he’ll dry
Come hungry souls be satisfied
Both now and forever

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097296. Key: E (C capo 4) Tempo: 67
Finished November 2014
Isaiah 55:1-2, Isaiah 25:6-9

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We Draw Near (Hebrews)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Year by year, in the temple
Blood was shed by the priest
To atone for the people
But it could not make them clean

Pre-Chorus 1:
Til He came, spotless Lamb
Offered himself, put away sin
Once and for all, once and for all
It is finished!

Chorus:
So, we draw near
We boldly come
Jesus, our righteousness
Washedby his blood

We draw near
To your throne of grace
Jesus, our confidence
Seeking your face

Verse 2:
Our High Priest, Word made flesh
Worthy of the Holy Place
Curtain torn, at His death
Christ the new and living way

Pre-Chorus 2:
Rising up, he entered in
He sat down, at Your right hand
He is alive, He is alive!
Interceding!

Chorus

Bridge (2x):
Let our praises
Rise up as an incense
Filled with reverence and awe

Let our lives be
Poured out for your glory
Pleasing to You God

Tag:
We are seeking your face
Seeking your face
Seeking your face

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.
CCLI # 7097307, Key: E
Hebrews 4:16, 9, 7:23-28,10:19-25, 12:28-29, 13:14-15, Romans 8:34

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