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A King & His Kindness Caroline Cobb A King & His Kindness Caroline Cobb

Come After Me

Lyrics

Verse 1:
If you would follow me
You must lay down your life
Take up your cross, and count as loss
Your glory and your pride

Verse 2:
The riches of this world
All power and human praise
Will slip like sand, right through your hands
But my love will remain

Chorus:
Come, come after me, come after me
Don’t lose your life trying to save it
I know it’s hard but it’s worth it, you’ll see
Come after me

Verse 3:
If you would follow me
My way leads first to death
But then to life, my risen life
To lasting joy and rest

I’m the treasure in the field
You must sell your all to buy
But the riches there, beyond compare
It makes the cost seem light

Chorus

Tag (5x):
If I am anything, I must be everything
Come after me

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7170105. Key: C. Tempo: 81.
Luke 9:23-25 (see Matt 16:24-26, Mark 8:34-38); Phil 3:7-11; Matt 13:44-46; 2 Cor 4:16-18


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Don’t Want to Miss Your Heart

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I don’t want to be the rich young man, Who went away sad
His knuckles white, from holding tight, 
To everything he had

I don’t want to be that Simon
With his pious air
Let me be the broken woman,
Washing your feet, 
With her tears and her hair

Chorus 1:
I don’t want to miss your heart
No, I don’t want to miss out on the main part
So many missed the good news
But I don’t want to miss out on the heart of you
No I don’t want to miss it... 
I don’t want to miss your heart

Verse 2:
Harsh words for the Pharisees,
Who kept the outside clean
Oh let me be the man in the temple, Beating his chest
Saying “Lord, have mercy on me”                                      

You said “Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are the ones who mourn
Blessed are the pure and meek,
Who hunger for me
The kingdom is yours!”

Chorus

Bridge:
What good is gaining the world if I, Forfeit my very soul?
What good is money and name if I, Can’t take it when I go?
You don’t want my lip service, If my heart is far away
You want my all, my everything
Not a character I play

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159805. Key: C. Tempo: 80.
Matt 19:16-22; Luke 7:36-50; Matt 23:25-26; Luke 18:9-14; Matt 5:2-12, 16:24-26, 15:1-9


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A King & His Kindness Caroline Cobb A King & His Kindness Caroline Cobb

Find Rest (Matthew 11)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Are you weary? Are you wearing thin?
Are you tired beneath your heavy load?
Are you weighed down 
And at last convinced?
You cannot carry this burden on your own.

Chorus:
Find rest, find rest for your soul
I’ll walk beside you, you’re not alone
Find rest, find rest for your soul
Light and easy, come take my yoke

Verse 2:
Come to me now, lay your burdens here
Walk with me now, in quietness & trust
I am gentle, cast aside your fear
I’ll befriend you with my steadfast love

Chorus

Bridge:
All the work is done, it is finished
No, you’re not enough, but it is finished
I will lead you on, til at last your home          
Ever to sing this song, “It is finished”

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159811. Key: C. Tempo: 138.
Matthew 11:28-30, See Isaiah 30:15


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Jesus, Full of Compassion

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I am the outcast leper
Falling helpless to my knees
You are the one who would touch me
Stretch out your hand, To make me clean

Verse 2:
I am the bleeding woman
Desperate reaching for your robes
You are the one who stops for me
You call me daughter, And make me whole

Chorus:
Jesus, full of compassion
With love for the broken
Beating in your heart, Beating in your heart 
(That we’d know the love of God)

Verse 3:
I am like Lazarus buried
While Martha and Mary grieve in pain
You are the one who weeps for me
Tells me to rise up, Come out of the grave

Chorus

Bridge:
I am the haunted man in the graveyard
I am the woman awaiting the stones
I am the prodigal son
You’re like the Father who runs
Wraps me in love and carries me home

I am the crowd that calls for Barabbas
I am Peter denying your name
You take my cross and my death
You give me life instead
Your mercy is speaking right into my shame

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7170103. Key: Bb. Tempo: 62.
Mark 1:40-44 (see Matt 8:2-4, Lk 5:12-14); Mark 5:24-34 (see Lk 8:42-48, Matt 9:20-22); John 11:1-44; Mark 5:1-20 (see Matt 8:28-9:1, Lk 8:26-40); John 8:1-11; Lk 15:11-24; Matt 27:16-26; Matt 26:69-75


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Let It Be So With Your Church

Lyrics

Verse 1:
As our Jesus in love touched the leper
Offered grace when they’d cast a stone
As he ate with the outcasts and sinners        
With his church, let it be so 

Verse 2:
As he preached the good news of the kingdom
As he healed them both body and soul
As he gave up his life for God’s children
With his church, let it be so

Chorus:
Let it be so with your church, O God
We are your hands and feet
As Jesus bent low to serve in love
So with us let it be
So with us let it be

Verse 3:
Let us go with our Lord to the margins
To the broken, the poor and the lost
By His Spirit, we’ll push back the darkness
Let his church take up her cross 

Chorus

Bridge:
Come help us, Lord Jesus
To love as you loved (Oh, let it be so)
We remember your gospel
How you first loved us (Oh, let it be so)

To seek justice, love mercy
And care for the weak (Oh, let it be so)
To live now in light of
The kingdom we seek (Oh, let it be so)

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159424. Key: A. Tempo: 136.
Luke 5:12-16, John 8:2-11, Mark 2:13-17, 1 Cor 12:27, Phil 2:1-11, Matt 4:23, Eph 5:1-2, Micah 6:8, Matt 6:33


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Turn the Tables

Lyrics

Verse 1:
You exploit the ones who would worship
Use devotion to make a dime
Sell the sacred to turn a profit
Make the holy into merchandise

When all the world tries to get in the building
They can’t get in the door cause it’s
Overcrowded with goods and salesmen
In the holy house of the Lord

Verse 2:
Jesus comes in turning over tables
Flies into a righteous rage
Makes a whip and drives out the idols
He’s jealous for His Father’s name

When all the world tries to get in the building
He’ll stand like an open door ‘cause in
Three days gonna raise a signal
This way to the house of the Lord

Chorus:
Turn the tables, turn the tables over
Turn the tables, turn the tables over

Verse 3:
Do you want to make a cut on the story
Do you want to see your name in lights
Do you want a percentage of the glory
It’s not something you commodify

Don’t you know that your heart is a temple
He’s knocking down your door so
Let Him in and he’ll turn over tables
Make your heart a house for the Lord

Chorus 2x

Tag:
Turn the tables, turn the tables,
turn the tables over
Turn the tables, turn the tables,
turn the tables over

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7170104. Key: G. Tempo: 72.
Jn 2:13-22 (Mt 21:12-17, Mk 11:15-18, Lk 19:45-47); Is 49:22, 11:12, 56:7; 1 Cor 6:19


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Who Is This Jesus?

Lyrics

Verse 1:
I saw his face shine like the sun, On the mountainside
Elijah and Moses were there, Pale in his glorious light
And a voice came like thunder 
And I trembled all over
Said “This, my beloved child.”
Who is this Jesus, but the Son of God?

Verse 2:
I saw him walk on the waves, I saw him still the storm
I saw the demons afraid, But the children safe in his arms
He said Lazarus rise up
Wake from your sleep
And his dead heart started to beat!
Who is this Jesus, but the Son of God?

Verse 3:
I leaned my head, back on his chest, For he was my friend
He poured the wine, he broke the bread, It was near the end
I saw them take him
Beat him, try to break him
And hang him on the cross

They laughed, they mocked him
He said “God, forgive them
It’s finished, now it is done!”

The sky black as ink
The earth shook with grief
As he breathed his last and was gone

Who is this Jesus? Who is this Jesus?
Who is this Jesus, but the Son of God?
Who is this Jesus, but the Son of God?

Verse 4:
I saw the stone rolled away
I saw his empty tomb
I saw the scars in his hands
There in the upper room

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159496. Key: G. Tempo: 80.
Matt. 17:1-13, 14:22-33, 8:23–27; Mark 5:1-17; Matt. 19:13-15; John 11:1-44, 13:21-25; Luke 22:14-23:49; John 20:1-29


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Your Heart Was Set

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Humble Jesus
I see you stumblin’ through the wilderness
Your body achin’ to be fed
Just to lay down and rest
So tired and human

Verse 2:
I hear a voice sweet-talkin’
Like a siren singing to ya
Turn these stones into bread
Do it your way instead
Cause what are they to ya

Chorus:
But your heart was set
On the hard road ahead
Though you’d pay such a heavy price

Now my table is set
With the wine and the bread
And your joy it is somehow mine

Verse 3:
Humble Jesus
I see you prayin’ in the garden 
I see the blood and tears fallin’ 
As you face all the darkness
And you take my cup

Chorus

Verse 4:
Dying Jesus
I see you hanging on that tree now
People laughing sayin’ come down, 
The nails in your hands now   
But love made you stay

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159819. Key: Ab. Tempo: 63.
Luke 4:1-13, 22:39-46, 23: 26- 46. See Hebrews 12:2, Luke 9:51


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Be on the Lookout

Lyrics

Chorus:
Lift up your head
Be on the lookout
Wake from your bed
Don’t fall asleep

Lift up your head
He’s comin’ soon now
Get yourself ready
For the comin’ of the King

Verse 1:
Could a mother forget her children
Could a husband forget his wife?
How much more then, will he remember,
Will He come and set things right!

Chorus

Verse 2:
Cast aside all the works of darkness
Live as children of the day
Light your lamps and keep them burnin’
Till we see our bridegroom’s face

Chorus

Verse 3:
See those fields, they’re ripe for harvest
See the work that’s left undone
Take to the world his love and justice
Singin’ “let his kingdom come!”
Oh let his kingdom come!

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2020 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159414. Key: Bb. Tempo: 72.
Matthew 25:1-13, Ephesians 5:8-20, John 4:35; see Isaiah 49:15, Hosea 2:16-20


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Hallelujah, Christ is Born

Lyrics

Verse 1:
In a tiny town, in the dark of night
From a run-down stable, came a baby’s cry
He was wrapped in rags
And his parents were poor
But the baby in the manger was Christ the Lord

Verse 2:
Ragged shepherds were watching their sheep that night
When the angel chorus filled the sky with light “Good news, great joy to this broken land
For the baby in the manger is Christ the Lamb”

Chorus:
Hallelujah, Christ is born!
Hallelujah, the Savior of the world
This is the one we’ve waited for!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Christ is born
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Christ is born

Verse 3:
See the wise men journey
From those countries far
Over deserts and mountains,
Followin’ that star
And they gave him their gifts
And bowed on their knees
For the baby in the manger was Christ the King

Chorus 2x

Verse 4:
Come and bow in wonder and prepare him room
Come and sing with joy
Over God’s good news
Go tell it on the mountain
And in countries far
That the baby in the manger is the King of our hearts

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2020 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159410. Key: A. Tempo: 71.
Luke 2:1-20, Matthew 2:1-12


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Joy (As Far As the Curse Is Found)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Eternal God, there at the beginning
Stepping into time, into the world
All for love, the infinite descending
To kick inside the womb of a girl

Verse 2:
A king is born, far from any palace
Bending low to serve instead
Majesty, He’s given up his status
Robed in the weakness of the flesh

Pre-chorus:
Unto us a child is born
Heaven coming down to earth
Joy to all the weary world
The human soul will feel it’s worth

Chorus:
Joy to the world Good, good news
O come let us adore Him
Joy to the world
It’s breaking through
He’s come and he will come again

Verse 3:
Let’s go with the wise men
Laying down our treasures
Falling on our knees to give him praise
With the angel choir
Singing to the shepherds
Glory to God in the highest place

Pre-chorus:
Unto us a child is born
Heaven coming down to earth
Joy to all the weary world
The human soul will feel it’s worth
It’s worth!

Chorus:
Joy to the world Good, good news
O come let us adore Him

Joy to the world
It’s breaking through
He’s come and he will come again

Bridge:
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
(Joy to the world)

As far as the curse is found
(Let earth receive her king)
As far as the curse is found
(Let all creation sing)

As far as the curse is found
(And let his blessings flow)
As far as the curse is found
(Til the whole world knows!)

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2020 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159411. Key: Eb. Tempo: 150.
John 1:1-18, Phil 2:6-11, Luke 2:8-20, Is 9:6-7, Matt 2:10-12. See Gen 3:18


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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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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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Breath of God

Lyrics

The Breath of God, the Promised One
Filled their mouths and loosed their tongues
To sing the praise of the risen Son
The mighty works that God has done

The breath of God on daughters, sons
He is poured out on old and young
To sing the praise of the risen Son
The mighty works that God has done

O breath of God, O Spirit come
Fill our mouths, And loose our tongues
To sing the praise of the risen son
The mighty works that God has done

In these last days, everyone
Who calls the name of the Risen Son
They shall be saved by His precious blood
Oh mighty work that God has done!

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2013 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7000087. Key: F# (Guitar capo 2 E shapes). Tempo: 71.
Written June 25-26, 2012
Acts 1-2


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Everything You’ve Heard

Lyrics

You’ve heard it said, “don’t you murder anyone”
But you carry your anger like a knife
And your insults like a gun

You’ve heard it said, “don’t you cheat on your wife”
But your mind is a motel room
And you undress the other woman with your eyes

Oh everything you’ve heard, I’m turning on its head
I’m cutting to the quick of the law and the prophets
I’m gonna finish what they said

You’ve heard it said “A king will come with a sword”
But I tell you to turn the other cheek
And I’ll wear a crown of thorns

Yes I’m the son of the One,
But I’ve come to wage another war
And I’ll bleed for my enemies
And I’ll settle the score

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2013 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7000079. Key: Eb, Guitar capo 3 in C shapes
Written June 16, 2011 for The Scripture to Music Project
Matthew 5:17-48 (Sermon on the Mount)


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Gethsemane (Heavy Load to Carry)

Lyrics

I climbed a mountain with three friends
Feel the darkness pressing in
I ask them to please stay awake
And I go off alone to pray

Father, please would you take this cup?
It’s a heavy load to carry
But not my will, but what you want
Until I’m dead and buried

Sweat and blood they fall like tears
It seems the last star’s disappeared
Death it comes to separate
And my friends can’t stay awake

They came with clubs to capture me
An old friend he kissed my cheek
And all my friends they ran away
And I’m alone, denied, betrayed

My God, my God’s forsaken me
Hanging broken on a tree
“Who can save you now?” they laugh
The darkness comes, I breathe my last

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2013 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7000084. Key: A (Guitar capo 2 G shapes).
Written April 2011 for The Scripture to Music Project
Mark 15:26-52 (Maundy Thursday; the Cross)


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He is Risen

Lyrics

He is risen, He is risen
And the stone is rolled away
He is risen, He is risen
Proven by the empty grave

Touch his wounds, his hands, his side
And leave all your doubts behind
He is risen, He is risen
He is risen and alive

Death is beaten, sin is vanquished
God’s just wrath is satisfied
Christ is risen, Christ exalted
Seated at the Father’s side

His body torn, our living way
Our living hope, His body raised
He is risen, He isrisen
He is risen from the grave

He is risen, He is risen
This is all my hope and stay
He is risen, He is risen
He is risen from the grave!

Jesus risen is returning
We are longing for the day
When the King will bring the kingdom
For this blessed hope we wait

The trumpet sounds and we are changed
And we will see him face to face
Jesus risen, Jesus risen
Jesus risen from the grave

The trumpet sounds and we are changed
And death itself will pass away
We are risen, with him risen
We are risen from the grave

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2013 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7000086. Key: A (Guitar capo 2 G shapes).
Written March 29, 2012
John 20, Romans 3:23-26, 1 Corinthians 15, Hebrews 10:19-22, 1 Peter 1:3-5


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