Adrian Snell
MY HEART SHALL JOURNEY
WMD 001
* from Myrrh MYRCD 1255

01. Road to Zion (Instrumental) *
02. Where You Are
03. Love Speaks in Silence
04. Guns of Peace
05. Feed the Hungry Heart
06. Nothing we can do from her
07. Beautiful
08. With the Sun on Her Wings (prelude)  (Instrumental)
09. Fear *
10. If I were *
11. Coverdale (Instrumental)
12. Roller Coaster
13. Why does it have to be this way?
14. I am the Way!
15. Alpha and Omega
16. No More Tears

Where You Are

There's nowhere, nothing, no?one in this world
To make my heart at home
Save where you are and in your arms there is peace
And there I am as I must be

No more the mask, the all embracing face
The person they all ask of me
The one who must be everything to everyone
O and always so
How hard it is to say these things when we are there
Within this place together
And yet it's true, so very, very true
That I long with such a fire

To be there now…
Beside you, still, I need you
Watching over me
O take me, love me as I am not as I long to be
For I'll never ever be there now

Caution to the wind my love
I'm on my way back home to you
And we will find each other once again
What's on your heart
Where have you been
For nothing in this distance was in vain

And we shall fail, so many, many times
To be as we intend
But my life is yours and yours is mine, in the end
Surely this is us in love.

Love Speaks in Silence

Love speaks in wonder
At innocence born
The laughter of children
The wind through the corn
Love speaks in wonder
To all who will hear
The voice of creation is calling

Heaven can hear the stillbeat of your heart
Heaven can hear the silent cry for mercy
Out of the distant thunder of your soul
Heaven can move to break the shadow's hold

Love speaks in silence
For night without end
And pierces His light
Through the darkness of men
Love speaks in silence

To all who will turn
The promise of life is forever
Heaven can hear the stillbeat of your heart
Heaven can hear the silent cry for mercy
Out of the distant thunder of your soul
Heaven can move to break the shadow's hold

Heaven can hear a single teardrop fall
Over the mighty choirs of angel glory
Only a touch and the celebrations start
Heaven can hear the stillbeat of your heart

Nothing but goodness
Nothing but peace
Nothing but Heaven's
Sweet, sweet

Heaven can hear…

Guns of Peace

A part of me
A world so full of wonder
Out of my heart
I poured My love for you
In earth and sky
In sun and rain and thunder
A part of
I gave my world to you

I washed with tears
The earth on which you trample
A song of love
That turned your pain to joy
Look at you now
So blind to My example
My lovely world
You're rushing to destroy

The walls of fear
Which kill the hope of nations
The scream of death
Which pierces through the womb
How can you hear
The voice of your salvation
With empty hearts
Yet say you have no room?

With fists of iron
And eyes which show no mercy
You hold in chains
The life I freely gave
My children starve
While you grow fat on plenty
And open wounds
And ever open grave
In silent pain
The guns of peace are raging
What have you done
To turn My love to this

I ask you now
To cease the wars you're waging
And spread my love
Wherever life exist

I ask you now
To cease the war you're waging
And offer love
Wherever life exists

I ask you now
To cease the war you're waging
And offer love
Wherever life exists

If I Were

Sleep deserts my eyes and I toss like a ship
In the sea of my yearning for you,
As I imagine these things…

If I were a child in arms and you were my mother,
then I would suckle and you would quench my thirst.

If I were a stream and you and I sat in my garden
I would tend your fruit.

If I were a shelter and you dwelt within me
We would clothe ourselves with joy.

If I were a servant and you were my Lord
I would long to serve you,
O, I would never choose freedom.

Why Does it Have to Be This Way

Stone by stone I built these walls
Doors are broken, windows closed
Insulated, muted sound
Shadows fall on stony ground

Oh this place is dark and cold
Many secrets to unfold
Tired of living, vision lost
Seems to me this gold has turned to dust
Night has fallen on this land
A wind that tears the desert sand
Everywhere the wounded fall
No?one bean your silent children call

Seems horizon's hard to find
In this desert I am blind
Filled with past and future fears...
Lord of time redeem the wasted years

Who will deliver this healing fire
The borders are open, the vision inspired
Carry a warning on eagles wings
Tell them that my heart for a whole world is bleeding
Why does it have to be this way?

In your image, every one
Where has our sense of wonder gone?
Fashioned out of dust of earth
Given life and given birth

The day of reckoning draws near
Fills me with a holy fear
There will be a price to pay
Lord come soon and tear these scales away

Give me passion, set me free
Turn me loose, I long to be
Fond to the hungry, aching heart
Here I stand, now help me start again
Take my life and let me start again

Who will deliver this healing fire
The borders are open, the vision inspired
Carry a warning on eagles wings
Tell them that my heart for a whole world is bleeding
Why does it have to be this way?

I am the Way

The spirit of the Lord He is upon Me now
I'm Chosen to bring good news to the poor
Sent to restore the sight to the blind
Offering freedom to those who are bound

I am in the Father and the Father is in Me
I came down from heaven that the world may believe
I laid down My life that you may be forgiven
But rejoice, My people ? for I am risen!

I am the Way, I am the Truth
I m the Life, I am the Resurrection
If you come to Me with your burdens
I will give you rest
Children of sorrow, living in fear
Call upon Me for I am near
If you will turn and follow me
I'll lead you on and you shall live in Me

Oh the sun will be darkened
And the moon will not shine
The stars they will fall and there shall be signs
But the Son of Man is coming in glory and power
To gather His chosen for this is the hour

I am the Way, I am the Truth
I am the Life, I am the Resurrection
If you come to Me with your burdens
I will give you rest
Am HaDerech, Ani HaEmet
Am HaChaim, Ani Tchiat HaMetim
If you come to Me with your burdens
I will give you rest.
Children Of sorrow, living in fear
Call upon Me for I am near
If you will rum and follow Me
I'll lead you on and you shall live in Me

Feed the Hungry Heart

Feed the hungry heart till their night has gone
Feed the hungry heart till their night has gone
Feed the hungry heart till their night has gone
Morning star will shine on through
When we see the dawn
Feed the hungry heart

Let the sun pour in to take away the pain
Let the sun pour in to take away the pain
We can bring a dying world
Back to life again
Feed the hungry heart

All it takes is love
Heaven knows the cost
We must open wide our arms
To embrace the lost

All it takes is love
Heaven knows the cost
We must open wide our arms
To embrace the lost

Heal the broken heart, feed the hungry soul
Heal the broken heart, feed the hungry soul
Lord, so many many people
Waiting to be whole

Feed the hungry heart
Feed the hungry heart

Touch, and all is new
Oh what sweet release
We can face the darkest storm
When we know God's peace

Touch, and all is new
Oh what sweet release
We can face the darkest storm
When we know God's peace

We can take his love to the heart of man
I believe we should, I believe we can
I believe we should, I believe we can
Feed the hungry heart
Feed the hungry heart
Feed the hungry heart

Nothing we can do from here


We're rich and we're hungry, clever and cool
We've been born in the right place and live by the rules
But it's headlines and hard times for everyone else
We don't feel the guilt, we're in love with ourselves

Our hearts on our sleeve, we know how to bleed
As we ring up the tills by the hour
What's mine is mine, what's their's is mine
Looks so good from our ivory towers

We don't wanna know
Nothing ever changes

There's the have's and the have nots
We're glad we've been blessed
But God never said it was east versus west
We swear by the TV, kick up a fuss
Say we're in this together ? but it's still them and us

Such rose tinted views, don't we doctor the news
With our shades on to keep out the sun
It's all so far away, what more is there to say?
The damage has already been done

We don't wanna know
Nothing ever changes
And it's headlines and hard times, heartache and fear
But don't worry, there's nothing we can do from here
With our hearts on our sleeves we know how to bleed
As we ring up the tills by the hour

What's mine is mine, what's their's is mine
Looks so good from our ivory towers

We don't wanna know
Nothing ever changes

Beautiful

I've been mothered, smothered, cuddled, kissed
and danced with cheek to cheek
then buried, lost, forgotten, ignored
for weeks and weeks

I've been stitched and mended a thousand times
given pride of place in the pram
then kicked around like a football
till I don't know where I am

I've been mothered, smothered, cuddled, kissed
then moved from pillar to post
there's a game I'll swear everyone plays
to see who can help me the most

I'm kept in the dark about ordinary things
that everybody knows
it's love without the heart for it
and they don't think that it shows

This is me, the me you see, it's really all I've got
I'd like someone to tell me…
I'd like someone to tell me…
Am I beautiful, am I beautiful, am I beautiful...
or what?
Am I beautiful, am I beautiful, am I…
beautiful or what?

This is not the way I want to live my life
live my life at all
made to look so unimportant
made to look so small - you see
I wonder sometimes whatever will become of me
one day, one day will I fly so free?

This is not the way I imagined they would care
whispered conversations, curious stares
I'm no experiment and I'm not a fragile doll
It's a wonder I'm here at all

And I'd like someone to tell me
I'd like someone to tell me…

Look me in the eye and say it, say you love me
just the way I am

Look me in the eye and say it, say you love me
just the way I am
Am I beautiful, am I beautiful, am I beautiful…
or what?

Alpha and Omega

I was alone , imprisoned and in prayer
the Spirit was upon me, my senses were on fire
suddenly behind me I heard a mighty sound
I turned and there before me stood the Son of Man

His hair was white as newly fallen snow
His eyes they burned right through me
His face it gleamed like gold
Hi voice it thundered like the waves against the shore
I am Alpha and Omega, I'm alive for ever more

So rejoice, the Holy City comes
oh rejoice, the new Jerusalem
rejoice, be ready now
He comes to take His bride
He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end

I heard the voices, singing forth as one
'holy, holy, holy, glory to the Lamb', worthy is the Lord who was and is and is to come
for You created all things and now Your work is done

So rejoice, the Holy City comes
oh rejoice, the new Jerusalem
rejoice, be ready now
He comes to take his bride
He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end

Oh rejoice, the Holy City comes
oh rejoice, the new Jerusalem
rejoice, be ready now
He comes to take his bride
He is Alpha and Omega, He's alive

Oh rejoice, the Holy City comes
oh rejoice, the new Jerusalem
rejoice, be ready now
He comes to take his bride
He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end

Oh rejoice, the Holy City
comes oh rejoice, the new Jerusalem
rejoice, be ready now
He comes to take his bride
He is Alpha and Omega, He's alive

 

Roller Coaster

Time and tide it's a rocky ride
To the milk and honey read the signs
Fever pitch m stitch in time what an
'I me mine'
It's a roller coaster
Blood and thunder wonder techno
Poison chalice sword in hand
Futuristic peace ballistic promised land
It s no pushover

Rainbow nightmares light the universe
Is crumbling at the hand of God

Knife in the back
Gun to the head
Move and you're dead
It's no pushover
Flame to the wing
Blade to the heart
Love means attacking to win

Mountain lakes of bloody
Gog and Magog angel chains
Dragon's smile the final mile,
O cleanse the stain
Eternal lover
Eden's ocean, fields of bone
The martyr crown damnation's yoke
Shadrach Meshach and Abednego for broke
Run run for cover

Rainbow nightmares light the universe
Is crumbling at the hand of God

Knife in the back
Gun to the head
Move and you're dead
It's no pushover
Flame to the wing
Blade to the heart
Love means attacking to win

Cry for eternity's despair
For the serpent and the snare
For a shield within the Son
Against the blade and gun
For a light where you can hide
Till the coming of the Bride

Knife in the back…

Fear

Today the ghetto knows a different fear,
Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe.
An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake
The victims of it's shadow weep and writhe.

Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright
And mothers bend their heads into their hands.
Now children choke and die with typhus here,
A bitter tax is taken from their bands.

My heart still beats inside my breast
While friends depart for other worlds.
Perhaps it's better - who can say,
Than watching this, to die today?

No, no, my God we want to live!
Not watch our numbers melt away.
We want to have a better world.
We want to work ? we must not die!

 

No More Tears

No more tears
Do you hear
There won't be any crying
Won't have to fear what dying can do
We will all be shining new

No more pain
Do you hear
There won't be any sorrow
Won't have to fear what tomorrow can do
We will all be shining… new

Nothing but goodness
Nothing but peace
Nothing but heaven's sweet release
Don't you know it's all coming true
One day we'll be
Shining new