Walk On Water

Hallelujah

Wicked Games

Get It Right

The signs of change are down on Second Avenue
But, downtown, everything's the same
You hear a voice through it all
And you swear it's calling you by name

From a tenement window, Juliet, she calls my name
Here, I'm poor-boy Romeo with some Cubist's bouquet

I am here to deny my name
Hoping she could do the same
This time we won't run and we won't hide
And, maybe this time, we'll get it right

(Chorus)
So, good-bye blue skies
Say good-bye, my love
Good-bye to all the empty rooms
That we ever dreamed of
You can come along for the ride
If you just don't hold on too tight
And maybe this time we'll get it right

Far from home I wander these angry streets
Looking for a new place to get lost tonight
It'll be the light of the north star that'll take me home
That hangs low burning red and bright

Well, the Newbury street beggars call you Jesus for your change
But, I ain't got no money, so, honey, take my name in vain

All I've got are some store bought songs
A bag of tricks and a book on psalms
Words that offer here no respite
And say, "Hey, boy, you better get it right"
(Chorus)

How dare you listen to me
When every bridge that I have crossed, I have burned
You used to say you didn't know what you would do without me
But, I guess, in all this time, that you have learned

Now it's your love and your faith that tell me everything will be alright
But, it's all of those things that keep me up at night

Well, you know if all my dreams, they don't come true
If, in the end, I can come home to you
It'll be ok and it'll be alright
And maybe, next time, I'll get it right
(Chorus)

Lyrics and music by Christopher King
Copyright 2014 Christopher King All RIghts reserved

Get It Right

Walk On Water

When I was just a young boy about the age of four
I found Jesus lying face down in the Jersey shore
I tried to go for help, but nobody would believe me
Jesus was just lying there coughing and heaving

Well, as he slowly slipped away I became afraid
Then he grabbed me, he pulled me close, and with his last breath
He said, "I tried to teach them why.  I don't know why I bothered.
All anyone every wants is someone who can walk on water"

Well, wild, young, and innocent, that was me and Angeline
Yeah, I met her when she was twelve and I was thirteen
She had a pretty smile I'd kill to see again
Every day we'd go get married down by the river bend

But her dad he was a bastard; he used to rape her raw
She picked up and she ran away, her, again, I never saw
Now inside some shit shop she be worth $20
I guess all anyone ever wants is someone who can walk on water

You wanna tell me, pretty baby, about peace, love, and hope
Yeah, it'll make me laugh so hard that it'll make me wanna choke
When you hold on close to your love, hope, and dreams
Come on and tell me to believe

Now, if you want a martyr, baby don't come look for me
And if you want my time, honey, nothing comes free
You say you wanna come along, well, come on and follow
But, honey, you better learn how to walk on water

Come and walk the water with me
Walk the water
Walk the water with me
Walk the water
Walk the water with me
walk the water with me

Walk the water
Walk the water
Walk the water, but don't drink the water

Come on, wade down in the water
Wash yourself clean
Come out to the edge
And, baby, follow me
There's nothing but the edge of our world dark and slowly dying
Take one step further, and lay your faith down at your side

Lyrics and music by Christopher King
Copyright 2014 Christopher King All RIghts reserved

Once upon a time when I called you mine
And our true names hung in the shadows

One night, we lay in bed, one eye straight ahead
The other eye on the gallows

Out passed the reeds we ran led by stars that danced
On a night that hung restless, sleepless, still

Voices gave you pause, you clung to your cross
But, they don't know and, baby, they never will

Come on, baby, come on
Take my hand
It's just you and me
Yeah, it's just the night
It'll be alright
If you just hold on me

(Chorus)
Well, we were one heart beating on a cold dark night
Two lost souls in a paralyze
We were on our own many miles away
Trying real hard to see how much we could take

I dig my hands into your worth as I bathe you in the dirt
Come on, baby, tell me now where it hurts

A truth unsaid, but still confessed
I could taste it now, baby, on your lips

You cry to me,
"Tell me what they see"
Let me hold you, cast them out
Was it the cold or your faith
That made you shake
Made all your love give out
(Chorus)

May it be me who stands
For all our sins
Within you and without
Call in to that void
Do you hear me now?
Do you hear me now?
(Chorus)

One heart beating
Two lost souls
We were on our own many miles away
In that dark hold, baby, how much can you take?

Lyrics and music by Christopher King
Copyright 2014 Christopher King All RIghts reserved

One Heart

Heaven's Light

Down a dusty dead man's trail, I've walked alone
With a boulder on my back and busted knees
That stone's broken me down again
Now, here I am just trying to feel my feet

There's a storm brewing out over the hill
It's gonna suck the sky up, you best believe
That mean old storm's gonna bitch and moan and carry on
'Til I can't move or see

Well, tonight, I am every man's fear
When he wants what he can't touch, but he sees clear
So, bring it on, I'm in head-on
Just need a little light on to guide me there

In the air and on the horizon
There's a voice that's calling out to me
It says that, "heaven's light's gonna shine on
Heaven's light's gonna shine over me

(Chrorus)
Heaven's light's gonna shine over me
Heaven's light's gonna shine over me
Heaven's light's gonna shine on
Heaven's light's gonna shine over me

If them clouds cast a shadow
Cast a shadow over the hills and sea
I'm gonna climb up on that mountain
And heaven's light's gonna shine over me
(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Come on, shine on me
Shine on me
Shine all over me
Come on, shine on me
Shine all over me

Well, dark clouds are gonna bring the rain
And the wind, it's gonna blow a breeze
But, that storm, it's gonna give in
And heaven's light's gonna shine over me
(Chorus)
(Bridge)

Lyrics and music by Christopher King
Copyright 2014 Christopher King All RIghts reserved

C.R. Smith