I heard you soft again
Breathing through the quiet
And the funny thing
Is now I can't breathe a sigh
Cause you're coming back to life

All the memories
Overpower my eyes
And the funny thing
Is I didn't mean to cry
But you're coming back to life
Can you come back to life?

The heavens up above
Seem to sympathize
They gather up their heart
And let it melt through the night
Cause you're coming back to life

I almost hear you laugh
In the thunder strike
Reverberating well
Beyond my reaching tries
You're coming back to life
Would you come back to life?

The truth is far too grave
I'd rather have your lies
They sing to me in tongues
Sweeter than angel cries
Now you're coming back to life

All the spring in bloom
Thawing winter ice
So why am I frozen still?
Why do I have to die
When you're coming back to life?
Please come back to life

I passed you on my wall
Did you fake the smile?
Your countenance is clear
Your eyes evangelize
Now I'm coming back to life

For now I'll leave you there
Dancing through the skies
In my picture frame
Until I lay down for night
When I awake alive
Cause we're coming back to life


Written by Hunter Bowles
©2021

Back to Life (acoustic demo)

Hark

Follow Me inside
When the feeling is too low
Follow Me
Follow Me this time
You're the only path you chose
Follow Me

There's somewhere

Come to the river
Come to the river
Streams of living water
Come to the river
The Maker (Shepherd), the Giver
Taker, Deliverer
Come to the river
Come to the river

Follow Me this time
There's a crown for every cross
Follow Me
Follow Me inside
Conquer through the undercroft
Follow Me

Let it go and
You will find Me
Open fists and
You will finally find
Your control and
Conspiring is
Nothing but illusion

The River (Acoustic)

Just a short cover of Fire and Rain because why not I s'pose

Fire and Rain (short cover I reckon)

It's the secret toys that thrill us
That will us to kill us
The sacred toys we can't lay down

It's the hallelume voicing
Employing the anointing
The sacred self I can't lay down



The bread I break with brethren
Is sickly with leaven
It's the broken Bread that haunts my tongue

The cup I spilled on my lap
It cries out with Cain's laugh
It's the emptied Cup that haunts my tongue


[Luke 22:19-20]


The crooked man that knows it
Is conquered by mercy
The cricket underneath the sole

The blood and the water
Are life for the thirsty
The crooked and eternal soul

TOYS

I can see it in your eyes
Though your miracles are bright
Something's lost you're never gonna find
But I hope it's still inside

If I could take it off your shoulders 
Turn your mountains into boulders
Change your monotone to color
I'd take the weight as mine

[ It feels a little like a time bomb
But I really hope that I'm wrong ]

The night you got the phone call
And we struggled up the stars
It seemed like heaven was beyond us all
When we said our goodbyes

[ It feels like death is lifelong
But I'm pretty sure that I'm wrong ]

** When all my hopes have let me down
I know I'm on left on solid ground
And I will not be dismayed
And I will not be afraid
I won't be put to shame **

Blessed is the one who walks
According to the Law
Who seeks the Lord with all his all
You won't be turned aside

Wait on the Word and its yield
It's a hiding place and shield
Wait for righteousness to be revealed
For the coming day of light

[ It feels a little like a time bomb
An outro to a precious song
And I really hope that I'm wrong
But the eruption is new life ]

written/performed by hunter bowles ©2024

Time Bomb (acoustic)

soli deo gloria

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I heard you soft again
Breathing through the quiet
And the funny thing
Is now I can't breathe a sigh
Cause you're coming back to life

All the memories
Overpower my eyes
And the funny thing
Is I didn't mean to cry
But you're coming back to life
Can you come back to life?

The heavens up above
Seem to sympathize
They gather up their heart
And let it melt through the night
Cause you're coming back to life

I almost hear you laugh
In the thunder strike
Reverberating well
Beyond my reaching tries
You're coming back to life
Would you come back to life?

The truth is far too grave
I'd rather have your lies
They sing to me in tongues
Sweeter than angel cries
Now you're coming back to life

All the spring in bloom
Thawing winter ice
So why am I frozen still?
Why do I have to die
When you're coming back to life?
Please come back to life

I passed you on my wall
Did you fake the smile?
Your countenance is clear
Your eyes evangelize
Now I'm coming back to life

For now I'll leave you there
Dancing through the skies
In my picture frame
Until I lay down for night
When I awake alive
Cause we're coming back to life

-------

written & performed by Hunter Bowles

Back to Life

It takes a lot of time
It takes a lot of strength to see my reflection
I found myself far from where I was

But darling I've been mapping out and heading in
A brand new direction
Because I'm so far from where I was

I am so sorry
The blood is on my hands
Can you forgive me?
I'll give you all I am
Because I know that for so long
I treated you so wrong
And I am so sorry

I just can't believe
All it took for me to make the connection
I lost myself in who I thought I was

All of the apology I've let you see
Is no misdirection
I am so far from where I was

Sorry

Staring at the ceiling
Looking for the feeling
Sufficiently suppresses my mind
I wanna forget
Yet again, the day's spent
As tomorrow bleeds through the night

Just like the past
You're presently last
In my heart, in my strength, in my time
It's funny how I call to,
And I dissolve, You
When You are my reason to rhyme

I don't want You to just be another hobby
Lying in the lobby of the basement in my heart
I don't want You to live with a guitar and money
On the outside of the glass looking in
A hobby within

Coming to grips
With the words on Your lips
Is easier to spit than to chew
More precious than gold
Like a Solomon hold
On the world, but I bury You

In the night when You're falling like the rain
In the day when You're shining like the sun
Can You teach me how to walk in Your name?
Show me I'm walking in more than a name

HOBBY

Instrumental cover of Switchfoot's YOU'RE THE ONE I WANT. 

You're the One I Want (Instrumental Cover)

What You Believe In

℗ Hunter Bowles. 2021.

Yeah, I love you but I love myself a little too much
I can't fight the feeling that I'm fearing the punch
Over and over I'm in over my head
You leave me the mic but I leave you for dead
Half-truths and fiction spilling out in the air
This atmosphere we're drinking leaves us drunk on despair
Guiltier and guiltier the more that I see
I see guilty are the eyes happy never to speak

(Say) What you believe in
(If you say) What you believe in
(Hey) Then would you be leaving?
(You are)(You will be) What you believe in

Shocked, color me a shade lighter than red
When called to the truth but I disown it instead
Like, tell me that a body isn't made of the parts
They tell me that the beating doesn't mean it's a heart
Tip of the tongue, taste hot on my breath
I'm shadowed by the light even the sun couldn't set
A pledge of truth is often made from words of offense
But you either ride shotgun or you're riding a fence

Make straight the paths, coming after the monk
The DC returns what the Red swallowed up
Empire has come in the salvific tongue
Baptizing in the blood of our forfeited sons
Campaigning for Caesar, give them a king
Ring kissed, missed the Love for the love of loving
Unbind your tongue in the mouth of the den
Don't be afraid to say what you believe in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpY4Ap9BwAI

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