Love Her Home
music & lyrics Ken Veltz (c) November 2016
Vocal & Instrumentation: Ken Veltz
Recorded on an iPhone in a noisy bedroom

LYRICS:
She fell in love, now she can't go home
Mom and dad, you don't condone
The choice she made that fell outside your plan
You chose your image over her
Chose rejection as a cure
Your friends agreed, it was time to take a stand

You'd think that you'd know better
Cause you say you've found the one
Who put a face on heaven’s heart for flesh and bone
Mercy wrote upon the sand
Tried to help us understand
You can quote the book and cast the first stone
Or open up a path and love her home

A silent room where she used to play
An empty house on Christmas Day
The bathroom's always free and so's the phone
You never thought it'd go this far
Tried to mend but broke her heart
You closed the cage but your little bird has flown

You'd think that you'd know better
Cause you say you've found the one
Who put a face on heaven’s heart for flesh and bone
Go back to the red letters for they demonstrate love
And a door that's always open no matter where we roam

Mercy wrote upon the sand
Tried to help us understand
You can quote the book and cast the first stone
Or consider all the times you've been wrong
And find a grateful heart for the kindness you've been shone 
And open up a path to love her home
Open up a path and love her home (2x)

LOVE HER HOME

For Him
music & lyrics by Kenneth-Michael Veltz

Our Lord He was Jerusalem bound
And the people came from miles around
To lay their robes upon the ground for Him

He, on His colt, just walked along
As the people followed praising God
They were shouting and loudly singing songs for Him

They shouted, "God has given us a King
Let the earth rejoice as our voices ring,
Glory to God, as palms we bring for Him."

But as He listened to the sound
His heart grew heavy and His head bowed down
He knew they looked but they never really saw Him

Holy Lamb of God, Holy Lamb (repeat)

He spoke of terrible times to come
When people would hate the name of God's Son
And some would deny that they ever knew Him

And for a bag of silver He was sold
And denied three times before the cock crowed
And they struck and mocked and whipped and they spat at Him

They brought Him before the emperor
And the crowds outside began to stir
And they chose to free a murderer for Him

Pilot sentenced Jesus to die
As the crowds demanded, "Crucify!"
And while some laughed, some women cried for Him

Holy Lamb of God, Holy Lamb (repeat)

As they nailed Him to Calvary's tree
Did their minds recall the memory
Of the day they came from miles around
To lay their robes upon the ground, for Him

For Him (repeat)

For Him

Like Everybody Else
music & lyrics by Kenneth-Michael Veltz (c) 1987

Other children laugh and play
Call each other on the phone
I help them look the other way
Pretend I like to be alone
Living this reality, sometimes is living hell
Why can't I be like everybody else

Lord, please show to me
Someone else who walked this road
For my strength is crumbling
And my faith's beneath this load
Worst of all sometimes I think. Even You don't want me well
Why can't I be like everybody else

Oh Lord, I know You hear my plea
Give me a reason to believe. Open my eyes and I'll see

Youngest son of my father's house
To often left alone
Brother's play with battle gear
I just play with stones
Left out here on the mountain side
By my harp, staff and self
Why can't I be like everybody else

Someone said he favored me
As down the pit I fell
I'm not so glad he gave to me
This coat of colored pelts
Now I'm left down here to die
And no one hears me yell

Lord let me see. Help me to be.
Glad I am me, and not like everybody else 
Glad I am me, I'm not like everybody else

Like Everybody Else

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