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Rubber Canoe:
Lyrics
Through the Window (Myrrh/Word Records 1987)
1. Underground
River
2. Cat
3. It's
Over Love
4. Remember
Me
5. The
More I Enter In
6. Wonderful
Invention of Love
7. Nothing
Will Ever Be the Same Again
8. In
Visible Silence
9. Long
Lost Heaven
10. This Is Me
1.
Underground River
Words & Music by Benny Hester & John Parenti
Violent flow, tidal wave
Surging, boiling, current growing stronger
Stirring of the water
The trickle that started now runs mighty
To an unknown destination
Silent, deep, heaving shake
Sudden turning, rocking, and moving
Shocking quake
A tremble in the earth
That many hearts have heard
The truth brings with it wonder
So close it sounds like hunger
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Underground river
Flowing through your city
Taking lives, breaking lives, sweeping lives
Into an underground river
And the rain is pouring
The level is rising
And the white washed walls
Scream as they fall
Nothing stops the river
No, nothing stops the river
The day you were born
Empty religion from schools of the learned
Left you bleeding
Glory hungry men, gave no answers
Yeah, they were the problem
So many had to pay
It's enough to drive you away
But there's an
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2. Cat
Words & Music by Benny Hester & Rick Thomson
Major demolition going on
Standing in a reconstruction zone
Tearing up the city
Breaking up the streets
That's all I've ever known
Last night I turned the T.V. on, drew near
A thousand souls were saved but I'm still here
I know You've got a plan
So tell me what it is
And what is going on
Cause I pray while I'm driving my
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Cat
Two-thousand-horse caterpillar
Cat
Thought You had me something better
I want to be a preacher or something like that
Lord, thank you for the job
But please get me off of this
Cat, oh cat, oh
Cat
I heard about a missionary man
Gave his life up in a foreign land
But me I punch the clock
A hard hat breaking rock
Seems that's all I can do
I remember back when I was just a kid
I had so many plans, You know I did
If You got something else
Just tell me what it is
And what I'm doing wrong
Cause I pray while I'm driving my
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And a thousand years from now
Who's really gonna care
About my life and what I wanted to become
And right now I just wanna get out of here
But more than that
Let Your will be done
I pray while I'm driving my
Cat
Two-thousand-horse caterpillar
Cat
Thought You had me something better
I want to be a preacher
Yeah, I can do the job
Lord, get me off this
Cat
3. It's Over Love
Words & Music by Steve Krikorian
The trouble with women, they're so emotional
The trouble with men, they're all so cold
The trouble with love, it's been redefined
'Til it's pure illusion
So 'round and around and around we all go
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It's over love
It's always over love
It's over love
It's always over love
The trouble with soldiers, they'll listen to anyone
The trouble with parents, they don't listen at all
The trouble with kids these days
They don't have much faith in the past or the future
And they're dying for someone to prove that they're wrong
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We are heaven's own image and we just need to hear
That we're special to someone
We'll start fist fights and riots and wars
If you tell us we're not
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4. Remember Me
Words & Music by Benny Hester & John Parenti
It's eight o'clock
And I'm scared as I can be
Just thinking
As I stand outside your house
It's been ten years if it's been three
I walk up to your door and start to knock
It flies open in my face
And all that I can say
Is the only words that come into my mind
Remember me
I'm the one that hurt you
Remember me
I'm the one that left you all alone
Remember me
Yes I'm the one that stole your happiness
And there's something I've got to say
Now that I'm getting things right
Something I've got to ask
Of someone else tonight
I've taken and taken
What never belonged to me
I'm a thief and guilty
Though I don't deserve a thing
When You come into Your kingdom Jesus
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
Tonight's the night to tell you
He has gripped your soul and brought you here
Remember back
When you and I hurt each other so
So, there's something I've gotta say
Now that I'm getting it right
Forgiveness I've got to ask
From God Himself tonight
I've taken and taken
What never belonged to me
I'm a thief of the worst kind
Though I don't deserve a thing
Remember me
Lord, when You come into Your kingdom
Remember me
No, I've never cried out for much mercy
But now in this moment I've found it
Remember me
And end to pain and suffering
Remember me
Forgive the past and on this very day
I will be with You in paradise
5. The More I Enter In
Words & Music by Benny Hester, Niles Borop, & Dan Posthuma
Now You know just where I am
Now You see what kind of man I am
So long without a clue
Seems I'm so far away from You
I enter in
Then I find
I enter in
Then I find
The more I enter in I find
I more I find I seek
The more I enter in I find
I more I find I seek
A greater sense of who You are
The more I enter in
Your presence, Lord
So tenderly draw me near
Make my troubled thoughts be clear
Now You know just what it means
What it means to me
Jesus, what it means to me
What You mean, what You mean to me, yeah
The more I enter in I find
I more I find I seek
The more I enter in I find
I more I find I seek
A greater sense of who You are
The more I enter in
Your presence, Lord
The more I enter in
Your presence, Lord
The more I enter in
6. Wonderful Invention of Love
Words & Music by Steve Chapman
If you find a heart in need of attention
Someone who's alone with no friends to mention
Take the time to tell them about
This wonderful invention of love
If you find someone who needs some direction
You lead them out of a bad situation
You'll find out why I'm talkin' about
This wonderful invention of love
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Love can tear down the strongest mountain
It can cross the raging sea
Love can clear up a cloudy day
And set a troubled heart free
Love can give up when there's no reason
Love is the reason for the hope
So open your heart and show the world
This wonderful invention
Wonderful invention
Wonderful invention of love
If someone has a problem without a solution
They say they can't take anymore confusion
When they call you better be there
With the wonderful invention of love
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7. Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Again
Words & Music by Benny Hester, Dan Posthuma, & Steve Lorenz
chorus:
Nothing will ever be the same again
It keeps changing
Nothing will ever be the same again
It's all changing
Nothing will ever be the same again
Jam on the brake
Topical bore
Noisy retreat
Scream at myself
Down empty halls
A brawl in the street
What once was, it shall always never be
And after this
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I think it's very clear
I'm talking about, You Know Who
He, you know who I mean
Has been doing something inside me
Here, somewhere there's a message for you
So come slip your head through
The window of my life, ha
How can they hear
If nobody tells
How will they know
What once was now shall always never be
And after this
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8. In Visible Silence
Words & Music by Benny Hester
A moment imperceptible
To the world unperceivable
Almost inconceivable
He had some knowledge deeply kept
He was a man that I wish I'd met
But one afternoon he was stoned to death
It happened a long, long time ago
You think that everyone would know
It took place in Visible Silence
An inexplicable mystery
In Visible Silence
Don't lay this to their charge, he pled
Then fell asleep though he were dead
Like the one he followed before him said
He cried out loud, receive my spirit
Few were there to see or hear it
It took place in Visible Silence
I saw him there, I saw him
Crying Father, into Your hands
Into Your hands, take me
He was so much like Him
A moment imperceptible
He was a man that I wish I'd met
Don't lay this to their charge, he pled
In Visible silence
An inexplicable mystery
In Visible Silence
9. Long Lost Heaven
Words & Music by Benny Hester, John Parenti, & Dan Posthuma
Shimmering grass, a river that flows
Through fields of green, valley below
Mountain and sky have such appeal
It's hard to believe that it all was real
While here on my street it's a different world
People get hurt and the news is not good
I close my eyes and remember Eden
I named every creature, there was nothing I lacked
And I don't know if I'll ever get back
To the long lost heaven
Made for me
Long lost heaven
Oh where could it be
A greater love I've never known
Than God did this for me
Vacant chair glistening gold
A few steps away a wrinkled robe
And leading out a crown dropped by the hand
Of the One who left to fulfill His plan
Oh the long lost heaven
That He left for me
Long lost heaven
Oh how could it be
A greater love I've never known
Than God did this for me
We proved our independence alright
We willingly left the garden
Even so Jesus willingly left heaven for us
So today just look at this world
A terrible injustice has been done
Or maybe a terrible justice
Where did it go
Oh where did it go
Long lost heaven
That I'm longing to see
God's Great Heaven
I know it's waiting, waiting for me, yeah
A greater gift was never known
And He gave it willingly
What once was lost now is found
And it's there, there for you and me
A place that God made for us
We'll be with Him
For all eternity
10. This Is Me
Words & Music by Benny Hester & Brad Burkhart
I can only tell you how I feel
What's on my mind
To me what is real
I can only tell you that I've had some times
That I felt out of touch
With the mind of God
And I was so very low
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This is me, this is me
The part of me I'm so afraid, I'm so afraid
For you to know, for you to know
This is me, this is me
And there's some things we both have gone through
See, I'm not so different from you
I can hardly speak, my lungs won't move the air
The words get stuck in my throat
When I lay my soul bare
In this daily life I live
I've fallen like a fool
I've broken God's trust
That's when I fall on my knees
And I pray Jesus, forgive
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