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In Thee is Gladness
02:26
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In thee is gladness amid all sadness
Jesus, sunshine of my heart
By thee are given the gifts of heaven
Thou the true redeemer art
Our souls thou wakest, our bonds thou breakest
Who trust thee surely, hath built securely
And stands forever--hallelujah
Our hearts are pining to see thy shining
Dying or living, to thee are cleaving
Naught can us sever--hallelujah
If he is ours, we fear no powers
Nor of earth, nor sin, nor death
He sees and blesses in worst distresses
He can change them with a breath
Wherefore the story, tell of his glory
With heart and voices all heav'n rejoices
In him forever--hallelujah
We shout for gladness, triumph o'er sadness,
Love thee and praise thee, and still shall raise thee
Glad hymns forever--hallelujah
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2. |
Wrinkle in Time
04:14
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[Chorus:] A tesseract can take you anywhere
Faster than light through a wrinkle in time
Choose what you want, you can go anywhere
Holding on tight through a wrinkle in time
First stop today, beautiful Uriel
Horse-people soar while singing out praise
Spreading their wings, they dance in the atmosphere
With flowers that hold fresh air for your face
[Chorus] . . . Up to great heights through a wrinkle in time
Next you must go to dreadful Camazotz
Planet controlled by the beat of one brain
All people there walk in a single way
An orderly world without pleasure or pain
[Chorus] . . . Into the night through a wrinkle in time
Out through the dark, you'll meet some animals
They know you by sound, not by sight or by smell
Wise, kindly beasts with lots of tentacles
They'll nurse your wounds until you are well
[Chorus] . . . Making things right through a wrinkle in time
Where is Charles, Charles Wallace?
Now it's the last; you are the rescuer
To faith and to hope, you'll just have to cling
Go back to that place, for love is the only way
To set free your brother from the Black Thing
[Chorus] . . . We'll learn so much about who we really are
Holding on tight through a wrinkle in time
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3. |
Pied Beauty
04:43
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Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches' wings
Glory be to God for dappled things
Landscapes plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough
And all trades, theyr gear and tackle and trim
Glory be to God for dappled things
All things counter, original, spare, strange
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change
All things counter, original, spare, strange
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change -- Praise him
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4. |
Light Enough
02:40
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O-oh, o-oh, light
Tomorrow waits in darkness
But there's light enough to work today
O-oh, o-oh, light to work today
Yesterday lies in sadness
But there's hope enough to work today
O-oh, o-oh, hope to work today
My heart is filled with longing
I need / give me / strength enough to work today
O-oh, o-oh, strength to work today
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5. |
The Name Song
04:48
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Silas, your name has been spoken by the One
who made the heavens
He called and the stars all came to be
Simone, your name has been spoken by the One
who made the oceans crashing
And all the colours of the sea
And on your lips praise
[Chorus:] From birth I have been cast upon you, O Lord
Even at my mother's breast, you made me trust in you
Godwin, he knows when you sit and when you rise
and when you lie down
So fear not--through the darkness he can see
Amos, he knows when you laugh and when you cry
Your days were written in his book before one of them
came to be
And so you cry unto him -- [Chorus]
Junia, these names follow us a little while
As we walk together, together, wending through
this wild world
Until we meet him, meet him, no more tears in our eyes
He'll give us new names, new names,
when his kingdom is unfurled
And so we cry unto him -- [Chorus]
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6. |
Abba Cadeff
02:08
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On the day I learned to read, I was very proud indeed
Sounding out the sounds of every word that I could see
Then my brother came to look, and he opened up a book
He said it had the most important word there'll ever be
[Chorus:] ACBDEF -- GHIJKLMNOP -- QRSTUVWXYZ
Since the word was very long, I was sure I'd get it wrong
The letters ran from left to right all crowded in a line
But I did my very best, yes I figured and I guessed
Once I'd read it three times over then I know that it was mine
[Chorus]
I asked him what it meant, and very close to me he bent
"It means every single thing that you can say under the sun"
But I really couldn't see, as he left to climb a tree
Why you'd ever need a word that was like every word in one
[Chorus]
Well the answer didn't come, so I finally asked my mom
She smiled at the word and said I didn't need to fret
Then she told me what it was and she showed me what it does
That lovely list of letters that they call the alphabet
[Chorus]
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7. |
Studio Talk
00:24
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8. |
Sing in Tune
01:03
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Oh you don't want to sing too flat
And you don't want to sing too sharp
So you must do your very best to sing in tune
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9. |
Credo
04:46
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Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God)
Patrem omnipotentem (The Father Almighty)
Factorem coeli et terrae (Maker of heaven and earth)
Visibilium omnium (And of all things visible)
Et invisibilium (And invisible)
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the highest)
Credo--Et in unum Dominum (And I believe in one Lord)
Jesum Christum (Jesus Christ)
Filium Dei unigenitum (The only-begotten Son of God)
Et ex Patre natume ante (Born of the Father before)
Omnia saecula (All ages)
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the highest)
Jesu Christe (Jesus Christ)
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine (God of God, light of light)
Deum verum de Deo vero (True God of true God)
Genitum non factum (Begotten, not made)
Credo--Et (And I believe)
In Spiritum Sanctum (In the Holy Spirit)
Dominum et vivificantem (The Lord and giver of life)
Qui cum Patre et Filio (Who with the Father and the Son)
Simul adoratur (Together is adored)
Et conglorificatur (and glorified)
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the highest)
In excelsis Deo (To God in the highest)
Et in terra pax hominibus (And on earth peace to people)
Bonae voluntatis (Of goodwill)
Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us)
Christe eleison (Christ, have mercy on us)
Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us)
Quoniam tu solus Sanctus (For you alone are holy)
Tu solus Dominus (You alone are Lord)
To solus Altissimus (You alone are most high)
Gloria ... (Glory ... )
Jesu Christe (Jesus Christ)
Cum Sancto Spiritu (With the Holy Spirit)
In gloria Dei Patris (In the glory of God the Father,)
Miserere nobis (Have mercy on us.)
Amen (Amen.)
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10. |
The Windhover
05:15
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I caught this morning morning's minion
Kingdom of daylight's dauphin
dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon
In his riding of the rolling
level underneath him steady air
And striding, and striding high there
How he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
in his ecstasy!
In his ecstasy--then off, off forth on swing
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend
The hurl and gliding rebuffed the big wind
My heart in hiding stirred for a bird
The achieve of, the mastery of the thing
Brute beauty and valour, ah
Valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here buckle
And the fire that breaks from thee then
A billion times told lovelier, more dangerous
O my chevalier
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes
plough down sillion shine
And blue-bleak embers, ah my dear
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
Blue-bleak embers fall, gall themselves, and gash gold
Gash gold-vermilion
Blue-blea
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11. |
Strength to Strength
05:03
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How lovely is your dwelling-place, O Lord
O Lord Almighty
My soul yearns, even faints,
For the courts, for the courts of the Lord
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God
Even the sparrow has found a home
A place, a place near your altar
O Lord Almighty, my king and my God
Blessed are those who dwell in your house
They are ever praising you
[Chorus:] They go from strength to strength
Till each appears before God in Zion
Happy are those whose strength
Whose strength is in you
Who have set their hearts, who have set
Their hearts on pilgrimage
As they pass through the desert
They make it a place of springs
[Chorus]
O Lord Almighty, blest is the one who trusts in you
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand
Than a thousand elsewhere
I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of the wicked
For the Lord God is a sun and shield
He withholds no good from those who walk uprightly
[Chorus]
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12. |
Psalm of Jonah
03:41
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In my distress I called to God
And it was God who answered
Far down in death, I called for help
You listened to my cry
Into the deep you've hurled me
Into the heart of oceans
The currents swirl on every side
Your waves and breakers sweep o'er
I have been banished from your sight
How shall I look again upon your holy temple?
These are the words that I spoke
The waters closed about my neck
The deep surrounded me
Seaweed was wrapped around my head
Darkness my burial cloth
Down to the mountain's roots I sank
Barred in forever I stone
I felt my life ebbing away
Remembering you, I prayed
My groaning rose to where you live in glorious light
You heard my cry, reached for my life
You brought it up from the pit
I will not cling to what is false
I'll hold the hand that holds me
What I have vowed, I will make good
Salvation comes from God
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13. |
Let the Sea Resound
07:14
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Let the sea resound, and everything in it
The world, and all who live in it
Oh let the rivers clap their hands
Let the mountains sing together for joy
Sing to the Lord a new song
For he has done marvellous things
His right hand and his holy arm
Have worked salvation for him
The Lord has made his salvation known
And revealed his righteousness to the nations
All the ends of the earth have seen
The salvation of our God
Let the sea resound, and everything in it
The world, and all who live in it
Oh let the rivers clap their hands
Let the mountains sing together for joy
Let them sing before the Lord
For he comes to judge the earth
He will judge the world in righteousness
And the peoples with equity
Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth
Burst into jubilant song with music
Make music to the Lord with the harp
With the harp and the sound of music
With trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn
Shout for joy before the Lord, the king
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14. |
Why Are You Downcast
05:51
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[Chorus:] Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, put your hope in God
Put your hope in God, in God
// Where is your God? Where? Where is your God? Where? //
As the deer pants for water
So my soul pants for you, O God
My soul thirsts for God; when can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food day and night
While people say to me
"Where is your God? Where is your God?
Where is your God?"
These things I remember as I pour out my soul
How I used to go with the multitude
Leading the procession to the house of God
With shouts of thanks and joy among the festive throng
// I will remember, I will remember //
My soul is downcast within me
Therefore I will remember you
My soul is downcast within me
Therefore I remember, remember
[Chorus] ... For I will yet praise him, praise him
// Where is your God? Where? Where is your God? Where? //
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls
All your waves and breakers have swept over me
I say to God my Rock, "Why, why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go everywhere oppressed by the enemy?"
My bones suffer mortal agony
As my foes taunt me, as my foes taunt me
Saying to me, saying to me all day long
"Where is your God? Where is your God?"
// His song is with me, his song is with me //
By day the Lord directs his love
At night his song is with me
By day his love, at night his song is with me, with me
[Chorus] ... For I will yet praise him, I will yet praise him
My Saviour and my God, my Saviour and my God
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15. |
Let the Morning Bring Me
04:10
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Let the morning bring me
Word of your unfailing love
For I have put my trust in you
Show my the way I should go
For to you I lift up my soul
O Lord, listen to my cry for mercy
No one living is righteous, certainly not I
The enemy pursues me, crushes me to the ground
No one living is righteous, certainly not I
I remember the days of long ago
I meditate on all your works
Consider what your hands have done
I spread out my own hands to you
My soul is like a parched land, waiting only for you
Let your good Spirit lead me
On level ground
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16. |
Praise to the Lord
01:41
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Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation
O my soul, praise him for he is thy health and salvation
All ye who hear, now to his temple draw near
Join me in glad adoration
Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth
Shelters thee under his wings, yea so gently sustaineth
Hast thou not seen how thy desires have been
Granted in what he ordaineth
Praise to the Lord who doth prosper thy work and defend thee
Surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend thee
Ponder anew what the Almighty can do
If with his love he befriend thee
Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore him
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him
Let the amen sound from his people again
Gladly, for aye, we adore him
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