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• Hear My Cry - 38th Parallel
• Clouded - 38th Parallel
• Horizon - 38th Parallel
• Higher Ground - 38th Parallel
• Turn The Tides - 38th Parallel
• Who Am I - 38th Parallel
• Wither - 38th Parallel
• You Are My God - 38th Parallel
• State Of Mind - 38th Parallel
• Three Times Denied - 38th Parallel

Hear my cry, my face is numb
Hear my cry, my legs won't run
Hear my cry, I'm ripping at the seems
Hear my cry, if only I could scream
I can taste it, an aching inside
I can taste it, the offspring of pride
I can taste it, I'm drowning in a flood
I can taste it, and it tastes like blood
Chorus
Hear my cry when I call your name
I'd give my life to touch your flame
Breathe in me, I'm free
Hear my cry, I'm deep in debt
Hear my cry, in deep regret
Hear my cry, someone save me from me
Hear my cry, and give me back sanity
Chorus
You have brought me to my knees
And you have danced in all my dreams
You have stepped through time and space
And in my need you kissed my face

The blow's been dealt and taken its toll Listless I stumble like a drunk in the cold Questioning foundations of a hope I took for granted I feel my soul choked by the rope of a slanted view of reality (So it seems) maybe I've been living in some childish day dream As not but dust in motion, an insignificant drop in an endless ocean Chorus So rend the veil, the shroud that clouds my eyes I want to see you, and every fiber of my being is longing for you Cut off at the knees, gasping for breath Grieving for my hope as it totters on the brink of death Watching the sun fade and run down As my ears go deaf to the ancient and thundering sound of creations singing I'm clinging so tight to my questions I can't hear its chorus ringing Like some perpetual dancer I'm running and spinning in search of the answers Chorus In this fog of pain, creation plays its strain The wind breathes one name, star shines one fame

Another day burns away into darkness
Another blink of the eye of time
I am straining through the blackness
Ever searching for a sign
The days grow long and the days grow dark
And the days grow ever colder
The trust that I started with fades as I get older
Though the road is hard
It seems to me there is no way around this
From all you've done for me
I know you'll never break your promise
Chorus
So here at the end of this day
Where the world is shaded in gray
I will look to the blue horizons and watch for you to come
When my hope is tattered and torn
When my faith is weathered and worn
I'll look to the blue horizons
I am still walking, evading the shadows
I am still running that narrow line
I'll go wherever you would have me go
Ever searching for a sign

Your smile cuts through a smoky room, chasing silence from the air Your empty eyes and hollow smile complement your vacant stare There's something more to stand on, something of worth to live your life on Chorus Higher ground, on higher ground You'll build your house where love resounds Higher ground, on higher ground You'll see your purpose from higher ground Your determined words dance on my heart, you're like a conscience in my ear Your laughing smile and brilliant eyes remind me why I'm here For something more to stand on, something of worth to live my life on Chorus The sight of you on your feet Face streaked with the crystal glow of tears To show that love had saved you and truth amazed you is the vision I will take with me wherever I go

Staring at the flames as they dance in red On the corpse of the land there in
the midst are wandering a countless unnamed Walking hand in hand Blind leading
blind aimlessly into the quicksand of time where they sink On the brink of
eternity cold and alone shrink At the festering obscene corruption Hear my
silence in the face of this mass destruction
All rise, abandon your shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes
on the sun Get burned on the inside and turn these tides All rise, abandon your
shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes on the sun Get burned
on the inside
Closed minds ill equipped to deal with this madness Hearts far to hard to
challenge a sadness that draining The soul of a generation Blanketed with tears
are faces of nations into the quicksand of time where they sink On the brink of
eternity cold and alone shrink At the festering obscene corruption Hear my
silence in the face of this mass destruction
All rise, abandon your shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes
on the sun Get burned on the inside and turn these tides All rise, abandon your
shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes on the sun Get burned
on the inside
Everyone laughs, everyone cries, everyone lives Everyone dies and in between
they crawl Through stagnate realities longing to fly
All rise, abandon your shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes
on the sun Get burned on the inside and turn these tides All rise, abandon your
shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes on the sun Get burned
on the inside All rise, abandon your shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride
Fix your eyes on the sun Get burned on the inside All rise, abandon your
shadows and cut ties to your selfish pride Fix your eyes on the sun Get burned
on the inside

Made like a mirror to reflect his glory
But the glass got smashed, bought a counterfeit story
We gave into pride
Sacrificed life, on that day we died inside
Outside we ignited a rebellion
An infectious disease that labels us felons
Cold and alone, ever wandering in search of a home
Bridge:
Hearts breaking, hands shaking
In time with our hearts vibrating
We say bridges to yesterday are burned
Seasons over, all those leaves have turned
But we cannot look down
We can never keep our gaze locked on the ground
And we stand with wide wide eyes
As our world comes crashing down
Chorus
Who am I to say I'm right?
Who am I to say you're wrong?
Play judge, look you in the eye
Who am I to throw the stones?
I remember when trust went for free
Sold for a smile on the face of a fantasy
Truth found her home in the pages of fairy tales
Decadent words formed the phrases for dreams that failed
Now trust is a costly commodity
Giving it away is the mark of absurdity
And truth is a homeless traveler
Hoping in the night to be found
And we wave goodbye to our innocence
And we wave goodbye to our ignorance
And we wave goodbye to our nursery mindsets
Abandoning cribs of complacence

Forward he marches through scornful laughter Undaunted eyes set on hopes of here after A gauntlet of piercing stares line his way And condemning glares say all hate can say As he strides ever on steps In time with his hearts rhythm and rhyme to the end of his day Forevers seductive smile shatters sense And bids him acquiesce from this solitary life Chorus But we don't see, we've made ourselves blind And we don't care, we've closed our minds And we don't move, we've so paralyzed As we sit in heartlessness watching him die Dead to immunity, dead to society Fearing the slow decay of dignity the posterchild For walking deadmen longs for the now to be way back when Chorus And I see him everyday along his road Fading away manifest in the downcast, Recluse and outcast lepers of this age The innocent incaged by paranoid, misinformed minds Enter the champions of love (so called) singing loud Grinning as they spit out their words So proud are the hearts unmoved by songs and ideals? Wading through the rhetoric to clutch something real

Sneering smiles fill my eyes And laugh at tears that fall from the weight of unspeakable fears I wonder aloud in curious tones "Could I be proud when they hate me and mock me ?" What is the mind of the God that created meI am different; I am despised I am ever looking through the smallest of eyes But your eyes see what mine cannot see Chorus You are my God, you are life. You are the strength I need You are the love surrounding Broken hearts, you set me free. The world around me is changing All that was familiar is fading Those I thought would never leave me left me cold All I have from the friends that forever I'm known All I have are names etched in headstones And the questions of meaning and reason These small eyes of mine can't see past this one season But your eyes see what mine cannot see Chorus Show me your eyes Show me your mind Show me what you see Show me your eyes Show me your mind Show me all I need

I stand tall with an arrogant grin Filled with pride as I chase the dreams that are riding on the wind In ignorant determination watch me pursue But I'm not and they're not enough to satisfy the hunger pains of my soul They are like fading mirages, illusions that leave me sold to the truth That's the essence of me . . . I'm not enough Chorus So here I am Broken on my knees stretching out my weary hands Grasp them and lift me Help me to find a rest in your arms that can change my state of mind I stagger the earth with one defeated sigh I once was longing to live now I'm longing to die Having attained everything that I desired was not enough Not enough to quench the thirst for life, for hope for peace Captive to my pride now I beg for sweet release And then a voice breathes in whispers to my soul "I am enough, I am enough" Chorus Set my awkward steps straight in line Move me to walk this life with your hand in mine

Breaking bread, pouring wine, Speaking mysteries to stretch my mind I failed to follow the meaning Of 'flesh in the bread' that I swallowed Dipping bread in a dish calling out a traitor I'm hoping you'll explain this sooner or later I'm dizzy with confusion In the midst of a dream awaiting conclusion Chorus Three times denies Though I was strong but it seems I was wrong Now I see, since now I've three times denied your name I'm stained with shame This wretchedness becomes my fame Your accusation plagues my mind Your prophecy leaves me horrified Denied you never would be, Of all of us it would never be me To break your heart and make you moan Forsake your name leave you alone With the sting of a cowards lie The signed decree that declares you die Chorus Nightmares run through my brain Cold sweat covers me like a sickening stain In this place between asleep and awake I shake from the cold and the fear of heartbreak And in the glow of the fire I turn into a liar To scared to say 'I know' Like a sheperdless sheep I run and I weep As I hear the cock crow Chorus You said three times My son do you love me And I said three times 'You know that I do'