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Celebration Of The Heart
03:15
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Celebration of the Heart
Ledel White / Jeff Wilson / Raymond Moore / David Cagle / Scuba Steve Holt / Milton King / Gary Nicholson / Maia Sharp / Jay Clementi
Thought I was walking alone
Didn’t know what I was looking for
Lost on my journey
But I knew there was so much more
I shared my stories and found my brothers
When we unite and lean on each other
We’re lifted up with inspiration
To leave behind the desperation
A reckoning, a revelation, a brand new start
A matter of the mind, a celebration of the heart
Turning down the negativity
To quiet my soul
So I can listen to all the things
That I know can make me whole
Lifted up with inspiration
To leave behind the desperation
A reckoning, a revelation, a brand new start
A matter of the mind, a celebration of the heart
In your darkest hour demons at your door
Feeling like all hope is gone
Just know you're not alone
Soldier on, soldier on
Lifted up with inspiration
To leave behind the desperation
A reckoning, a revelation, a brand new start
A matter of the mind, a celebration of the heart
A matter of the mind, a celebration of the heart
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys/Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP) / Crooked Crown Music (BMI) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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2. |
High On The Water
03:22
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High On The Water
Milton King / Jay Clementi
This old ship
Has been through some battles in its time
It’s taken some hits
There’s rust on the hull, but it still can take a shine
I’m still floating high on the water
I’ve been almost sunk so many times
I’m still floating high on the water
The one thing that’s always kept me safe and dry
God and the guard and the love of my daughter
Still floating high on the water
Generally speaking
I’m always almost running aground
Starboard leaning and leaking
It’s a wonder I ain’t ever gone down, down, down
I’m still floating high on the water
I’ve been almost sunk so many times
I’m still floating high on the water
The one thing that’s always kept me dry is
God and the guard and the love of my daughter
Still floating high on the water
It feels pretty nice just sitting here in spite
Of all the hurt and hell that I’ve been through
I made it, I’m a little jaded
And I still have something to prove
Yeah, I still have got something more to prove
But I’m still floating high on the water
I’ve been almost sunk so many times
I’m still floating high on the water
The one thing that’s always kept me dry is
God and the guard and the love of my daughter
Still floating high on the water
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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3. |
I Need To Tell My Story
02:40
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I Need To Tell My Story
Ledel White / Jeff Wilson / Raymond Moore / David Cagle / Scuba Steve Holt / Milton King / Jay Clementi
Want you to see the true me
Understand what I’m going through
I’m tired of feeling all alone
Got nothing and everything to prove
I need to tell my story
I have a lot to say and I don’t know how to say it
I need to tell my story
I’ve got lot of pain and I can’t make it
Go away, honestly, I just think,
I need to tell my story
I want the ones, that never listened - to start
And stop saying I’m broken
I’m putting together, the pieces I’m missing
Get rid of that guilt I’m holding, and heal my soul
I need to tell my story
I have a lot to say and I don’t know how to say it
I need to tell my story
I’ve got a lot of pain and I can’t make it
Go away, honestly, I just think,
I need to tell my story
My body was there
But my soul was long gone
I did my family wrong,
now I just want to make it back home
I need to tell my story
I have a lot to say and I don’t know how to say it
I need to tell my story
I got a lot of pain and I can’t make it
Go away, honestly, I just think,
I need to tell my story
I need to tell my story
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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4. |
Meteor
03:53
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Meteor
David Cagle / Jay Clementi
Still stuck in the middle of my own war zone
Surrounded by people but I’m still all alone
I’m still rocked by the mortars at night
The enemy is everywhere and nowhere in sight
When I was gone they hung my picture at church
All the prayers kept me alive, so I guess it worked
War made my soul dark as midnight and ice cold
Then I’d come streaking through the sky on a C-5 headed home
All the shame all the rage all that guilt all that pain
Would build into a giant ball of flames
And I’d come crashing right through our front door
Like a meteor
Like a meteor
I was lost and raging mad at the world
I never meant to take it out on my wife and my girls
By not being there even when I was
Not giving them what they needed most, my love
War made my soul dark as midnight and ice cold
Then I’d come streaking through the sky on a C-5 headed home
All the shame all the rage all the guilt all the pain
Would build into a giant ball of flames
And I’d come crashing right through our front door
Like a meteor
Like a meteor
I put a crater in their life I’m going to fill it in
I’m going to be the father I should been
I’m cooling off, the dust is settling
I never want to lose them again
I’m never going to lose them again
War made my soul dark as midnight and ice cold
Then I’d come streaking through the sky on a C-5 headed home
All the shame all the rage all the guilt all the pain
Would build into a giant ball of flames
And I ain't going to do that anymore
Not just come crashing right through our front door
Like a meteor
Like a meteor
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys (ASCAP)
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5. |
Pawpaw's Pride And Joy
01:46
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PAWPAW’S PRIDE AND JOY
Ledel White / Gary Nicholson
I’m a Mississippi boy born and bred
Not a lot of money but I’m well fed
Years ago I met a Mississippi girl
From that day on she became my world
We had some kids and they had some too
Makes me want to sing this little song for you
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Two little girls and a boy
Wish I could be with ‘em every day
Never knew I could love this way
Two little girls and a boy
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Karter and Kloe and Kai
They keep me on a natural high
They call me up on the phone
Say when’s Pawpaw coming home
I can’t hug and hold ‘em enough
Never knew I could love this much
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Two little girls and a boy
Wish I could be with ‘em every day
Never knew I could love this way
Two little girls and a boy
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Wish I could be with ‘em every day
Never knew I could love this way
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Two little girls and a boy
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
Two little girls and a boy
Pawpaw’s pride and joy
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys/Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP)
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6. |
The Water's Edge
02:43
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The Water’s Edge
Steve Holt / Maia Sharp
She got to the point she couldn’t take it anymore
I thought this is not the battle I signed up for
The next thing I knew I was walking out the door
To go on my odyssey
I heard myself saying what I’d been denying
I was talking to the devil, thinking about dying
Like I wasn’t worth saving, like it wasn’t worth trying
I was someone I didn’t want to be
It was drowning me
Then I saw my brothers on the water’s edge
And the fear, it fell away
I’d gone a mile between the man I was
And the man I am today
Sometimes I have that nightmare again
Flight 77 is taking my friends
It used to break me down but now I can bend
And make it to another sunrise
The spirit and the body, they’re both here
With a heart so full, no room for fear
My soul is free, my mind is clear
Now when I close my eyes
I see my brothers on the water’s edge
And the fear, it falls away
And I’ve gone miles between the man I was
And the man I am today
I saw my brothers on the water’s edge
And I knew I’d be okay
With miles between the man I was
And the man I am today
Miles between the man I was
And the man I am today
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Crooked Crown Music (BMI)
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7. |
Why I Pray
03:37
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WHY I PRAY
Raymond Moore / Gary Nicholson
Why I pray
Why I pray
I look for love every day
That’s why I pray
We have our struggles holding us down
Feeling like peace cannot be found
Ain’t no medicine to cure the pain
You take the pills, the hurt remains
So I try to get quiet and listen to my soul
Because I know I have no control
That’s why I pray
Why I pray
I look for hope every day
That’s why I pray
Can’t blame the newsman for the bad news
Can’t blame the losers for all they lose
Everybody knows this life ain’t fair
If you don’t grow you get nowhere
I try to be truthful and follow the path
Forgiveness is there every time I ask
That’s why I pray
Why I pray
I look for mercy every day
That’s why I pray
Through the love of Jesus
I am forgiven
It’s up to me how to go on living
I’ve got a good woman she’s been my rock
The power of her love taught me a lot
Stay true to yourself and love one another
In God’s eyes we all are brothers
That’s why I pray
Why I pray
I get a little closer every day
That’s why I pray
I look for love every day
That’s why I pray
That’s why I pray
That’s why I pray
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony/ATV Cross Keys/Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP)
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8. |
Why Not
02:59
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Why Not
Jeff Wilson / Maia Sharp
I almost turned around in Atlanta
And almost again in Chattanooga
Told my hands and my feet just drive
‘Cause I can’t do this on my own
I looked in the mirror and made a promise
When I promised my family too I knew
I had to break through the wall of fear
And stare down the unknown
I built up that barricade to protect me from the pain
All it did was isolate and shut me in with the shame
So I broke it down brick by brick, thought by thought
I used to have to tell myself why
Now I ask myself why not
Why not be the father, the husband and the friend
Why not climb to the summit and swim in the deep end
Why not wake up and find the way to let myself be free
Why not be the best version of me
I knew I had to tell my story
‘Cause it wasn’t just mine to tell
It was never the plan to be the man
To drag them all through hell
Hey, Atlanta, Chattanooga
Yeah, I didn’t turn around
And it’s all too clear that I belong here
And it’s time take another brick down
I built up that barricade to protect me from the pain
All it did was isolate and shut me in with the shame
So I broke it down brick by brick, thought by thought
I used to have to tell myself why
Now I ask myself why not
Why not
I ask myself why not
© 2021 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Crooked Crown Music (BMI)
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9. |
Fire of the Flash
03:12
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From the fire of the flash
I feel the heat of the past
Getting out of the blast
And moving on
I don’t have control
And I’ve gotta let it go
The harder I fight it
The less I grow
I refuse to go back I removed the mask
And I watched it all disappear
It was hard getting here living with the fear
The fire of the flash
From this point on
I am standing strong
Found the peace within calm
Where I belong
From the heat of this flame
I’m not the same
We all can change
Don’t get me wrong
I refuse to go back so I’ll remove the mask
And watch it all disappear
It was hard getting here living the fear
The fire of the flash
So I’ll make a pledge
To this new oath I accept
It’s my next step
Toward being free
I refuse to go back into the embers of the ash
So I watch them all disappear
It was hard getting here living with the fear
And the fire of the flash
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