MOUTH OF THE SOUTH LYRICS

1. Prologue

This is my grave this is my gate this is a gun to my head
This is my long walk home from hell
This is my death bed
Put me in the ground and send my flesh to hell
A casket for this skin that's plagued in filth

2. Uprooted

This is my life
I will live it to the fullest, just try and stop me
I'm not wasting my time
I've been given a purpose, I will not let it die

I will not change for you, that doesn't mean that I'm not changing
I'm growing into the man that I was born to be
I'm chasing my dreams
I am living
I follow my convictions
This is my passion

9-5 never cut it for me this is life and I intend on living
You can try to say I'm wasting my time but just because I'm not you doesn't mean that you're right
I am convinced
We're so consumed with life, we've forgotten how to live

Don't hold me back
Cause I am trying to live my life the way I should
It won't make sense to you
And I doubt it ever could
This is the path for me, the only one I've ever known
And even if you're not by my side I am never alone

When will you see that this is the life for me
I will not conform to your way of living
You've made your bed so you could dream
But I've turned my dreams into reality

I am not alone
We are alive, and we will not be stopped
I am not alone
We are alive, and we will not be stopped

3. Selfless

Let's go back, back to the days when I was young, when I was just a child
Before everything got tough and life was care free
I wish I could take you there, back to the good old days. What happened to our family?

Now I am afraid that things won't ever be the same

If I could be half the man that you are
I'd have no fear in me at all
If I could be half the man that you are
I'd be just fine and be filled with strength to stand tall

You've shown me how to be a man

There will never come a time when I am done learning
I just want to make you proud of me

It breaks my heart when I see you hurting, I just want to you to be healed
I will never stop praying for restoration
You've poured your life out for me and my brothers alike
It's honor to call you father and to have been raised by your side

I wish that I could change things for you
Give back to the man who's given everything
I wish that I could change things for you
And show you how much you mean to me

You've shown me how to be a man

If I could take away your pain, I swear I'd give you my heart
You given everything I could ask for nothing more

4. Whanau

What have you gotten yourself into now? Living behind bars you've thrown away your crown. Brother is a funny word for someone like you but the blood that's in my veins is in your veins and I swear I'll pull you through

Look at this life you threw away do you even know what it's worth? When I look into your eyes I can see all the pain, I can see all the hurt
You've run away before but you don't know what you're running from. You're going in circles back to where you begun. If you could see through your eyes without the glaze and without the high you would see that it killed me watching you die.

I watched you die
And now we can't ever go back to the days when you were the only one that kept my head on straight

This is what family is for
Don't you forget that I will stand by you to the grave

This is what family is for

Oh brave climber (oh, brave climber) has this mountain conquered you? Or will you find the strength to live the life that God intended you to lead?
Do you remember (do you remember) that I still look up to you?
And I will be your strength till there is nothing left in me.
(2nd time= "please remember")

Brother I swear I'll pull you through
This is not the end of you

Was heaven not enough, you had to dive into hell?
I know you're searching for a cure but God is not in that needle
Was heaven not enough for you?

5. Monologue

So here we are again, miles apart because I'm stuck in this depression that feels like possession because the progression of my transgressions led to an obsession with digression. So here is my confession.

I don't grow I just regress
Cause I've got this heart full of regret
And the pain keeps seeping in
Now my foundation is a mess Cause when I sit inside this house it never feels like it's my home. I am crashing and I am sinking and I don't wanna go down alone.

So speak to me
I'm sick of talking to these walls. Can you even hear me?

What if I said I don't believe in you?
Would we at least be making progress?
You said luke-warm and you would spit me out
Well I tried to be on fire, but these waves have snuffed me out

I'm washed up on this stage screaming at the heavens up above me. I'm weak and unashamed cause I've got nothing left to lose
If this is what it takes to be alive then I'll scream until my heart is beating
I'm afraid to die, cause I know I'm so far away from you

It's not that I'm lost, it's just that I can't seem to find the strength to carry on, to carry on one more day. I know the way, it's been engraved in my head. But what was supposed to make me alive has left me feeling dead. It's time to come clean so here is the honest
truth. I've let my emotion take the place of you.

Give it time give it time. I've heard it all before. But I've been waiting for so long. Give me something more than an unbelieving heart and malcontent. I'm desperate for the strength to say "I was born for this"

When did emotion become my reality? I've tried and I've tried to be the man that you made me to be.
My flesh is weary and my spirit is dead, I've got so many questions, get them out of my head!

Where were you when my walls came crashing in?
Where were you when she walked away never to come back again? Were you asleep when my heart turned to stone and sunk me into this sea?
Where were you? God, where are you?
Take me back to when I was young (take me back)
I want to feel alive again
I want to love you like I once did

6. Part Two

Where have I been?
Right by your side, before you were birthed into this life. I've been right here with open ears
Was I asleep?
I will never rest, I will never rest until you know that I am for you not against you and I will never let you go
I know, I know, I know that you are hurting
Just know, just know, just know I can feel your pain
I've been here the entire time
With open arms screaming out your name

I never wanted it to be like this
But you have to understand I've got you right in the palm of my hands
Run to me with your broken legs
I'll take your mangled bones and teach you how to stand

I look back, I look back on all the things you've seen and it breaks my heart
But don't forget, don't forget your pain was nailed to me
Lay your burdens down at the foot the cross

When you run away I will chase you
In your darkest days you cannot hide from me

I can see in the dark
I can see in the dark
I can see in the dark
I can see in the dark, come back to me

I can see it in your eyes that your dead
But I can bring you back to life, I can bring you back to life
I can see it in your eyes that your searching
I can be your light, I can be your light
Come back to me, I will set you free, take away your shame and seat you among kings
Open your eyes, I'm right by your side
With outstretched hands screaming, "here am I!"

7. Riddance

I'm sick, so sick of this complacency and the apathy of my heart
Im stuck with paralytic tendencies
This passivity has torn me apart

I am trying to find my way back home
But I've had a hard time with these dry and weary bones
I am a Pharisee by definition
Far too proud to admit when I am wrong
I am a plague to my own existence
I'm killing myself with this repetitious sin
I am a hypocrite!
Wash me clean I am so desperate to be free

Set me free
It's time I called you out
For all pain and death that you have caused
No more holding back
I've drawn my line I won't back down
This is the end of you
No longer a thorn in my side
This is the end of you
I'm taking back my life

Rid me of myself

Cycle endless cycle, when will my hands be clean when will I be set free
I've been asleep all these years with open eyes it's time I wake up

And separate myself from all this pain
You and I are not the same
Im sick of always feeling like I'm weak
God, set me free

So here we are, me myself and I but your voice is in my head
I've got nothing left to lose cause I'm already dead
God, put me to sleep. Put me to sleep, oh God. Put me to sleep. Put an end to my depravity.

And at the end of it all I look back on everything that have made me fall
Now there's only one thing left to say
This is my life... And this time I choose to walk away

8. Convictions

This place is not my home, it wasn’t ever meant to be.
I’m still searching. I’m still searching.
I’ve been held back, I’ve been shut down but I am not dead yet.
I’m still swinging and I’m still holding on to hope.
I’ve been clinging to the edge with just my fingertips and I’ve been praying to God, don’t let me lose my grip.

I will not fall. I will never compromise my faith.
I’m holding firmly to the truth and I will not back down.
This life has drained me dry and though my flesh is weak and broken my soul will never die.

[Ryan Kirby]
I will not settle for what this world has. I’ve danced with the devil in hell and I will not go back. I’ve found myself in the one who calls me son. Take me home, God, let your kingdom come.

This place is not my home I was born for the less traveled road.
I’ve got a lot of growing left to do but I swear that I will see this through.

I’ve felt the weight of the world crash down on me.
I’ve been to hell and back and I’m still breathing
I’ve screamed my lungs out and displayed my flaws but I find rest in the arms of God.
No roots no place to call home.
I’m a wanderer, vagabond; I’m bread for the road.
No roots no place to call home.
I’m a wanderer, vagabond, sustained by God alone

9. Epilogue

If this is life that I'm living then I wonder what death is like.
With a million questions running, I've got the feeling that something is not right
I've tried to be alive, but I've fallen short
I am so sick of this cycle, there must be something more

This is endless
This is sickening
This is everything I never wanted it to be
This is hell
This can't be happening
I'm a failure, I'm a liar, I'm a hypocrite
I am not who I claim to be
What could you possibly see in me?

I could never turn my back on you
Grace like an ocean, I am lost in the depths of your truth
You have seen my heart and the wicked things I've done
And yet you call me "son"

This is my awakening, and my call to arms

Show me this world through the holes in your hands

I'm alive, I'm alive, I have been set free
I was blind but now my eyes are open, I can see I am flawed, I am flawed, but You have made me clean
I know I'm not perfect but I serve a perfect king

I am nothing
You are everything
Let this truth resonate in my soul
Take my life God, I give you control I have stumbled, I have fallen, I've grown weary, and yet I'm still walking
I've been stuck here with all these questions inside my head
But I will never forget the words that you have said

"You are the child of the king you have been set free. There is nothing that can separate you from me. I am the one that calls you son, I formed you in the womb, I conquered the grave, your home is not a tomb."

God this just can't be, I'm so unworthy but your grace has washed me clean and now I'm learning that you’re changing everything and I am not the same, you made everything change...

When you called my name my heart stopped and our pulse became the same
When you calmed my soul I felt the earth shake and the mountains tremble
When you called my name I finally came alive again
When you call me son, I feel your blood in my veins and your breath in my lungs
When you call my name

10. Nothing But The Blood

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain:]
Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For my pardon, this I see,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my cleansing this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain]

Nothing can for sin atone,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Naught of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain]

This is all my hope and peace,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
This is all my righteousness,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain]

Now by this I’ll overcome—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
Now by this I’ll reach my home—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain]

Glory! Glory! This I sing—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
All my praise for this I bring—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

[Refrain]







MOUTH OF THE SOUTH LYRICS