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DOUBLE TAKE

01 Judas' Kiss
Words and music: Bob Hartman

I wonder how it makes You feel when the prodigal won't come home
I wonder how it makes You feel when he'd rather be on his own
I wonder what it's like for You when a lamb has gone astray
I wonder what it's like for You when Your children disobey

It must be like another thorn stuck in Your brow
It must be like another close friend's broken vow
It must be like another nail right through Your wrist
It must be just like Judas' kiss

I wonder how it makes You feel when no one seeks Your face
I wonder how it makes You feel when they give up in the race
I wonder what it's like for You when they willingly disobey
I wonder what it's like for You when they willingly walk away
02 The Coloring Song
Words and music: Dave Eden

Red is the color of the blood that flowed
Down the face of someone who loves us so
He's the perfect man, He's the Lord's own Son
He's the Lamb of God, He's the only One
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can make the love between us flow

Blue is the color of a heart so cold
That will not bend when the story's told
Of the love of God for a sinful race
Of the blood that flowed down Jesus face
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can keep our hearts from growing cold

Gold is the color of the morning sun
That shines so freely on everyone
It's the sun above that keeps us warm
It's the Son of love that calms the storm
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can turn our mornings into gold

Brown is the color of the autumn leaves
When the winter comes to the barren trees
There is birth, there is dead, there is a plan
There is just one God and there's just one Man
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can make our sins as white as snow
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can turn our mornings into gold
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can keep our hearts from growing cold
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can make the love between us flow
03 Dance
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: John Elefante

I've been to the party and I left alone
I danced with a few that I'd be better off on my own
I've been to altar and I know I've kneeled
I ended up dancing in the grass of another field
Then someone told me, I heard someone say

Dance with the One who brung ya
Dance with the One you know who got you there
Dance with the One who brung ya
Don't change hats you know it's the one you wear

My feet start moving down inside my shoes
But I don't want to settle for the beat of a lonely blues
And there's no use dancing to a different drum
When I've seen what happens and I know what will become
I can testify, it's never worth a try

I looked high, I looked low
You're never gonna find someone who loves you so
Stand tall, stand strong
You're only gonna see you're right where you belong
Don't try to fix what has never been broke
04 Beyond Belief
Words and music: Bob Hartman

We're content to pitch our tent
When the glory's evident
Seldom do we know the glory came and went
Moving can seem dangerous
In this stranger's pilgrimage
Knowing that you can't stand still you cross the bridge

There's a higher place to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau
Beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief

Leap of faith without a net
Makes us want to hedge our bet
Waters never part until our feet get wet
There's a deeper place to go
Where the road seems hard to hoe
He who has begun this work won't let it go

And it takes so long
To see the change
But we look around
And it seems so strange
We have come so far
But the journey's long
And we once were weak
But now we are strong
05 The Longing
Words and music: Joel Hanson and Tony Wood

In each heart there is a longing
In each soul a desperate cry
To know if life holds some true meaning
Or do we simply live and die?
Earthly pleasures and possessions
Leave the seeking spirit dry
In each heart there is a longing
Only Jesus satisfies

In each life there comes the question
"Is there more than meets the eye"
And "What will we see of the Eternal
When the well of days runs dry?"
So we search with so few finding
The difference between truth and lies
While in each heart there is a longing
Only Jesus satisfies

The mystery on a hillside
The purest love expressed
Guilty lips cried "Forgive me!"
In that moment I found rest

So we search with so few finding
The difference between truth and lies
While in each heart there is a longing
Only Jesus satisfies
06 He Came, He Saw
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Bob Hartman and John Elefante

He came along into the battle
He knew nobody else could face His foe
He left His throne, He left His glory
He knew nobody else could ever go
He called the bluff, He took the challenge
He came into this world to seek and save
No one could know, no one could fathom
The way to win was only through the grave
They laid Him in His tomb
They thought they'd sealed His doom
But He rose, He rose

He came, He saw, He conquered death and hell
He came, He saw, He is alive and well
He was, He is and only He forgives
He died, He rose, He lives
He came, He saw, He conquered

The doors were locked, they heard Him knocking
They were afraid they would be taken too
Familiar voice said: Come and follow
Come and see the things the Lord can do
They went to where He lay
The stone was rolled away
But He rose, He rose

He came into this world
He saw humanity
He heard the S.O.S.
He met the enemy
The enemy was conquered
The enemy was conquered
07 Beat The System
Words and music: Bob Hartman

Caught in the undertow, being swept downstream
Going against the flow seems like such a dream
Trying to hold your ground when you start to slide
Pressure to compromise comes from every side
Wise up, rise up

You can be more than a conqueror
You will never face defeat
You can dare to win by losing all
You can face the heat
Dare to beat the system

On the assembly line, trying to break the mold
Time to throw the wrench that will stop it cold
Going against the odds, being the underdog
Dare the wield the sword that will slice the fog

You can go for it all
You can go for broke
You can turn the tide around
You can aim for the top
And take the lion's share
If you dare to hold your ground
08 This Means War
Words and music: Bob Hartman

Son of the morning, highest of all
You had so much going, till you took the fall
Had a place in the glory but you wanted it all
Impossible odds but you had the gall
It seems so unlikely that you would rebel
Such a worthy opponent that you knew so well
But you went down fighting when you heard the bell
Took a third of all heaven when you went to hell

This means war
And the battle's still raging
War
And though both sides are waging
The victor is sure and the victory secure
But till judgement we all must endure
This means war

Then came the cross, you thought you had won
You thought you had conquered God's only Son
So much for Jesus, you said in jest
Then you got a visit from an unwelcome guest

This is the war that we've already won
Victory is ours through God's only son

Now it's all over, down to the wire
Counting the days till your own lake of fire
But you'll go down fighting for all that you're worth
To try to abolish His image on earth
09 Breathe In
Words and music: Pete Orta

When the rain was coming down on my face
Your love was the sun that I embraced
All the things in my heart for so long
Need to fall in the sea of forever gone
When there's days I could really fall in
It's in the dark you may see your only friend
So visit me in my castle of sand
Fill the walls with Your presence once again

You can hear me and I can feel You when

I close my eyes and I dream
Of the day You'll come for me
I close my eyes and I dream
But until the day
I need Your love to set me free
I want you to
Breathe into me

Living life is what I want out of me
To capture love and then to set it free
So give me wings and I'm out of here
To set in flight all the things You made so clear

I've walked the line
Between love and fear
And took the time
To know life is sheer
Take me with You

It moves too fast
Oh, this world I'm in
To face the past
Lets me rest again
I'll take You with me
10 Creed
Words and music: Bob Hartman

I believe in God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son - I believe in the virgin birth
I believe in a Man of sorrows, bruised for iniquities
I believe in the Lamb who was crucified and hung between two thieves
I believe in the resurrection on the third and glorious day
And I believe in the empty tomb and the stone that the angel rolled away
He descended and set the captives free
And now He sits at God's right hand and prepares a place for me

This is my creed
The witness I have heard
The faith that has endured
This truth is assured
Through the darkest agest past
Though persecuted it will last
And I will hold steadfast to this creed

I believe He sent His Spirit to comfort and reveal
To lead us into truth and light, to baptize and to seal
I believe that He will come back the way He went away
And receive us all unto Himself but no man knows that day

I believe He is the judge of all men small and great
The resurrected souls of men receive from Him their fate
Some to death, some to life, some to their reward
Some to sing eternal praise forever to our Lord
11 Praying Man
Words: John Lawry
Music: John Lawry and Jim Cooper

Noah saw the coming of the flood
When Moses prayed God parted the Red Sea
And David dropped the giant to His knees
God changed the course of history

Faith lives in folded hands
Mountains move when you make a stand
It's never been a case of slight of hand
It's the power, the power of the praying
I see the power, I see the power of the praying man
I see the power, I see the power of the praying man

Jesus turned the water into wine
He rules the earth, the wind the sky

Prayer is alive and well today
Prayer works when you take the time to pray

Faith lives in folded hands
Mountains move when you make a stand
I see the power, I see the power of the praying man
12 Just Reach Out
Words and music: John Schlitt and Rich Gootee

Sometimes the night seems to go on for days
When it's hard to see the light through the darkness and haze
While the world around you makes you feel out of place
And the burdens that you carry are just too hard to face

Just reach out and He'll reach in
Take your broken heart and make it whole again
It don't matter who you are or where you've been
Just reach out and He'll reach in

Standing in a crowd, still all alone
Crying out for answers that nobody knows
Everybody's busy looking out for themselves
Is there anyone who really cares about anyone else?

You say you've walked ten thousand steps away
But don't you know that it's only one step back
Because the One who hears you when you pray
Is the One who's there beside you and He'll never walk away