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Desert Song by Hillsong. Saturday, May 23, 2009 |

This is my prayer in the desert
When all that's within me feels dry
This is my prayer in my hunger and need
My God is the God who provides

This is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flame

I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

This is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on its way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I'll stand

I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be emptied again
The seed I've received I will sow

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Stronger by Hillsong. Saturday, February 14, 2009 |

There is Love
That came for us
Humbled to
A sinner's cross
You broke my shame
And sinfulness
You rose again victorious

Faithfulness
None can deny
Through the storm
And through the fire
There is truth
That sets me free
Jesus Christ who lives in me

You are stronger
You are stronger
Sin is broken
You have saved me
It is written
Christ is risen
Jesus You are Lord of all

No beginning
And no end
You're my hope and my defence
You came to seek
And save the lost
You paid it all
Upon the cross

You are stronger
You are stronger
Sin is broken
You have saved me
It is written
Christ is risen
Jesus You are Lord of all

So let Your name
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher

So let Your name
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher

So let Your name
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher

So let Your name
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher
Be lifted higher

You are stronger
You are stronger
Sin is broken
You have saved me
It is written
Christ is risen
Jesus You are Lord of all

You are stronger
You are stronger
Sin is broken
You have saved me
It is written
Christ is risen
Jesus You are Lord of all

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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover. Saturday, January 24, 2009 |

This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it.
It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is a story of the blurred line between our best and our worst.
It is the story of the end of an age.
A strange thing about stories –
Though this all happened so long ago and so far away that words cannot describe the time or the distance, it is also happening right now. Right here.
It is happening as you read these words.
This is how twenty-five millennia come to a close. Corruption and treachery have crushed a thousand years of peace. This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilisation itself.
This is the twilight of the Jedi.
The end starts now.

The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night’s embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day’s harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it is day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

The dark is generous, and it is patient.
It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt.
The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.
The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.
The dark’s patience is infinite.
Eventually, even stars burn out.

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It always wins because it is everywhere.
It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the mid-day sun and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.

- Adapted from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover, based on the story and screenplay by George Lucas

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Waiting On The World To Change by John Mayer. Friday, January 09, 2009 |

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything is going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would've never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

So while we're waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It's not that we don't care
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

We're still waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

No we keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting, waiting
Waiting on the world to change

Waiting on the world to change
Waiting on the world to change
Waiting on the world to change

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The Time Has Come by Hillsong United. Sunday, August 24, 2008 |

Found love beyond all reason
You gave Your life Your all for me
And called me Yours forever
Caught in the mercy fallout
I found hope found life found all I need
You're all I need

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna give my praise to You

Today today it's all or nothing
All the way
The praise goes out to You
Yeah all the praise goes out to You
Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise in everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

Found love beyond all reason
You gave Your life Your all for me
And called me Yours forever
Caught in the mercy fallout
I found hope found life found all I need
You're all I need

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna give my praise to You

Today today it's all or nothing
All the way
The praise goes out to You
Yeah all the praise goes out to You
Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise in everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

All we are is Yours
And all we're living for
Is all You are
Is all that You are Lord

All we are is Yours
And all we're living for
Is all You are
Is all that You are Lord

All we are is Yours
And all we're living for
Is all You are
Is all that You are Lord

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna give my praise to You

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna give my praise to You

Today today it's all or nothing
All the way
The praise goes out to You
Yeah all the praise goes out to You
Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise
In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

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Any Other World by Mika. Friday, August 22, 2008 |

In any other world
You could tell the difference
And let it all unfurl
Into broken remnants

Smile like you mean it
And let yourself let go

Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in

I tried to live alone
But lonely is so lonely, alone
So human as I am
I had to give up my defences

So I smiled and tried to mean it
To let myself let go

Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in

Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in

Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Say goodbye

In any other world
You could tell the difference

I never ever, I forget my story
My face is not sad, but sometimes, I am sad

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Devotion by Hillsong United. Sunday, August 03, 2008 |

I've been running, trying to be one who sees
I've been working, salvation out on my knees
There is nothing better than knowing that we are redeemed

I'm believing, trusting in creative hands
I am praying for our world to bow to Your plan
And this one thought is unmistakable
I take up my cross and follow You Lord

When You stand the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees

I'm forgiven by a Saviour who did not deserve death
He was blameless and I was lost in shamefulness
I'm delivered but it doesn't seem right
Unless I keep my eyes focused on the Saviour who gave His life

In the middle of a world that denies it believes
It is breaking apart at the very seams
There is one thing to be alive for
And it's to take up my cross and follow You Lord

When You stand the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees
And I fall to my knees

I will take up my cross and follow Lord where You lead me
I will take up my cross and follow wherever You go
And I will take up my cross and follow Lord where You lead me
I will take up my cross and follow wherever You go

When You stand the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees

When You stand the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees
And I fall to my knees

I fall to my knees
I fall to my knees

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Crazy by Simple Plan. Saturday, August 02, 2008 |

Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Young girls dying to be on TV
They won't stop 'til they've reached their dreams

Diet pills, surgery
Photoshop-ed pictures in magazines
Telling them how they should be
It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy
Is anybody gonna save me
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

I guess things are not how they used to be
There's no more normal families
Parents act like enemies
Making kids feel like it's World War III

No one cares, no one's there
I guess we're all just too damn busy
And money's our first priority
It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy
Is anybody gonna save me
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

Is everybody going crazy
Is everybody going crazy

Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Rich guys driving big SUVs
While kids are starving in the streets

No one cares
No one likes to share
I guess life's unfair

Is everybody going crazy
Is anybody gonna save me
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something
Something is wrong

Is everybody going crazy
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

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Pick It Up by Planetshakers. Monday, July 14, 2008 |

I was lost
Now I'm found
Put my feet on solid ground
Now I sing cause I am free

So I'm laying down my life
And I'm taking up my cross

I'm taking up my cross
Laying down my life
All for the glory of Your name
I'm living my whole life
All for You, Jesus
Taking up my cross everyday

I was blind
Now I see
Love has got a hold on me
Now I sing cause I am free

So I'm laying down my life
And I'm taking up my cross

I'm taking up my cross
Laying down my life
All for the glory of Your name
I'm living my whole life
All for You, Jesus
Taking up my cross everyday

I'm taking up my cross
Laying down my life
All for the glory of Your name
I'm living my whole life
All for You, Jesus
Taking up my cross everyday

I choose to stand for my generation
I choose to stand for my generation
I choose to stand for my generation
I choose to stand for my generation

I'm taking up my cross
Laying down my life
All for the glory of Your name
I'm living my whole life
All for You, Jesus
Taking up my cross everyday

I'm taking up my cross
I'm taking up my cross
I'm taking up my cross
I'm taking up my cross

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High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup. Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |

Four years you think for sure
That's all you've got to endure
All the Total Dicks
All the Stuck-up Chicks
So superficial, so immature
And then when you graduate
You take a look around and you say "Hey, wait!"
This is the same as where I just came from
I thought it was over
Aw that's just great

The whole damn world is just as obsessed
With who's the best dressed and who's having sex
Who's got the money, who gets the Honeys
Who's kinda cute and who's just a mess
And you still don't have the right look
And you don't have the right friends
Nothing changes but the faces, the names, and the trends
High school never ends

Check out the popular kids
You'll never guess what Jessica did
And how did Mary Kate lose all that weight
And Katie had a baby so I guess Tom's straight
And the only thing that matters
Is climbing up that social ladder
Still care about your hair and the car you drive
Doesn't matter if you're sixteen or thirty-five

Reese Witherspoon, she's the Prom Queen
Bill Gates, Captain of the chess team
Jack Black, the clown
Brad Pitt, the quarterback
I've seen it all before
I want my money back

The whole damn world is just as obsessed
With who's the best dressed and who's having sex
Who's in the club and who's on the drugs
Who's throwing up before they digest
And you still don't have the right look
And you don't have the right friends
And you still listen to the same shit you did back then
High school never ends
High school never ends

The whole damn world is just as obsessed
With who's the best dressed and who's having sex
Who's got the money, who gets the Honeys
Who's kinda cute and who's just a mess
And I still don't have the right look
And I still have the same three friends
And I'm pretty much the same as I was back then
High school never ends

High school never ends
High school never ends
Here we go again

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