The Flood (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] - Joshua Hyslop

We've been in seasons of drought We've drawn from so many waters But, still we're parched like a desert Our hearts are still desperate We've heard of One who can save We've heard of One who can fill us And though we've wandered away We're longing for Jesus Let the empty wells Stay empty still Every broken cistern Never give us fill That our feet may run On the heights back to the One Who always will May we taste and see That every other thing leaves us dry May we taste and see That You alone satisfy May we taste and see That You're the only way to life, God You alone satisfy us Let the empty wells Stay empty still Every broken cistern Never give us fill That our feet may run On the heights back to the One Who always will May we taste and see That every other thing leaves us dry May we taste and see That You alone satisfy May we taste and see That You're the only way to life, God You alone satisfy us Flood the banks Fill your people Flood the banks Fill your people Flood the banks Fill your people O, Mighty River, flow Flood the banks Fill your people We're dry and weary souls Flood the banks Fill your people O, Mighty River, flow Flood the banks Fill your people We're dry and weary souls Flood the banks Fill your people O, Mighty River, flow Flood the banks Fill your people We're dry and weary souls We're dry and weary souls We're dry and weary souls May we taste and see That every other thing leaves us dry May we taste and see That You alone satisfy May we taste and see That You're the only way to life, God You alone satisfy us You're the only way to life, God You alone satisfy us You alone satisfy You alone You alone satisfy You alone You alone give us life Flood the banks Fill your people Flood the banks Fill your people Flood the banks Fill your people

Am I the one to hold This crown of ash and salt? Their kindness calls to me I have to block it out My voice has grown so somber These words don't seem like mine But the iron won't subside No matter, no matter what I try Am I raindrops in the flood? In this emptiness, in the storm If I falter, if I fall The wave inside my soul carries all I know Who can take my hand in the flood? A voice calls me forth Through darkness unknown My heart with silence burns Through solemnness and bone The edge beyond the shore This weight of wood and rot I long to reach the other To find, to find the path we lost Am I raindrops, in the flood? In this emptiness, in the storm If I'm broken, if I'm torn The wave inside my soul carries all I knew Who can take my hand in the flood?

Turn the lights out, in the lighthouse I saw you coming Felt the shipwreck, saw the wreckage I heard you yelling Just then that's when I saw your reflection in the sand Wondering where you had washed up Oh, I ran to the water (mmm) I could put my hands down in it But it won't bring nothing up Sitting on the shore all day Just waiting on the tide to come But you can't hold on to water It fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like a flood of love Bring it on Stay the night out, by the beach house It's oh so quiet Lit a candle, by the window So you might find it Hope you know you'll always have a place to call your home Still I can't help but think I could have saved you from drowning (oooh) I could put my hands down in it, yeah But it won't bring nothing up Sitting on the shore all day Just waiting on the tide to come But you can't hold on to waterIt fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like a flood of love Bring it on I knew the waves were icy When I felt them all retreating Went to take a dive in the deep end Oh, what was I thinking? But you can't hold on to waterIt fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like (love me like) a flood of love Bring it on (Ohh ohh) The rising and the falling of my tears Rising and the falling of my tears that fill the ocean The ocean The ocean My tears that fill the ocean

Higher than the yonder mountain and deeper than the sea From the breadth of the east unto the west Is the love that started with a seed Stronger than the wildest horses and the rising tide The chords of death hung so heavy round our necks Will be left at the great divide Flood waters rise, but it wont wash away Love never dies, it will hold on more fierce than graves Farther than the pale moon rises upon the open plains Past the time of the longest blood line There shines an immortal flame Somewhere in between forever and the passing days There's a place moth and rust cannot lay waste This is grace, the face of love Flood waters rise, but it won't wash away Love never dies, it will hold on more fierce than Flood waters rise, but it won't wash away Love never dies, it will hold on more fierce than graves

Pull this little thread And watch it grow and watch it spread Wider than the dawn Further in and farther on Who could comprehend The path it takes or know its plan? Oh, the mystery of what may come And what shall be Hear the waves crash down As they shape the shore and in their sound Each one lives its life In its own way, in its own time And would you say to them Hold your tongues? Or come not hence? To live a life that's free Is to sing and dance In the melody Now I understand That there are dreams and there are plans And some shall see the light But there are those that will pass by So I've come to hope Though I can't say and I can't know That in the end I'll be With the friends I know And who know me

It's a long and lonely road When you are on your own, all by yourself The emptiness that lays deep within your bones To love somebody else Cause when you're gone, lord knows, you'll be gone When you're gone, oh, you'll be gone I am not a stranger to the dark or to the cold I know them well All the pride hidden deep inside my soul Oh, to be somebody else But when I'm gone, lord knows, I'll be gone When I'm gone, oh I'll be

This was both of us together Every part was joining in All like solitary feathers Move with purpose through the wind When so many of us forfeit Before we simply lose the plot This was everything I wanted And I gave everything I've got Well, there's not much that I can say To make you change your mind You drifted further every day Until the well runs dry Runs dry, runs dry, oh Was it all the complicated Making mountains out of dust Does it leave you feeling jaded I'd imagine that it does Well, there's not much that I can say To make you change your mind You drifted further every day And the well ran dry Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh There's not much that I can say To make you change your mind You drifted further every day Til the well runs dry Runs dry, runs dry Runs dry, runs

This is not the end It's the start When all that's broken mends All that came apart And I looked into your eyes And I saw fear of hurt, because of me Of both with uncertainty And I looked into your eyes And you lied If you fall, you fall I will never let you go If you fall, you fall I will never let you go (Ooh-ooh-ooh) So you start again Pick up where you stopped You beg to be let in But still refuse to knock And I heard you when you called Oh, I heard you saying Hope in what you cannot see Hope is not some guarantee, no Oh, I heard you when you called Do you hear me? And you fall, you fall But I will never let you go And you fall, you fall But I will never let you go And you fall, you fall But I will never let you go (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

There's something about the winter's down in Texas Something in the wind that burns my eyes No way that I could keep from being reckless When nothing but a drink can ease my mind Now I've had enough of wanting to be wanted I've had enough of living in despair They say that brighter days will surely find me But I've never seen the sun like I did there So I'm packing up my bags and heading westward Looking for a place to call my own And I know I could find peace down in the valley But something about the water calls me home Well, in my heart there's two roads that diverge now And I'm sorry I can only travel one But living's only living once you've chosen To stop wasting time wondering what you might've done So I'm packing up my bags and heading westward Looking for a place to call my own And I know I could find peace down in the valley But something about the water calls me home So I'm packing up my bags and heading westward Looking for a place to call my own And I know I could find peace down in the valley But something about the water calls me home Oh I know I could find peace down in the valley But something about the water calls me home