Any Given Time

Release Date: December 1, 2008
Label: Kite & String Records
Tracks: 11

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1. The Chai Song
Let's kick off our shoes and drink something hot / I'll tell you what is and you'll tell me what's not / We'll laugh about life and talk theology / Cry about things that aren't the way they should be / The kids are running wild and that's ok / Let's talk another hour or maybe all day // Put on another pot of chai / Take a little while and slow down time / Life is rolling on like it's out of control / Who knows what tomorrow holds / Have some more chai // I wonder who gave you a key to my soul / Tell me how do you know what you know / It's funny how things like this just come around / Find a familiar face in a crowd / You see me how I am and don't walk away / Oh, and something tells me that we'll be ok // Life won't go the way I want / And honesty can't be bought / So won't you look me in the eyes / And tell me what's inside

2. Like Paradise
It's a chicken soup day, rainy and gray, puddles all over the ground / The first day of the year, the heat's on, I hear the cold weather is stickin' around / I wanna go back to sleep, but there's a kid on our feet treating us like a trampoline / It's a quarter past seven in this corner of heaven, there's no place I'd rather be / No place I'd rather be // Let's read some books and give each other funny looks / You never know when a tickle fight might catch you by surprise / And if it rains all day, then that's ok / 'Cause you know to me this looks an awful lot like paradise / It looks a lot like paradise // With our pajamas still on and our favorite song playing on the radio / We'll pretend we can groove, and we'll practice our moves, act like we're singing in a microphone / Set the oven on bake and make a chocolate cake for no good reason at all / Build a town out of blocks and slide around in our socks, go skating down the hall / Go skating down the hall // Put a little umbrella in your cocoa / Put a great big smile on my face / 'Cause I couldn't be happier, no / My favorite people / My favorite place

3. A Little While More
Hello sweet girl, it's been a long, long time / I've been waiting to look into your baby blue eyes / It's the middle of the night, and darlin' that's fine / I'll just hold you for a little while more // Pretty little child, it isn't always easy here / But love is stronger than hate, and hope is bigger than fear / And when I hold you in my arms I'm stronger than I've ever been before / So let me hold you for a little while more // Because the hands of time are pulling us forward / And if I could I'd hold the moon in place / So that I could have a little while longer / Just to memorize your face // Little love of my life, let's take it one day at a time / Tomorrow's coming soon enough, but for now you're mine / I know the winds of change will blow, and babe I know you're gonna soar / But let me hold you for a little while more // Jesus loves you and me, this I know / For the Bible tells me so / Darlin' hold this in your heart if it's the only truth you know / And let him hold you, let him hold you as you grow / Let him hold you, let him hold you as you grow

4. All The Years
Tell me here, tell me now, tell me what I've been missing / Watching life passing by while the water I'm treading / Is rushing me away from who I thought I'd be / Lost a part of myself when real life took over / Tossing dreams to the side and hiding me under / What they call reality when I would rather dream // I remember a time when I reached for the heavens / And I knew I could fly if I wanted / I remember my heart being caught in a story / Where hope was all that I needed / And it never crossed my mind that a dream could fade over time // Standing here in place that's so unfamiliar / Taking steps down a road, never thought I would be here / But the love surrounding me is strong as it can be / Wake me up to the hope and the passion inside me / While the drama unfolds with you here beside me / And together we will see what we were meant to be // Underneath all the years that dream hasn't disappeared / Underneath all the years I haven't disappeared

5. The Valley
When will tomorrow come to stay / Will the morning bring more of the same / The blood of your people cries your name / Father let them see your face // Flow down like a waterfall / Wash their faces with your tears / Living water hide them in your flood / Let love flow strong and clear / Through the valley of the shadow // Fragrant offerings rising on / The desperate prayers of grieving hearts / Thunder rolling is a sob / Escaping from the lips of God // Beautiful is the bride of Christ / Broken lives dressed in white / Held and carried in the light / Through the valley of the shadow

6. I'm Not Like You
I cannot wrap my mind around the way that your mind works / How you'd think to make a living man out of nothing more than dirt / Why you'd paint the sky in shades of blue so beautiful it hurts / So that someday when I fell for you I would know loved me first / And you take my face between your hands and make me look you in the eyes / And when I fight you like the fool I am you hold me like a child // I don't understand you 'cause I'm not like you / The more ground I gain the more I need your grace / Even when I beg you to show me how to wait upon your Word / In the same breath I tell you that I don't have time to waste / It's a good thing I'm not standing in your place // When I used to babble it was just 'cause I was young / Now I've lived enough that reason doesn't cut it anymore / I'm a sage and I'm an idiot all jumbled up in one / You never know at any given time which one will have the floor / You take my faith between your hands and make it beautiful and true / And when I find my feet on shifting sand I'll be hanging onto you

7. Real
I can pull it together pretty well / Make you laugh and think I'm funny / And if I'm clever enough then who can tell / Maybe you'll like who I am / And if I hold myself above the crowd / And I sing for your attention / Maybe I'll find somebody who won't / Walk away when I come down / Find me scattered in pieces of real and make-believe / Find nothing or maybe you'll find me // I want to be real jagged edges and all / And if you think you're brave enough walk with me awhile / All that glitters isn't gold / Can't trust what you see / Come down come down / Be real with me // I can paint on a pretty smile for you / Maybe that'll make you happy / I can quote a pious phrase or two / To show how spiritual I am / Cause if I talk too much then I'm afraid / That you'll know that I am nervous / That I'm just giving you another chance / To see how pitiful I am / Who said love isn't dangerous or worth my dignity / I'm gonna love you and what will be will be

8. Look at Me
Look at me Holy One, burn away the layers / Break me open Holy God, let me pour out at your feet / Like the perfume and the tears from a stronger heart than mine / Look at me and bring me to my knees // Look at me Lovely One, pour your beauty over me / Come into my crazy world and sweep me from my feet / Like the bride of Christ you say I am, I want to live honestly / Look at me and bring me to my knees // I can't hide from you, you are everywhere I run / I am such a fool to even try / Hold me here, make me look at who I am / Look at me and bring me to my knees // Look at me Brilliant One, pour your light into me / Through the shadows of my mind to the truth that sets me free / There's no point in playing make-believe, you love me anyway / Look at me and bring me to my knees

9. Beautiful or Not
Speak words of truth to me, talk only of what's real / The fire in my bones and the wounds that will not heal / The longer that I live the wearier I grow / Of letting pretty things be the only things that show // Speak words of life to me, words that cut me to the core / Find the secrets hidden there, pierce the soul and let it pour / The farther that I run the harder you pursue / Until I find myself running back to you // I don't have to be beautiful / I don't even have to be good for you to love me / What I have is all you want / Here I am, beautiful or not // Come and whisper in my ear, let the truth come flooding in / Filter deep into my bones, take away my breath again / Lay my head on your chest, listen to the rhythm of your love / Until I finally believe I'm the one you're thinking of

10. Starry Nights
Starry nights and beating hearts / You and I were awfully young back then / How could we have come this far / A lot of life has passed right through our hands // And like a fine wine our love is aging / You are still mine and I am yours / We've been torn and put back together / It's only made me love you more, only made me love you more // Candlelight and wildflowers / You would do things just to make me laugh / Stay up talking till all hours / Pray that time would just forget to pass // We still talk into the late night / Finding peace in each other's arms / You breathe courage into my soul / I breathe wonder into yours, I breathe wonder into yours // Starry nights and beating hearts / You and I were awfully young back then / How could we have come this far / Hold my hand and fall in love again

11. 'Tis So Sweet
(Instrumental)

Lyrics: Beth Matheson (with Leigh Matheson on Like Paradise)
Music: John Mark Thomas, Beth Matheson, Faith Needham. 'Tis So Sweet by William J. Kirkpatrick (Public Domain)
Lead Vocals: Beth Matheson
Background Vocals: Faith Needham, Beth Matheson, John Mark Thomas
Keys: John Mark Thomas, Beth Matheson on Look at Me and 'Tis So Sweet
All Other Instruments and Sequencing: John Mark Thomas
Produced, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by: John Mark Thomas
Photos: Mike Matheson
Illustrations: Beth Matheson
Graphic Design: Matthew "Stix" Edmunds

Thanks: John and Faith - Not all siblings grow up to be friends, I'm so glad we did; Mike and Leigh (the reasons I smile so easily!); my family and friends; my Bible study girlies; Glenstone Chapel; Jesus - May we always receive what you have for us.