Testimedley - Neal Morse

2. Overture No. 1 — Instrumental

3. California Nights

Let me take you back to where it all began

Out there on the fast track

Where the mountains stand

Against the sand… in L.A.

Music every night, hung-over everyday

I was gonna make the big time

I could feel it in my fingers when I’d play

Sing it now

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies

Living for the summer moon and the party of life

There’s nothing worse than L.A. days

But those California nights

The barely kept me alive

I woke up in motel rooms under western skies

When I think of the things I did

On those party nights

ITS ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD

THAT I AM STILL ALIVE

I believe God’s grace kept me alive…

I believe it, how about you?

God’s grace kept me alive

God’s grace kept me alive

4, Colder in the Sun

Grace kept rolling off

Like so much rain into a broken cup

It stayed a while but soon was on its way

Just like a prize fighter

Who can hear the count but can’t get up

I’ll sleep a while and fight another day

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window

Closed to everyone

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window

I was growing colder in the sun

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window

Closed to everyone

Like a lock to the door, like a latch to the window

I was growing colder in the sun

5. Somber Days

Breath Blew right out of me

Like wind across a window ledge

My old forgotten ways

Came rushing back on me

The world that held no interest

Gave way to somber days

So many somber days I felt so all alone

(In my suffering I was home)

So many somber days I was so unaware

Of almost anything .but my suffering

How can our sight become so severely limited

We cannot see beyond the step we’re

About to take, the love that we did not make

The years so swiftly gone

So many somber days I felt so all alone

(In my suffering I was home)

So many somber days I was so unaware

Of almost anything .but my suffering

And I felt unsure under a winter sky

And I would waste away

Coldest sun, seemed so far away

Who can heal this heart that’s made of clay?

If you’re feeling down today

If you’re dreading your next breath

Your hurt down to the bone

There is someone here with us

God is close as your next breath

He won’t leave you alone

For your somber days when you feel all alone

(All your suffering He has known)

Through your somber days

When you feel like no one cares

(Touch your memory; he is there)

Through those days…

All these somber days

(He will walk with you all the way)

No matter how it hurts please stay here

One more day, help is on the way

They’ll be no more suffering

6. Sing It High

Can somebody shout «Hallelujah,»

Oh, come on now…

Can somebody shout «Hallelujah,»

«Hallelujah,»

Can somebody give me an «Amen.»

The church sang and danced

and the band cranked up to ten.

They talked about living water,

They sang about Jordan wide

I never felt so out of place in all my life.

Sing it high, sing it low,

sing it everywhere you go,

Jesus will deliver you from suffering.

He’s the way, He’s the goal,

He’s the song in your soul,

Listen with your spirit and you’ll hear it ring.

Oh, I heard it ring in my heart

You know I did, you know I did

I felt something

Something kept calling me back there,

Oh, the love of the people so strong,

Soon I was dancing and clapping and singing along.

Yes I was

Sing it high, sing it low,

sing it everywhere you go,

Jesus will deliver you from suffering.

He’s the way, He’s the goal,

He’s the song in your soul,

Listen with your spirit and you’ll hear it ring.

I heard it, you know I did

Acoustic Guitar Solo

7. The Promise

Princes, principalities, legals and legalities

They have no more power before us

There’s a light that we can see;

there’s a new reality

Can’t you feel he’s reaching for us

There’s a light that we can see;

there’s a new reality

Can’t you feel he’s keeping his promise NOW!

8. I Am Willing

Jesus, is it true what they are saying?

You know in my heart I’ve been praying

'Cause I feel something, is this You that I feel?

Hold me and show me You’re real.

For I am willing,

and I am broken,

All I want is the life You have spoken

Oh Father, if I give you my life

You come turn my night to day

For I am willing,

You don’t have to break me

Take all that I have, don’t forsake me

Oh Father, come and take me, now.

Take me, now

Jesus, spirit deep as the ocean,

I need You and not just emotion.

If You can truly live here within me,

Let this be our great beginning

I am willing,

and I am broken,

All I want is the life You have spoken

Oh Father, if I give you my life

Will You come turn this night to day?

For I am willing,

You don’t have to break me

I don’t know why you died, just to save me

Oh Father, come and take me, now

Take me, now

Take me, now

Take me, now

Take me, now

Take me, now

I want Your freedom Lord

I want Your spirit Lord

I need Your love in my heart

so desperately

so desperately

I don’t want to go on like this

I will wait for you

I will wait for you

I will wait

As long as it takes

For the real thing

8. Oh, to Feel Him

In a moment lost in time,

My life in front of me lay

From my birth to that day,

I caught a glimpse of freedom

And there I stayed,

while the people prayed,

Until He came in, at last

I waved goodbye to my past,

And walked into the kingdom

And I knew it was Him,

I knew it was Jesus

Like the wind you cannot see,

I felt His spirit touching me

Oh, to feel Him,

I knew this was Jesus

There my heart was cleansed of sin,

I can have the world

But oh, to feel Him

And I knew it was Him,

I knew it was Jesus

Like the day of Pentecost

When His love poured out to all the lost

It’s real, it’s real, it’s real

I knew it was Jesus

And there my heart was cleansed of sin,

I can have the world

But oh, to feel Him

to feel Him

Don’t give up on me now

Who is with me?

One, two, three,

9. Rejoice

Rejoice,

for the King is here,

yes He’s with me now

Whispering in your ear

To see a sight, the birth of sound

The God of Heaven to earth come down

Rejoice,

for the King has come,

Let your spirit move now

Let His will be done,

Reflection of God’s window pane

Let dew of Heaven fall like rain

To see a sight, the birth of sound

The God of Heaven to earth come down

His glory lives in sensurround

Yeah

10. God’s Theme 2 — Instrumental