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It's Good To Know Ya!
04:02
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"It's Good To Know Ya!"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
Chorus:
It's good to know ya'
It's good to know ya'
Just goes to show ya'
We've got some common ground
It's good to know ya'
It's good to know ya'
I think I know ya'
Much better now
If you love lima beans raise your hand
If you've got a messed up knee raise your hand
If you've traveled overseas raise your hand
I think I know you better now
(Chorus)
If you love watching football raise your hand
If you're a couch potato raise your hand
If you just love to argue raise your hand
I think I know you better now
(Chorus)
If you are always late raise your hand
If you were born in this state raise your hand
If someone's here you'd like to date raise your hand
I think I know you better now
(Chorus)
If you've got smelly feet raise your hand
If long sermons make you sleep raise your hand
If squeaky chalk gives you the creeps raise your hand
I think I know you better now
(Chorus)
If you're a morning person raise your hand
If you're a late night type for certain raise your hand
If you think this song is hurtin' raise your hand
I think I know you better now
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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Branches On The Vine
03:20
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"Branches On The Vine"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
Spirit come and find us and fill us up
Flow anew inside us, oh source of love
See us busy scurrying a constant race with time
Lost in all this hurrying our lives get so dry
Breezes of the spirit, we need your wind
Teach us how to hear it, your voice within
Call us when you find us trying to make it on our own
Branches on the vine must stay connected to grow
(Chorus)
And when that something deep inside isn't right
When you're feeling disconnected in your life
Well remember Jesus Christ is the source of our life
For we, we're only branches on the vine
Dresser of the vine, come and prune our hearts
Nurture back to life every wounded heart
Craft us with your love, till we're firmly in the vine
Your grace is enough to give a withered branch a new life
Help us as we try to share your roots
We don't need to strive to bear your fruit
No, ours is not to worry what we produce
Ours is to abide and leave the growing up to you
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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"Staring At My Overflowing Plate"
from "Wise As Serpents...Gentle As A Dove" & "Live!" albums.
It's so easy not to see you
Close you out like a shade in the window
Your condition seems so foreign
Are you lazy? Why are you poor?
someone said you and I are connected
That your hunger is linked to my fatness
But how can that be--I never met you
I don't know your name
I've go problems of my own
I'm so busy -- I do good things
And I don't know if I can make room
In my life for your misery
Someone said that the whole world is changing
For you no longer will stand to be used
But talk like that--it makes me frightened
Scared what I might lose
(Chorus)
Jesus is that you in the window
With your nose pressed against the pane
Staring at my overflowing plate?
I've got question of my own
I'm not sure who to trust or believe
Politicians seem so sure you
Pose a threat to my liberty
I go to church and I listen to my pastor
Speak of justice beyond charity
Says the gospel is good news to poor folks (Luke 4:18-19)
But where does that leave me?
(Chorus)
...help me not to pull the window shade
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
Crosswind Music, 1990.
All Rights Reserved.
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"If My Soul Should Be Required Tonight"
from "Wise As Serpents...Gentle As A Dove" & "Live!" albums.
Once there was a farmer
Whose land produced so well
his barns could not contain the excess grain
He built the barns up larger
And then said to himself
I've all I need for years now laid away
But God said to him,
Fool! This night your soul shall be required
And all this wealth of yours
Whose will it be?
(Chorus)
And if my soul should be required tonight
What would Jesus say to me?
If my soul should be required tonight
Would my treasure stay with me?
Would he find me rich in things
Or find me rich in Christ
If my soul should be required tonight
There is always someone
Who's urging me to buy
Who's making luxury look like a need
Investments in convenience
In comfort and in style
With all my satisfaction guaranteed
And its bigger, better, newer, faster
Buy now pay tomorrow
Seduced with credit cards and toll free lines
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
And its so easy to justify
The way I live, and all these things I buy
But this world's so hungry, Lord I've seen the need
Can I truly love, and keep the piles for me? (1 John 3:17-18; James 2:15-17)
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
Crosswind Muisc, 1990.
All Rights Reserved.
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Musician Introduction
02:03
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Dan Stood Here Intro
02:30
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Dan Stood Here
04:38
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"Dan Stood Here"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
The boys and girls in Sunday school remember Mr. Dan
The nice old man who stood next to the door
Every Sunday morning, Dan would smile at the kids
As they entered class to learn about the Lord
I heard the news the other day that Mr. Dan had died
A service had been scheduled to remember Daniel's life
The church was packed with years and years of kids from Sunday school
And many now have children of their own
The pastor said, "I think we all know where Dan used to stand
As he'd greet our kids with smiles and hellos."
And then the pastor read a plaque in memory of Dan
Which now hangs on the wall where Mr. Dan would always stand
(Chorus)
And the plaque says, "Dan stood here
Forty years of Sunday mornings
A ministry of smiling at the children of the church
Dan stood here
Gently calling to us to ask,
Where do we stand in our service to the Lord?"
I couldn't help but sense that God was speaking to us all
As we looked at how old Mr. Dan had lived
You know, some folks come to church to see what they can take away
But a man like Dan just came to church to give
And Mr. Dan did not have much by standards of this world
But God knows all that Dan gave to the church's boys and girls
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
And I left that church service
Thanking God for showing me
That nothing done in Jesus' love is small
A smile, a hug, a warm hello
Might mean more than we see
A gift from Mr. Dan's life to us all
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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Perfect Pastor Intro
00:39
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Perfect Pastor
03:46
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"Perfect Pastor"
from "Wise As Serpents...Gentle As A Dove" & "Live! In Concert" albums.
O Lord we're gathered here tonight
To find a pastor for our church
We pray that you will guide
his here committee as we search
And if its all the same to you
We've written down a thought or two
About the kind of pastor we'd appreciate from you
(Chorus)
O Lord we're only asking for a perfect pastor
We know for you no order is too tall
If you can make the universe in less than a week
You can make a perfect pastor in no time at all
O Lord we're only asking for a perfect pastor
A little less than an angel will be fine
But we'll settle for no less than a perfect pastor
We're tired of the plain old human kind
Now Lord we're open minded here
We'll take a woman or a man
'cause gender never does affect our choice
Yes we'll look at any she
Who's got the qualities
Of being at least six foot tall
With a deep down preacher voice
And Lord we'd like an older man
Someone polished and mature
But young enough to still be looking great
We'd like someone to wow us
With administrative prowess
How 'bout forty years experience
At age thirty eight?
(Chorus)
(Bridge) And the perfect pastor visits all the needy
And he's in his office every single day
And when it comes to salary he's not greedy
He'll take just what you give him
And then give it all away
O we don't' believe that we
Are hard to satisfy
But after all our standards should be high
So when you find the time
Simply zap on down a guy
Who's mastered being everything to everyone all the time
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
Crosswind Music, 1990
All Rights Reserved.
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The Wooden Bell Intro
04:43
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14. |
The Wooden Bell
04:24
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"The Wooden Bell"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
No one listens to the cry of the poor
Or the sound of a wooden bell
No one listens to the cry of the poor
Or the sound of a wooden bell
It's hard to hear two worlds away
The sound is dull and quickly fades
The wooden bell of City Soleil
The open sewage and the flies
The silent screams of hungry eyes
The wooden bell of City Soleil
Lord they don't need me taking guilt trips
And they don't need me feeling sorry for them
They need me praying for the strength of grace
To be a person who will live my faith
(Chorus)
God of good news to the poor
God of what's worth living for
Help my ears to hear the wooden bell
God of all that matters most
God of cross and Easter hope
Help our ears to hear the wooden bell
There are no sound byte TV crews
The wooden bell won't sell the news
The story's old in City Soleil
This is no isolated case
It's two-thirds of the human race
Reality is City Soleil
But they don't need us feeling sad now
They need us living in the joy of Jesus
That's when we hear beyond a rich world's noise
The wooden ringing of the Spirit's voice
(Chorus)
No one listens to the cry of the poor
Or the sound of the wooden bell
No one listens to the cry of the poor
Or the sound of the wooden bell
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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Deeper Than The Valley
03:26
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"Deeper Than The Valley"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
I can't give you reasons why things happen as they do
And I don't know the answers to questions facing you
And I don't know the outcome of what you're going through
But there's one thing that I can promise you
(Chorus)
There is a healer
There is someone whose love is deeper than the valley
And I can't see the mountains
But I do know there's a friend
Who's deeper than the valley you're in
I can't move the storm front when it's threatening to rain
And I can't see tomorrow or even later on today
I can't make them open when the doors have all been closed
But there's one thing I know down in my soul
(Chorus)
When you're walking through the valley of the shadow
Don't be afraid for you are not alone, no, no
There's a shepherd who will lead your weary soul beside still waters
He'll fill your cup until it overflows
(Chorus)
God's love is deeper than any valley you're in
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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"Claimed, Called, And Sent"
from "Bryan Sirchio Live!" album.
Chorus:
Claimed by Christ
Sent by the Holy Spirit
Claimed, called and sent out
To live the word of God
We have been called by the God of the universe
Source and Creator of the Earth
Called by the One who has given birth to us all
Claimed by the God who has come to us
Claimed by the God we can always trust
Claimed by the One who empowers us to become the church
(Chorus)
We have been called by the One whom the prophets heard
Called to proclaim Yahweh's word
Called to receive what we cannot earn on our own
Called to become God's own witnesses
Called to embody the word in flesh
Called to be those through whom God can bless and sow seeds of love
(Chorus)
We have been sent to the wounded and to the poor
Sent to the neighbor next door
Sent to the seeker who knows there's more to this life
Sent to make peace when the nations rage
Sent to help systems and structures change
Sent to speak out where injustice reigns and to take a stand
(Chorus)
Credits:
Music & Lyrics By Bryan Sirchio
1991, Crosswind Music. All Rights Reserved.
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