It's nice to be recognized.
I'm not really a competitive type of person.
I find that that brings out the bad qualities in people.
And yet, winning awards was definitely a pat on the back.
I remember the first award I won, I thought somebody definitely made a mistake.
It was the wrong envelope.
The second year, I thought, well, maybe it was just luck or something.
And now I'm beginning to think that there's something to this.
Big One Miracle is kind of a dream-like song.
It's not necessarily one specific dream I had, but it's kind of like a vision, a day
dream, let's say, a reoccurring day dream that I had.
It's also a song, one of the last songs I wrote for the record.
And it's more of a spiritual type of song about hope.
And I thought it was great that we started the record off with the song as the first
single.
I thought it was a fitting way to begin this record.
Wow.
Awesome.
Bring in a six-trees, a world in fact, she sits at my door.
Angel of mercy, tired prayer, she's been strumming the same old chord.
She says, let me grant you, let me grant you one wish.
Just look beside my back and honey, take your things, set your conscience, and then just sit you lose your hope.
And no miracle will be yours.
So give it away, a miracle.
Give it away, freedom at home.
Give it away, a miracle.
And no miracle will be yours.
She will get it in the grasp of a world if she can.
Every miracle that she holds.
Oh, faith is a virtue, grace divine.
She's an angel, tired to her clothes.
She says, let me grant you, let me grant you one wish.
Just look beside my back and honey, take your things, set your conscience, and then just choose your course.
And no miracle will be yours.
So give it away, a miracle.
Give it away, freedom at home.
Give it away, a miracle.
And no miracle will be yours.
Ring in a six-string, a world in the back.
She sits at my door.
Angel of mercy, tired and pregnant.
She'll be strong in the same home.
Oh, give it away, a miracle.
Give it away, freedom at home.
Give it away, a miracle.
And no miracle will be yours.
Give it away, a miracle.
Give it away, freedom at home.
Give it away, a miracle.
And no miracle will be yours.
Feel an empty inside, got a hole in my soul.
Listen, feel wide and I'm sinking deep for everything.
Seems like everybody I see should be trying to compete in.
But the same is the truth about me.
People say, hey, hey, what about us?
A little salvation's what I'm thinking of.
I need somebody to come and rescue me.
A little salvation.
Feel an empty inside, got a hole in my heart that I can't hide.
And it's getting deep for every day.
Feels like everybody I meet will see me crying out for some of my need.
Somebody to come and set me free.
People say, hey, hey, what about us?
A little salvation's what I'm thinking of.
I need somebody to come and rescue me.
A little salvation.
Give me, give me, give me a quick fix.
I need some now.
I can't wait for the saints to turn my days around.
Hell and damnation's just salvation upside down.
Won't you help me?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What about us?
A little salvation's what I'm thinking of.
I need somebody to come and rescue me.
A little salvation.
What about us?
A little salvation's what I'm thinking of.
I need somebody to come and rescue me.
A little salvation.
Oh, what about us?
A little salvation.
Salvation
Let it go
Lift up your head
See an ash-up in the splatter
And tell us it's time
To spin the sky
But if you believe
Zero hours, just a new day to you
I've never worn
It's just a storm
Before it comes
Oh, oh
In the name of liberty
In the air, shall deliver you, deliver me
I'm here alone
It's just a storm
Before it comes
Lift up your heart
We are so just a light
Imitating what the time is telling us
We await as one
And if we believe
We can work for all of people's unity
It's just a storm
One last word before it comes
Oh, oh
In the name of liberty
In the air, shall deliver you, deliver me
I'm here alone
It's just a storm
Before it comes
Oh, oh
Yeah
Oh
Oh, oh
In the name of liberty
In the air, shall deliver you, deliver me
I'm here alone
It's just a storm
Before it comes
Yeah
In the name of liberty
In the air, shall deliver you, deliver me
I'm here alone
It's just a storm
Before it comes
Well, oh, man
I'm so woman
He'll keep his mind on nothing else
He'll turn the world
And clean his mind
And if she's mad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on the best man
And kill her down
Well, the man loves a woman
Spill his very last dial
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all of his comfort
And save out in the rain
If she said that's the way it ought to be
Well, the man loves a woman
Give her everything that he can
Yeah
Trying to hold on to his precious love
Why, baby, please don't take me back
Oh, well, the man loves a woman
Down down deep in his soul
She can bring him such misery
And if she played him awful
Lord, oh, he's the last one to know
His loving eyes can never see
Well, the man loves a woman
Give her everything that he can
Yeah
Trying to hold on to his precious love
Why, baby, please don't take me back
Oh, well, the man loves a woman
Down down deep in his soul
She can bring him such misery
And if she played him awful
Lord, oh, he's the last one to know
His loving eyes can never see
Yeah
Ooh
Yeah
Ooh
When a man loves a woman
Yeah
Ooh
It has been raining for so long
I have been praying for a break in the storm
But in the thunder I hear your name
And it gets me under
Underneath all the pain you've left
I've got to get on with my life
Ooh, but I don't know how
How
Tell me how, baby
How many rivers to cross
How, baby
How many grasses to bury
How, baby
How many miles do I get to play
Ooh, without you
I have been waiting for so long
This woman I see
She can't wait for no sound of thunder
No thread of rain
Oh, can't get me under
Underneath all this pain
I've got to get on with my life
Ooh, but I don't know how
How
Tell me how, baby
How many rivers to cross
How, baby
How many grasses to bury
How, baby
How many miles do I get to play
Ooh
How many, baby
Ooh
So tell me how
How many rivers to cross
How
How many grasses to bury
How
How many miles do we get to play
Oh, no, no, no
Tell me how
How many rivers to cross
How many grasses to bury
How many
How many miles do we get to play
To play, to play
To get to play
Oh
Tell me, tell me, tell me
How many
Do we get
To get there
Do we get there
To get there
Are we, are we gonna get there?
space is ours
Hey!
I, I'm in my hands and you, you're your subscription
Swept, guilt by association
There is no justification
No reason at all
We all point the finger
I take a bow
I walk the road with no deviation
I'm innocent
Now I feel the sting of your accusations
I, I am a thousand times
Ready to try and verify my innocence
It's all I have
No justification
But it's always the same
We all point the finger
I take a bow
I walk the road with no deviation
I'm innocent
Now I feel the sting of your accusations
I'm innocent
There is no explanation
I know it isn't right
I shouldn't have to fight
By the indication
But I won't say no
There is no explanation
No one has
I walk the road with no deviation
No one has
Never been the sting of your accusations
I, I walk the road with no deviation
Never been the sting of your accusations
I'm innocent
Always innocent
I walk the road with no deviation
Always innocent
When love's a strain
There's nothing you can do about it
But who can say
I won't be better off without it
I might be down
But don't count me out
There's a world I wanna know all about
You can say I'm just dreaming
I've always been an optimistic one
I can't help feeling that the best is yet to come
Then comes the time
Ain't nothing you can do to stop it
Right now it's fine
I'm gonna make the best out of it
Don't hold your breath
You're waiting on me
Today is just tomorrow's history
You can say I'm just dreaming
I've always been an optimistic one
I can't help feeling that the best is yet to come
You can say I'm being foolish
Well maybe that's so
I'm not afraid of letting go
Ooh, there's nothing you can do about it
Hey, I know you say
I won't be better off without it
Ooh, I'm gonna take my heart off the shelf
I made a promise to be good to myself
You can say I'm just dreaming
I've always been an optimistic one
I can't help feeling that the best is yet to come
Oh, oh, the best is yet to come
Oh, oh, let it come, let it come
In my mind, I've got it all figured out
But the hate does not always rule the heart
And I tried to place him at a burning soul
Just when I thought I'd made it
His images start taking that toll on me
I feel his memory haunting me time and again
I feel the weep
Because every time I see your picture I cry
And I learn to give all of you one more time
Because every time I see your picture I cry
Oh, I cry
There you rest inside the walls of a brain
Hurts so bad it almost made your eyes callin' out my name
So I live body and soul everywhere I go
Illusion or reality I don't know
I feel your memory haunting me time and again
I feel the weep
Because every time I see your picture I cry
And I learn to give all of you one more time
Because every time I see your picture I cry
Oh, I cry
Oh, because every time I see your picture I cry
And I learn to give all of you one more time
Because every time I see your picture I cry
Oh, I cry
When I sit down to write a song I know it's not going to change the world
I write from personal experience
And if just one person sits down and listens to the song, reads the lyrics, and gets something out of it
Then I feel I've achieved something
You can dance, come on!
One, two, three, four!
I, I with my hands in the air
You with your suspicions when given by association
There is no justification, no reason at all
We're appointed to be your own
I take a role, I walk the road with no deviations
No feel-mistake, oh yeah, I'm your best friend
I, I am a bounce, I am a bounce
Ready to try and learn by my instinct
Oh, I have no justification
It's always the same, we're appointed leader
I take the blame, I walk the road with no deviations
No feel-mistake, oh yeah, I'm your best friend
I take the blame, I walk the road with no deviations
I will take the blame, no, no, no