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Broken Down Angel

by Sarah Kallies

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1.
Jericho 04:02
Mirror mirror, hiss and slither Forbidden disgrace, your little taste A fortified city, your land of plenty A hardened shell, your private hell I'm bringing down your Jericho Chorus Through the layers, there's beauty below What's lost behind the walls of your Jericho A poison plunder, your burning hunger Innocent feast, your sweet deceit Timid tiger, raging fire A hidden affair, this lovers snare I'm bringing down your Jericho Chorus Bridge Followed the crowd, disowned desire Discovered places less desired Chasing after the world, it's a lonely race In the end you will find you've lost your fire Living for gain, seeking wealth and fame Inside your Jericho, that's not real life, no Inside your Jericho Chorus
2.
On My Own 04:18
My soul breaks under the weight of chaos I cannot rewind Pause reveals a mirage of chasing horizons and losing time He touched my face, I lost my breath, He pulled me in, I can undone But a rift has left me alone not knowing the taste of love I want to know just what you know that keeps you from thinking I can do it on my own Chorus Letting go feels like the first time you said goodbye All I know, Feels like I've lost time that never was mine And now I'm on my own Not alone when your love was dressed as my hope in your arms, was I home or wrong cloaked in right You touch my sin, I find my breath, I hear you call, Can you hear me A voice so soft and sweet, the deep calls out to deep I want to know just what you know that keeps me from thinking I can do it on my own Chorus Letting go feels like the first time you said goodbye All I know, Feels like I've lost love that never was mine And now I'm on my own Bridge Despite the raging storm I drifted in peace Things were not what they seemed I stepped out on the water but slipped to depths below Without him this breath can't last for long He's all that I cannot do on my own Chorus
3.
Used to shine like diamonds, glitter like gold Burned bright like a flame, white hot as a coal But time brought the rain and cold winter wind And if not for you it would have done me in Chorus You find in my something sacred It's been there all along You give me every breath I'm taking You sing me like a beautiful song On days when I'm crawling, can't find my feet I'm bent and I'm breaking, bruised like a reed You come and you hold me, take my face in your hands Whisper all is forgiven, you help me to stand Chorus
4.
Had the cape and stars to soar above the ground Wasn't enough to stop it all from crashing down Stayed inside the lines, conformity that surrounds Was like flying with your wings broken and bound So I shed all sense of reason and this is what I found Chorus I am broken, I'm an angel, I'm a broken down angel Poison saturates, a hundred Sundays couldn't heal A cold and empty shell pleading only not to feel Condemned by my mind when shame was all I knew How was I to know my deepest sin was not my deepest truth Did you know your deepest sin is not your deepest truth Chorus You are broken, you're an angel, you're a broken down angel Bridge If you've ever danced the line of death and life, despair and strife You have to feel the pain to write its taste, experience the grace I'm a broken down angel and I'm waiting to take flight Gonna leave the midnight sky and take it's light, which once was bright Chorus
5.
Unspoken 04:08
Speech given life we can't get back The art of words to free or distract In search for something that is real When words seeking truth can kill I don't wanna read between the lines Or search for hidden meaning, no I don't wanna live like a chameleon Always changing how I'm feeling Chorus So I'll wait here and I'll stay here The silence unbroken, in the unspoken I'll wait here and I'll stay here Til your silence unbroken brings the unspoken to life A loss for words can really say it This space between us makes a statement Trusting a heart that's often wrong Feels like you're already gone It's amazing how I could talk for hours And still have said nothing at all And somewhere lost inside the silence I can hear your distant calling Chorus
6.
We had a season, it's hard to believe Just a season but a lifetime to me Things you knew so well seem now to fade with time I pray this song will ease your tired mind When all my years could number many more But Jordan parted water and I found her distant shore Chorus When all my tears have made an ocean And the waves have run their course But in the silence they're still crashing With the sound of freedoms roar Knowing that someday soon We will walk the Eastern shore Your world's a puzzle and I'm the missing piece For you it'll never again be quite so complete Time has no place in heaven but it slowly passes there Your days turn into weeks and months into years But someday soon all things will be made new And once again a season of life will hold both me and you Bridge I'm okay now Chorus
7.
Moving from place to place is all I've ever known Each time I've left behind a piece of my soul So this is my ode to Hanzel and Gretel For all I've lost, all I've left scattered behind Home is a word I could never define Chorus When the steps that I've traced have been erased And I can't find my way home Hey prodigal daughter, hey prodigal son I still believe love will come to me when nowhere is home This lonely life has kept me locked away inside Every new friend has brought me to a new goodbye My head aches inside with things I cannot get out A whispered scream, a muffled cry, a quiet shout Longing for things that I cannot get back Chorus Bridge Come find me, I'm waiting Come find me waiting Chorus
8.
Beautiful boy, slipping away Everything shattered, heart gone astray Time crept in, stole your strength and now you say I've nothing to show for but this myth of always and always Chorus The always that you've known shimmers and fades The always that I give will never fail When those words turned into stone What once was trust now crushing your sweet bones Still inside you have craved and now you say There must be much more than this myth of always and always Chorus Bridge What's rendered you silent, caused this distaste for love It hasn't killed your spirit that's flown like the dove Facing snares of death you've opened our wounded wings To carry yourself once more to find the always you seek (the always you seek is me) Come find my shore Come find my love
9.
Stained 04:20
What feels like yesterday in my memory plays Would it've been better if I kept it together Numb from head to feet, couldn't be weak Hatreds hand prints reveal lost innocence Ears they could've bled from the false words said It was just another day that gave painful birth To my personal hell on earth Chorus These words are all that's left to see the chaos that one night can bleed There's no pain so deep my friend, the angels have not found my bed This bed it coldly lays like an open grave Holding the pain, cradling the stains Walls were paper thin, cruelly hid the sin My frantic screams never found the air Trapped inside my head, haunting me instead I washed my body, never clean enough Tears were all that weren't stolen Chorus Bridge Learning to live again, finding peace that mends Worn in body in mind There is beauty and redemption in any stained life Chorus I pray for angels around my bed
10.
There's a preacher on tv selling the truth offering flesh and bone There's a girl on the street selling the truth The only truth she's ever known Curtain of a confessional, plastic pane of a prison cell The fruit may be different in the light of redemption But the tears all taste the same Chorus I've felt the ocean kissing my face Salty like my tears they're soft and slow I've been a sinner, I've been a saint Still I am neither and I am both Beneath every surface a deeper truth of struggling flesh and bone Stories of imperfection sing sovereign truth The only truth we've ever know Some live their lives in line some live in lies But soon enough we all will find In this dance of sinner and of saints Our tears all taste the same Chorus Ancient hillside beckoning, blind and lame The healing of flesh and bone A man like we've never seen, the Nazerene The only truth we'll ever know Soldiers and priests, beggars and thieves Pain knows no boundaries Another hill a tomb and risen King But his tears fall just the same They fall down here like rain Chorus

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released August 14, 2012

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