A Better World

01 With My Own Two Hands – Jack Johnson (Curious George)

I can change the world with my own two hands
Make it a better place with my own two hands
Make it a kinder place with my own two hands
With my own, With my own two hands

I can make peace on earth with my own two hands
I can clean up the earth with my own two hands
I can reach out to you with my own two hands
With my own, With my own two hands

I'm going to make it a brighter place with my own two hands
I'm going to make it a safer place with my own two hands
I'm going to help the human race with my own two hands
With my own, With my own two hands

I can hold you with my own two hands
I can comfort you with my own two hands
But you've got to use, use your own two hands

Use your own, Use your own two hands
With our own, With our own two hands
With my own, With my own two hands

02 Life Means So Much – Chris Rice (Smell the Color 9)

Every day is a journal page, Every man holds a quill and ink
And there's plenty of room for writing in, All we do is believe and think
So will you compose a curse, Or will today bring the blessing
Fill the page with rhyming verse, Or some random sketching

Teach us to count the days, Teach us to make the days count
Lead us in better ways, That somehow our souls forgot
Life means so much (x3)

Every day is a bank account, And time is our currency
So nobody's rich, nobody's poor, We get 24 hours each
So how are you gonna spend, Will you invest, or squander
Try to get ahead, Or help someone who's under

Teach us to count the days, Teach us to make the days count
Lead us in better ways, That somehow our souls forgot
Life means so much (x3)

Has anybody ever lived who knew the value of a life
And don't you think giving is all
What proves the worth of yours and mine

Teach us to count the days, Teach us to make the days count
Lead us in better ways, That somehow our souls forgot
Life means so much

Every day is a gift you've been given
Make the most of the time every minute you're living

03 The Basin & The Towel – Michael Card (Poiema)

In an upstairs room, a parable is just about to come alive.
And while they bicker about who's best,
with a painful glance, He'll silently rise.

Their Savior Servant must show them how
through the will of the water and the tenderness of the towel.

Chorus:
And the call is to community,
The impoverished power that sets the soul free.
In humility, to take the vow,
that day after day we must take up the basin and the towel.

In any ordinary place, on any ordinary day,
the parable can live again when one will kneel and one will yield.

Our Saviour Servant must show us how through the will of the water
and the tenderness of the towel.

And the space between ourselves sometimes is more than the distance between the stars.
By the fragile bridge of the Servant's bow we take up the basin and the towel.

(chorus)

04 My Desire – Jeremy Camp (Live Unplugged)

You want to be real, you want to be empty inside
You want to be someone laying down your pride
You want to be someone someday
Then lay it all down before the king

You want to be whole, you want to have purpose inside
You want to have virtue and purify your mind

You want to be set free today,

Then lay it all down before the king

This is my desire, this is my return,

This is my desire to be used by you

You want to be real, you want to be empty inside

And I know my heart is to feel you near
And I know my life, It's to do your will, It's to do your will

All my life I have seen Where you've take me Beyond all I have hoped
And there's more left unseen

There's not much I can do to repay all you've done,

So I give my hands to use

05 Sunshine – John Reuben (The Boy vs. The Cynic)

It’s one of those moments in life when you feel incapable
I tried to hide but the feelings inside are sort of inescapable
And everything that I’ve become suddenly feels replaceable
And now I’m left to my inadequacy you get the point
All my goals seem out of reach and unattainable

Your thoughts get lost in the shuffle and become unexplainable
No words to match the emotion that I’m roller-coasting on
Just feelings of devotion and hope and that someday soon they’ll be gone

(CHORUS)
I know lessons are learned through perseverance and
I know I grow and when I can adhere to this
It’s just hard sometimes to keep yourself a good perspective
But God controls the hands of time
And when the time is right I’ll be perfected

Even when what lies ahead seems so unbearable
God’s grace is still so remarkable
Yea I can face any day with a faith that exceeds time and space
Lord give me the strength to change the pace
Cuz I’ve been burning on energy that was meant to be directed differently
No wonder we find ourselves empty worn out and burned out
With how things have turned out
We’ve learned how to cope but this whole thing is broke down and not working

Typical earthling searching for a system a coping mechanism
Listen we’re not meant to carry the load or bear these burdens on our own
I’m tired of living in survival mode Gonna give it up and let it go

(CHORUS)

Give me some sunshine to clear my mind
And in the meantime I know that I’m gonna be just fine

06 Me and Becky – Chris Rice (Run the Earth, Watch the Sky)

Becky has a house on Abundant Live Boulevard
A good name, good family, and butterflies in her yard
Becky loves Jesus and really wants to make Him proud
She tears up in church and she sings her harmonies loud
She's got a Bible by the bed, a prayer journal, and a fish on her car
She makes sure to bow her head and give thanks in every restaurant
But is that enough?

C'mon Becky, let's go for a ride, If I'm driving too fast then I apologize
But there's a world out there that we left behind
Full of souls as important as yours and mine, Looks like a reckless road, and a sacrifice
And I'm crazy scared it may cost our lives, But then I remember Jesus died
So c'mon Becky, Let's go for a ride

I'm rolling up to Becky's house on my Sunday drive
I have to laugh to myself 'cause it looks exactly like mine
I smile and wave at all the happy people strolling by
We've got the same walk, same talk, and the same sparkle in our eyes
'Cause we're thankful for the blessings, but maybe we could lay 'em aside
I get a feeling we might be missin' the time of our lives
So hop in and hold on tight

Chorus

'Cause we're thankful for the blessings, but maybe we could lay 'em aside?
I get a feeling we might be heading for the time of our lives
So hop in and hold on tight

07 Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb (Mocking Bird)

Poverty is so hard to see
When it's only on your TV and twenty miles across town
Where we're all living so good
Now that we moved out of Jesus' neighborhood
Where he's hungry and not feeling so good
From going through our trash

He says, "More than just your cash and coin 
I want your time, I want your voice 
I want the things you just can't give me"

So what must we do
Here in the West we want to follow you
We speak the language and we keep all the rules
Even a few we made up

"Come on and follow me
But sell your house, sell your SUV
Sell your stocks, sell your security
And give it to the poor
"What is this, hey what's the deal 
I don't sleep around and I don't steal
I want the things you just can't give me"

"Because what you do to the least of these
My brother's, you have done it to me
Because I want the things you just can't give me"

08 Distressing Disguise – Michael Card (Present Reality)

He is in the pain, He is in the need
He is in the poor, we are told to feed
Though He was rich, for us He became poor
How could He give so much, what was it for?
In His distressing disguise
He waits for us to surmise
That we rob our brothers by all that we own
And that's not the way He has shown

Every time a faithful servant serves
A brother that's in need
What happens at that moment is a miracle indeed
As they look to one another in an instant it is clear
Only Jesus is visible for they've both disappeared

He is in the hand that reaches out to give
He is in the touch that causes men to live
So speak with your life now as well as your tongue
Shelter the homeless, take care of the young

In His distressing disguise
He hopes that we'll realize
That when we take care of the poorest of them
We've really done it to Him

09 Things We Leave Behind, Michael Card (Poiema)

There sits Simon so foolishly wise proudly he's tending his nets
Then Jesus calls, and the boats drift away all that he owns he forgets

More than the nets he abandoned that day,
He found that his pride was soon drifting away
It's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

Matthew was mindful of taking the tax,
Pressing the people to pay
Hearing the call, he responded in faith
Followed the Light and the Way

Leaving the people so puzzled he found,
The greed in his heart was no longer around and
It's hard to imagine the freedom we find

From the things we leave behind

Every heart needs to be set free from possessions
That hold it so tight
'Cause freedom's not found in the things that we own,
It's the power to do what is right
With Jesus, our only possession,
Giving becomes our delight
We can't imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

We show a love for the world in our lives
By worshipping goods we possess
Jesus has laid all our treasures aside
Love God above all the rest"

'Cause when we say 'no' to the things of the world
We open our hearts to the love of the Lord and
Its hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

10 Treasures in Heaven – Burlap to Cashmere (Anybody out There?)

He said follow me
Strive to make my convictions right
Oh, my pride is hammering me down

I've seen you crying
I've seen you on your knees
The wise man died so you can

Store up treasures in heaven (x3)
Don't you wait for the rain to come falling down

11 My Enemies Are Men Like Me – Derek Webb (Mockingbird)

I have come to give you life and to show you how to live it
I have come to make things right
to heal their ears and show you how to forgive them

Because I would rather die
I would rather die
I would rather die
Than to take your life

How can I kill the ones I’m supposed to love
My enemies are men like me
I will protest the sword if it;s not wielded well
My enemies are men like me

Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication
It’s like telling someone murder is wrong
and then showing them by way of execution

When justice is bought and sold just like weapons of war
The ones who always pay are the poorest of the poor

12 Heaven in the Real World – Steven Curtis Chapman (Greatest Hits)

I saw it again today in the face of a little child
Looking through the eyes of fear and uncertainty
It echoed in a cry for freedom across the street and across the miles
Cries from the heart to find the missing part

CHORUS
Where is the hope, where is the peace?
That will make this life complete
For every man, woman, boy, and girl
Looking for heaven in the real world

To stand in the pouring rain and believe the sun will shine again
To know that the grave is not the end
To feel the embrace of grace and cross the line where real life begins
And know in your heart you've found the missing part

CHORUS
There is a hope, there is a peace
That will make this life complete
For every man, woman, boy, and girl
Looking for heaven in the real world
Heaven in the real world

BRIDGE
It happened one night with a tiny baby's birth
God heard creation crying and He sent heaven to earth

13 Love Is Not Against the Law – Derek Webb (Mockingbird)

Politics or love can make you blind or make you see

Make you a slave or make you free

But only one does it all

And it’s giving up your life

For the ones you hate the most

It’s giving them your gown

When they’ve taken your clothes

It’s learning to admit

When you’ve had a hand in setting them up

In knocking them down

(chorus)

Love is not against the law

Love is not against the law

Are we defending life

When we just pick and choose

Lives acceptable to lose

And which ones to defend

‘Cause you cannot choose your friends

But you choose your enemies

And what if they were one

One and the same

Could you find a way

To love them both the same

To give them your name

14 What about Them? – John Reuben (The Boy vs. The Cynic)

Puff the magic Jesus floats around the universe
The United States is His favorite place on the whole entire earth
So sing your songs and wave your flag
And thank the Lord for all you have
But what about them? Did you forget about them?

We came we conquered never speak of this again life
Must go on let’s not think of them
Things are comfortable now the pioneers have settled in
A perfect blend of progress and pale skin
For our sake and those to come
We’ll rewrite the text so you can forget where you came from
Tell it in a way that will build your self esteem
Repackage the product and sell the American dream

(chorus)

History is best forgotten and even better rewritten
And since there’s no forgetting let’s remember it different
Commit to it so strongly till you believe it
The truth is there but you aren’t able to receive it
You need to know you’re safe here
Hide your face here cuz you found your faith here
But four walls with no windows doesn’t mean you’re it
Four walls with no windows doesn’t mean they don’t exist

(chorus)

What a prosperous, wondrous place
Remember to say grace before we scrape our plates
And ignore the crying outside the door sure
You’ll pray for their burdens but you don’t want to make it yours
Thin lines divide but there’s a world of difference
So crawl back into your happy existence

And feel the bliss of ignorance keep you warm
Blessed are those who mourn but it’s so foreign
The more you have the less you care
The less you care the more you become unaware
And sure life’s not fair but it favors us apparently
And how are we to interpret this excess
Is it God’s favor ill-behavior or simply man’s modern progress
God bless us as we sweep this mess under the rug
Don’t want to walk barefoot on the tile and step in the mud
Out of sight out of mind and pushed to the side
Left for someone else to rationalize and justify

(chorus)

15 And They’ll Know We Are Christians – Jars of Clay (Redemption Songs)

We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
And we pray that our unity will one day be restored
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
Yeah they'll know we are Christians by our love

We will work with each other, we will work side by side
We will work with each other, we will work side by side
And we'll guard each man's dignity and save each man's pride
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
Yeah, they'll know we are Christians by our love.

16 A King and a Kingdom – Derek Webb (Mockingbird)

Who's your brother, who's your sister
You just walked passed him
I think you missed her
As we're all migrating to the place where our father lives
'Cause we married in to a family of immigrants

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a king & a kingdom

There are two great lies that i’ve heard:
“The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
And if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him

(chorus)

(bridge)
But nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we’ve got one, sure as hell
But he may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Oh no, he may not look like you think

17 Nuisance – John Reuben (The Boy vs. The Cynic)

So here we are in this same old spot
Knowing something needs to happen but our mouths are locked
Tongue tied closed tight sealed shut yup
I tried hard but it just wouldn’t come up
It’s on the tip of my tongue it’s in the front of my mind
Yet the words were still so hard to find
Finally the reality of things to come pushed me to the edge
I jumped off the cliff into the abyss as I said

(chorus)
I’m not trying to be a nuisance
I just think we can do better than this
that was simply my two cents
you can you can take it or leave it

The conversation lingered on and on and
Before I knew it night had turned to dawn and
Were we searching for the truth in all of it
Or are we debating just to win the argument
Cuz none of us want to hear about where we go wrong
This song could easily be from me to you or me to John
Cuz I have the potential to be the guiltiest
My greatest strength is also my strongest weakness

(chorus)

Let’s think about this path that we’re taking
Let’s think about this future we’re creating
Let’s think about this life that is fading
Think about it, come on think about it now
Let’s think about this time that we’re spending
Investing in monetary things that are ending
Let’s think about it and let’s think together
And let’s think about what we can do to make it better

18 Love Like Crazy – Chris Rice (Amusing)

I heard a rumor that love will make you crazy
Well is it true?
Well that’s no rumor, look at the crazy things that love made Jesus do
The friends he chose were thought to be outrageous
And you could even find him touching the contagious
And the craziest is how he chose to save us
He gave his life away
Then he had to go and say
"Gotta love the same way that I love you!"

(chorus)
Love like crazy
We gotta love like crazy
We gotta love like crazy
The way he loves you and me
‘Cause if the world’s ever gonna change
We gotta love like crazy

What the world needs now is for love to spread
As fast as the rumors do
But to make it, we gotta take this thing from another whole point of view
We can start by keeping our vows, and not brreakin’ promises
And bring hope to the women at the well, and the doubting Thomases
And you kids, you gotta cheerfully do what your pops and your mama sez
He gave his life away
Then he had to go and say
"Gotta love the same way that I love you!"

(chorus)

Well I’m tellin’ you boy, you got a lot to learn
I think you’re crazy all right to love for nothin’ in return
You’ve lost your marbles, got a few loose screws
And if you count your cards I’ll bet you got less than fifty-two
But now you got me thinkin’, you sorta planted a seed
‘Cause you know this might be just the kind of love that I need
Naw, your train’s off the track, you’re from the loony bin
You know that brain that you ordered? Well it never came in
Or else you’ve fallen on your head and all your brains leaked out
‘Cause your lights are on, but ain’t nobody in your house
Your elevator doesn’t quite reach the top floor
I think you’re out in left field, and I could say a lot more
But you don’t care what I think, it doesn’t matter what I’m tellin’ you
You got the love of Jesus, and he’s the one compellin’ you to love
Like he does