Playlist Brooke Fraser

brooke fraser - the sound of silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

brooke fraser - distant sun

Tell me all the things you would change
I dont pretend to know what you want
When you come around and spin my top
Time and again, time and again
No fire where I lit my spark
I am not afraid of the dark
Where your words devour my heart
And put me to shame, put me to shame

When your seven worlds collide
Whenever I am by your side
And dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone

Still so young to travel so far
Old enough to know who you are
Wise enough to carry the scars
Without any blame, theres no one to blame
Easy to forget what you learn
Waiting for the thrill to return
Feeling your desire burn
As youre drawn to the flame

When your seven worlds collide
Whenever I am by your side
And dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone

And Im lying on a table
Washed out in a flood
Like a christian fearing vengeance from above
I dont pretend to know what you want
But I offer love
And seven worlds will collide
Whenever I am by your side
And dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone

brooke fraser - nothing but the blood hosanna

What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Oh, precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus

Hosanna, hosanna
Hosanna in the highest

brooke fraser - better

Take my shoulder back now
Your head's too heavy for me
Please don't come around here no more
'Cos I asked you to stop
And you wouldn't

[Chorus]
I would give anything to make you better
I would give anything to point you to free
I would give anything to help you realise

I loved you 'til it killed me
So my logic wouldn't hurt you
I know you might blame me anyway
Well I'm sorry, I'm so sorry

[Chorus]
[added]
You're not helping yourself to me

I've tried all the things they told me
Trying to close up the wounds left open by you
And if I seem doubtful, distrusting.....I am
You said you wouldn't do it agin
You said you wouldn't do it again

[Chorus]
[added]
You're not helping yourself
You're not helping yourself by hurting me

Anything just to try and help you see
You ain't helping yourself by hurting me
Time to let you go, time for you to see
You ain't helping yourself by hurting me

brooke fraser - lord of lords

Beholding Your beauty
Is all that I long for
To worship You Jesus
Is my sole desire
For this very heart
You have shaped for Your pleasure
Purposed to lift Your Name higher

Here in surrender
In pure adoration
I enter Your courts
With an offering of praise
I am Your servant
Come to bring You glory
As is fit for the work of Your hands

Chorus 1:
Now unto the Lamb
Who sits on the throne
Be glory and honour and praise
All of creation resounds with the song
Worship and praise Him
The Lord of lords

Spirit now living
And dwelling within me
Keep my eyes fixed
Ever on Jesus' face
Let not the things of this world
Ever sway me
I'll run 'til I finish the race

Chorus 2:
Now unto the Lamb
Who sits on the throne
Be glory and honour and praise
All of eternity echoes the song
Worship and praise Him
The Lord of lords

Holy Lord
You are holy
Jesus Christ
Is the Lord

Chorus 3:
Now unto the Lamb
Who sits on the throne
Be glory and honour and praise
Call all the saints to join in the song
Worship and praise Him
The Lord of lords

brooke fraser - flags

Come, tell me your trouble
I'm not your answer
But I'm a listening ear

Reality has left you reeling
All facts and no feelings
No faith, and the fear

I don't know why the good man will fall
Why the wicked one stands
And our lives blow about
Like flags on the land

Who's at fault is not important
Good intentions lie dormant
And we're all to blame

While apathy acts like an ally
My enemy and I are one in the same

I don't know why the innocent fall
Why the monsters still stand
And our lives blow about
Like flags in the wind

I don't know why our words are so proud
Yeah their promise soothing
And our lives blow about
Like flags in the wind

Oh oh oh oh

You who yearn will be comforted
You who hunger will hunger no more
I know the last shall be first
Of this I am sure

You who need now will laugh again
All you lonely be lonely no more
I know the last shall be first
This time I'm sure

I don't know why the innocent fall
Why the monsters stand
I don't know why the little ones thirst
But I know the last shall be first
I know the last shall be first

brooke fraser - i will exalt you

I will exalt You
I will exalt You
I will exalt You
You are my God

my Hiding Place, my Safe Refuge
my Treasure, Lord, You are
my Friend and King, Anoited One
Most Holy

Because You're with me
Because You're with me
Because You're with me
I will not fear

brooke fraser - new year s eve

It?s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It?s been a loud year and I really need the quiet

It?s New Year?s Eve, babe
And I?d really like to be alone

We?re waiting on change but I don?t know if it?s coming
We?re waiting on change but I don?t know if it?s coming

It?s New Year?s Eve, babe
And I?d really like to be alone

Big eyes against the white
Big eyes beneath the lights
And no one seems to feel it
But I do
Our faces to the wind
My heart against my skin
Tonight I?m gonna find something true

It?s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It?s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It?s New Year?s Eve, babe
And I?d really like to be alone

brooke fraser - love where is your fire

Love, where is your fire?
I've been sitting here smoking away
Making signals with sticks and odd ends and bits
But still there's no sign of a flame

Imposters have been passing
Offering a good-feeling glow
But I'm holding out for what you are about
An inferno that burns to the bone

Some urge me to be temperate
Lukewarm will never do

CHORUS
`Cos I, I wanna blaze with you
So I'm holding my heart out to you
Holding my heart out

So I stand, handing out torches
Speaking words that are lamps to their feet
`Til the time when you come and I'm whole and we are one
And the fire in me is complete

Some tell me to be moderate
But lukewarm will never do

CHORUS
Now I, I know I'll blaze with you
So I'm holding my heart out to you
Holding my heart out

Bridge
Then a doubt comes to lie at the back of my mind
That I'll offer you me and you'll politely decline
So I hasten to mute it
I'll shout and rebuke it
Away

Copyright Brooke Fraser

brooke fraser - new histories

Blind man on a broken beam
Sharks circling under
Fine frenzies and rosy scenes
I don?t know which you are to me

Time passes for everyone
New histories, same old sun
One flame ignites, another dies
No one gets out of here alive

And I wait

I stare at the space you left
It stares back unimpressed
I said I was sorry
Now when will you come home to me
And I wait

Something?s gotta give, oh can?t you see
Someone?s gonna win eventually
We could write a new history
Oh, let?s write our new history

brooke fraser - day is dimming

The day is dimming and I'm yearning for you
I won't be satisfied till I see your face
Every victory, every loss
Every ticket, every cross
You can put them all in place

It seems I'm finding more of why
In these moments
I feel like I'm made to sing of how good you are
The more the years swell by and pass
Each seconds more than last
It's true by far

That no profound thought or clever rhyme
No soaring grand, melodic line
No theory, philosophy or sign
Can explain it
Can explain

Where you are, I wanna be
It's your love that has changed me
I'd give the world, and all it's charms
For a moment in your arms
Better is one day with you
Than a thousand elsewhere
A thousand elsewhere....

I still remember what it felt like before you
I'm grateful every day for how things have changed
I'll thank you every way I can
'Cos my life only began
When I heard you call my name

Now, no praise of man
No great acclaim
No humble looking kind of fane
No power, wealth or worldly gain
Could satisfy me
Could every satisfy

Where you are, I wanna be
It's your grace that has raised me
I'd give my whole life to honour you
And whom I live
And whom I move
Better is one day with you
Than a thousand elsewhere

Better is one day in your courts
Better is one day in your house
Better is one day in your courts
Than anywhere else oh
Lead me, lead me
Lead me to yourself
Lead me to your heart

Where you are, I wanna be
It's your love that has changed me
I'd give my life, to honour you
And whom I live
And whom I move
Better is one day with you
Than a thousand elsewhere
A thousand elsewhere....

Lead me to yourself
Lead me to your heart
I'll be found in you
I'll be found in you
Here is peace
Here is joy
Here is life
Here is freedom, freedom

brooke fraser - seeds

Night
Field of stars above us
You pick one
We frame it with our fingers intertwined

Seeds of every generation
Between our hands
And the promise to teach you the little I have learned
So far

CHORUS
Child
What will you live to do?
What have I left for you?
What will we leave behind?

You
Learning as you're growing
Not yet knowing
The world isn't always quite as beautiful
As it is now

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

Night
Field of stars above us
I pick one and name it for you
And all who are to come

brooke fraser - something in the water

I wear a demeanor made of bright pretty things
What she wears, what she wears, what she wears
Birds singing on my shoulder
In harmony it seems
How they sing, how they sing, how they sing

(pre-chorus 1)
Give me nights of solitude
Red wine, just a glass or two
reclined in a hammock on a balmy evening
I'll pretend that it's no thing
That's skipping my heart when I think
Of you thinking of me, babe,
I'm crazy over you

(chorus 1)
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
There's something in the water
Something in the water
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
There's something in the water
That makes me love you like

(verse 2)
I've got halos made of summer, ribbons made of spring
What she wears, what she wears, what she wears
I got crowns of words a woven each one a song to sing
Each one a song to sing
Oh I sing, oh I sing, oh I sing

(pre-chorus 2)
Give me long days in the sun
Preludes to the nights to come
Previews of the mornings laying in all lazy
Give me something fun to do
Like a life of loving you
Kiss me quick now babe
I'm still crazy over you

(chorus 2)
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
There's something in the water
Something in the water
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
There's something in the water
That makes me love you like I do

(pre-chorus 3)
Give me nights of solitude
Red wine, just a glass or two
Give me something fun to do

brooke fraser - who are we fooling

So we're back here again
Tip toeing round the edge of the end
Wondering who will be last to admit
That we're finally over

Turned twenty one on the day that we met
Terrible shoes and plausible dress
It's funny how sad the funny things get as you grow older

Better or worse
But what else can we do?
And better or worse
I am tethered to you
If it's not either of us
Tell me who are we fooling?

I love the art of biting my tongue
I'm tired of trying to guess what was wrong
Both agreed on where we should go
But not how to get there

We tried and tried to loosen the knots
Thinking once we're untangled we'll be better off
But it?s these failures and faults that hold us together

Better or worse
But what else can we do?
And better or worse
I am tethered to you
If it's not either of us
Tell me who are we fooling?

This beautiful tangle that's bruising us blue
It's a beautiful knot that we just can?t undo
Together we're one but apart tell me
Who are we fooling?

Cause real love
Is hard love
It's all we have

It's a break make train wreck
It's all we have

So we're back here again
Turning away from the edge of the end
Arm in arm

Better or worse
But what else can we do?
And better or worse
I am tethered to you
If it's not either of us
Tell me who are we fooling?

This beautiful tangle that's bruising us blue
It's a beautiful knot we just can't undo
If it's not either of us, tell me who are we fooling?

Together we're one, but apart tell me
Who are we fooling?

brooke fraser - c s lewis song

If I find in myself
desires nothing in this world can satisfy,
I can only conclude
that I, I was not made for here
If the flesh that I fight is at best
only light and momentary,
then of course I'll feel nude
when to where I'm destined I'm compared

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me

Am I lost or just less found?
On the straight or on the roundabout
of the wrong way?
Is this a soul that stirs in me
is it breaking free, wanting to come alive?
'Cos my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth
of who I was born to become

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me

For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath,
so we better breathe it
And I, I was made to live
I was made to love
I was made to know you
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He's coming for me
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He's coming

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me
For me, for me, for me

brooke fraser