This Cup
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Songwriters: Ellie Holcolmb, Sara Groves
How many hours have I spent
Watching this shining tv
Living adventure in proxy
In another person's dream
How many miles have I traveled
Looking at far away lights
Listening for trains in the distance
In some brilliant other life?
This cup, this cup
I wanna drink it up
To be right here in the middle of it
Right here, right here
This challenging reality
Is better than fear or fantasy
So take up what we've been given
Welcome the edge of our days
Hemmed in by sunrise and sunset
By our youth and by our age
Thank God for our dependence
Here's to our chasm of need
And how it binds us together
In faith and vulnerability
This cup, this cup
I wanna drink it up
To be right here in the middle of it
Right here, right here
This challenging reality
Is better than fear or fantasy
What if my whole world falls apart?
What if my life could be different?
What if I sat right here and took you in
Without the fear and loved you whole
Without the flight and didn't try to pass
This cup, this cup
I wanna drink it up
To be right here in the middle of it
Right here, right here
This challenging reality
Is better than fear or fantasy
Expedition
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Did you see the invitation to have
Nothing to prove
There at the end of striving
In the middle of something good
When you finally see that you can't pretend
The dream of God is the dream of men
Well meet me at the river, oh
I've fashioned us a raft and oar
We're going on an expedition
We're looking for lost time
Did you get an invitation to have
Nothing to show
To see the invisible goodness
Of deliberate and slow
When the dream of God and the dream of man
Are mixed in the marrow of a promised land
Meet me at the river, oh
I've fashioned us a raft and oar
We're going on an expedition
We're looking for lost time
We're looking for lost time
Spread the map out on the raft
Scenes appear like photographs
While we search the starlings play
Reeds on the shoreline nod and sway
They don't toil to be that way
So meet me at the river, oh
I've fashioned us a raft and oar
We're going on an expedition
We're looking for lost time
And it will take days and days
And it might be extravagant and wasteful
We'll be gone as long as it takes
Looking for lost time
We're looking for lost time
Looking for lost time
Second Guess Girl
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Is it time for a speech or for silence
Are you calling for peace or defiance
Is this darkening counsel or wisdom
Are we all perpetrators or victims?
Is this childlike simple rote history
Is it complex deciphering mystery
Is this blessing or ill gotten wealth
Am I speaking for God or myself?
It's a hard world for a second guess girl
With one hand and another
I try to take it in but it leaves me spinning
Trying to love my sister and brother
Is this confidence born of a calling
Is this ego and pride before falling
Are we standing to fight for what's right
Are we angry and hopelessly blind?
Are we companions of Job or prophets of God
Are we not of this world or just painfully odd
Is it time for free grace or tough love
Or a little of all the above?
It's a hard world for a second guess girl
On one hand and another
I try to take it in and it leaves me spinning
Trying to love my sister and brother
Sooner or later we'll know more about it
Sooner or later we'll understand why
We'll understand why
It's a hard world for a second guess girl
With one hand and another
I try to take it in but it leaves me spinning
Trying to love my sister and brother
It's a hard world for a second guess girl
With one hand and another
I try to take it in and it leaves me spinning
Trying to love my sister and brother
It's a hard hard world for a second guess girl
Trying to love my sister, love my brother
Floodplain
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Some hearts are built on a floodplain
Keeping one eye on the sky for rain
You work for the ground that gets washed away
When you live closer
Closer to the life in the ebb and flow
Closer to the edge of I don't know
Closer to that's the way it goes
Some hearts are built on a floodplain
And it's easy to sigh on a high bluff
To look down and ask when you've had enough
Will you have the sense to come on up
Or will you stay closer
Closer to the danger and the rolling deep
Closer to the run and the losing streak
And what brings us to our knees
Some hearts live here
Oh the river it rushes to madness
And the water it spreads like sadness
And there's no high ground
And there's no high ground
Closer to the danger and the rolling deep
Closer to the run and the losing streak
And what brings us to our knees
Closer to the life in the ebb and flow
Closer to the edge of I don't know
Closer to Lord please send a boat
Some hearts are built here
Enough
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Songwriters: Sara Groves, Julie Ann Lee, Sarah Dark
Late nights, long hours
Questions are drawn like a thin red line
No comfort left over
No safe harbor in sight
Really we don't need much
Just strength to believe
There's honey in the rock,
There's more than we see
In these patches of joy
These stretches of sorrow
There's enough for today
There will be enough tomorrow
Upstairs a child is sleeping
What a light in our strain and stress
We pray without speaking
Lord help us wait in kindness
Really we don't need much
Just strength to believe
There's honey in the rock,
There's more than we see
In these patches of joy
These stretches of sorrow
There's enough for today
There will be enough tomorrow
Native Tongue
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
I know what you're saying it's my native tongue
Heard it as a child and it soothed me
I know where we're going like the river runs
In its pathways
I know what you're saying
I know what you're saying
Something really happened
It was wild and true
We talked about it for a hundred years
Looking for the Spirit but the Spirit moves,
I believe he's moving here
I know what you're saying
I know what you're saying
Looking for a language that is older still
The taproot of a living Word
Resonating echoes of an Eden song
Waiting to be heard
I know what you're saying
I know what you're saying
Looking for a language that is older still
The taproot of a living Word
Resonating echoes of an Eden song
Waiting to be heard
Looking for a language that is older still
The taproot of a living Word
Resonating echoes of an Eden song
Waiting to be heard
Waiting to be heard
I know what you're saying it's my native tongue
I know what you're saying, I know what you're saying
I've Been Here Before
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
I've been here before
Staring at a blank page
Waiting for the touch
Chasing down a muse that don't like me much
I've been here before
Stretched out like a man under desert skies
Praying for the rain with a thirst inside
Oh, I've been here before
And I'll tell you what I've seen
The hand of grace reaches down to me
A voice inside says I will be free
I've been here before
Wrapped up in a blanket trying to face the day
Looking for a reason and a better way
I've been here before
Shaking in my anger
Smoking like a gun
Wonderin' why I can't do better than I've done
I've been here before
Resting in a pasture, honey on my tongue
Resting by still waters
I've been here before
Feasting at a table in a barren land
Sayin' I'll never doubt never doubt again
Sayin' I'll never doubt never doubt again
A voice inside says I will be free
On Your Mark
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Thought I could live without it
Said I just didn't want to
Thought I could walk away
That wasn't true
Days they turn into lifetimes
Water it drips on a rock
What could be stronger in time
Than fears and thoughts
On your mark set go
On your mark set go
You can go far in denial
Fall right asleep on that train
Wake up and you don't recognize a thing
Days they turn into lifetimes
Water it drips on a rock
What could be stronger in time
Than our fears and our thoughts
On your mark set go
On your mark set go
Tomorrow never really comes now does it
It's always sailing up ahead
The SS Good Intention full of everything you said
You ever wanted,
Wanted
On your mark set go
On your mark set go
I Feel The Love Between Us
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Baby this isn't like young love
No, this is like an underground river
Flowing over iron and iron
Shaping all the takers and givers
I feel the love between us
We just walked into some history
You can't ignore a beautiful past
Full of redemption and mystery
Holding up the things that will last
I feel the love between us
Love is a diamond hidden in mountains
Covered in danger and dirt
I'm on the outside digging and digging
I've seen and I know what it's worth
Love is a diamond hidden in mountains
Covered in danger and dirt
I'm on the outside digging and digging
I've seen and I know what it's worth
Baby this isn't like young love
No this is like an underground river
I feel the love between us
Signal
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
All the cliches about how fast kids grow are true
I woke up this morning eye to eye with you
The love songs and adages couldn't explain the whole
Of all you're becoming, body and soul
Your heart goes out I can hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
There's no cliche when I hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
Many cliches about living this life are true
The path is worn but for us it's new
There's no way to know it without discovery
Marking our missteps with mercy
Your heart goes out I can hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
There's no cliche when I hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
Yeah its all been said
But don't be afraid
To throw back your head
And sing anyway
Your heart goes out I can hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
There's no cliche when I hear your song
Your signal is getting stronger, your signal is getting strong
All the cliches about how much I love you are true
As big as the sky and up to the moon
A million a zillion, infinity plus one
Your Reality
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
You, like a thermometer right outside
I can see from the kitchen window
What is real, what it's really like
You, when the mirrors stretch and wave
When the image is dark and crazy and it's all I can see
Your reality is my good medicine
Tell me who we are and who I am
Your reality is my good medicine
Tell me who we are
And who I am
You, you find me in the playback room
Playing back everything I've said
Every little thing I've said
You, when I cannot trust myself
When the soundings are deep and lonely
And I seem to have lost my way
The only part of this that throws me off
Is you're too good to be true
My Dream
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Lights get low in a darkening house
Ghosts of doubt whisper and wander
What do I really know and how
All these questions to ponder
I have lived a life of faith
I have felt and heard the Spirit
Still the darkness brings its weight
And assurance is gone
But as I fall asleep I have a waking dream
You are standing in the driveway
As I come up the street
I can tell by your movement you’re not angry
You are waiting there
How much foolishness and folly
are allowed in your graceland
How much doubt and melancholy
Till I’m lost
And as I fall asleep I have a waking dream
Every night for a year you have come to meet me here
Just a simple image in my mind
As I fall asleep
Of you standing in the driveway
As I come up the street
I can tell by your movement you’re not angry
You are running now
You are running
Expedition (Reprise)
Sara Groves Song Lyrics
Spread the map out on the raft
Scenes appear like photographs
While we search the starlings play
Reeds on the shoreline nod and sway…
So meet me at the river, oh
I've fashioned us a raft and oar
We're going on an expedition
We're looking for lost time
Looking for lost time