NICHOLE NORDEMAN LYRICS
EP: "The Unmaking" (2015)
The Unmaking
This is where the walls gave way
This is demolition day
All the debris and all this dust
What is left of what once was
Sorting through what goes and what should stay
Every stone I laid for you
As if you had asked me to
Monument to holy things
Empty talk and circling
Isn't that what we're supposed to do?
What happens now?
When all I've made is torn down
What happens next?
When all of you is all that's left
This is the unmaking
Beauty and the breaking
Had to lose myself to find out who you are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking
This is the unmaking
The longer and the tighter that we move
Only makes it harder to let go
Love will not stay locked inside
A steeple or a tower high
Only when we're broken are we whole
What happens now?
When all I've made is torn down
What happens next?
When all of you is all that's left
This is the unmaking
Beauty and the breaking
Had to lose myself to find out who you are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking
This is the unmaking
I'll gather the same stones where
Everything came crashing down
I'll build you an altar there
On the same ground
Because what stood before
Was never yours
This is the unmaking
Beauty and the breaking
Had to lose myself to find out who you are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking
This is the unmaking
Oh this is the unmaking
Had to lose myself
To find out who you are
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Not To Us
(feat. Plumb)
All the toil
All in vain
Every image of ourselves that we create
Every dream
Built on sand
Every castle slips away when tides come in
Let us not imagine
That we might have a hand in where the wind blows
Where grace goes
Let not any passion be for kingdoms we have fashioned in our own name
For our own fame
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name be glory
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name
Every beat
Every breath
Every broken road and every ordered step
Every loss
Every gain
Every spotlight
Every shadow
Yours the same
So let us not be fooled
And let us not be disillusioned
Let our eyes see You clearly
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name be glory
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name
Anything that’s good
Anything that’s true
Let it point to You
Let it point to You
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name
No walls
No greed
No color
No creed
No right
No left
All You
No less
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name be glory
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name
Anything that’s good
Anything that’s true
Let it point to You
Let it point to You
Not to us
Not to us
But to Your name be glory
To Your name
**********************
Name
You woke up one day in a bad way,
With a dark heart in a small cave,
And decided to hide
For the long bitter night.
But one day someone loved you,
Let the light in, made the old new,
From the water and mud wrote you new name in love,
Now something about it just doesn't seem real,
Sometimes that's just how it feels.
You are still a promise,
Heartbeat of god,
You may have for gotten,
But he has not,
You are not your ashes
You are a flame,
Do not ask the shadows
The light of the world knows,
Knows your name.
There was one day, you were certain
That he called you, cause you heard him,
And the crowed disappeared,
Everything crystal clear.
But then one day it was not so,
Other voices you didn't know
From the frey and the fringe they were all weighing in.
Now you can't remember who has your heart.
Well here's a start.
You are still a promise, heartbeat of god,
You may have for gotten but he has not,
You are not your ashes, you are a flame,
Do not ask the shadows the light of the world knows
Your a friend of god, god the son,
Blameless and forgiven one,
The slave no more, finally free,
Chains are there now redeemed,
Oh beautiful and broken heart,
Is safe and sound in his arms,
You were chosen you were his,
So remember this
You are still a promise,
You may have forgotten.
You are not your ashes, you are a flame,
Do not ask shadows the light of the world knows,
Knows your name
He knows your name
You are not your ashes, you are a flame,
Your not after shadows the light of the world knows,
Knows your name
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Love You More
You said, “go and sin no more …”
Though my eyes could not meet Yours
I started running the third time the rooster crowed
You threw a party just for me
Though I squandered everything
I was blinded in the middle of the road
Climbed up in a tree to see You
Swallowed by the sea to flee You
Sold You for a little silver and a kiss
Killed a man to love his woman
Burned a bridge back to Your garden
Hung beside You while you took Your final breath
You’ve been loving me since time began
You’re behind my every second chance
I love You
I’m trying to
Love You more
I’m ready
Please help me
Love You more
I keep thinking there’s a limit
Sure I must be getting near it
When I’ve used up every pardon and regret
But You promise there is freedom
Gathered up the broken pieces
Scattered them as far as East is from the West
You’ve been loving me since time began
You’re behind my every second chance
I love You
I’m trying to
Love You more
I’m ready
Please help me
Love You more
With all the sand that fills the hourglass
With every breath between my first and last
I love You
I’m trying to
Love You more
I’m ready
Please help me
Love You more
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Something Out Of Me
Just You and me on a hillside
And 4,999
If You could see on the inside
What I brought, what I need, how I’m caught in between
You lifted bread to the blue sky
They said they watched it just multiply
But in the back of a long line
Oh, I want to believe there’s enough left for me
Cause by now it really shoulda been long gone
And somehow it keeps going on and on
On and on an on ‘cause
You take all kinds of nothing
Turn it right in to something
I see impossible, but You see a basket full of
A little bit of this sounds crazy
A little bit of just maybe
You take every doubt and
You make something out of me
It’s not the story that moves me
It’s not that I don’t believe You could
It’s just my heart is so hungry
Is there enough to fill me up
Or will You run out of love
You take all kinds of nothing
Turn it right in to something
I see impossible, but You see a basket full of
A little bit of this sounds crazy
A little bit of just maybe
You take every doubt and
You make something out of me
Something out of me
By now Your love could have been long gone
But somehow it keeps going on and on
And...
You take all kinds of nothing
Turn it right in to something
I see impossible, but You see a basket full of
A little bit of this sounds crazy
A little bit of just maybe
You take every doubt and
You make something out of me
Something out of me
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Slow Down
Here’s to you
You were pink or blue
And everything I wanted
Here’s to you
Never sleeping through
From midnight till the morning
Had to crawl before you walked
Before you ran
Before I knew it
You were trying to free your fingers from my hand
‘Cause you could it on your own now somehow
Slow down
Won’t you stay here a minute more
I know you want to walk through the door
But it’s all too fast
Let’s make it last a little while
I pointed to the sky and now you wanna fly
I am your biggest fan
I hope you know I am
But do you think you can somehow
Slow down
Here’s to you
Every missing tooth
Every bedtime story
Here’s to Barbie cars, light saber wars
Sleeping in on Sunday
Had to crawl
Before you walked
Before you ran
Before I knew it
You were teaching me
The only thing love can
Hold hands through it
When it’s scary, you’ve got me
Slow down
Won’t you stay here a minute more
I know you want to walk through the door
But it’s all too fast
Let’s make it last a little while
I pointed to the sky and now you wanna fly
I am your biggest fan
I hope you know I am
But do you think you can somehow
Slow down
Please don’t roll your eyes at me
I know I’m embarrassing
But someday you’ll understand
You’ll hold a little hand
Ask them if they can
I am your biggest fan
I hope you know I am
But do you think you can
Somehow
Slow down
Slow down
