The Lyrics Page
From the Album "Come Share My Joy"
All songs written by Fred Bogert
copyright Maxbox Music BMI
All rights reserved
1. ONE MORE TIME AROUND THE SUN
Chorus:
Let's take it
One more time around the sun
New beginnings have just begun
What we have here
Is the dedication of the year
Let's take it one more time around the sun
With peace and blessings for everyone
Day to day we can love our way
One more time around the sun
Verse 1: Let's take time
Make up our minds once and for all
To walk on hand in hand
Forever in peace never to fall
Cause it all goes by so fast
And in loving we can make it last
With a yearly affirmation for us all
(chorus)
Verse 2:
Rest your mind, open your eyes, your future calls
Bring all the dreams you have
When you're released you'll live them all
Just be true to who you are
Make a wish upon a winter star
Shining clearly thru the longest night
Make a promise to your own life
(chorus)
Copyright 1991 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved
2. DON'T WISH YOUR LIFE AWAY
Verse 1
I knew an old man you could say he had a wisdom
There was always peace in his walk
When I was a child with a taste for blind ambition
We'd sit on his front porch and talk
About powerful cars and the power of money
And the power that just cannot be bought
And at the end of the day he'd send me on my way
And the last thing that he'd say to me was
Chorus:
Don't wish your life away
Don't wish your life away
Take it as it comes and make yourself a someone
Whatever you do
Don't wish your life away
Don't wish your life away
Don't throw miracles away
Verse 2
One day I made him laugh when I said my time was wasted
Working so hard just to get by
He said all that you desire is so close that you can taste it
And the only time you're wasting is mine
Put your faith in your dreams and not in your possessions
And let your spirit learn how to fly
Just in case you hadn't noticed we're not getting any younger
so look me in the eye when I say
(chorus)
Bridge:
I treasured our time like brothers of the spirit
Till destiny took us apart
We never said good-bye but I always will remember
'Cause I took it to my heart when he said
(chorus)
Copyright 1991 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved
3. LIVING THANKSGIVING
Verse 1:
The Indian corn, the frosty morn, the golden harvest days
The autumn sleet, the winter wheat, the forest brown and gray
The sparkling lights of starry nights, the turkeys in the glen
The deer, the grouse, the cozy house, the fellowship of friends
Chorus:
Living Thanksgiving we pause to reminisce
How the good Lord had the good grace to give us all of this
We'll be expressions of God's gracious ways
By living Thanksgiving each day
Verse 2:
We lift a glass to Pilgrim's past ; the good life they inspire
The blessings of the ones we love all gathered 'round the fire
As fortunes turn we come to learn of love that lingers still
The good things done, the yet to come, their hopes and dreams fulfilled
(chorus)
Copyright 1991 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved 4.CHILD IN MY LIFEChorus:
There's a child in my life
There's a joy there's a wonder
There's a child in my life I can see everyday
There's a child in my life
There's a joy there's a wonder
I celebrate the child in my life
Verse 1
When I look in a baby's eyes I see a tender wisdom shine
I discover I'm a child at heart we smile and we share the surprise
And I feel like a sunrise
Just like everyday can be a brand new start
And don't you know the feeling we share in our hearts
God is bringing, I am singing
(chorus)
Verse 2
Children's voices like an angel's song, seeking love to make them strong
Stand beside them, be there to guide them
See that they can carry on
With a dream to grow on
Innocence and beauty like a springtime flower
God is trying to tell us that the future is ours
We should care for them, be there for them
(chorus)
Bridge:
I celebrate the child in my life
All the joy the wonder the best of my life (repeat)
They let me see the natural sense of things
They make me feel alive (repeat)
Just like everyday can be a brand new start
And don't you know the feeling we share in our hearts
God is bringing I am singing
(chorus twice)
Copyright 1991 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved5. I Call to Me
Verse 1I call to me my highest good
that it may find me when it should May guiding wisdom let me see my hgihest good when it comes to me Verse 2 I call to me my trust in God when all is well and when times are hard I've seen some changes and I believe to trust in God is my highest need Bridge When pain and danger, they are not strangers That's how we know that we're alive Pay the cost and let it go, you're not lost, you're not alone in the company of the angels by your side Verse 3 I call to me my sense of peace Still as the heart of the endless sea When God puts his blessings in all I see then a sense of peace washes over me Repeat Bridge, Verse 3 Copyright 2000 Maxbox Music BMI All rights reserved
6. Light My Way
Light my way, lead me on Teach me words full of praises in your song Comfort me from above so that I can comfort those who need my love Speak to me in the voice of omnipresent truth keep me free let me hold the spirit of my youth Children know the truth they listen to you Light my way, lift me up Hear my praises for this overflowing cup And in my joy, and in my peace and in my love of living I shall be released Copyright 1990 Maxbox Music BMI All rights reserved7. OPEN YOUR HEART AGAIN
Chorus:
Open your heart again
Let God's love shine within
Lift your voice to the sky and let your spirit fly
Try loving life and live
Let God's love go and give
Turn your face to the wind and
Open your heart again.
Verse 1:
Cold and lonely lost in pain
A pilgrim left standing in the rain
Must not flee from love's domain
Spirit shelters Faith sustains
Verse 2:
Fear and anger take a toll
A lost child held prisoner in his soul
Must not hide there, only see
God's love power sets you free
And you know just where to start
It's the most important part.
(repeat chorus twice)
Copyright 1990 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved
8. Growing Love
Chorus:
Growing love, growing love
we're forever growing love
It's a seed that we can sow
with our caring it will grow
We are family, we are friends
and the feeling never ends
Together we're forever growing love
Verse 1:
We seek the sunshine, we bless the rain
Throught the storms we know the sun will shine again
We have God-light in our hearts
we're growing up illumined from the start
(Chorus)
We imagine a world at peace
and we know some day our dreams will be released
All we ask is that people care
We sing this song for people everywhere
(Chorus)
Copyright 1992 Maxbox Music All rights reserved9. THE POWER THAT IS GREATER
Verse1:
When I ease my mind
The power that is greater comes and moves through me
And it's then I find
That the mountains start to move and I can cross the seas
It sets me free
I can open up my arms and give the whole world love
And it seems as if I'm living all that I've been dreaming of
There's a joy that it brings to me when I feel it passing through me
The power that is greater from above
Verse2:
When I can't do right
And I feel so small and helpless and I fear the night
I can't take it all
So I put my faith in God and I tear down the walls
And heed His call
And He bids me be His vehicle of hope and peace
So that He can work His miracles and I can be released
And it always will renew me just to feel it moving through me
An omnipresent sense of joy and love
There's a joy that it brings to me when I feel it moving through me
The power that is greater from above
Copyright 1990 MAXBOX MUSIC, BMI All Rights Reserved
10. Empty Me
Chorus:
Empty me
pull the pug I'm lost at sea
pull the rug out from under me
If I'm still standing won't you please
come and knock me to my knees
help me let go of these things before they kill me
and then fill me
Verse 1:
I got the whole thing figured out
and I know what life is all about
and my pride is my command
so I don't need your helping hand
People envy where I stand
on this castle made of sand
Then with an ocean's mighty roar here comes the tide
so much for pride
(Chorus)
Verse 2:
There's some place I gotta be
and they all know they can count on me
ao I can't make the time for you
with all these things I gotta do
and I got fears that run so deep
that I can't stop and I can't sleep
I got adreniline to bounce me off my bed
'til I drop dead
(Chorus)
Copyright 2000 Maxbox Music BMI All rights reserved
11. Shine Like the SunI used to think the meaning of life passed me by
couldn't get ahead of the game
and all my struggles to figure it out
wouldn't let me just remain the same
Now I know that the race isn't over until it's been won
And each time you make it, you've only begun
to really believe it
to be number one
until you are truly a champion
You give all you got to the world around you
'til all of the dreams that you've dreamed have found you
The miracles have just begun
Shine Like the Sun
Chorus:
Shine like the sun
you can be an enlightening one
Shine like the sun
Remember that you're a champion
You give all you got to the world around you
"til all of the dreams that you've dreamed have found you
The miracles have just begun
Shine Like the Sun
Copyright 1991 Maxbox Music BMI All rights reserved
God is bringing I am singing
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