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It's a Gift to be Real

by Rik Leaf

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Every Day 04:14
I take another clumsy step I stumble over what I have said I reach out my trembling hand afraid that you won’t return the gesture Now I see I’m more complete Every day that I can’t live without you Now I feel I’m more complete Every day that I can’t live without you I am tempted in every way To ask you to turn the light from me The more I undress my soul before you I fear I’ll be rejected
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When the absence of the bruise Undermines the pain You long for your purple welt To grace your skin again You miss the intensity That made you jealous and crazy Cause you felt alive When you felt insane Hallelujah I fell through you, sometimes I still feel you when I’m alone I breathe you in after you’re gone Like my refuge you are my storm Until all this longing starts to feel like home
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We try to keep a smile on our brave face We try to survive another day When there’s so much that we could say That would rain on our parade We talk of love and we talk of life As if we’ve seen evidence of What we believe is true Is it just me do you feel it too? I say I’ll pray, if it will make you feel better I’ll keep it simple give you something to live for When I’m alone it hurts to be honest There’s precious little to point to We talk about healing and trust We all believe in something we have Never seen, or held or been Forgive me if I seem forgetful The promises of hope and peace Have all swept into the sea Of pain and doubt But the tide is real enough that drags me out into it Say you’ll pray, it will make me feel better Keep it simple give me something to live for When I’m alone and it hurts to be honest There’s precious little I can point to… Or that I’d want to
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Tonight, we’re moving mountains We’re holding healing in the palm of our hands Reaching out to lay hold Of something bigger than ourselves The simple things are best When they’re broken between friends These empty bottles show All we’ve given of ourselves It takes, so long to say so little Thank god we’ve given ourselves The time that we need If we ever hope to know how it feels To love outside our fear
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Will you be the rain to wash the desert from me? Be the wind when the calm steals my breath away? Will you be the quiet when the voices won’t stop? Will you be provision when my hands are not? I’ve got a friend Will you heal the scars too painful to touch? Wrestle my thoughts back from the dark? Will you make my walls salvation and peace? And let me in through, though the gates of praise?
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She’s an interesting conversation Carried on a stream of conscious behavior When the clouds of distraction blow through my mind I forget the simple pleasures I found held in her arms Lay down lover (4x) She always seems to sing Lay down lover (4x) …with me I love to hear her say I lay down on the burning sand of her affection I taste the salt on her lips rise like confession I ask ‘is my strength a curse or a weakness’? She reaches to hold me as she quietly whispers Fall into light (refrain) I’ll spend all night searching for the day to… Fall into love, fall into light, fall into love, fall into life
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released October 31, 2011

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Rik Leaf

Rik Leaf has toured Canada writing, recording and performing songs with students for over 10 years. Rik uses his background in music, TV & Film to produce multi media projects that highlight the creative process. Rik is the Creative Director for, Tribe of One, a national collective of indigenous artists. ... more

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