Unreleased Songs

The Normals Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.We Are The Beggars At The Foot Of God's Door

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

We are gathered in cathedrals on a Sunday
We are shrouded in our pride and lust's despair
We have heard that You said, 'Go to where your hearts once were'
Trusting we'd arrive to find You there

We have known the empty senses of a funeral
We are haunted by the promises of death
We have asked to see Your face and noticed nothing
But a well timed honest smile from a friend

Oh, we of little faith
Oh, You of stubborn grace

We are the beggars, we are the beggars
We are the beggars at the foot of God's door

We have grown cold to the kisses of our lovers
We have rolled the windows up and driven through
The forests of the autumn, the innocence of snow
Metaphor of Jesus in the dew

We have known the heated passion of the cold night
We have sold ourselves to everything we hate
We're hypocrites and politicians running from a fight
We've cheated on a very jealous mate

Oh, we of little faith
Oh, You of stubborn grace

We are the beggars, we are the beggars
We are the beggars at the foot of God's door

We've known, we've known
We've known the pain of loving in a dying world
And our lies have made us angry at the truth
But Cinderella's slipper fits us perfectly
And somehow we're made royalty with You
Royalty with You, royalty

We are the beggars, we are the beggars
We are the beggars at the foot of God's door
We are, we are, we are, we are
We are the beggars at the foot of God's door


2.Brittle Bone

Lyricist:Andrew David Osenga

Sunset skyline out my window
Stained carpet underfoot
Ain't that the way that it goes
We live in the bad and long for the good

Down here the well has been poisoned
Now everything's dying
Some sell forgiveness on gospel TV shows
And I wonder why anyone's buying
'Cause the truth is a hard sell for it burns out the lies

And I tear hard this brittle bone and I drink deep this wine
Live rich on the meat of this table 'cause it's here where I can
find
The grace of a Saviour, the face of a lover, the absence of what
I fear
I'm not alone for here I've found my home

I've been hiding like an ostrich, my head underground
And all my dirty feathers all across town
Lucky vampire has no mirrors me, I'm scared of what I'd see
I long for a last time with last times, isn't that why You died
for me?
I bow my head weeping, I pray I'll raise it to find You

And I tear hard this brittle bone and I drink deep this wine
Live rich on the meat of this table for it's here where I can
find
The grace of a Saviour, the face of a lover, the absence of what
I fear
I'm not alone for here I've found my home

'Cause I can think too much, I can think You away
Now that I've crashed hard, can I see how You save?
There's a small cloud in the distance but I'll keep on walking
Till Your grace sings so loud, I can't hear myself talking
Can't hear myself talking

And I tear hard this brittle bone and I drink deep this wine
Live rich on the meat of this table 'cause it's here where I can
find
The grace of a Saviour, the face of a lover, the absence of what
I fear
I'm not alone for here I've found my, not alone for here I've
found
I'm not alone for here I've found my home


3.No Alibis

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

So is this what you wanted
Is this what you tried so hard to be
To play the part of what I'd longed for
You never prove yourself to me

It's just a wall of glass, you've built around you
You and I could be a pair of aces, I've never lost a hand
And all it takes is just one word and grace is
Your wish and my command

It's just one word, just one sigh
Just one heart with no alibis
It's just one word, just one sigh
Just one heart with no alibis

I know how clowns are frightening
It seems the smiles have soaked through to their minds
Is this the part where you get scared and run away
On your way out don't forget your lines

Please believe me when I tell you that I love you
'Cuz you and I could be a pair of aces, I've never lost a hand
And all it takes is just one word and grace is
Your wish and my command

It's just one word, just one sigh
Just one heart with no alibis
It's just one word, just one sigh
Just one heart with no alibis, yeah

And all I have and all I want and all you can give me
Well, I can do without you, I can do without you
I can do without this pain
But love stands in my way

'Cause you and I could be a pair of pilgrims
Torn and bruised and full
All it takes is just one word
And a broken heart is beautiful

Just one word, just one sigh, just one heart and no alibis
Just one love, just one life, just one mind with no alibis
Just one you, just one me, just the truth
'Cause there is nothing else to see

Just one, oh, just one, just one heart with no alibis, yeah
Just let the truth run wild, oh, wild


4.Heaven Heals

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

Goodbyes are never easy, goodbyes never tire
Making me feel guilty, being dragged through time
You were standing in my doorway as the seconds raced the snails
Because you wouldn't let me leave you, without driving those
last few nails
I guess that's how it works here

But Heaven holds a promise for every friend we've left behind
Time is not the ruler that I thought he was
Someday soon we'll wake up, wake to see each other running
Arms open, all is forgiven when Heaven heals

It's been a few weeks since that message that I left to feed the
lie
That communication's open when we both know that it's died
I wish that were the nobler thing

But Heaven holds a promise for every friend we've left behind
And time is not the ruler that I thought he was
And someday soon we'll wake up, wake to see each other running
Arms open, all is forgiven when Heaven heals, Heaven heals

It cannot be right just to leave you
God it's just too hard to stick around
Maybe herein lies the place where grace starts
That when we're both lost then God is found, God is found

But Heaven holds a promise for every friend we've left behind
And time is not the ruler that I thought he was
Someday soon we'll wake up, wake to see each other running
Arms open, all is forgiven, arms open, all is forgiven
Arms open, all is forgiven when Heaven heals, Heaven heals,
Heaven heals
Oh when Heaven heals, that's right yeah


5.Romeo On The Radio

Lyricist:B.j. Aberle, Malcolm Burn, Cason Cooley, Andrew David Osenga

One, two, three

Let me get your door, let's go for a drive and see what we can
find
Look out your window at this big sad world, don't let go of my
hand
'Cause it feels better when you're close

And we're driving with Romeo on the radio
And we're driving with Juliet on the radio

And we're praying
That we'll both know if it's right but let's enjoy
Every moment for its time

And we're driving with Romeo on the radio
And we're driving with Juliet on the radio

And it's hard to love, we're learning
But it's worth all that it costs
And we don't know where we're going but we just love getting
lost

And we're driving with Romeo on the radio
And we're driving with Juliet on the radio
I love to see you smile, I love to see you smile


6.The Best I Can

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

I sometimes hide behind my words
Sometimes I'm round the corner from these songs
But words are only words like days are only days
And I'm nothing for just singing along, singing along

The air is hot in Florida, the rain is cold in Maine
The thaw is flooding Washington and this all feels the same
But You've brought me to this place
Where there's nothing else but faith

And this is what I have been given
And I will make the best I can
There's a joy we find in living
And a love that's in Your hand

Casons always talking about the sky that covers Kansas
And I wish I could be under it today
I'm tired of all the spinning lies, I'm tired of all this
killing time
I'm tired of always getting in the way

I wish I could conjure up a love song
Wish I could pray the way my friends do back home
Is there a part of You still that I just don't believe
'Cause this is not what I thought I had been praying for

But this is what I have been given
And I will make the best I can
There's a joy we find in living
And a love that's in Your hand

Someday, some girl will find my words beautiful
Someday some son will call me dad
Someday I won't wake to find myself lying
In another cold and lonely hotel bed

Someday I'll trade in this guitar
For a city of golden praise
Someday I won't be here any longer
Someday, yeah

But this is what I have been given
And I will make the best I can
There's a joy we find in living
And a love that's in Your hand


7.I'll Be Home Soon

Lyricist:Andrew David Osenga

Life it just goes on when the traveler's gone
And that's the hardest part, for time has no respect
For a lonely man with a longing heart
'Cause once you're where you've wanted, everything's so fast

But I'll be home soon
I'll be home soon

And if you have a place where you belong
You're a lucky one, for time was meant to waste
A laugh with good old friends or walking hand in hand
I can't believe I'll be there and this time I can stay

But I'll be home soon
I'll be home soon

So chariot come, swing low 'cause I'm hard to see
So far below, 'cause this place tries so hard
To break a man and I've tried to stand
But I'm drowning in its sorrows, need to catch my breath

But I'll be home soon
I'll be home soon


8.These Times

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

It's these times that I could kiss you
It's these times when you're asleep
It's these times you feel so dirty
It's these times you feel so cheap

It's these times when you're the loser
The times you're gabbing on the phone
It's these times you're singing love songs
It's these times you're all alone

It's these times when you're the victim
It's these times when you're the saint
It's these times when you're the bad guy
Who's inflicting all the pain

It's these times you sail the ocean
The times you wash up on the shore
It's these times you feed the hungry
It's these times you rob the poor

It's these times you burn the house down
It's these times you're getting burned
It's these times you do the right thing
It's these times you never learn

It's these times that you deny me
And ignore everything I've done
It's these times you crucify me
It's these times you're still my son

It's these times I love you
It's these times I love you
It's these times I love you
It's these times I love you


9.Coming To Life

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

I always listened to the same sad song
In the wintertime when I drive home
Then her and I'd sit on her couch
Where we used to dream of falling in love

And all this time I thought that she had killed me
And all these years I spent in the graveyard weeping
But I feel blood pouring through these veins after all
And I feel blood washing through these stains after all
And I am coming to life

I spent a thousand lone cold nights
Thinking I would gladly hurt if I could feel
I spent a thousand empty days
Just looking for a girl to make me real

And all this time your face was all around me
And all those loving arms that held me so close
And I feel blood pouring through these veins after all
And I feel blood washing through these stains after all
And I am coming to life

All I taste and all I feel, all I found in you is real
And right and I am coming to life
You are the breath I breathe
You hold me to belief
You died so I could be alive and free from me
And I am coming to life

I used to listen to the same sad song
In the wintertime when I drive home
Then her and I'd sit on her couch
Where we used to dream of falling in love


10.Two Wrongs and a Right

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

He keeps his secrets so he doesn't even tell himself
He keeps his ringer off and doesn't hear the telephone
How could he know a pretty girl could mess him up
And he wants to know more than anything he wants to know

She knew it's wrong but she had to taste the bitterness
She clings to everything that keeps her out of loneliness
Pretty pretty girl meets guy
How could they know that two wrongs can never make a right

That two wrongs can never make a right
Love finds a way to be free, woe is me
It keeps on holding us closely, woe are we
Two wrongs don't make a right for me, woe is me

He told her no but she bit down to the apple core
She spit up worms
And everything they knew fell to the floor
Sifting through the pieces all they found was more

And the glory of their garden fell
And the glory of their garden fell
Love finds a way to be free, woe is me
It keeps on holding us closely, woe are we
Two wrongs don't make a right for me, woe is me

Children follow my voice, children follow my voice
My words are like silk and my tears are like yours
Falling from the sky from which the lost can find love amidst
the pain
Love is like a song you can't help but sing


11.Hillary

Lyricist:Andrew David Osenga

Hillary says she found Jesus in her closet
Hillary said, 'It didn't fit'
Hillary is scared of nothing
At least nothing she'll admit

Hillary has a lovely smile
Through the haze of Hillary's cigarettes
Jesus says, 'All I want is to love her
But she won't believe me yet
She won't believe me yet'


12.Black Dress

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

Will she walk slowly
Or will she come at all
I can't believe that I was watching
Can't believe I made the call

I can't get a handle on my thoughts now
Guess I've already made my mind
He's a soldier in my battle
I'm the king with too much time

Will she wear that black dress
Will she wear that black dress
As holy as the night
As holy as I want to feel

I want to feel all right, what if she is angry
I know that we're both scared
Do I look her in the eye
Or do I even dare to care

I'm drowning in desire
I've been good for so long
I know I've got no right now
But no one can tell me that I'm wrong

Will she wear that black dress
Will she wear that black dress
As holy as the night
As holy as I want to feel

I want to feel all right, maybe I'll be good
I could be gone when she gets here
I've still got a chance to make this one all right

My temptation's on the stairway
My temptation's at the door
My temptation is before me
She is standing before me in that black dress


13.Every Moment

Lyricist:B J Aberle, Cason Cooley, Mark A Lockett, Andrew Osenga, Mike
Taquino

Here we can't stop moving, can't let that fear creep in
That all of our ships are sinking and no one here can swim
Truth we turned that word away, the truth that welcomes us to
stay
Where every moment of every day is summer
And autumn and winter and spring

Lovers and loners and vagrants and kings were finally home
We've got worlds upon our shoulders, atlas to our sin
From trying to be too good for a broken dying man
Love so perfect, love so right, let us fall in love tonight
Where every moment of every day is summer
And autumn and winter and spring

Lovers and loners and vagrants and kings were finally home
Let us run free, let us breathe wild, let us not let your beauty
pass us by
We can't wait to move on, drop these ragged bones and spring
Lovers and loners and vagrants and kings were finally home


14.Innocence

Lyricist:Aberle Benjamin James, Burn Malcolm, Cooley Cason Jay, Osenga
Andrew D

Innocence, you were taken so slowly
It hit us suddenly
And now I can't leave my room
'Cause the lights of the city
Are just hiding from the dark

Innocence, we never got to say goodbye
But the glory of redemption
Is the wisdom that we find
Has taken its place

So this is growing up
To find the things that
You weren't old enough to know
Are the things you never wanted
As another pretty girl
Falls for another dirty lie

Innocence, we never got to say goodbye
But the glory of redemption
Is the wisdom that we find
Has taken its place

I miss that simple life
The one that never existed
Like a night in from the town
Doesn't mean you're not still there

Innocence, we never got to say goodbye
But the glory of redemption
Is the wisdom that we find
Has taken its place


15.T.V.O.D.

Lyricist:Miller Daniel Otto

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.

I don't need a TV screen
I just stick the aerial into my skin
Let the signal run through my veins
T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.

I don't need no TV screen
I just stick the aerial into my skin
Let the signal run through my veins
T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.
T.V.O.D.


16.Song And Dance

Lyricist:Clayton Dailey, Mark Lockett, Andrew Osenga

I'm standing at a mirror
I don't know who I'm looking at
This part I play that I didn't write
Have I gone too far to come back?

I wish you could see the real me
More than just this song and dance
But that's all you saw to begin with
So that's what I gave you at last

I'm empty as a desert well
But I built the walls of this mirrored cell
It was a spiraled game of show and tell
And you beat me every time
(Every time)

I feel as easy to see through
As a candidate for political office in D.C.
Yet my loneliness is carefully hidden
Though I'm dying to let it be seen, yeah

I'm empty as a desert well
But I built the walls of this mirrored cell
It was a spiraled game of show and tell
And you beat me every time

I'm empty as a desert well
But I built the walls of this mirrored cell
It was a spiraled game of show and tell
And you beat me every time
And you beat me oh every time

Tear me down, see me naked
This tired facade is wearing thin, yeah
It's wearing thin, yeah

I'm empty as a desert well
But I built the walls of this mirrored cell
It was a spiraled game of show and tell
And you beat me every time

I'm empty
(As a desert well)
I'm empty
(As a desert well)
I'm empty
(As a desert well)
I'm empty
(As a desert well)


17.Better Than This

Lyricist:Clayton Dailey, Mark Lockett, Andrew Osenga

Help me, could something so right?
Be so tainted a brief intermission
Between feeling and reason
I promise beneath the shrink wrap
And the price tag there's something
Worth your while at least there used to be

Believe in me
Believe in love
Believe in anything
That's better than this

I want You but I just can't ask You
'Cause I don't even know You now
(Want to know You)
Caught in this tailspin and I'm blinded by my sin
And I still don't know You now
(Want to know You)

I'm writing a book but it's got no pages
'Cause You were all I had to say
And I guess, I have walked away from You
I'm too slow, there's God on the phone
Well, leave a message and I'll get back to You soon

Don't believe in me
Please believe in love
Believe in God
It's better than this

I want You and I want to love You
'Cause I don't even know You now
(Want to know You)
I need this and I'm praying for it
But I still don't know You now
(Want to know You)

I want You, I need this
(Want to know You)
And I am praying for it
I still, I don't know You
(Want to know You)

Now
(Want to know You)
Now
(Want to know You)

I wanna bleed, I wanna see
I wanna know You
I wanna know You
I wanna know You
I wanna


18.Everything (Apron Full Of Stains)

Lyricist:Clayton Dailey, Mark Lockett, Andrew Osenga

She walks to the table with an apron full of stains
And asks, 'Hey sir, what can I get for you today?'
I try to be polite and make nice conversation but
The foods no good she doesn't seem to even notice me here

Her shoulders slumped, I see her tear stained eyes
Head back through the double swinging doors
Serving pies was not her goal in life
I leave a tip like I think Jesus would and smile

Thanks a lot, have a nice day
And I'm on my way
Jesus what would You do?
Can You teach me how to love like You? ohh

I wanna give You everything
But I've got nothing of my own at all
And if I give what I have not got
Will You fill me up and make me whole, yeah

I see him sitting by the side
Of the building near the street sign
He's got a sign saying, 'I will work for food'
He looks up with his glazed over eyes says

'How 'bout a dollar for a veteran, a fellow American?'
Empty stomach, empty mind, empty soul
Have I got the time to feed him a little broken bread? No
Do I toss up a prayer as I walk on by or give him a tract?

And a weak fake smile
Or do I take the time to show him a little love?
Don't feel like I've got anything to give
So I guess, I've got nothing to lose, yeah, e, yeah

I wanna give You everything
But I've got nothing of my own at all
And if I give what I have not got
Will You fill me up and make me whole?

I come back a couple weeks later
See the same apron, same stains
Same splint end hair pulled back
She comes near and says

Hey mister, your smile picked me up
The other day, just thought I'd say thanks
Well, I don't know why it takes
All my effort to try, yeah, e, yeah

I wanna give You everything
But I've got nothing of my own at all
And if I give what I have not got
Will You fill me up and make me whole
Make me whole, make me whole?

She walks to the table with an apron full of stains
And asks, 'Hey sir, what can I get for you today?'


19.We Go On

Lyricist:Cooley Cason Jay, Osenga Andrew D

I took the long way home
But it led to the same apartment
Where no one's paid the phone bill
And no one really cares
When will that road
Go somewhere beautiful
And somewhere safe?

'Cause around here everybody's
Trying to find someone to be
Every guy's trying to find respect
In the eyes of a girl
Who just wants to be loved
We're children playing with guns
Children playing with hearts

And we go on

We drive out of the city
Sometimes you've just got to leave
And scream out at the dark night
Hoping we believe what we believe
Cause it all seems too simple
And it all seems too wild

And our question grow in number
And their answers loom with fear
But still we ask and we trust you
Because you've held us here
With chains of grace and longing
Longing to be loved and longing to be known

And we go on

All this reaching, still no grasping
Faith is there but time is passing
Are the answers in the asking
Where the weak become the strong?

All I want is to be someone
All I want it to be real
All I want is to feel alive
All I want is to be with you
I don't know what I think that means
I want an awful lot it seems

And we go on