House Of Hope

Toni Childs House Of Hope Lyrics
1.I've Got To Go Now

This man i married is buried deep
And the more i try to wake him, the more he sleeps
I used to think i knew this man
The tenderness, not the back of his hand

It's been two weeks since he last had a drink
But the time bombs ticking, i can never sleep
It would be easier if he did
Why do you stay here, stay with him?

Why do you do it?
Why do you treat us bad?
When you've got two kids that love you
And a wife that's missing you bad
I've got to go now
I've got to say goodbye
Don't try to stop us now
And please don't you cry
Can't you see. we've all been through it
It's all been said before
With all these fears,
For how many years can i keep coming
Back for more
No more

Must be addicted to all this pain
Cause i keep coming back for the shame
Dear god give me the strength to leave
I've got to keep going, keep going this time

Don't try to stop us now
Don't pull that stuff on me
I've got the kids all packed up
Harry's in the back with his pick up truck
Jenny's fallen asleep again
I've got to keep driving till i reach the end

I can't come back here anymore
And i know it
And i know it
I can't come back here anymore
And i know it
And i know it


2.Next To You

I'd like to get next to you
If you want me to

I could hold you
Maybe i could show you
But i'm afraid
Cause you see i have been hurt before
Though i don't want to hurt no more
This feeling inside of me
Is strong in me
Is strong in me
Could you tell me who you are
And would i really want to know
What's it been for you
Just to trust and hold on, too

I'd like to get next to you
Whenever you wnated to
I'd like to get next to you
Whenever you wanted to

You could hold me
Maybe you could show me
How to trust
Cause you see i have been hurt before
Though i don't want to hurt no more
This feeling inside of me
Is strong in me
Is strong in me
Could i tell you who i am
And would you really want to know
What it's been for me
Just to trust and to believe

Could i show you who i am
Would you really want to understand
Holding skin to skin
My emotion feels like it has no end
Could i show you myself
Could i get right next to you,
Next to you


3.House Of Hope

Children laugh
Children cry
They're the future of our time
Will they hold us to blame
For all the things we've turned away
I don't care what i see now in my lifewhat i see now
I don't care where we're going
I don't like it, no
You and i, we're getting older now
You and i, who will show them
we don't show them how

I want to know who is true
Is there a house of hope for me and you
I want to know who is true
Is there a house of hope for me and you

Children laugh
Children cry
They're the ones who will survive
Will they know what we've sold
Nature's gift we've turned for gold
I don't care what i see now
In my life, what i see now
I don't care where we're going
I don't like it, no
You and i, we're getting older now
You and i, who will show them
We don't show them how

I want to know who is true
Is there a house of hope for me and you
I want to know who is true
Is there a house of hope for me and you

In this house of hope
In this house of hope
In this house of hope

You and i, we're getting older now
You and i, who will show them if we
Don't show them how


4.Daddy's Song

While you're standing there
I'm standing in a field
In my mind
You can't take that away from me
Daddy comes to me
In darkness not in light
Why i gave you all my love
And you showed no mercy

You tried to pin me down
With emotion feeling things
A butterfly display
A symbol fall from grace
I'm closing down my heart
I'm putting up the wall
Why i gave you all my love
And you showed no mercy

Here i sit
Looking to the light
In my head
I have the peace of mind
I've lost tonight
There are flowers here
And hills and horses too
I ride in my dreams and
I'm afraid i'll have to go back
Go back to the night
Daddy holds me tight
I'm losing my mind
I'm losing my head
Someone help me now
Daddy comes to me
In darkness not in light
Why i gave you all my love
And you showed no mercy

I just want to know now
What it is to survive
Daddy's song and daddy's lies
I've gotta know (repeat)
What it is
How it happened
I've just got to know now
What it is to survive
Daddy's song and daddy's lies
I've gotta know (repeat)

What it is
How it happened
I've just got to know now
What it means to survive
And to live out daddy's lies
I've got to live
I've got to live
I've got to live
I've got to live


5.Heaven's Gate

A man i met in my youth
Came to me in the light of truth
A beautiful dream that was
Till he died one rainy fall
There i was a child bride
Widowed at ninteen, defied
Never would i let him go
Go to the place that heaven knows

On the evening of his death
My shoulders felt a brushing breath
Cold were his hands on my breast
The man that i loved and put to rest
He came to me and held me close
We danced til dawn in the early snow
There i felt him cry and cry
'i'll never leave, leave your side'

Oh the madness
This town thinks i'm mad
Sixty years, has it been a dream
This man i'm haunted by, i see

I'm eighty years and on my bed
Awaiting death, that final breath
He sits by and looks to me
'soon you will come and be with me'
Now i feel all warm inside
As i leave this mortal body behind
Seems it is eternal's way
We're waltzing into heaven's gate


6.The Dead Are Dancing

I see a graveyard's past
The revolution's taken back
Whatever happened to the sons
No more sunshine here
Only darkness here
There's no-one living in this town

Cause the dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
In the town

Mother mary comes to me
In this graveyard of hypocricy
But father renta says i'll have to pay
In the dead are buried lies
A sinful phantom cries
Can't we just rest up on the hill

But the moonlight calls us
The moon, it calls us
Up and out into the town
Yes, the dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
In the town

Heaven does it come to me
In the dreaming that my soul's been freed
And the torment of my madness gone away
And though god says he loves
And i, i think of love
I cannot change the way i am

And so the moon, it calls me
The lunatic calls me
Up and out into the town
Yes, the dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
The dead are dancing
In the town


7.I Want To Walk With You

I keep finding this decision hard
I keep finding a room that's in the dark
I don't know, shed some light on it
Maybe save me from what i'm feeling
This lonely day
Cause the secret's out and the secret's clear
What i want

Yes i want to walk with you
I want to hear you say 'yes i want that too'
I want to walk, i want to walk with you
I want to hear you say 'yes i want that too'

Can i tell you what i cannot tell myself
In my thoughts there's a voice calling
'you will be lost'
In my life i deny, deny this heavy load
And obsession is clearly my need to know
Can i let it out, can i let you know
What i want

I don't want to run from this
It seems that it'd be hard to do now
I don't want to lose my head
Falling down in front of you
I don't want to lose my head now
It could be so easy to do
If i could find a reason why
I'd stay here, stay here, stay here
Stay here, stay

I want to give love
I want to share
I want to show you just how much i care
I want to hold you
I want to touch
I want to give my love away
I want to walk
I want to walk
I want to know what it is in my soul


8.Where's The Light

Well, i'm addicted boy
And now i want some peace
But i don't think the money's
Gonna take away the need

And yes i'm hurting girl
But you won't see it much
Cause it's the stuff we don't let out
It's what you will not touch

What it is now heart
What we need to find
It seems we're all looking for
Some peace of mind

Where's the light, where's the light
In the darkness of my life
Where's the light, where's the light
In the darkness there is no light

To be satisfied
To go underground
To swim inside the ocean
Descend to the profound
To reach the bedrock
A guest
A psychic death
A wild thought
I just caught
Would this be the end
Can you help me now
Can you tell me please
How to find some peace and relief


9.Put This Fire Out

Used to sit and wonder what to do
And i still do when i'm feeling blue
Fearful that my struggle with life will never end
Help me please to stop

This fear in motion
These circles turn me
Someone help me put this fire out
Yes they hurt me
Yes they turn me
Someone help me put this fire out

Running, i am scared what i will see
If i look inside, deep these wounds of mine
Hurting me so long i can't ignore them anymore
Help me please to find

Innocence is lost on the small
Mama said early, early on
But what was visible to me in my dreams
Is that the pain was all
I could ever see

And it moves me
Yes it turns me
Someone help me put this fire out
Yes it hurts me
Yes it turns me
Someone help me put this fire out


10.Three Days

I walk away
It seems it's like a bad day
On the hill
I stand and stare away
Hoping for a brighter day

And i stand staring there
And i stand staring there today

I feel the rain
Fall upon my face and wash away
The things i feel inside
Turmoil is what moves the tides

And i stand staring there
And i stand staring there
And i begin another day

You say you hurt
And the cut has been too deep
The blood
That flows inside your soul has died
Cancer is the hurt inside

And i can't walk away
And i can't show the pain
And i can't let it go
And i can't let it go away

It's another day
The morning comes so bright
I feel lifted
Now the clouds have passed
I feel freedom here at last