Better Country from Shelterheart by Benjamin Daniel

Father, take me by my arm
Tomorrow I am westward bound
And home has never felt so far
But still my eastward soul resounds

We're going to the better country
We're going to the better country

Brother, find me when I'm lost
I need a stabilizing force
Help me stop to count the cost
I want to run a steady course

We're going to the better country
We're going to the better country
We're going to the better country
And even if we die before we see it
We'll still see it...

Now up there in the Nashville sky, I hear a humble sound
The first notes of a song that puts to dust what's on the ground
As the best of my ambitions turn to fiction where I'm found
I've seen my dreams come true in my own name
They left me disillusioned all the same
And as I start to disassociate
I whimper
out
my
weakness
while
I
wait...

Can you feel it?
Deep in your bones like an echo of home
When I walk, I can see it
Tracing my path every time I turn back
When we talk, I can hear it
Pour from your voice till you give me no choice
But to stay
Here in this night
Boldly to carry its light

And it burns me
Caught in its heat with my heart on repeat
I am so undeserving
When it comes on, I can see where I've gone
But I've grown and He's working
Loves me to rest with my head on His chest
So I pray
This won't be long
I'm still compelled to keep on

Can you feel it?
Deep in the woods can it be understood?
But it won't be defeated
Even in death there's a promise of breath
And this won't be repeated:
Dark basement rooms and the vision of tombs
Overcome
Darkness has died
Run till our rescue arrives

And the journey
Stretches for days turned to years turned to gray
With our hearts ever burning
Hope still in tow to Emmaus
The road doesn't part from the hurting
Glory's a weight and its gravity great
But it's real
Leave what's behind
Seek what's ahead and you'll find

Can you feel it?
Deep in your bones like an echo of home
When I walk, I can see it
Tracing my path every time I turn back
When we talk, I can hear it
Pour from your voice till you give me no choice
But to stay
Here in this night
Boldly to carry its light

Precious Jesus
Long have we run with our hearts tuned as one
To the sound
Will You meet us
Here on this street with our fears at Your feet?
But for now You will see us
Running like kids screaming out what You did
In the storm
Still taking heart
Last up the stairs in the dark

Still taking heart
Last up the stairs in the...

We're going to the better country
We're going to the better country
Yeah, we're going to the better country
And even if we die before we see it
We'll still see it

And even if we die before we see it
We'll still see it...

When we wake up

• Acoustic
• acoustic rock
• indie folk
• Los Angeles