Key:  D Major

       Bm                  Em        G           A

The people all will find the Blessed Way

All laughing loud together in the day

        F#m                 G            A         D  

Then crying we’ll behold the star-lit sight

Of evening turned to graceful night!

Chorus.  Key:  A Major

F#m          C#m        D      D/C#  Bm

Out in the City     –     I’m on my Way

Out in the City     –     Night or day

Out in the City     –     The sheer delight

Out in the City     –     Filled with light!

We hear the soothing song of musicians

Who proudly play their bold compositions

It’s a new street in every passing season

No one needs to know the rhyme or reason

Chorus

I am the one who knows I do not know

And standing silent in the falling snow

I am no more afraid to live or die

Because of what I’ve found within your eyes

Chorus

Solo

Feel free to trace the footprints in the snow

Or would you like to stay or gently go?

I love the faces of the passers-by

But still the homeless people make me cry.

Chorus x2

Spoken:

I send you out to serve the world…

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Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

My sorrow withers like the scarlet rose

That proudly stood as queen of summers’ field

When the day should fold and finally close

The flower to the night must graceful yield    

My sorrow calls me by name in a dream

Of you upon the wild green mountain lee

In your embrace tears are a flooding stream

Dark secrets of my heart must come to be

My sorrow is the word I dare not speak

But for the agony that dwells in you

As human I am strong yet I am weak

I want to weep the tears we never knew

My sorrow grips my heart not just for me

But so the suff’ring one may be released

And every tear upon your face I see

That flow from memories that are deceased

My sorrow; there are tomb-stones in my heart

Take the flowers you gathered; plant them there

In songs of joy and sorrow play our part

And in the summer day meet me with care

Solo

My sorrow withers like the scarlet rose

That proudly stood as queen of summers’ field

When the day should fold and finally close

The flower to the night must graceful yield

_______________________

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

I looked up and saw an angel on high

An angel who taught my soul how to fly

Like Pegasus riding a beam of light

The Garden of Eden spread in our sight

I looked up and saw the sign of the times

Nailed to a crucifix for His crimes

And though I live in a black wilderness

Still I never thought it would come to this

My Soul-mate is dead!

Just like my heart

My Soul-mate is dead!

Must two as one part?     x2

Happy memories that bring only tears

Lock me shackled and chained with my fears

Gardens we walked through are twisted with thorns

The moon that blest us now proudly wears horns

How can a pure swan fly with broken wings?

How can a dancer dance when no one sings?

Now I cry beneath the sky where I flew

Lost and abandoned with phantoms like you

My Soul-mate is dead

Just like my heart

My Soul-mate is dead

Must two as one part?    x2

Solo

The clergy is ugly beneath its cloak

Wallowing in brimstone ashes and smoke

Leaving my orphan to die in the cold

Sighing with hearts twenty centuries old

The clergy led my Bright One to the grave

They silenced her soul because she was brave

They lead me blind through the spidery dark

I too died the day God forgot His lark

My Soul-mate is dead

Just like my heart

My soul-mate is dead

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

Tears make flower dew

Black house dark forest

Peach-bowl delight guest

Lamp-fire ruby star

Deva fearless night

Colorful balloon

Piano keys dance

Magic stair-case home

Mother suffer life

Rise or winged fall

Inspire stone in heart

All One Holy face

Mozart conducting

Festival of Lights

Quiet stream laughing

Angels resting hear!

Solo

Tears make flower dew

Black house dark forest

Peach-bowl delight guest

Lamp-fire ruby star

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Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011