Little Bird

Little bird opening your eyes / Greeted by the warmth of the sunrise / Looking down below your nest / Your heart is beating rapid in your chest // There's nothing that will bring you down / When you're in the clouds / There's nothing that could hold you back / When you let go of the past and / Just learn how to fly / Dreams they come alive // Little bird Learn to sing the songs / That you've been singing all along / those memories on melodies / Like wings that float upon the southern breeze // There's nothing that will bring you down / When you're in the clouds / There's nothing that could hold you back / When you let go of the past and / Just learn how to fly / Dreams they come alive // Little bird don't carry all this weight / That brings down from where you're safe / Where howling beasts are baring teeth and claw away at the trees / Shaking, rattling your nest until you're trapped in the descent / But facing gravity brings certainty of who you're meant to be // There's nothing that will bring you down / When you're in the clouds / There's nothing that could hold you back / When you let go of the past and / Just learn how to fly / Dreams they come alive

Hold On

Written by Stacey Barefield / James Barefield

I know it's hard to dance / With your back against the wall / I know it's hard to sing / When the lights are fading / When nobody's there to help you through it all / And sometimes the help that you get ain't for the problems you're facing // Hold on my love // Photographs and memories and all these places in between us/ Can't push back the tide of the lies and we shatter to pieces / You sit on the shore counting miracles and wishing on stars / And your sandcastle braces against the waves that come to break your heart // Hold on my love // Hold on my love / Hold on my love

White Flag

She said, "Daughter, don't forget my love / And promise me you'll keep / the memories of the things I've done / wherever your heart beats / troubled times will come and go / and pain seems to stay / I won’t be with you much longer / don’t let me fade away” // You won't always know when to raise the white flag / and sometimes it's just too hard to ask / but everyone needs help, once in a while / to know that they're not just gettin' by // He said “Son, don't forget the times / you landed in the dirt / you found the strength to stand again / and you learned from the hurt / time, it isn't friendly / it'll take all it can get / so stand and brave tomorrow / before the sun on your life sets” // You won't always know when to raise the white flag / and sometimes it's just too hard to ask / but everyone needs help, once in a while / to know that they're not just gettin' by / I wanna know that I'm not just getting by // There's nothing worse than longing for / a life that could have been / when morning light has bid farewell / and dusk is setting in / it takes courage from the start / and hope to see you through / The feelings that you can't compare / when it seems like you ain't got a prayer / you're drowning in the pain and doubt / and learning how to live without / and there's thoughts that you can't bring yourself to speak // And I don’t always know when to raise the white flag / and sometimes it’s just too hard to ask / but everyone needs help once in a while / to know that they’re not just getting by / I wanna know that I’m not just wasting time / I wanna know that I’m not just getting by

Tell Columbus

Just wanted to dance with you / under pale moonlight / Sing sweet words / by the fire side / But now that you're gone / I'm singing alone // ‘Cause you're a thousand miles away / or somewhere over the rainbow / I don't know what it's worth / but tell Columbus, "I forgive her" // Just wanted to see the way you smile / when you lean in and kiss me good night / there's nothing as sweet, in a world full of dreams / than waking up with you by my side / But now that you're gone / I'll tell my heart to move on // ‘Cause you're a thousand miles away / Or somewhere over the rainbow / I don't know what it's worth / but tell Columbus, "I forgive her" // She promised you all that you needed / She had everything in the palm of her hands / And I know that you had your reasons / It broke my heart when you left / But I still wish you the best / guess I'm just somewhere in between // ‘Cause you're a thousand miles away / Or somewhere over the rainbow / I don't know what it's worth / but tell Columbus, "I forgive her"

Diamond in the Rough

Oh, I see you standing in the rain / Wishing for a brighter day / Oh, I hear you whispering, crying / how much time will it take to erase / Every scar you hoped / would never see the light of day / And you pray you never feel this way again // Oh, I know you may not believe it when I / Say you can leave your past behind / Oh, I hope you see just how beautiful you are / And how you've brought yourself this far / Far from every lie that told you you were not enough / And how you don't deserve to know true happiness but / I've seen the strength that comes from / Deep in your bones and you won't / Let yourself throw in the towel // Oh, I see you standing in the sun / With a ring upon your hand / Oh, I hear you say he'll be your only one / From now until the very end / In that dress of white, you've built yourself a brand new life / And it's time you shine so bright like a diamond in the… // Roughed up, and beaten down but / Stronger than the world around you /Fighting with the hand that you’ve been dealt / When the odds feel stacked against you / Darling, you know that you don’t have to live / Like you are stuck right where you fell // Oh, my friend, I'll be with you til the end / Through years and miles and circumstance / And despite all of our best laid plans / I’ll be around, through the ups and the downs / When life gets rearranged / There’s nothing changing ‘bout the way I love you