All My Life; Lyrics by Bodyworks

She didn't tell me 'til the seventh week
Now how was I supposed to know why she was crying?
It isn't even like a kid, you know
And if you're never born it's not like really dying.

I called this guy, he knows this guy
He said bring her down
And if it ever got around.

Congratulations the clinic said
And does your husband know he's soon to be a father?
I had to laugh when the line went dead
I mean I  could have called them back, but should I bother? Now?

All my life I've been living in mystery.
All my life I've been waiting for you
Soon my life will become a reality. Anew.

We run a service here, we keep it clean
We don't do anything without a doctor's order
And if a couple of them lose their dreams
They'd lose a whole lot more than that across the border.

You heard about the one who's at the other side of town
They tried to burn the building down.

I've got a cousin in New Orleans
She said that if I ever wanted I could move there
Keep the baby and get a job
And if I never finish school, well really who cares, now?

All my life I've been living in mystery
All my life I've been waiting for you
Soon my life will beome a reality
Anew.

We told her straight
Its not too late he's got to marry you.
If only for a week or two.
 
Of course we love her, what a thing to say
I can't imagine why she have kept us all from knowing?
And it will all be over in a day
Is there a better place with her we could be going? Now?

All my life I've been living in mystery.
All my life I've been waiting for you.
Soon my life will become a reality. Anew.

Favorite Quotes

I cried because I had no shoes, Then I met a man who had no feet.    Gandhi

We can learn to disagree without throwing each other out of our hearts.    Ken Keyes

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.    Ernest Hemingway

Shame, despair, solitude. These had been her teachers.  Stern and wild ones, and they made her strong.    Nathaniel Hawthorne

You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.    Maya Angelou

God does not ask us to be successful, but to be faithful.    Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.    Eleanor Roosevelt

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and life you have left.     Morrie Schwartz

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.    Emerson

Today, when nonbelievers tell me Jesus is just a crutch, I answer them, "Crutch, He's a whole hospital."    Judy Asti

How many times I ended up on my knees because I had no place else to go.    Abraham Lincoln

I have mourned for my old life, and I'm tryng to figure out who I am now.  Karen Duffy on Sarcoidosis

Some of us think holding on makes us strong-- but sometimes it is letting go.    Hermann Hesse

The world has never needed more love than today.    Mother Teresa

Make certain that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you and giving whatever he takes from you.    Mother Teresa

Words that do not spread the light of Christ increase the darkness.    Mother Teresa

I cannot forgive my friends for dying. I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.    Logan Pearsall Smith

We would be saved from all kinds of mistakes if we always looked at things in the light of eternity.  Wm. Barclay

I shall hear in heaven.    Beethoven

Time it was, and what a time it was. It was-- a time of innocence. A time of confidences. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph. Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you.    Simon and Garfunkel

You can travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are.    Harry Chapin

Every year is world hunger year.    Harry Chapin

Stop doing what doesn't work.    Anon.

If my life of following Jesus doesn't feel dangerous, I should probably pause and check to see if it's Jesus I am following.    Gary Haugen

They say most of the great things in life are one syllable things, peace, love, joy, trust, home, hope.     Anon.

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.    Vittorio Alfieri

Illness tells us what we are.    Italian Proverb

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.    Euripides

I never saw a wild thing sorrow for itself.  A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.    DH Lawrence

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.    Longfellow

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love.    Wordsworth

If you're never scared, embarassed, or hurt, then you never take any chances.    Julia Soul

A man may go to Heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends, but he can never go there without Christ.    John Dyer

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in one language is priceless.    Anon.

The best way out is always through.    Robert Frost

Today is a new day, you will get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure, is not the falling down, but the staying down.    Mary Pickford

The hardest part of faith is the last half hour.    David Wilkerson

In these days when we are closest to Christ's return we spend the least amount of time in His presence.    David Wilkerson

Looking through our culture's eyes, we may feel useless when we are sick, fatigued, or unable to function well. If we are not visibly useful to God, then what good are we? Yet God sees our physical weakness as an opportunity for us to completely focus on Him without distraction.    Mary Ann Froehlich

I want everyone who is broken or hurting to know that God can still use you. . . The weakest people have done the most for God, because in our weakness He is strong.  Don't ever be ashamed of your weakness.    Jen Barrick

You can't say civilization don't (sic) advance-- in every war they kill you in a new way.    Will Rogers

All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Lord Acton

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.  Anon.

Your life may be the only Bible some people read.  Anon.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.  John Donne

The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?  Percy Shelley

Who are you, little i, (five or six years old). Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset. And feeling that, if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.  e.e. cummings

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of springtime.  Martin Luther

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.  Frederick W. Faber

The good that men do lives after them.  Ruth Gordon

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.  Philo

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear, beginning, middle, and end.  Gilda Radner

Motto over Inferno:  Abandon hope all ye who enter here.  Dante

There will always be someone with the same button on as you.  Melanie Safka

So fly little bird, up into the clear blue sky. And carry the word, love's the only reason why.  Moody Blues

The step of compassion has but a twofold purpose. . . to walk in the shoes of the betrayer, in order to realize that crippled people cannot walk without a limp, and life being as it is, we are all limping.  Albert Haase

Beware of desperate steps, the darkest day lived 'til tomorrow will have passed away.  William Cowper

You should be proud of yourself, and you should own who you are and what you're about, and never make apologies for it.  Adam Lambert

It Happened Anyway; by Mattie Stepanek

When Jamie died
And I didn't even understand
The eternity of my sadness
I wished I could have prevented it
But then, I remember
It happened anyway.

When I rest in my bed
And dream about how I could have
Lived and played with my brother
I wish I could have stopped his death
But then I remember
It happened anyway.

When I look at pictures
And imagine what he would be like
Now a dozen years old
I wish I could have saved him from agelessness
But then I remember
It happened anyway.

When I hug our mommy
And we think of why and how, and
When he was with us and left us
We wish we could have prevented it
And stopped his death and saved him from
Never needing breath for birthday candles'

But then we remember
Though we don't understand
It happened anyway.

Amen; by Harry Belafonte

See the little baby, Amen
wrapped in a manger Amen
On Christmas morning,
Amen, Amen, Amen

See him in the temple, Amen
Talking with the elders, Amen
Who marveled at his wisdom
Amen, Amen, Amen

See him at the seaside, Amen
Talking with the fishermen, Amen
Walking the side pales
Amen, Amen, Amen

Oh, to in Jerusalem, Amen
On the top branches, Amen
He talked in splendor
Amen, Amen, Amen

See him in the garden, Amen
Lord have mercy, Amen
Blessed savior
Amen, Amen, Amen

Before Hiram, Amen
They crucified him, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Swing Low Sweet Chariot, by Wallace Willis

Chorus:
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin' for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin' for to carry me home.

I looked over Jordan,
And WHAT did I see,
Comin' for to carry me home,
A band of angels comin' after me,
Comin' for to carry me home.

Repeat chorus:
If you get there before I do,
Comin' for to carry me home,
Tell all my friends I'm comin' too,
Comin' for to carry me home.

Twilight (Tucson); by Sara Teasdale

Aloof as aged kings,
Wearing like them the purple,
The mountains ring the mesa
Crowned with a dusky light;
Many a time I watched
That coming-on of darkness
Till stars burned through the heavens
Intolerably bright.

It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:

"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only yourself can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows."

Spirit's house; by Sara Teasdale

FROM naked stones of agony

I will build a house for me;

As a mason all alone

I will raise it, stone by stone,

And every stone where I have bled

Will show a sign of dusky red.

I have not gone the way in vain,

For I have good of all my pain;

My spirit's quiet house will be

Built of naked stones I trod

On roads where I lost sight of God.