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AcaDisc #101- The Road Home by Voice of Faith
Original Release: 2000 Simple Measures Music
Available through Voice of Faith
Producer:
Rob Bolling, Simple Measures Music
Associate Producer: Brian K.
Shearer
Engineers: Rob Bolling, Brian K. Shearer, Sammy Bolling, and
Jim McMasters
Recording and Mastering Studio: Simple Measures Studio -
Greensboro, NC
Design: Jeff Keen
Photography: Robert W.
Foreman
Members: Brian K. Shearer - Bass
Jim McMasters - Baritone
Steven Potts - 2nd
Tenor
Rob
Bolling - 1st Tenor
Sammy Bolling - Additional Vocals and Vocal Percussion
Editor's Note: Two versions of this album exist. The album was remastered for the edition currently available and three songs were remixed as noted. The versions found on Voice of Faith's MP3.com site are all from the current release.
I Feel Good
Wayfaring Stranger
The Road Home
Joshua Fit the Battle
The Morning
Spiritual Touch
Lord of Love
Marvel of the Angels
Champion of Love
New Song (Open My Heart)
Words and music: Traditional
Arrangement: Keith Lancaster © 1989
Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)/Fort Knox Music (BMI)
This song also appeared
on Sweet Fellowship by Acappella
and Live From Paris by
Acappella.
Lead: Steven Potts
Lyrics:
Intro: (Steven starts)
Well, I feel good, good, good
Well, I feel
good, oh yes my Lord
Because there's something 'bout the Spirit
of
Jesus that makes me feel good, good, good, good
Substitute phrases (for I feel good- last word repeated like
good):
I can love (Rob joins)
I've got joy (Jim joins)
I can sing
(Brian joins)
I can serve
Do you feel good, good, good?
Do you feel good? Then clap your
hands
Because there's something 'bout the Spirit of
Jesus that makes
me feel good, good, good, good
Repeat Intro with all parts
Because there's something 'bout the Spirit of
Jesus that makes me
feel good, good, good, good
Scriptural Reference:
"It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me." Phillippians 1:7
Words and music: Traditional
This song also appeared on Never Grow Old by
Revival, This Little Light by The
Sounds of Glory, and as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" on Acappella Spirituals 2 by
The Acappella Company, Acappella Spirituals
Longplay by The Acappella Company, and on Sweet
Deliverance by Sweet Deliverance.
Lead: Brian Shearer and Rob
Bolling
Lyrics:
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger
A traveling through this world of
woe
But there's no sickness, toil, nor danger
In that bright world
to which I go
I'm goin' there (I'm goin' there) to see my father
I'm goin' there
(I'm goin' there) no more to roam
I'm just a goin' over Jordan
I'm
just a goin' over home
I know dark clouds will gather o'er me
I know my path is rough and
steep
But golden fields lie out before me
Where weary eyes no more
shall weep
I'm goin' there (I'm goin' there) to see my brother
I'm goin' there
(I'm goin' there) no more to roam
I'm just a goin' over Jordan
I'm
just a goin' over home
Interlude
I'm goin' there (I'm goin' there) to meet my Savior
I'm goin' there
(I'm goin' there) no more to roam
I'm going, you know I'm goin' over
Jordan
I'm just a goin' over home
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger
I'm just a goin' over home
Scriptural Reference:
"All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did
not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from
a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on
earth." Hebrews 11:13
"Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and
strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against
your soul." 1 Peter 2:11
Words and music: Rob Bolling © 2000 Simple Measures Music
Lead:
Steven Potts
Additional Vocals: Sammy Bolling (Not Included on 1st
Ed.)
Lyrics:
You started down the road, you knew exactly where it led
And in your
heart you knew that only sorrow lie ahead
Ignoring all the signs,
convinced you couldn't live between the lines (in between the lines)
And as you count the cost, you see the years have paid the toll
For
the aimless time you've spent, living life without a goal
So scared and
all alone, you can't seem to find your way back home
Chorus:
Show me that way to go back home (show me the way
home)
I'm so tired and weary, and I can't make it on my own (I'm so
weary on my own)
Only whispers in a memory of a place that I'd once
known
Won't you tell me it's not that far, down the long road home?
Everything you do (everything you do) seems to end up in
despair
When you try to love a life that's good (it's just not fair),
in a word that is not fair
You pull inside your shell, content to live
your within your cell
But every now and then, a ray of hope will cross your face
As the
memories return to you, of a far and distant place
Is it only in your
mind, or someplace you have been and you still can find?
Repeat Chorus
When you realize where you have been, and what you've left behind
In
the rising of the morning sun, you understand the signs (in the sun you
understand the signs)
Jesus! He's the way to go back home
He was there when you were
weary, you have never been alone
Ever standing right beside of you,
He's the truth you've always known
Jesus! He is the way, the way to go
back home (He is the way home)
(He is the way home)
(He is the way
home)
(He is the way home)
Scriptural Reference:
"Jesus replied, 'If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.'" John 14:23
Words and music: Traditional Spiritual
Arrangement: Jack
Clinard
This song also appeared on Acappella Spirituals 2
by The Acappella Company, Acappella Spirituals
Longplay by The Acappella Company, and Zambian
Acapella by Zambian Acapella.
Lead: Rob Bolling
Lyrics:
Tum, tum, tumblin' down
Tum, tum, tumblin' down
Tum, tum,
tumblin' down
Tum, tum, tumblin' down (I said tum, they come tumblin'
down)
Tum, tum, tumblin' down (They come tumblin' down)
Tum, tum,
tumblin' down (Way down to the ground)
Tum, tum, tumblin' down
Chorus 1:
(Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
Joshua fit the battle of
Jericho, Jericho, Jericho (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
Joshua fit the
battle of Jericho (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
And the walls come
a-tumblin' down
Chorus 2:
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, Jericho,
Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come
a-tumblin' down
You can talk about the men of Gideon (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
You
can talk about the men of Saul (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
But there's
none like good ol' Joshua (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
At the battle of
Jericho
That morning...
Repeat Chorus 2
I'm sayin...
Repeat Chorus 2
(Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
Up to the walls of Jericho he marched with
spear in hand (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
"Go blow your ram horns,"
Joshua cried (Tum, tum, tumblin' down)
"'Cause the battle is in my
hands!"
That morning...
Repeat Chorus 2
I'm sayin...
Chorus 3:
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, Jericho,
Jericho (Jericho, of Jericho)
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And
the walls come a-tumblin' down
And then the lamb-ram sheephorns began to blow
The trumpets began to
sound
Joshua commanded the children to shout!
And the walls come
a-tumblin' down
Joshua fit the, Joshua fit the, Joshua fit the, Joshua fit the battle
of Jericho
And the walls come a tumblin' down (Down!)
Scriptural Reference:
"Then the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.'" Joshua 6:2
Words and music: Rob Bolling and Brian Shearer © 2000 Simple
Measures Music
Lead: Rob Bolling
Editor's Note: This song was remixed and partially rerecorded for the edition currently available.
Lyrics:
Night falls, shadows melt away
It seems strange that darkness makes
them disappear
Through this night we're trapped by a blackness that
seems will never end
Still we hold to the hope of a time when the light
will shine again, the light will shine again
Chorus:
(I'll) I'll fly away, when the morning comes, when the
morning comes
I'll see your face, when the morning comes, and this
night has gone
Cold chills, from the rushing of the midnight winds
Held tight in
the grip of fear, holding on by a faith that's invisibly thin
It's been
said that the darkest of night is just before the light comes shining
in
And, I can see that we're very close to the day that will never end,
the day that will never end
Repeat Chorus
And don't you know the night will soon be gone?
And, I'll fly
away
I will see your face
When the morning comes
Repeat Chorus
And I am going to fly away, when the morning comes, when the morning
comes
And I am going to see your face, when the morning comes, and this
night has gone
I'll fly away, when the morning comes, when the morning
comes
And I am going to see your face
Scriptural Reference:
"For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5
Words and music: Gary Miller © 1992 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
This
song also appeared on Acappella Country by The
Acappella Company and In His Presence by The Acappella
Company.
Lead and Vocal Percussionist: Sammy Bolling
Editor's Note: The lead vocals on the 1st edition were performed by Steven Potts.
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Thank you, thank you very much
You are the Savior with
the spiritual touch
Praise You, praise Your holy name
Since You've
touched my life I've never been the same
Verse:
(Well in my darkness)
You are my light
(Pain and
confusion)
You guide me aright
(I sing sweet Jesus)
You are the
Christ
(And in my blindness)
You're such a beautiful sight
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Verse
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Verse
Repeat Chorus (with stepouts)
You are the Savior the spiritual touch (touch, touch)
Scriptural Reference:
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Ephesians 1:3
Words and music: Brian K. Shearer © 1998 Simple Measures Music
Lead:
Brian Shearer (verses) and Rob Bolling (chorus)
Lyrics:
There is one who has loved us more than any other
He left His home
and father for His bride
Carefully He searched until He found
her
And lovingly He offered her His life
Selflessly He showed His
love with humility
He offered it all for her good
This mystery of
grace that the Lord has shown
Is the kind of love I want for us to know
(us to know)
Chorus 1:
Now the Lord of love has smiled upon me and has brought
you in my life
We have come into His presence to be joined in His
sight
So I will take your hand and be with you (I'll be with you) till
the day I leave this earth
And I will love you like the Lord of love
loves the church
What a responsibility that we have now
As we symbolize Christ's love
for His church
We are called to be an example to the world
To be
willing to sacrifice and serve
So we must look to Him alone for our
guidance
And trust His love no matter what we face
It was love that
drove the Lord to be crucified
And, for this reason, we will give to
Him our lives (give our lives)
Repeat Chorus 1
And when our time has gone and the world moves on
We will still live
forever with our Lord (our Lord)
Chorus 2:
The Lord of love has smiled upon me (smiled on me) and has
brought you in my life (we have come)
We have come into His presence
(to be joined) to be joined in His sight
So I will take your hand and
be with you (I'll be with you) till the day I leave this earth
And I
will love you like the Lord of love loves the church
Yes I will love you like the Lord of love loves the church
Scriptural Reference:
"May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you." 1 Thessalonians 3:12
Words and music: Brian K. Shearer and Rob Bolling © 1995 Simple
Measures Music
Lead: Brian Shearer (verses) and Rob Bolling
(chorus)
Guest Vocalists: John Marsh and Rob Marsh
Lyrics:
Christmas was a gift, given many years ago
To an undeserving world,
on a night so dark and cold
God became a child, deity within a
babe
Man was given hope, man can be saved
Chorus 1:
And the angels must have marveled at what the Lord had
done
God in flesh and blood, Emmanuel, God the Son
Born in a dirty
stable, for there was no room at the inn
For a lowly child that became
the man that would free the world from sin
The shepherds stood in awe, invited by an angel choir
Singing glory
unto God, and telling of the Savior's birth
Could they really
understand, the child had brought a better way?
A bridge from God to
man, man can be saved
Repeat Chorus 1
And the child grew and became a man
A cross and nails then captured
His hands
Could it be that God had died?
The sun grew dark and
nature cried
Chorus 2:
And the angels must have marveled at what the Lord had
done
God in flesh and blood, Emmanuel, God the Son (He is the only
Son)
Born in a dirty stable, and on a cross this child would end
But
He could not stay, the stone was rolled away, as He freed the world from
sin
No He could not stay, the stone was rolled away, as He freed the world from sin
Scriptural Reference:
"The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.'" Matthew 28:5-6
Words and music: Phil Cross and Carolyn Cross © 1987 Lifesong Music
Press
Lead: Steven Potts
Lyrics:
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention? I want to introduce to
you
In this corner of the good and the right, stands a champion robed
in white
His height exceeds the heavens, His weight outweighs the
world
His reach reaches everywhere, His age is evermore
Chorus 1:
He is higher than the highest (higher than the high),
greater than the great
No one will ever take His crown away
He's
more mighty than the mightiest, He reigns from above
He's the all-time
undisputed, undefeated champion, of love (love, love)
He left His hometown to enter this arena, to raise His hands in victory
for me
An angry crowd crucified this king who wore their crown, as they
gladly watched the champion going down
Oh but I will never count Him
out, for I'm a witness of
The day He rose to reclaim the title
"Champion of Love"
Repeat Chorus 1
You are the champion of love
Oh Lord you are my champion of love
Chorus 2:
He is higher than the highest (higher than the high),
greater than the great
No one will ever take His crown away
He's
more mighty than the mightiest, He reigns from above (He reigns from
above)
He's the all-time undisputed, undefeated champion, of love
(love, love)
Of love (of love)
Scriptural Reference:
"For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies." Psalm 57:10
Words and music: Keith Lancaster © 1990 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
This song also appeared as "Open My Heart" on What's Your Tag
Say? by AVB, In His Presence by The Acappella
Company, Awesome God: A
Cappella Worship by The Acappella Company, as part of
"Praise Medley"
on The Road by AVB, and in Spanish as "Mi Corazón" on Caminando en la
Luz by AVB.
Lead: Steven Potts
Editor's Note: The studio talk at the beginning of the song was shortened for the 2nd Edition.
Lyrics:
(Studio talk, blundered start)
Open my heart to what you know
So I can stretch, so I can grow
My
feelings toss me to and fro
Open my heart to what you know
Open my eyes to what you see
To understand what I should be
My
feelings get the best of me
Open my eyes to what you see
Open my ears to what you hear
So I can keep you very near
My
feelings make it so unclear
Open my ears to what you hear
Open my heart to what you know
So I can stretch, so I can grow
My
feelings toss me to and fro
Open my heart to what you know
Open my heart to what you know
Spoken Vocal:
That was nice
Scriptural Reference:
"As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your hearts also." 2 Corinthians 6:13
Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Rob Bolling
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