Time keeps passing And I keep changing Not in the ways I wish I would World keeps turning My soul is burning Not in the ways I think it should By January One Ambitions rising with the sun And a host of resolutions I won't reach before the year is done And the temperature is cold Reminding me I'm getting old And these notions of perfection, I will never hold in my arms Hearts still beating Life is fleeting Not with the speed I think it could We make mistakes And slam on all our brakes But not in the time I wish we would By December Thirty-One Our hopes and dreams have come and gone And a plethora of new regrets outweigh the victories in sum We ring in the new year With nostalgia and some hidden tears And vow unto ourselves we won't return to what we fear we had become I wish life was a metronome that I could slow down Instead it's like a metronome I can't Ticking, tocking with a clock the moments spin 'round My eyes are fixed upon the second hand I wish life was a hourglass with unmoving sand Instead it's like an hourglass that's not Minutes falling grain by grain becoming the past Mesmerized, I can't escape the thought That for all the years I've come For all the miles I have run I have never seen a vision like the rising of the sun For all the times I've cried All the days I wished to God I'd die For all the ruined fantasies, the faults, the fights, the failure I've become There's always been a rising sun See, the sun keeps rising I keep surviving Not I the sense I'd hoped I would But life keeps going, growing And even when it's snowing I get the subtle feeling that this is good So here's my resolution My weak attempt at a solution I don't know much of anything but maybe this is wisdom If there's one thing I've learned Here it is, my one conclusion: Set your eyes upon the rising sun Fix your gaze upon the rising sun Turn your face unto the Risen Son

I know I’ve turned my back on you See how far I’ve run But now my heart is aching And I am overcome Lord, I hope that you’ll be waiting there with outstretched arms Here I am, I am the prodigal one I know that I am weak I stumble when I walk And it’s your face I seek ‘Cause you pick me up each time I fall Oh God I pray you’ll hear me And answer when I call Here I am, I am the prodigal child I’ve lost my way again And I don’t know where you are I’ve run to far this time And I don’t know where to start I’m waiting here for you Oh Father hear my heart Here I am, I am the prodigal daughter For I am broken here on my knees And I am shaken oh this my plea With open arms please rescue me Here I am, I am the prodigal I see you running out to me And tears well in my eyes How can you still love me? I don’t know how, I don’t know why Jesus, hold me close And may the tears run dry Here I am, I am the prodigal child I am the prodigal child I am the prodigal

Come and meet me underneath the stars Come and see me underneath the angels Come hold my hand This world is turning faster beneath our feet Come dance we can move with it Move with me Come and gather underneath these stars Come and find me, come exactly as you are Come and dance Come and sing with me Oh come and breathe Come and become free This is our night Come and join me underneath our stars Come and find me standing at the altar Come hear my vows Come hear my promise of eternity Come kiss my lips Come and become one with me This is our night And the clouds will be our dance floor And the sky will be our home And the birds will sing our anthem And the stars will light our forevermore And our hearts will be our metronome And our eyes will shine like moons And our love will be our anchor In a world that tries to tear me from you And a three-fold cord will be our tether As you and I are welded together And the wind will echo with our laughter This night begins our happily ever after Come, my lover; Come, my closest friend Come, my partner, come, let’s start the way we plan to end Come let us bow Come let us kneel as two made one in him Come now, here our old lives end And one begins This is our night