Executive Producer: Julie de Azevedo Produced by John Hancock Keyboards: John Hancock and Julie de Azevedo Guitars: Rich Dixon and John Hancock Bass: Rich Dixon Drums: Todd Sorensen Violin: Aaron Ashton Cello: Nicole Pinnell Background Vocals: Julie de Azevedo and John Hancock Mixed and Mastered by Mike Rosskelley at the Pod Recorded at John's House Album cover design: Charyce McGregor Lyrics and Music written by Julie de Azevedo ______________________ LIFE HAS A WAY Life has a way Of questioning the certain Of pulling back the curtain We’ve drawn to keep us safe And life has a way Dismantling defenses Stripping off pretenses And masks we have made CHORUS 1 Life has a way Of taking what we think is ours Life has a way Of changing up our plans We’re finding our way And learning how to let things go We grip so tightly in our hands Life has a way Of calling up the heroes Showing just how little we know About our bravery Life has a way Of waking inner giants Too long laying quiet With the strength to set us free CHORUS 2 Life has a way Of proving who we really are Life has a way Of changing up our plans We’re finding our way And learning how to let things go We grip so tightly in our hands BRIDGE When we can’t find hope in our humanity When we can’t find the missing pieces When we can’t find the strength To live another day Life has a way Life has a way CHORUS 1 ____________________ THE GRAVITY OF LOVE I will meet you where you are When you’re crouched in shadows small And you fear you’ve lost it all I’ll meet you where you are I’ll meet you where you are Covers pulled up over head Drowning in your weepy bed I’ll meet you where you are CHORUS The gravity of love Pulls me to you Unraveled and undone You’ve come unglued So when you reach your mountain peaks Or to valley lows you sink Whether you’re near or far I’ll meet you where you are I’ll meet you where you are Tragedy breaks down your door And heartache pins you to the floor I’ll meet you where you are CHORUS BRIDGE Judgment is a heavy stone That drowns the heart in lonely seas I only say this cause I know How often I need rescuing So who am I to withhold help? To withhold love And rob myself Of who I can be? Can’t deny gravity of love CHORUS ____________________ FRACTIONS OF MY HEART Twenty years ago Daddy left my mother I set one foot out the door Only half a lover I kept a secret bag In case you chose to leave me I could say I knew it I could beat you to it CHORUS I’m tired Of listening with one ear Of being half way here Tired of loving with fractions of my heart I’m ready Let me swim or let me sink I’m ready to let you love all of me Many years ago I promised I would love you But I gave you half not whole And kept a part of my heart from you Still got half our lives Stretched out on the road before us I know we can do it All of me will love you through it CHORUS BRIDGE We’ve created something beautiful With only fragments and flaws We’ve created something bigger than two With fractions of me Multiplied by you CHORUS ____________________ YOU CAN'T LOSE MY LOVE You can lose your car keys For the hundredth time Lose your privileges Lose your peace of mind You can lose your best friend When she moves away Lose your track of time And the words you planned to say CHORUS You can lose your innocence Trade it for experience You can choose the path you travel on But you can’t lose my love You can lose a boyfriend You can lose a job And somewhere along your journey You might lose your faith in God CHORUS BRIDGE From the day I first laid eyes on I fell under your spell My little girl From heaven sent I never dreamed we’d go through hell Through all the peaks and valleys That you have traveled through At times I know you’ve felt alone My heart has been with you CHORUS You can’t lose my You can’t lose my You can’t lose my love ____________________ MOTHER, WHERE ART THOU? I have read the ancient books Searching for your name Tracing every line on every page Imagining your face I hear echoes of your voice In the stillness of the night As I strain to see your shadow In the stories of so long ago CHORUS 1 Are you the binding on each page Are you the thread that binds All humankind through every age Are you the spaces in between Above around beneath Come out from your cloud Mother, where art thou? Were you there when it began In the garden near the tree As the architect of Eden’s door for Eve And all humanity CHORUS 2 Are you the cradle and the grave Are you the hand that lifts All living things to higher ways Are you the soil and the waves The blossom and the rays Come out from your shroud Mother, where are thou? BRIDGE Your weary daughters kneeling We're praying and we're pleading That you can stop this bleeding The world has lost its feeling How we need your healing We long for your revealing How we need a mother now Mother, where art thou? CHORUS 2 ____________________ GLIMPSES OF DIVINE I see the good in stranger’s eyes as we pass on the street Catching glimpses of divine in everyone I meet I think up a story about the path they’d traveled here Imagining the glory they’re gathering through the years CHORUS But when I look inside Of my own life Seems all I find Are frailty and weakness Shine the light Open my eyes So I can find To glimpses of divine I watch loved ones weaving light into life’s tapestry I can almost see their halos as they’re sprouting wing And I offer up a thank you for the love that I have known And all the blessed travelers I walk with on this road CHORUS BRIDGE I see beauty in each sunrise Innocence in every child’s eyes I see the fingerprint of God in mountains and the sea Why is it so hard Why is it so hard So hard to see the good in me? CHORUS