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Speak Not a Word

by Chords of a Man

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1.
Triangular universality Man, God, and His enemy Inextricably planted inside of me My soul is standing between two trees Battles raging Yet there is a spirit in man Complicating But breath has made me to understand that I am a miniature garden of Eden Two trees make me their home Life and knowledge of good and evil Set me on life alone My history is a biography Three stations portraying me Created, then fallen, then saved, and now Back in a garden between two trees In this garden, Where will I choose to be? Flesh or spirit? Choosing the law that sets me free? Oh I am a miniature garden of Eden Two trees make me their home Life and knowledge of good and evil Set me on life alone One law demanding One in my mind wants to succumb One law warring One in my spirit can overcome I am a miniature garden of Eden Two trees make me their home Life and knowledge of good and evil Set me on life alone I am a miniature garden of Eden (x2)
2.
Look to the sky, plumb the sea Search out the depths of Me Eye has not seen nor been heard by ear Things which I reveal To those who love Me You have hidden these things in your heart I know that this is with You The economy of ages in mystery My God, make known to me What is my strength, what is my end? Why would You with me contend? Let my complaint have free course in me Sincere as I can be I’m pouring out for You have hidden these things in your heart I know that this is with You The economy of ages in mystery My God, make known to me Hidden in Your heart, ooh Hidden in Your heart, ooh Hidden in Your heart, ooh Hidden in Your heart, ooh Look to the sky, plumb the sea Search out the depths of Me
3.
Have you ever commanded the morning since your days began? Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place, so that it takes hold of the earth at its ends? Have you entered into the springs of the sea or walked the depths of the deep? Have you ever seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you ever seen Me? Ooh, have you ever seen Me? Ooh, have you seen Me? Have you comprehended earth’s full expanse? Declare it, if you know Have you entered into the billowy storehouses of the snow? Have you seen the storehouses of the hail reserved for calamity? Have you seen whose womb gave birth to it all? Have you ever seen Me? Ooh, have you ever seen Me? Ooh, have you seen Me? Can you fasten the bands of the Pleiades or loose Orion's cords? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth or guide the Bear with its cubs adored? Can you lift your voice up to the clouds, till its lightnings guarantee? All the wonderful things that your ear has heard, now your eye has seen Me Ooh, have you ever seen Me? Ooh, have you seen Me?
4.
Precious morning star Rapture me so far from here Let this earth fall away Let its glitter fleet and fade Till it disappears Overwhelming me Is this sense of vanity Coursing my veins in the name Of chasing a dream But I’m leaving ere the night turns to morning Lest the daylight come without fair warning In the darkness will I find He who gives songs in the night? If my mind recalls Scenes that forged my prison walls Make my delight at midnight While foundations will fall I’ll be singing hymns of praise to my Maker Let my joy be every prisoner’s bondage-breaker In the darkness will I find He who gives songs in the night? Night NIght Aah, ooh In the darkness will I find He who gives songs in the night?
5.
I’ve been circling ’round this mountain Figuring out what I feel Why would He let this thing happen And what to me does He want to reveal? Painting the clouds steeped in setting sun We still can’t find a place to see it rise In a kaleidoscope of hue, the red betrayed the blue But I stared so long that spots obscured my eyes It was a tragedy I thought the night would leave me alone If I'd bear it on my own ’Cause I kept all my integrity about me Passed through the trial but my eye couldn’t see I suffered the loss but passed through in vain Where God I never gained If I wake before the morning light It’s not that I couldn’t sleep There’s an answer in a whirlwind And it’s giving me just a glimmer of something deep It was a shame to me I never really heard it before I can’t quell it anymore And You know how I just really love You And how all I want is just to please You Burn into my being all that I see Cause I’ve heard so many things about you I never even once doubted they were all true But now I’ve seen and realize With my own eye With my own eye Ooh, eye With my own eye
6.
Dear Job 03:16
Dear Job, she said, Curse God and die Whose wind and flames rained hell from the sky Should we receive the good He supplies But not the ill? Jehovah gives and He takes away Till nothing’s left, only God as gain And nothing would I be From far away lift up your eyes A friend you’ll see but won’t recognize Sit on the ground with him seven nights But speak not a word Jehovah gives and He takes away Till nothing’s left, only God as gain And nothing else I seek Sails not only catch the wind Like vessels filled to the brim Souls emptied and filled with Him Gain God as their life and their everything His reckoning, I cannot explain His only goal that God be my gain So strip away but let God remain And that is all I seek
7.
Who is weak? And I’m not weak? Covering, Your love I seek Some defend the rules they bend In the end, were you condemned? When they came to cast their stones One by one they realized Their own sin and left you alone When you’re led astray Love covers all If I err in my way Love covers all Love covers all To the weak, I became weak One repeats and love would cease When your failure was exposed Walking back they covered And the way of blessing chose When you’re led astray Love covers all If I err in my way Love covers all When you miss what I say Love covers all If I cause your dismay Love covers all When to sin I fall prey Love covers all From the path should you stray Love covers all Love covers all
8.
If I become what I love What love will I let in? Love of self, love of God Or love of sin? Incline your ear to my sayings Keep your heart with all vigilance On life’s path stay aright Keep your heart with all vigilance For from it are the issues of life If I bring forth my treasured zeal Will streams of good flow out? Will my teeming heart reveal What I’m about? Heed my words and find healing Keep your heart with all vigilance On life’s path stay aright Keep your heart with all vigilance For from it are the issues of life O God, search me and know my heart Try me, know me and my anxious thoughts And lead me on the eternal way If just a leaf can block a ray And God's own light obscure Will I turn my heart astray? Will I keep it pure? Seeking out His dealings? Keep your heart with all vigilance On life’s path stay aright Keep your heart with all vigilance For from it are the issues of life
9.
You caught a glimpse through a veil So obscurely, it cruelly Shattered and tragically failed Prematurely, so surely Something went wrong That shackled your heart like a fetter So you moved along for better I know the gate and path are narrow I won’t try to intervene And although I understand your sorrow To take this way depends on the vision that you’ve seen Here lies the path that I chose Ever costly, it taught me Words not everyone knows Whispered softly, they brought me To where I belong Where time can’t make everyone better But visions live on forever I know the gate and path are narrow I won’t try to intervene And although I understand your sorrow To take this way depends on the vision that you’ve seen Here lies the path that I chose
10.
In the fall I’ll sow a tree Come the spring you’ll reap a seed Pouring out our all we’ll see He who waters will be watered himself Rain descends from gloomy eyes Tears stream down from saddened skies O Lord, why am I so dry? He who waters will be watered himself Fountains that become a spring Know the joy that drinking brings Flowing yet replenishing He who waters will be watered himself In my being a flow is springing That drinking will not exhaust Here remaining, the sense I’m gaining That in Your spirit I’m lost In this heavenly mystery Freely we’ve received from Him Freely will I give, and then Give and give and give again He who waters will be watered himself
11.
Sometimes my heart with all its inclinations Disregards its reservations Deviates and gravitates again But I’m still passing all the exit signs I’ve left my idols far behind Though once near me, they don’t really matter in the end Turn my heart, turn at Your command Just like streams of water in Your hand I lay aside my way and all the dreams I’ve planned So turn my heart, turn at Your command Turn like streams of water in Your hand I may not understand life’s ups and downs How I’m here, it so confounds One suspects God directs our steps But nothing happens without God’s permission Letting go of inhibition Sometimes yearning, still I’m learning Trusting just accepts Turn my heart, turn at Your command I’m giving up my desperate demands My heart devised my way but only Yours will stand So turn my heart, turn at Your command Turn like streams of water in Your hand A matter has been concealed And through the ages un-revealed God only knows what might it brings To search it out is the glory of kings I told a boy in desert lands To grasp a lizard with his hands But one of those four wiser things Lives in the palace of the king On judgment’s throne, the king who’s wise Will scatter evil with his eyes There’s wickedness under the sun I’m waiting for the end to come I’m just a man, in work I’m skilled Sometimes ashamed of what I’ve built Before the kings I’ll take my stand And not before an obscure man In righteous lips, the kings delight They love the subject who speaks right As the heaven’s height, as the deepest springs Unsearchable is the heart of kings Unsearchable is the heart of kings
12.
Search all the parts of my inner being And know my heart, where I need the healing And You know what I need, You’re always waiting For me to just breathe When conviction turns into praise O Lord, enlighten my darkened heart Lord, search my innermost parts So wrong, I long for what can save me I was so strong, yet sin enslaved me Then my darkness just dies, there’s no evading The fire of Your eyes When conviction turns into praise O Lord, enlighten my darkened heart Lord, search my innermost parts Our true condition, though confusing Is lit up by a lamp infusing Though I’m condemned, all my inner being Is shining bright Breathe out, breathe in, the joyous feeling Let air begin to bring the healing And when comfort you need, it’s all pervading Cry out and just breathe

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Seventh studio album by Chords of a Man. Songs 1-6 are based on the book of Job. Songs 7-12 are based on the book of Proverbs.

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released July 1, 2022

Matthew David Fritz - Instruments, vocals, producer
Leslie Fritz - Vocals
Nate Whilden - Guitar (track 10)
Robbie Dickinson - Co-producer
Ninoshka Robinson - Artwork

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Chords of a Man Centerville, Ohio

Chords of a Man is a husband and wife duo comprised of Leslie Fritz and Matthew David Fritz. Focusing on Biblical themes, they write and produce illustrative original songs that draw upon deep scripture passages.
Their complimentary voices and pristine 2-part harmonies form the hallmark of their enchanting sound and diverse, Americana style musical arrangements.
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