comfortbetrays.com

Music has always been a big part of my life. Playing it, listening to it, watching it created live in concert… I’ve seen a couple hundred different bands in concert over the last few years. Been playing drums since 1999 and hope to record an album with friends someday.

• Check out who I’m “Currently Listening To” on the right side.
• There are some live concert videos on my YouTube channel.
• I’m keeping track of the bands I’ve seen live over the years.

Lyrics

Below are the lyrics for a few songs about the concept of comfort betraying us. Let me know if you have suggestions to add.

1. “This World” by Caedmon’s Call
2. “Albertine” by Brooke Fraser
3. “Rich Young Ruler” by Derek Webb
4. “Tears of the Saints” by Leeland
5. “I Never Wanted” by As I Lay Dying
6. “Forty Hour Increments” by Two Thirty Eight
7. “Asleep in the Light” by Keith Green

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1. “This World” by Caedmon’s Call
   There’s tarnish on the golden rule

   And I want to jump from this ship of fools

   Show me a place where hope is young

   And a people who are not afraid to love

   This world has nothing for me

   And this world has everything

   All that I could want

   And nothing that I need

   This world is making me drunk

   On the spirits of fear

   So when he says, “Who will go?”

   I am nowhere near

   And the least of these

   Looking like criminals to me

   So I leave Christ on the street

   This world has held my hand

   And has led me into intolerance

   But now I’m waking up

   And now I’m breaking up

   And now I’m making up for lost time

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2. “Albertine” by Brooke Fraser
   I am sitting still

   I think of Angelique

   her mothers voice over me

   And the bullets in the wall where it fell silent

   And on a thousandth hill, I think of Albertine

   there in her eyes what I don’t see with my own

   Rwanda

   Now that I have seen, I am responsible

   Faith without deeds is dead

   now that I have held you in my own arms, I cannot let go till you are

   I am on a plane across a distant sea

   But I carry you in me

   and the dust on, the dust on, the dust on my feet

   Rwanda

   I will tell the world, I will tell them where I’ve been

   I will keep my word

   I will tell them Albertine

   I am on a stage, a thousand eyes on me

   I will tell them, Albertine

   I will tell them, Albertine

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3. “Rich Young Ruler” by Derek Webb
   Poverty is so hard to see

   When it’s only on your tv and twenty miles across town

   Where we’re all living so good

   That we moved out of Jesus’ neighborhood

   Where he’s hungry and not feeling so good

   From going through our trash

   He says, more than just your cash and coin

   I want your time, I want your voice

   I want the things you just can’t give me

   So what must we do

   Here in the west we want to follow you

   We speak the language and we keep all the rules

   Even a few we made up

   Come on and follow me

   But sell your house, sell your suv

   Sell your stocks, sell your security

   And give it to the poor

   What is this, hey what’s the deal

   I don’t sleep around and I don’t steal

   I want the things you just can’t give me

   Because what you do to the least of these

   My brother’s, you have done it to me

   Because I want the things you just can’t give me

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4. “Tears of the Saints” by Leeland
   There are many prodigal sons

   On our city streets they run

   Searching for shelter

   There are homes broken down

   People’s hopes have fallen to the ground

   From failures

   This is an emergency

   There are tears from the saints

   For the lost and unsaved

   We’re crying for them come back home

   And all your children will stretch out their hands

   And pick up the crippled man

   Father, we will lead them home

   There are schools full of hatred

   Even churches have forsaken

   Love and mercy

   May we see this generation

   In its state of desperation

   For Your glory

   Sinner, reach out your hands

   Children, in Christ you stand

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5. “I Never Wanted” by As I Lay Dying
   I never wanted

   And I never cared before

   Now take it all back

   This is a new day

   How I long to regress

   To the days before I took upon myself

   The obsessions of this world

   A day of innocence equating beauty

   For tomorrow may fall

   And today is already gone

   Now take it back

   This is a new day

   I’ve grown tired of chasing

   Convinced I was in need

   And now the years I’ve spent

   Only a slave to this

   Tomorrow may fall

   And today is already gone

   I will no longer adore

   These things that will never satisfy me

   I have seen my world change

   And then go back to where it came

   In this vicious circle

   We are all brought back to life

   Only to die again

   But without these barren obsessions

   I am simply free

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6. “Forty Hour Increments” by Two Thirty Eight
   Save yourself or you’ll be murdered

   in forty hour increments,

   I’m certain that the evidence will shock you.

   Subsequently they’ll fill your chair,

   forgetting of your sitting there.

   Quickly they’ll fill your chair,

   forgetting of your sitting there.

   Don’t be afraid to pack your things

   and leave the comfort money brings,

   and find your own way out of here alone.

   ‘Cause we’re all homeless anyway,

   we’re searching in so many ways.

   I do believe there is a place for us.

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7. “Asleep in the Light” by Keith Green
   Do you see, do you see
   All the people sinking down
   Don’t you care, don’t you care
   Are you gonna let them drown

   How can you be so numb
   Not to care if they come
   You close your eyes
   And pretend the job’s done

   “Oh bless me Lord, bless me Lord”
   You know it’s all I ever hear
   No one aches, no one hurts
   No one even sheds one tear

   But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds
   And He cares for your needs
   And you just lay back
   And keep soaking it in,
   Oh, can’t you see it’s such a sin?

   Cause He brings people to you door,
   And you turn them away
   As you smile and say,
   “God bless you, be at peace”
   And all heaven just weeps
   Cause Jesus came to you door
   You’ve left him out on the streets

   Open up open up
   And give yourself away
   You see the need, you hear the cries
   So how can you delay

   God’s calling and you’re the one
   But like Jonah you run
   He’s told you to speak
   But you keep holding it in,
   Oh can’t you see it’s such a sin?

   The world is sleeping in the dark
   That the church just can’t fight
   Cause it’s asleep in the light
   How can you be so dead
   When you’ve been so well fed
   Jesus rose from the grave
   And you, you can’t even get out of bed

   Oh, Jesus rose from the dead
   Come on, get out of your bed

   How can you be so numb
   Not to care if they come
   You close your eyes
   And pretend the job’s done
   You close your eyes
   And pretend the job’s done

   Don’t close your eyes
   Don’t pretend the jobs done
   Come away, come away, come away with Me my love,
   Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, my love.

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