One Step Up - Martyn Joseph

Woke up this morning the house was cold

Checked the furnace she wasn't burnin'

I went out and hoped in my old Ford

I hit the engine but she ain't turnin'

We're given our selves some hard lessons lately

But we ain't learnin'

We're the same sad story that's a fact

One step up and two steps back

Bird on the wire outside my motel room

But he ain't singin'

A girl in white outside a church in June

But the church bells they ain't ringing

I'm sittin' here in this bar tonight

But all I'm thinkin'

I'm the same old story the same old act

One step up and two steps back

It's the same thing night on night

Who's wrong here baby who's right

Another fight and I slam the door on

Another battle in our dirty little war

When I look at myself I don't see

The man I wanted to be

Somewhere down the line I slipped off track

One step up and two steps back

There's a girl across the bar

I get the message she's sendin'

Mmm she ain't lookin' to married

And me well honey I'm pretending

Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms

And the music was never-ending

And we danced as the evening sky faded to black

One step up and two steps back

Annotation: Learned to know this song during a wonderfull presentation by Martyn Joseph at l'istwaer in Oud-Heverlee 2010.

Turn Me Tender - Martyn Joseph

It happened again

There's a colorless sky

That's dimmed me again

I've run out of why's

Hank Williams he’s been grieving

and I'm scanning the psalms

It says when Jesus was here

They stilettoed his palms

And the pledge and the vows 

you find if you seek

But what if you try 

and find nothing but bleak

Turn me tender again

Fold me into you

Turn me tender again

and mould me like new

Faith lost its promise

and bruised me deep blue

Turn me tender

Through union with you

Can I lay with you now

Like the very first time

I've had rooms full of dollars

But I'm down to a dime

For there's wonder and awe

in the mane of a lion

But there is nowhere to go tonight

I’m chapters from zion

You're still my cryptic

You are my cherishing prayer

with serenity kisses 

that can soothe and repair

Turn me tender again

Fold me into you

Turn me tender again

And mould me like new

When faith lost its promise

I stood there deep blue

Turn me tender ... 

Through union with you 

And laments they have a purpose

and laments have a cost

and the requiem playing

as she can gather last

But it sometimes tastes sour

All the sweetness of hope

While the blizzards keep on raging

 [ On this lover’s slope | on all these lonely slopes ]

But I don't wanna freeze here

Inside or out

For it's you that dissolve

all my cold wars of doubt

So turn me tender again

Fold me into you 

Turn me tender again

And come on ... mold me like new

When faith lost the promise 

I stood there deep blue

Turn me tender

Turn me tender again

Fold me into you 

Turn me tender again

Come on ... mould me like new

When faith lost its promise 

I'm standing deep blue

Turn me tender

Through union with you ...