Lyrics from There But for the Grace of Love
2.  THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF LOVE I caught up with an old friend over by the "Rendevous" He just split up with his new love and he was torn in two And I'm thinking to myself as we say goodbye CHORUS: THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF LOVE THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF LOVE THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF LOVE go I My lady has the sweetest smile any one could ever see And no blessing quite compares to how it's always there just for me Yet all around are lonely souls with sadness in their eyes And I think...   <CHORUS> Tell me why does love come for some While so many never find the one It seems they rush from hope to broken heart until the day they die...   <CHORUS> Copyright © 1996 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI   5. HALFTIME BAND I ran out of money six years ago I fell on hard times The gutter's been no stranger to me I no longer ask why I sleep on the subway trains I live from hand to hand and I try not to think about the boy who once played in the HALFTIME BAND We had plans, Nancy and I were gonna raise a family but she left for college in sixty nine while I became a refugee drifting down the backroads in trouble and on the lam this picture's all thats left of the boy who played in the HALFTIME BAND See the people turn away ashamed of what I am I used to be just like them a lifetime ago... Copyright © 1997 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI   11.  BOUNDARIES There's a line between the ocean and the sky a line between the sand and the sea And though I know I'd be lost without you in my life we've got BOUNDARIES we've got BOUNDARIES Long ago I took your love for granted I thought you'd stay though I made you bleed and the lesson that I learned was the hardest in my life we've got BOUNDARIES we've got BOUNDARIES There are limits to what one could give we're all blinded at times by our own needs we are but the sum of two seperate hearts and even love has it's BOUNDARIES There's a border between your land and mine I cannot take what's not given willingly and though I know that we are two of a kind we've got BOUNDARIES we've got BOUNDARIES Copyright © 1997 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI		3.  GIFTS To wake up in the morning after death-like sleep to lie awake at night and feel your own heart beat to contemplate the moon until you hear it speak CH:  If I were to name things precious to me.... it's moments like these. I caught the eye of a baby passing in a car I heard an angel call my name one night in a smoky bar I fell in love the first time I played a guitar   <CHORUS> If you want a gift to give me a gem never lost who you are can touch me deeper inside than anything that is bought... to dwell upon eternity by a winters fire to reach as high up as you can and know you'll go higher to fight and fight and fight and then surrender to desire   <CHORUS> Copyright © 1997 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI   8.  WHAT'S YOUR GOD WHAT'S YOUR GOD? is it someone who's dead or something they said or who you're with in bed WHAT'S YOUR GOD? is it something you can spend or something you'll defend or maybe something you pretend Do you worship the tank or worship the bank do you pray to the trees or promises like those once made to me... WHAT'S YOUR GOD? is it a keeper of a flame kind and humane or demander of your pain Do you worship the sun or worship the gun do you pray to the sea or love like once you felt for me... Copyright © 1997 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI   13.  THEY DIE BUT THEY DON'T THEY DIE BUT THEY DON'T they walk in our shoes they hide in the thoughts we have it's hard to believe, but they do They'll speak in your voice and you'll think it's your own and years later you'll blame it on fate when your living unloved and alone I thought I left mine behind me twenty years ago I thought the way ahead was clear little did I know there was a vise around my life that never let me go and there's no place to run or hide THEY DIE BUT THEY DON'T I walk through this life just like anyone else but the damage is hidden from view you know it's even hidden from ourselves When I left them behind I had the world in my hand I had the dreams all young men have and so I couldn't understand this grip upon my life that never let go and there's no place to run or hide THEY DIE BUT THEY DON'T Copyright © 1997 Ron Renninger Lifeform Music BMI
All songs written by Ron Renninger © Copyright 1997 Ron Renninger Vienna Virginia Records Suite 4E Jessica House 84-70 129th St. Kew Gardens, NY 11415 Numbers before the titles refer to track order on the CD.

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