Music – Original John Nielsen songs

Rescue My Soul and Me

Verse 1
I’ve seen the light shining in the distance
But I’ve seen the darkness by the door
I’ve’ held a lie, thinking I might slip by
I’ve seen the shadows cross the floor

Be fore I stop to wonder, my soul is swept away
This tied has called me under every angry wave

Chorus
OH God of all creation, Father can’t you see
This life of desperation, rescue my soul and me

Verse 2
These dreams of life have always held a sacrifice
But you have held a plan before my birth
You call to me, “Man will you follow me?
Let’s find a place upon this earth.”

However hard I try, I always fall
And in the darkness cry and in the darkness call…

Chorus
OH God of all creation, Father can’t you see
This life of desperation, rescue my soul and me

Bridge
I twist the top on the bottle of life, and it said, “Please play again”
This has been the kind of life that has kept me thrusting Him.

Copyright 2006 John Nielsen

The Land that Cast no Shadows

Verse 1
Have you ever tried to write your thoughts and you find your soul is empty?
Have you ever found a place beyond your fear?
Have you ever tried to hold the world upon your very shoulders?
Have you ever felt the soul of God draw near?

Remember when your knees shook,
afraid of you own smile and what you’d say?
Have you ever longed for love, beyond a mere religion?
I wonder what a gracious God would say? Well…

Chorus
Come find the light in the land that cast no shadows
Come know the mystery of great grace
Come loose your soul, come find your place
Come see the kindness in God’s face

Verse 2
Are you weary of a lonely road, where no one really knows you?
And you and all your problems don’t belong
Have you ever longed to be a child to have somebody hold you?
Have you ever wished the darkness would pass on?

Bridge
Taste and see the Lord is good
Rest alone upon His Word
Find your feet where the blind man stood
And the broken walked away

Copyright 2006 John Nielsen

Going Home

I’ve been spending my days for somebody’s money
but I take a little home too
I work all day it’s better then begging
And I sleep good at night cause I do
But “my life of laughter” will be the first chapter
of ‘when I return home in the fall’
To be with my family, the music and Sandy
I won’t be alone after all
I won’t be alone after all

Chorus
I’m going home I’ll leave these lights, Leave this scary world behind
I’ll take the friends that I left home, Just alike I’ll leaver these stones
I’m Going home

Verse 2
I’ve come so far it was all that I hoped for
and God made it so much more
I see these leaves changing and I learned to trust Him
and who knows what life has in store.

But someone’s been praying and my life’s been changing
and mom calls at eight every night.
I’ve been lost for so long and her loves been so strong
and I cried when I thought of her life.

Chorus 2
I’m going home I’ll leave these lights, Leave this scary world behind
I’ll take the friends that I left home, Just alike I’ll leaver these stones
I’m going home
I’m going home

Copyright 2006 John Nielsen

Children with No Names

Verse 1
She’s reminded now and then / of choice made long ago
She has grown and moved on / but hurts her very soul
It’s a secret in her heart
That to bear sometimes is awfully hard

She finds herself in tears / Uncertain of the pain
And she thinks about her boy / whom she never gave a name
Oh, she would never had it done
Had she the counsel of just one

Chorus
They learned to sing before they talked
They learned to fly before they walked
And Jesus words were the first words they would claim

Though unwanted in a wicked earth
In Heaven they would know true birth
But God’s held them up and He loves them just the same

These are the children with no names

Verse 2
She went to church on Easter / Just like she always had
She heard the truth she needed / when a kind voice said
He’s a Father to the fatherless
He will give to you eternal rest

Bridge
Have you carried the guilt / of a baby’s blood that’s spilt
You can get up, You can go on / The grace of God forgives all wrong
He bids you come / He’ll heal your pain
And He will give your child a name
All rights reserved – John Nielsen 2000

When the Rains Came Down

Verse 1
Twilight waits in a yellow room / Candle light and smoked perfume
Saw the stars though a dark window all night
Hope and pray for the rising sun / It’s hard to pray when it’s after one
Tried to tell my self it’s aright / You know it’s alright

Chorus 1, 2, & 3
When the rains came down / I was walking in the sunshine
Hoping that the clouds would pass me by
I saw the laughter fade through the dark clouds shade
Sunshine was my very best disguise (Different for Chorus 3 - See Below *

Verse 2
A shattered soul like broken glass / hopes to rearrange the past
You hate stand to be knocked down and fall
Not too safe and you walk scared / not too sure if one soul cared
You hate to say but it’s not fair at all it’s not fair at all

Bridge
I hate to let this go to be let down / But if finely will be nice to feel the ground
It’s kind of sad I always played the clown / But I long to be the long lost soul You found

*Tag on the end of Chorus 3
Sunshine was my very best disguise
I love to see the sunshine in the skies
Sunshine was my very best disguise

Copyright 2006 John Nielsen

When I Was a Kid

Verse 1
When I was a kid life wasn't so hard
I believed and I followed my heart
I tried to be tough
I could call my own bluff
And I knew in my heart I was loved

Chorus 1
I wish I was the man that I was back then
To bad I grew up with my friends
When little white lies bought broken black eyes
Life was so easy to live
When I was a kid

Verse2
We would slip out at midnight
And carry our birthright
Two hundred pounds of spare change
I would cross 50 acres for 20 jaw breakers
And for good deals I was willin' to trade

Chorus 2
I wish I was the man that I was back then
To bad I grew up with my friends
When little white lies bought broken black eyes
Life was so easy to live
When I was a kid

Bridge
When I was a kid I buried my sorrow
And I would hate everything and forget
But with every new blow I let a little bit go
But some things I will never regret
Chorus 3
I wish I was the man that I was back then
To bad I grew up with my friends
When little white lies bought broken black eyes
Life was so easy to live
When I was a kid
When I was a kid
Copyright 2006 John Nielsen