Lyrics to "We Need Each Other" by Sanctus Real

I pulled these off NewReleaseTuesday.com which had been previewing the whole album for free until its release. It's a great site by concept but often runs incredibly slow. Here is the track listing:

01.Turn On The Lights

We're sending out a message to the future
That words could not communicate
Don't think it's something that's electric
Just 'cause were using the radio waves

We're turning on the lights
Down through the halls of time
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future
Send a shock through the power lines

Turn it up so everyone hears it
Transmit the signal to the world
You've got to listen for what you're missing
'Cause it's going to change your life

We're turning on the lights
Down through the halls of time
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future
Send a shock through the power lines
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future

I want to see the lights illuminate the night
Our endless hearts burning like the stars
Lights of the world arise!

We're turning on the lights
Down through the halls of time
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future
Send a shock through the power lines
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future
Lights of the world arise!
Flip on the switch, illuminate the future

02. We Need Each Other

I think I caught a glimpse of
A life without friends
Bitter, empty, hollow, dark and lonely
We never meant to hurt each other
So can't we trust again
And take it as a chance
To keep on growing

I don't know why it doesn't come easy
But I know that we could be happy
If we'd only learn to love

Oh, oh we need each other
So what's the fighting for
Oh, oh we need each other
Please don't close the door
Oh, oh we need each other
Through all the highs and lows
Oh, oh we need each other
'Cause no one's meant to be alone

Life revolves around the need
Of having someone
Causing every complicated feeling
Oh, and I don't want to lose you
So there is nothing wrong with
Telling me what you need
To keep our love strong

It's just a part of being a family
Taking the good with the bad and the ugly
If we could only learn to love

Oh, oh we need each other
So what's the fighting for
Oh, oh we need each other
Please don't close the door
Oh, oh we need each other
Through all the highs and lows
Oh, oh we need each other
And I don't want to be alone

Oh, oh we need each other
Fathers and mothers
Oh, oh we need each other
All your sisters and brothers
Oh, oh we need each other
We need friends and lovers
Oh, oh we need each other

I need you
You need me
'Cause that's the way
It's meant to be
I need you
We need each other
I don't want to be alone

I need you
You need me
'Cause that's the way
It's got to be
I need you
We need each other
I don't want to be alone

03. Black Coal

Do you believe in the restoration of a broken life
Hiding behind a face, yeah you never know what you might find
There in the darkness beneath the surface of time and space
Could be a treasure that you'd only see thru the eyes of grace

Looking for a diamond in the black coal
It feels good when you strike gold
Diamond in the black coal
If you never look then you're never gonna know

Well it's so sad when something so radiant is kept from the light
Cause I've see divine transformation that Jesus provides
And like a jeweler with a lifeless gemstone
He can make you shine

You could be a diamond in the black coal
It feels good when you strike gold
Diamond in the black coal
You gotta look or you're never gonna know

Precious diamonds
Brilliant shining
It's not always what you see
A good heart is just like a

Diamond in the black coal
It feels good when you strike gold
Diamond in the black coal
You gotta look or you're never gonna know

04. Whatever You're Doing

It's time for healing, time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time to make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
And all I can do is surrender

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something Heavenly

Time for a milestone, time to begin again
Reevaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow Your will
Or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is You want from me
I give everything I surrender...

To whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but somehow there's peace
And though it's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something Heavenly
Something Heavenly

Time to face up, clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to release all my held back tears

To whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life, something Heavenly

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This is something bigger than me
Larger than life, something Heavenly
Something Heavenly

It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out

05. Sing

Can we get back to where we started
When creation lived peacefully in Your hands
Before the wars began

And all these years we have been divided
Jesus' voice has been gently calling us home
And we can't wait anymore

Lord, we feel You now
Wanting to come down and teach us how to

Sing, oh sing
With one voice how sweet it will be
When we sing, oh sing
One church, under one King and we will sing

Pride has no purpose in God's kingdom
Now's the time for His church to join hands again
Oh together we must stand

Lord we need You now
Send Your Spirit down and free us
As we...

Sing, oh sing
With one voice, how sweet it will be
When we sing, oh sing
One church, under one King and we will sing

Hear the voices ringing out (You are King)
We will stand together now (You are Lord)
Hear the voices singing loud (You are King)
Live in peace
Live in peace and

Sing, oh sing
With one voice, how sweet it will be
And we will sing, oh sing
One church, under one King and we will sing
We will sing

Hear the voices ringing out (You are King)
We will stand together now (You are Lord)
Hear the voices singing loud (You are King)
Live in peace

Let the church of God ring out (You are King)
We will stand together now (You are Lord)
Hear the voices singing loud (You are King)
There is only one King

06. Leap of Faith

This too shall pass oh but it always comes back
And it's knocking upon your door
You say how did you find me here
Cause I've been running for years

Now you're back in the same place
You've been here before
Stuck in a maze trying to find an open door
Pray for the strength and take a leap of faith

You fail in your mind long before you ever try
Why do you believe those lies
You love to drown your fears
But you've been drowning for years, in tears

Back in the same place
You've been here before
Stuck in a maze trying to find an open door
Pray for the strength and take a leap of faith

So what are you waiting for?
Cause there is a Saviour waiting to save you
What are you drowning for?

Back in the same place
You've been here before
Stuck in a maze trying to find an open door
Pray for the strength and take a leap of faith

07. Lay Down My Guns

Well I just need a place to lay my head
Forget the chain that hangs around my neck
These guns are not as heavy as the hearts they defend
I can't wait to get back home where I can find some rest

When I lay down my guns and lift my hands
Surrender to Love and live again
May this desert reach its end where my new life begins
When I lay down my guns and lift my hands

And I have seen the devil in this place
And I lost myself when my friends found the grave
When you're this far from Heaven
It's hard to keep the faith
I'm barely holding on
I can't wait

To lay down my guns and lift my hands
Surrender to Love and live again
May this desert reach its end where my new life begins
When I lay down my guns and lift my hands

And I'm laying down these burdens
Taking off the weights
And I can't count the miles that I've walked to find my way
To lay down these guns
How I need to lay down these guns

Lay down my guns and lift my hands
Surrender to Love and live again
May this desert reach its end where my new life begins
And I'll abandon my defenses and live to love again
When I lay down my guns and lift my hands

Lay down, lay down, lay down my guns
Lay down, lay down, lay down my guns
I wanna lay down, lay down, lay down my guns
Lay down, lay down, lay down
Lay down my guns

08. Eternal

I know this life I lead will pass away
Along with every other earthly thing
So I will set my heart on a higher plain
Where my treasure lies with You

And in this marriage of our hearts
There is no death do us part
For You are eternal
And I am eternally Yours

And I could never lose Your love to sickness
Oh I could never lose You to divorce
And there's no concept of abandonment
For I am safe within Your arms

And in this marriage of our hearts
There is no death do us part
For You are eternal
And I am eternally Yours
Oh I am eternally Yours
I am eternally Yours

(No abandonment)
(Safe within Your arms)

I never had enough until I found You
I never knew love until I met You
I never had enough until I found You
And now I have everything

And in this marriage of our hearts
There is no death do us part
For You are eternal
And I am eternally Yours
And I am eternally Yours
Oh I am eternally Yours

I could never lose You
No, I will never lose You
I could never lose You

And this life will pass away
But You will never change
Oh, this life will pass away
Oh, but You will never change

09. Half of Our Lives

Oh, I want every second of the minutes
In the hours of these days
Cause there's too many trees to climb
And secret spots to find down by the lake
Oh, the fireflies are out and momma's calling now

We can't go to sleep 'cause we'll wake up older
We can't let these nights, steal away half our lives

And we will spend our days finding
Helpless competition to defeat
Yeah, we'll chase away the girls
And pretend that we don't want 'em on our street
Yeah, the sun is running too
Being chased off by the moon
And we should go to bed
But we'll catch fireflies instead

We can't go to sleep 'cause we'll wake up older
We can't let these nights steal away
And I don't want these days to ever be over
We can't let these nights, just steal away

Oh, just stay awake with me
Won't you stay awake with me
Oh, stay awake with me

We can't go to sleep 'cause we'll wake up older
We can't let these nights, oh, steal away
And I don't want these days to ever be over
We can't let these nights steal away half our lives

10. Legacy

What will they say when I'm gone,
In words that are written in stone?
Under my name, what will they claim about me?

Oh, I want to leave a legacy to be remembered
More than just a memory that fades away
Because we only, we only get one life

Free me, my hands are tied
I'm so tired of wasting time
These endless inventions
Steal my attention from real life
And when its done, when its over

Oh, I want to leave a legacy to be remembered
More than just a memory that fades away
Because we only, we only get one life

And will the world see Christ
When they look at my life?
Oh, will the world see?

Oh, come on, give me, give me, give me real life
And no more, no more, no more wasting time
Because we only, we only get just one life

Oh, I want to leave a legacy to be remembered
More than just a memory that fades away
Because we only (get one shot, just one life)
Because we only (one moment in time)
Because we only, we only get one life
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