With lyrics built on firm foundations of faith, hope and love and a music that relates directly to frustrations and shortcomings of the human experience, De'esis is sure to draw attention. Wake up and listen, Seattle.

Inside Out
Out of Desperation
Holy of Holies
This Road
Surrender
Black Haze



Inside out

I'm having doubts, about everything I believed in
My love is growing cold (feels like I'm falling out)
I remember when, we would walk hand in hand
I would simply believe, did not need to understand

You want me to be free again,
This time, I need something to believe in…

Take all the inside out
Leave the thorns if you must, just remove all the doubt
Burn all these thoughts away,
Open my eyes, shatter these lies,
Help me believe what you say

So now I lay me down
Far from where I was found
Will my selfish desires
Leave me here to drown

and then I see your face, I feel your warm embrace

I have all I need to believe in,
Forgive me for doubting you…
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Out of Desperation

It is time, we are out of options,
We're out of shadows to lurk inside
It's the end, but we should have known,
We could have started here
Everything that we tried left us farther behind
I n the race to the finish line
So we open our wounds, as an offering to you
We swallow our pride, and we kneel and we cry that

The gates of hell will not prevail

When we pray, when we seek your face
We will know your mercy, we'll bask in your grace
When we pray, chains will fall away
We will know your love by the words you say

Our blood, is an offering to you
A sacrifice of mistakes
Our blood, is mingling with mud
On the battlefield where we're placed
Oh, how I wish that our blood was enough
I know that I can't price
But a far greater blood, flows down that hill
A blood that is not mine, it means that

The gates of hell will not prevail

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Holy of Holies

Take me past the outer courts, into the Holy Place
Past the Brazen Altar, Lord I want to see your face
Take me by the crowds of people, the priests who sing your praise
Lord I hunger and thirst for your Righteousness, and it's only found in one place

Take me into the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the Blood of the Lamb
Take me into the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, cleanse my lips, here I am

Lord I'm awe-filled by your presence, as I stand before the door
To the room that holds your glory, Lord I want to know you more
The inner courts are not enough, to quence the thirst within
I need to be in the Holy of Holies, to drink your presence in again

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This Road

Here I come again, back to you.
Because, I again got lost in the darkness I can't see through

I can't find refuge if I can't see the light,
My soul cries out, please mend this heart of mine, and I cry

Lord, light my path
And bring me back to the place
That I first sought out you
I need you to lead me,
need you to guide me to,
the road where I walk with you.

Once again, the light floods over me
And I see who I really am
A filthy sinner, dressed in rags
Unworthy, to stand before the Lamb...

I need your refuge, I see your light
My soul cries out, please cleanse this heart of mine..

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Surrender

I, I stumbled again,I tripped and I fell
Stepped back on the path that would lead me to Hell
I fell from your grace, I shamed your sweet name
So now I step up and I take the blame

I was wrong
How many people did I lead astray?
I was wrong…

So here I am, fill me anew
Mold me, make me like you
I'm honestly seeking the truth
Mold me, make me like you

This war against you, I end it today
How long have I let myself stand in your way?
Please, break me down, then pick me back up
Refresh me with water that comes from the cup

That you fill, just like the woman at the well
I need living water

In this silence, I scream my plea
Unto you I release my sanity
Lend unto me, the strength I need
To heal the cuts that I watch bleed

So here I am, fill me anew.
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Black Haze

Dead skin fall away
Leaving me only this skeletal disease
Maybe you could heal it then
Take away my best
Sterilize the pride that
Left me above the rest,
An inverted mess

Draw me out of my reality, let it be
My goal to find a way out of this blindness
that paralyzes everything, even me myself
when I am weak
fearing paper threats and emptiness
let it be you I seek

headache be gone, let the blood rush from my brain
as the pressure drops, could I maybe think again
outside the box that locked away my mind for
bitter days, dissipate black haze

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