Freelance Music

Category: Song Lyrics

  • Don’t Want to Grieve Your Spirit – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    From “Lance Appleton – Unplugged” Recorded 2006

    Don’t Want to Grieve Your Spirit

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

    Don’t want to grieve Your Spirit again

    after all of the time You’ve taken me in

    so tired of faking and making pretend (more…)

  • Music For My Lord – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    This is one of my all time top 10 favorite songs written by my Dad.  Hearing it now gives me a sense of wonder to think that he is now truly making “Music For My Lord”

    Music For my Lord

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

                        G                                              C

    When the moon and stars fall from the sky

                      G                                C

    when the sun turns dark and cold

                 Em          D                  C2

    Ill will just be opening up my eyes 

            G       F       C

    In a city of pure gold

                       G                                           C

    When the final end of time and space

    G                    C

    eternally unfolds (more…)

  • Wait on the Lord – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

    Wait on the Lord

    be of good courage and He will strengthen thine heart

    wait I say on the Lord …  wait I say on the Lord

    Lead me in Thy truth …  Lord and teach me

    for Thou art the God of my salvation

    on Thee do I wait … all the day … all the day

  • This Song Remains – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    This Song Remains

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

    You know I love You

    and I’m gonna love You

    love You for oh so long

    I’m gonna love You forever

    love You forever with this song

    You gave me mercy

    when I needed mercy (more…)

  • I’ll Just Go With You – words and music by: Lance Appleton

     I’ll Just Go With You

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

     

    If you won’t go with me 

    What’s the use pretending that Im not depending on your company

    If you won’t go with me 

    I refuse to be spending time defending some new strategy

    Lies will never do … I’ll just go with you (more…)

  • When I Awake – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    When I Awake

    words and music by: Lance Appleton

    (Psalms 17:15)

     

    As for me … I shall behold thy face

    In righteousness  … in Thy righteousness

    I will be satisfied when I awake

    With Thy likeness … with Thy likeness

    I will be satisfied when I awake … when I awake … when I awake 

    (more…)

  • DNA – words and music by: Lance Appleton

    DNA

    words and music by: Lance Appleton
    (2 Peter 1:4)

     

             E                        Am

    I’m a partaker of the divine nature

                    E               Am 

    The divine nature of the Almighty

                           E

    You gave me Your DNA 

                                   Am

    Covered me with Your blood that way (more…)

  • Whole Heartedly

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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          Dm             F             G                             Bb
    Whole heartedly … the soul and the heart of me
           Dm               Am                 Bb              C
    I give unto thee Holy One … whole heartedly
       Dm       F                Gm                      Bb
    Lord I confess … I need Your righteousness
             Dm               Am                 Bb          C
    And power to be true to You … Lord I confess
    (more…)

  • The Totals and the Score

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    Vs. 1

    Dmaj7                    Amaj7

    Multiply a single living soul

    Bm7   F#m7                       Dmaj7    Amaj7

    Times the stars in heaven times the grains of sand

    Bm7                   E7sus4

    Then we just begin to understand
    (more…)

  • Say Never

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    Vs.1

    Am        C                G

    I will never never never forget you

    Am        C                G

    I will never never never forsake you

    Am        C                      G                          F

    I will never never never never make you ashamed
    (more…)

  • Remember Your Creator

    “Run On” Freelance Music 1981

    Words and Music by: Lance Appleton
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    Chorus:

    G                              D                   F                   C

    Remember your creator in the days of your youth

    G               D                 F     C

    Serve him now don’t wait till later on

    G                          D             F                       C

    Remember the one who gave his life for you

    G                         D                        F       C

    Give him your youth before it’s gone

    Am                       D                        F       G

    Give him your youth before it’s gone
    (more…)

  • Moses and Me

     

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    Vs. 1

    C                                       Am

    He had to wait for eighty years

    F                                                 D

    He spent some lonely nights in tears
    (more…)

  • King Jesus Is All

    “Run On”

    Words and Music by Lance Appleton
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    Chorus:
      G                                           G7
    King Jesus is all,   my all in all
                           C7                             G
    I know He’ll answer, me when I call
                              G                           Em       C
    Walkin’ by my side, and I’m satisfied
                          G     D7           G
    King Jesus is all, my all in all
    (more…)

  • Jeremiah


    Words and music by Lance Appleton
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                    Am              Am/G        Am/F#     Am/F
    Well they call me the prophet Jeremiah
                 Dm         E7      Am   E7
    In the days of our captivity
                    Am      Am/G        Am/F#     Am/F
    In the thirteenth year of king Josiah
            Dm              E7                  Am
    The word of the Lord came unto me (more…)

  • Can’t Kill the Preacher

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    Chorus

    Am              G                     F          G

    Can’t kill the preacher in a man of God

    Am              G                 F      G

    He will be heard somehow

    Am                      G                   F                  G

    You can shoot a reverend or a man of the cloth

                   Am               G           F      G

    But you can’t kill the preacher
    (more…)

  • By Faith In His Name

    “Songs of Deliverance” Freelance Music 1994

    Words and music by: Lance Appleton
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    Verse 1:

    C

    Sitting with the cripples at the beautiful gate

    Bb-C

    There was nothing to do but wait

    Bb-C

    Until the day when the preacher came by
    (more…)

  • Brother to Brother

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    Verse 1
                Bm                               G                                         D
    Dad:  Once in a while when I pick up the phone and say hello
                                            A
    They think it sounds like you
               Bm                                               G                                      D
    Son:  And I just had to smile the other day as you walked out the door
                                                    A
    ‘cause you were wearing my boots (more…)

  • Basically the Same

    Words and music by Lance Appleton

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    C                             E                                F                         C
    Times haven’t changed much since You walked among us Lord
           F                                         G
    As people we are basically the same
      C                                     E                    F                      C
    Got the same fears and hangups as the ones we have before
                  F                  D                              G
    Two thousand years ago when You first came (more…)

  • All that I Can Do Is Thank Him

    “One God Apostolic” Freelance Music 1975

    Words and Music by Lance Appleton
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    Verse 1:

    Em            A                D

    I have a father up in heaven

    Em            A                     D

    He is preparing me a place
    (more…)