original lyrics | Clinton Hawkes Artist

What is Project Moses?

I understand that some of you will switch off at the mention of AI - I get it. However, it is the only way I have been able to express this recent need to make music. I challenge you to look past any preconceived notions you might have and take this project for what it is: Using a digital tool to put sound to my lyrics.

Ever since I can really remember I have wanted to be able to express myself in song. My efforts soon proved that dream was not really an option, as I could neither sing nor play an instrument...until I discovered, I didn't have to.

In the old testament of the Bible, God called Moses to be the voice that would free his people from the oppressive grip of Egypt. Moses debated with God about him being the best choice, because he could not speak well. So, the Lord said He would give him Aaron as a mouth piece and he was to instruct him in what he should say... And they did. And freedom came.

In a similar way, I feel I am in a kind of 'Moses' predicament. I have a desire to share through song, but no tunable voice. So, God has said, "I will give you suno, it shall construct into song the lyrics and concept you compose... Now go, be free to create." Thus, Project Moses is born.

Some of these songs are immensely personal and were never really meant for a general audience. However, I feel someone may benefit in their own faith journey through some of my very real and honest musings with the Most High. Enjoy and share with friends if you think it's worth listening to.

Healing Shores

Fight

Grey Man

No More Hell

A new year fast approaching.
Not so proud of the last.
No, I won't be toasting,
My decisions and the divisions.
As my conscience and the devil
United in the familiar roasting...
Of my tired soul.

Thought I might evade my traitors at thirty thousand feet.
It appears they just booked their own seat.
I guess running, ain't gonna create free.
I'm on a treadmill and they're just standing beside me.

Time to change it up, yeah.
Catch my breath.
Searching for new air.
Arms drop to my side.
Uncurling my fists.
Step from the ledge, into the deep.
No more resist.
No more resist.

A seductive relief beckons me to embrace no.
Let the river just go where it's gonna go.
Fight forever and ever no more.
Resisting the burn, to push that boat,
From this cold shore.
Time to change it up, yeah.
Catch my breath.
Searching for new air.
Arms drop to my side.
Uncurling my fists
Step from the ledge to the deep.
No more resist.
No more resist.

Quietly push my boat from the shore.
No more blame.
No more fight...

No more.

No more.

Forty two below zero.
That's how cool I will be.
When the inferno of hell,
Tries to spit molten lies over me.

There's a squeeze in my head.
That cries out, I want you dead.
But I reply.

'HOW 'BOUT YOU BURN IN HELL...
AN' I'LL LIVE FOREVER INSTEAD!'

[Chorus]
I see your trip wire, shining in the light.
You thought you could ambush me,
Stumbling through the night.
Do you hear that distant roar.
It's the crushing truth, comin' to deliver me.
Haha...I smell damnation on your breath!
You will rule the air no more.

So Jesus, i proclaim you King of Kings
And Lord of all.
Take what I call great, and make it small.
Teach me to walk the ancient paths.
Where angels sing and old saints dance.

You are the wind that fills our wings,
Makes us to fly above the smoke of fallen kings.
We believe no more, hells finger painted lies.
As to new life, you open our eyes.

... No more devil
No more.

I see your trip wire,
Shining in the light.
You thought you could ambush me,
Stumbling through the night.
Do you hear that distant roar.
It's the crushing truth, comin' to deliver me.
Haha...I smell damnation on your breath!

You will rule nothing.
You will rule no-one.
No more.

Uh hi, it's me again.
No surprises there.
Devils chewing on my thoughts, I swear...
There ain't one minute my mind is offering peace.
Nah, just take, take take... Like a machine gun.

I'm firing blind in the dark,
at a mirror of steel.
And I know I'm hitting my mark.
Cause the ricochet's all I can feel.

[Chorus]
Why do I feel so freakin lost?
Missing too many pieces,
Paid too higher cost.
I can't find all the bits that I've lost through the years.
That just slid off from too many tears.
Broken.... Barely breathing.... Choking.
Only one way to fall now...
Hoping...

I'm so tired of the fight.
But it's all that seems real.
Seems I got too many wounds.
Losing the will to heal.

You'd think by now I'd be over this.
But everyday I wake up.. Yep, there it is.
Convincing my life is painted in Gray's
Regardless of the colors that make up each day.

Why do I feel so freakin lost?
Missing too many pieces,
Paid too higher cost.
I can't find all the bits that I lost through the years.
That just slid off from too many tears.
Broken.... Barely breathing.... Choking.
Only one way to fall now...
Hoping...
You catch me.

The salty breeze, reaches out to me,
As the westerly softly pushes past.

I hear the distant roar of the crashing shore.
A voice I know, I cherish, I trust.

That breeze brings ease through a forest song, that has been singing to searching souls for so very long...

It tells my heart... Stay the course... Be strong.

[Chorus]
Clouds gather in force on the coasts black shores.
To the sound of pounding waves as they retreat once more.
I forget for a moment...
The pain of what was before.
No more.

The sea offers hope in it's constant roar.

I stand in this wild place Lord,
just hoping for a way forward.
No more Fighting myself, drop the sword.
Set me free...
remake me...
Through your eyes, help me see....

Save me.

Adonai

So someone told you that this life in Christ, would be a breeze.
Living in rest and prosperity, ease.
Well, they lied to you.
This is a war!
We're in it whether we want to or not.
Relax no more.

But God's given you a lethal weapon.
It's between your teeth.
It reaches heavens above
And hell beneath.
So pray, Christian soldier!
Hands to heaven, knees to the floor.
Learn your weapon.
And use it, like never before.

[Chorus]
Pray...like...a...machine...gun.
Rat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat
Firing truth on full auto.
Piercing armored lies.
Opening blind eyes.
Never step back.
Set the heavens on fire!

One call.
One purpose.
One king.
One outcome...
Total destruction of demon obstructions.
Cutting captives chains.
While binding the captors.

Full force.
Full noise.
Fill the sky's with the stench of burning demons.
(laughter)

Pray...like...a...machine...gun.
Rat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat
Firing truth on full auto.
Piercing armored lies.
Opening blind eyes.
Never step back.
Set the heavens on fire!

Fight like you can't lose...
Cause you can't!
Fight like a cornered lion.
'Cause the lamb lives forever.
Simply by dying.

Risen is he.
Risen is he.
RISEN IS THE LION LAMB!

FIGHT!

Trust Anyway

( Abba.... Abba
Find me. )

It's in broken dreams
That you find me.
As you climb through torn seams.
Shining through the deep darkness.
That seems to blind me.

You blow open the night.
Filling the void with light.
And washing away all the stains
That determine to define me.

ADONAI.
ADONAI.
Become the air that I breath.
The ground at my feet.
Every beat of my heart.
All I want, all I need.
You are all.
You are all.
You are all..I see.

At last as I run through my dreams
I can see.
The only dream that matters.
Is the one of you running to me.

Hold my hands Lord.
For in your Abba embrace...
I am free.

ADONAI.
ADONAI.
Become the air that I breath.
The ground at my feet.
Every beat of my heart.
All I want, all I need.
You are all.
You are all.
You are all..I see.

Fight No More

Experience leans into me again.
Whispering, 'you know true growth only comes through pain.
(Best I explain)

The word of the father clearly says.
To truly live you must truly be dead.
Deny yourself, choosing others instead.
Rather than build your empire here,
store unseen treasures up there.
When wronged, seek not retribution.
VIVE LA REVOLUTION.

Embrace the death of a thousand cuts.
For in bleeding out you win.
Repentance tears the heart from your sin.
And obedience opens the portal.
Where Divine touches mortal.

Finally, divine touches mortal.

So lay down on this alter of pain.
Let Christ's victory resurrect you again.
You are chosen, reckoned righteous.
For the father knows despite all, you got this.
Yeah man, you got this.

Embrace the death of a thousand cuts.
For in bleeding out you win.
Repentance tears the heart from your sin.
And obedience opens the portal.
Where Divine touches mortal.

Finally, divine touches mortal.

Alter of Pain

Hi there God.
Just thought I'd come and see you for a bit.
It's just, your word seems full of square pegs,
And life seems fulla round holes.
And there's too much that just don't fit.

So, I thought.
Maybe you could hear me out.
Help my thoughts walk with truth not doubt.

Cause I gotta be honest.
In a walk filled with promise.
With your hand resting on us.

There are just too many times.
That the dollars are dimes
And solutions just don't arrive in time.

Sorry father, no disrespect.
But if we're gonna be honest.
We gotta be direct.

Why do babies die?
And when they do.
You seem all too damn quiet.
Parents just bury their hopes.
Their dreams, their little ones... Silent !

( I just can't make it okay Jesus)

Why do your servants.
You know.
The ones that have given all to the call.
Why do they get tumors and trauma?
It just doesn't seem to fit,
Where do you sit in all of it.

Sorry God, I just can't pretend it's okay.
Regardless of what the scriptures say.

I think it's the silence that hurts the most.
When we feel alone, at our lowest.
Yet you're word says you'll send the comforter... But he seems nowhere.
if we've missed it.. please show us.

Even in the hurt though.
I fully believe your word is true.
And it says you are love itself.
So I guess I just can't see.
What you're really doing in me.

Help me to trust
To hope and to love.
To give you the benefit of the doubt
To just cry it all out....
And to believe you will one-day make it all okay again.

I do trust you my maker.
You're a fixer and breaker.
You're a giver and a taker.
But you heal what you break.
And give more than you take.

Thanks for listening Lord
I'm still blind to it all.
But I will try to trust...
in the rise and the fall.

You are our all in all...

Love you.

Reach Out

Surrounded by enemies in camouflage.
I know I need to retreat;
but I just can't run that fast.
Outrunning myself,
but I still come last.

The harder I try.
The less I achieve.
The righteous say, stop striving and believe.
We'll that may work for you,
But it doesn't seem to stick for me.

But don't be concerned,
It's just one of those days.
Where my mind don't match up,
With what the preachers say

Got more questions than answers.
And they just won't go away.
I swear I've forgotten which cards to lay.
Got a fist full of nothing,
And no Kings to play.

Trouble is, I got so much skin in this game.

Feel like folding,
Then I realize, there are no other players
Just this broken fool.
Sitting on a box of unanswered prayers.

If you can fix this Jesus.
Please, be my guest.
Frankly the strongest desire I have,
Is for eternal rest.

In the silence... alone...
Be my guest.

But don't be concerned,
It's just one of those days.
Where my mind don't match up,
With what the preachers say

But just like the clouds.
Racing by so fast.
I know my doubts and feelings.
We'll, they too shall pass.

So bury me in you Jesus...
Please be my guest.

( "Etiamsi moriar, numquam finiar !")

( "Etiamsi moriar, numquam finiar !")

Immortality.
It's just a part of me.
A thought too vast.
For my mind to understand.

Only my spirit knows.
What my mind can't see.
And in chains of the fallen.
I sing the song of the free.

HOLY BLOOD.
HAS SALVAGED ME.
FROM THE FILTHY CLAY.
BELOW THAT CURSED TREE.

You're love breathes new life in me

So I will march, as the redeemed.
Walking how it is.
Not how it seems.
Season me Jesus...
Season me

Though hell open it's wrath on me.
One thing I ask father.
If I die.
May you die with me.
May you die with me.
HOLY BLOOD.
HAS SALVAGED ME.
FROM THE FILTHY CLAY.
BELOW THAT CURSED TREE.
You're love breathes new life in me
For though I die....I will never end.

Etiamsi moriar, numquam finiar !

Skin in the Game

Look Into Me

Love You

Not Long Now

Dream Deep

The Garden

Healing

Safe In Me

Other Songs from one believers journey...

Forever

Vicious memories bite like an angry dog on a heart, that's paper thin.
There's a savior outside but I'm not so sure I can let him in.

Fear of disappointment fills the room. Making the air awfully thin.
Gasping from unbelief..
I claw for relief.
Turning to myself again.

This has never worked for me before.
I reach out my hand.
Then retract it once more.
God I'm sure it shouldn't be this complicated.
I've tried to save myself and it's highly overrated..

You're it Jesus
You're all I got.

Though I try to hide in the shadows of night.
Your holy spirit sets me on fire ,
Sets me alight.

This has never worked for me before.
I reach out my hand.
Then retract it once more..
God I'm sure it shouldn't be this complicated
I've tried to save myself and it's highly overrated.

You're it Jesus.
You're all I got.

Into your hands I commend my spirit
Into your hands.....

..I commend my spirit.
Amen..

The 'beloved' album

This Album came out of a combination of praying for a dear friend and at the same time, asking the question - How does Christ really feel about us? The following result evolved over a number of months. It is obviously focused on Jesus relationship to 'His Bride'; In this case, our sisters in Christ. They are intimate songs inspired by the book, Song of Songs as well as the here and now connection Jesus has with those how call Him their Lord.

Eventually I hope to somehow translate His love for His son's in the same way; finding the language and context that will convince men of Christ in the value they hold in His heart.

I hope you enjoy this offering in all it's imperfection. If you know someone that might enjoy it , do share.

Blessings.