You Get What You Pray For is a song that speaks to my experience of life, prayer and following my heart.  Many of my songs have a faith-based theme, and I’ve tried to reflect positive and uplifting lyrics within all my songs.  I’d always wanted to write songs ever since I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until almost 20 years later that I said a prayer asking God to allow me to write songs if it was within His will for me, and my prayer was answered in that very minute.  I went on to write over 200 songs in about a four year period while juggling everything else in my life, and learned the meaning of being careful what we pray for because it just might come true.  Surrounded by piles of lyrics, scribbles of written music and guitar chords, I found that I was overwhelmed by the responsibility of shepherding what I had prayed for.  Although I hadn’t prayed to be a performer, it seemed logical that I was to perform the songs I’d written, and despite investing my time and resources into trying, it wasn’t meant to be.  I questioned God’s purpose in giving me these songs if I was unable to do anything with them, yet now as I’m posting my songs online and describing their essence to you, God’s plan for my prayer was larger than I could have ever dreamed of on my own!  The key line in this song is the second verse of this line, “You know you get what you pray for, The Lord gives you what you need…”  Amen.

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I recorded my original song “You Get What You Pray For” on Set 4 in 1996, and this song completes the set.  The song speaks to my personal experience with prayer, for it was a prayer that led to this and all of my songs, “You know you get what you pray for, The Lord gives you what you need…” Enjoy! ♡ 🙂 Mark

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(Emailed versions of these songs lose their chord alignment and formatting, so refer to the original post and/or the scanned lyric sheet as your guide!)

You Get What You Pray For

“You Get What You Pray For”, Collected Works Volume XIII, Copyright 1992, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved

Verse One:

                     E    G           D     E

You know you get what you pray for     (x3)

      D                                  E

The Lord gives you what you need     (x3)  (End)

C                       D

Go to the Lord in prayer

C                       D

Give to Him your cares

C                  D

Open up your heart

      C                        D

And then the Lord will start     (x3)

     E         G     D       E

To answer your prayers     (x3)

      D                         E

And give you what you need     (x3)

Chorus:

      C                       D

The answer may take time

      C           D

And you may find

      C                              D

It’s not what you’re lookin’ for

         C                   D

When really it’s even more     (x3)

              E      G                 D      E

Than you ever prayed would come true     (x3)

             D                        E

That the Lord has given to you     (x3)  (Return to Verse One to end)

Verse Two:

C                     D

Pray Thy will be done

      C              D

The Lord hears everyone

     C                                     D

He wants our prayers to come true

                 C                           D

But there’s something we must do     (x3)

                 E             G               D      E

You got to open your heart to the answer     (x3)

            D                                     E

And the Lord will give you what you need     (x3)

Crooked Highway is a song about the journey of our lives – the wandering path we travel from birth to death and all points in between. Looking ahead from the inexperience of youth, the winding course before us leads into a fog of uncertainty: Where will it take us? How will it all turn out?  Will I live my dreams?  Will I be happy? Looking back from the wisdom of age, the course of our lives reminds us of the effort it took to get to this point in our lives, the wrong turns we’ve taken along the way, the disappointments we’ve had – as well as, the success and happiness we’ve achieved over the years. The truth is that none of us achieves anything on our own – for our success is the product of all those who have helped us along the way – and especially for me, it’s my faith in God that has given me the courage, confidence and ability to keep going into the future…  “The path goes on forever, Never an end in sight, You ask yourself a question, Will it all turn out alright…”

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I recorded my original song “Crooked Highway” as a demo on Set 14 in 1997, and it speaks to the journey of our lives, “You walk down a crooked highway, Follow a crooked path, You carry a heavy load, A burden upon your back…” Enjoy! ♡ 🙂 Mark

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(Emailed versions of these songs lose their chord alignment and formatting, so refer to the original post and/or the scanned lyric sheet as your guide!)

Crooked Highway

“You Get What You Pray For”, Collected Works Volume XIII, Copyright 1992, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved

Intro:

C   G   D   C   G     (x2)

C   G     (x2)

Verse One:

      C

You walk down a crooked highway, follow a crooked path

      D

You carry a heavy load, a burden upon your back

      C

The path goes on forever, never an end in sight

      D

You ask yourself a question, will it all turn out alright

         C

Will it all turn out alright

A

Alright

Chorus:

     C       G        D

We carry on our way

C                               G

Through the darkened night

     C           G        D

We stumble and we fall

C                    G

Try though we might

C           G          D

We can’t see the way

      C                      G

Our eyes don’t have sight

     D          C            G

We have to follow the light     (x3)

                  D

Through the night

                 G

The light of Christ

               D                       G

Follow the light, the light of Christ     (x2)

               D

Follow the light    (End)

Verse Two:

    C

In life you need a roadmap, to keep your goal in sight

     D

We only have one life, to find our way in the night

     C

We stumble and we fall, but then get up again

     D

We try the best we can, but need strength from within

     C

We need strength from within

         A

From Him

Fruit Of Your Heart is a dreamy, enchanting and mesmerizing little song that has a heavenly, otherworldly and mystical sort of feel to it. It’s the kind of song you could listen to with your eyes closed in the corner of a garden all by yourself while peacefully meditating.  The song equates our hearts to fertile soil, into which God plants a seed of love.  This seed of love then needs to root and grow while we water, nourish and nurture it. As the seed of love roots and grows in the fertile soil of our hearts, it gains strength to grow tall and flourish – bearing fruit that becomes the visible fruit of our hearts to others. Sadly, modern society isn’t always a nurturing place for love to flourish and grow, which requires us to create within us the nurturing environment and conditions where love can prosper and flourish until its fruit have matured – which are then to be given away as gifts of love to others.  “If you take the time, To let your love grow, You will find, Your love will flow from within, Love will flow from within…

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I recorded my original song “Fruit Of Your Heart” as a demo on Set 15 in 1997, and it speaks to nurturing the seed of love God plants in our hearts, “Take the time to water your heart, And love will be the fruit of your heart, And grow from within your heart…” Enjoy! ♡ 🙂 Mark

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(Emailed versions of these songs lose their chord alignment and formatting, so refer to the original post and/or the scanned lyric sheet as your guide!)

Fruit Of Your Heart

“You Get What You Pray For”, Collected Works Volume XIII, Copyright 1992, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved

Intro:

D7sus4   D7   G7   C     (x2)

D   C6/9   G     (x2)

Verse One:

D7sus4   D7     G7            C

Where is love if not in your heart

D7sus4       D7   G7                      C

How can we love without a place to start

D7sus4   D7          G7              C

Love is a seed God plants in our hearts

D7sus4    D7    G7       C

From that seed love will start

     D             C             G

To grow from within our hearts     (x3)     (Optional Ending)

Chorus:

   Am              G

If you take the time

    Am              G

To let your love grow

Am       G

You will find

                   Em          C

Your love will flow from within     (x3)

D          C6/9        G                      (D)

Love will flow from within     (x3)     (Ending)

(Return to Intro and then Verse Two)

Verse Two:

   D7sus4    D7         G7         C

In time that seed will root and grow

     D7sus4    D7          G7              C

And give you love more than you will know

D7sus4   D7       G7            C

Take the time to water your heart

    D7sus4   D7      G7              C

And love will be the fruit of your heart

      D              C               G

And grow from within your heart     (x3)     (To Chorus)