JOHN W. FORT
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  1. Prologue
  2. Could it Be
  3. Broken Heart
  4. Free Fall
  5. Highway 99 
  6. Not Always Safe
  7. I Turn to You
  8. Let it Rain
  9. The Answer
  10. It's Alright
  11. Epilogue
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Synthesizers, guitar, bass & vocals by John Fort. Lead guitar on Free Fall by Fred Rodgers. Drum programming by Lucas Five. 

Prologue
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Could it Be
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Walking down the avenue
My heart is heavy and my soul is blue
Kinda down today
There are days I feel like a slave
Body willing, heart in the grave
Wish I could fade away

Carrying this secret shame
No one really knows my name
It's dark inside
When You're looking down on me
What is it You really see?
Could it be?

I don't laugh, I don't cry
Don't feel much, I can't tell you why
It's just that way
Never could shake free before
It just knocks me back down on the floor
That's where I stay
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Carrying this secret shame
No one really knows my name
It's dark inside
When You're looking down on me
What is it You really see?
Could it be?

Walkin' down the avenue
My heart is heavy and my soul is blue

copyright © 1986 john w fort

Free Fall
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lead guitar by Fred Rodgers

Followed You to the end of the line
Wonder where You’ll take me this time
I said I’d give it all to make it right

All at once, I’ve come to the edge
You brought me to this place of dread
The chasm below is black as night

Nowhere left to go from here
I hear Your voice in my ear
Just take one step and leave the rest to Me

My heart stops, my blood runs cold
Too far down, I'm not that bold
How can I trust what I can't see?

Steppin’ off, I close my eyes
I feel the fall, my terror rise
Oh, God I pray, You’re here today
As I free fall, will I lost it all?
Where are those arms of love?

Always before I trusted in me
What I could do, and what I could see
But there’s nothin’ I can see to save me now

I free fall through the mist
Hours pass, my heart still skips
Where is Your hand, to save me now?

Steppin’ off, I close my eyes
I feel the fall, my terror rise
Oh, God I pray, You’re here today
As I free fall, I will give it all
Into Your arms of love

copyright © 1992 john w fort

Not Always Safe
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It’s not always safe
when I follow you
A sorrowful place, sometimes
Is where you’re leading me to
But I still believe
I believe that it’s true
It’s worth losing it all
just to be here with you

I wish I could say
I trusted you more
But there have been days
I felt more alone than before
But when there’s nobody else
no one for miles that I see
If I can open my eyes
I see your arms around me

It’s not always safe
when I follow you
A sorrowful place, sometimes
Is where you’re leading me to
But I still believe
I believe that it’s true
It’s worth losing it all
just to be here with you

Yes I’ve been hurt
and you didn’t stop the pain
I have been cold
you left me out in the rain
But when I just look
take the time to see
You’re there hurting and wet
and you’re right next to me

copyright © 2018 john w fort

Let it Rain
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As I get up, to face the day
I hear the wind, the sky is gray
But now a smile creeps on my face
What once brought pain, now brings grace
So let it rain

Let it rain, all around
I'll be with You, on higher ground
I'm stronger with Your love I've found
So let it rain

I lost myself, in all the lies
Behind a smile, hid shame inside
Through my pain, You helped me to see
Another one, I was meant to be
So, let it rain

Let it rain, all around
I'll be with You, on higher ground
I'm stronger with Your love I've found
So let it rain

The wind, it swirls around my head
The rain is cold, I'm filed with dread
Darkness falls, I cannot see
There's nothing here to comfort me

I feel Your hand against my own
Though I am scared I'm not alone
I can cry, not run away
Here in the storm now I can stay

Let it rain, all around
I'll be with You, on higher ground
I'm stronger with Your love I've found
So let it rain

copyright © 2002 john w fort

It's Alright
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Down the road now
Been a long, long lonely ride
Left my old friend
Yeah, I left it miles behind

I look around me
Not much I recognize
One thing I do see
You’ve been here all the time

It’s alright, it’s alright
I like what You’re doing, Jesus
with my life, yeah
So I let go of all the pieces I held on to, I will
I’ll give it away cause when I look at what You made me
It’s alright

When I think back
All the things I tried before
They just left me lonely

 Hollow to the core

Took years just to let go
And it took years to see
I’m gonna turn to something
But only You can free

It’s alright, it’s alright
I like what You’re doing, Jesus
with my life, yeah
So I let go of all the pieces I held on to, I will
I’ll give it away cause when I look at what You made me
It’s alright

It’s not the rush, that left me wanting more
It’s Your peace, that saturates my soul

It’s alright, it’s alright
I like what You’re doing, Jesus
with my life, yeah
So I let go of all the pieces I held on to, I will
I’ll give it away cause when I look at what You made me
It’s alright

copyright © 2009 john w fort
Broken Heart
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I was alone in the night
I did not have a guide
Said I have no fright
But I trembled inside
I play alone
Alone I can’t stand
You said, “I’ll take you home
Just take My hand.”

Broken Heart
I had lost my way
I was torn apart
So I prayed for the day
Oh, I took Your hand
And now I can see
My home at last
​And together we'll be

It was a road into pain
That You pointed me down
Without my old friend
No relief to be found
It's cold and it's raw
Out here in the light
With only You
To comfort my fright

Broken Heart
I had lost my way
I was torn apart
So I prayed for the day
Oh, I took Your hand
And now I can see
My home at last
And together we'll be

copyright © 1999 john w fort

Highway 99
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I’m lost out here on highway 99
Still searching for a peace I cannot find
Had a vision to come and search it here
All I know is I can’t have you near

Cause that ain't love
Oh, we all need love
I’m searching above
For some elusive love

Still hurting out on highway 99
Makes me wonder if I will ever find
Somebody, some place, something to do,
All the things for me you used to do

But that ain't love
Oh, we all need love
I’m searching above
For some elusive love

Still searching out on highway 99
I go miles and I never see a sign
Still hoping that I will see the day
I can just let go of you and walk away

I remember when you came into my life
How you told me you would make the wrong things right
And I admit sometimes I want it like before
Then I feel this freedom more and more and more and more

Still lost out on highway 99
Still hurting out on highway 99
Still searching you out on highway 99
But I will kiss you goodbye, on highway 99

copyright © 1999 john w fort

I Turn to You
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I don’t like this thing I’m feeling right now
Can’t You just take it away somehow
I gave up the past, I laid it all down
Why did You leave me out here on the ground

I open my hand like a flower
I am left here with no power
Who will easy my anxious mind?
I turn to You and pray that You are kind

Guess I always ran away before
I never let it start before I slammed the door
But, it’s cold out here, all alone with my fear
Is it so bad to want something more

I open my hand like a flower
I am left here with no power
Who will easy my anxious mind?
I turn to You and pray that You are kind

I open my hand like a flower
I am left here with no power
Who will easy my anxious mind?
I turn to You and pray that You are kind

I Turn to You
I Turn to You
I Turn to You

copyright © 2013 john w fort

The Answer
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When I wake up in the morning
When I can't face another day
When I wake up in the morning
When I can't face another day
When life has lost all meaning
Who can take my fears away?

Where are the answers in this life?
Why do they run away from me?
What does it take to feel all right?
Can You help me to see?

Go to work most every morning
It's been twenty years today
I go to work most every morning
It's been twenty years to day
If anything I feel less value
Than I did on that first day

Count my hard earned possessions
They haven't done a thing for me
I count all my hard earned possessions
They haven't done a thing for me
All the things that bring me honor
Never last in reality

Where are the answers in this life?
Why do they run away from me?
What does it take to feel all right?
Can You help me to see?

You are the King of creation
The Master of it all
You are the King of creation
The Master of it all
You will only take the very best
When my name I hear You call

If I have not one possession
If I watch my honor fall
If I have not one possession
Even if I watch my honor fall
If I do nothing of importance
I still have the best of all

You are the answer to this life
I see You running straight to me
I know You make me feel all right
Only You're love can set me free

copyright © 2019 john w fort

Epilogue
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Recorded in Studio Seven, Hillsboro, Oregon
© 2020 by john w fort
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