Music
A Traveller’s Rest – 2014
One of Lilly’s greatest achievements is the Mzansi Gospel Award she received for “Best Female artist of the year” in 2015 for her acoustic EP entitled A Traveller’s Rest.
- HEAVEN IS HOME
- SINFUL RAGE
- LOVEFIRE
- TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS
- HOW GREAT THOU ART
- WITH THE STARS
- PILGRIM’S REST
- UKHUTHULA (Salvation)
HEAVEN IS HOME
Written & Composed by Lilly Million
I see light cause I have love
I’ve been joyful
And gone below and above
To where mercy rises and it frees us
So I might say that I have felt god’s grace
Cause when his love came down
Good lord my life found peace
Now I know heaven is not so far away
Heaven is home
SINFUL RAGE
Written & Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Blinded by my sinful rage
My throat at once becomes an open grave, again
My mouth so full of curses bitterness
I wonder how your spirit dwells in us
All my doubts cause me grief
Jesus help my unbelief
Make me see, make me see
It’s only by your love
I’ve been made one
With the father up above
The gift your word speaks of
VERSE 2
Blinded by my sinful rage
I question if you’re kind
You’re good and real again
So quickly I forget your mercies
I live and lie as if you were not there
Yet you still care
Though my sins cause you grief
You still choose to relieve me of my own doings
And my undoing it’s only by your love
I’ve been made one with the father up above
The gift your word speaks of
BRIDGE
May the whole world hear?
May the whole world see?
Don’t let their hearts resist your truth
Don’t let their hearts resist your truth
Will your people rebel
May we all come to you?
Don’t let our hearts resist your truth
Don’t let our hearts resist your truth
And though we may fall
May your mercy prevail Lord?
Don’t let their hearts resist your truth
May I never be separated from you?
VERSE 3
Covered by amazing grace (x3)
Covered by amazing grace
Your cross on Calvary for me, atones, again.
LOVEFIRE
Written & Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
You’re all alive, some of you
Have been playing dead for too long
Your bones have gone dry
Your blood is thin
The life’s been drained from your eyes
PRE-CHORUS
But you’re a king and you’re a queen
What ever happened to your crown?
Where did you put it down?
Yes I know your strength is gone
You don’t have enough
But you’ll have to find that time
Where you put it down
CHORUS
Cause I’ve seen that love fire in your heart
But everybody’s holding back
Everybody’s holding back
It’s enough to rip that hell apart
But everybody’s holding back
Everybody’s holding back
VERSE 2
You’re all so scared
To say you hurt and that you feel alone
Cause no one should know
And that’s the way you choose to live
Don’t hide from the clarity of truth
With the darkness of man’s lies
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
When you die what will you say
When your maker asks you what you did
With all you had (x2)
Don’t go there saying
I’m sorry lord for holding back
I’m sorry lord for holding back (x2)
[CHORUS]
TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS
Written & Composed by Helen H. Lemmel
VERSE 1
O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Saviour,
And life more abundant and free!
CHORUS
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
VERSE 2
Through death into life everlasting
He passed, and we follow Him there;
Over us sin no more hath dominion
For more than conquerors we are!
[CHORUS]
VERSE 3
His Word shall not fail you—He promised;
Believe Him, and all will be well:
Then go to a world that is dying,
His perfect salvation to tell!
[CHORUS]
HOW GREAT THOU ART
Written by Stuart K. Hine
VERSE 1
O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed
CHORUS
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
VERSE 2
And when I think of God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
[CHORUS]
VERSE 3
When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
To take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow with humble adoration,
And then proclaim
“My God, how great Thou art!”
[CHORUS]
WITH THE STARS
Written & Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
You pull me from my dreams
At the same time you don’t wake me
From my sleep
So I’m somewhere stuck in between
Where my eyes here
And my ears they say they see
Yes I said that
PRE-CHORUS
Write me with the stars
On black chalkboards
And there you’ll find my love (x2)
CHORUS
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
I may be choosy
But god I’ll go
Where you lead me
With love (x2)
VERSE 2
To my soon children
Where we play with heaven
Meet me when I’m sixty
While I play house with my grandbabies
In a world so
Full of god in it
With a people unashamed to say
Just how much they live
For him so…
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Take a walk beyond life’s boarders
Over your existence
I promise you’ll get something (x2)
Even if it’s just a little bit of freedom
It’s the biggest bite of freedom
Its god love in your spirit (x2)
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
PILGRIM’S REST
Written & Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Pencils breaking, against rusty pages
And now we can’t write down
The stories that we’ve been in
Even gravity is stopping all her pulling
And now there’s no way
Anyone will stay grounded
[PRE-CHORUS]
What are we gonna do?
When the world wants to move on
And leave all of us out (x2)
[CHORUS]
At least we’ve got a few here
Who aren’t ashamed to say that they pray?
At least we have a few here
Unashamed to say that
Their believers
VERSE 2
You say you never read God’s word
But you know somewhere you heard
Four bibles in your home
And not once have they been opened
No one want to talk about
Hellfire pain and brimstone
But once you bring up heaven
Everybody joins the conversation
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
This life had me defeated
Everything that I believed in
I fell into deception, a lie, what a lie
Thought I was my own queen
And the ruler of creation
What a lie
UKHUTHULA (Salvation)
Written & Composed by Lilly Million & M. Ngubane
Chorus 1
Ukuthula kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Peace in this world of sin
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ ukuthula The blood of Jesus brings peace
Usindiso kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Redemption in this world of sin
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ unsindsiso The blood of Jesus brings redemption
VERSE 2
Your peace overcomes me
Transcends my understanding
Ungishiya nokuthula
Nkosi yami, ngiphila ngawe
Yor love so unfailing
No I can say I’m my father’s child
Redeemed, secured
CHORUS 2
Uthando kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Your love in this world of song
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ uthando The blood of Jesus brings peace
Ukukholwa kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Faith in this world of sin
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ ukukholwa The blood of Jesus brings faith
VERSE 2
Our hope in His glory
Masihlale sthandazelana
So on that day, when heaven calls us
We will all be there
Where our saviour will stand with open arms
Pleased he sacrificed himself
So he could have us
Selah…simdumise
Now freely we can run to him
CHORUS 3
Ukubonga kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Praise, in this world of sin
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ ukubonga The blood of Jesus brings praise
Induduzo kulo mhlaba wezono (Aleluya) Comfort in this world of sin
igazi likaJesu linyenyez’ induduzo The blood of Jesus brings comfort
Pray for the ones who hurt
For the lost and brokem
For the lonely and scared
For the ones who mourn
Pray for the ones enslaved
Owned by their own greed
Controlled by their pride
They’re the ones in need
Pray for the unsaved (x4)
Pray for the ones who believe
Who forget they’re redeemed
When they lose their faith
When they battle with tsin
Pray for the ones being deceived
By the lies that they feed on
They’re twisting your truth Lord
Pray for the unsaved (x4)