Biography:
Jars of Clay is a popular Christian alternative rock group formed while the band members attended Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, United States in 1992. The group's sound has varied over the years as the band has experimented with pop, folk, rock, trip-hop, gospel, and hymnsong. Their self-titled album featured layered acoustic guitars over programmed trip-hop beats. The song "Flood" was the band's biggest crossover hit, and it hit #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as #12 on the Modern Rock chart.
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Other songs:
- Coffee
- Dead Man (carry Me)
- I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
- Love Song For A Savior
- Oh My God
- Show You Love
- They'll Know We Are Christians
- Thou Lovely Source Of True Delight
- After The Fight
- Age Of Immature Mistakes
- All My Tears
- Amazing Grace
- Be Thou My Vision
- Benediction
- Boy On A String
- Boys Lesson One
- Can T Erase It
- Christmas For Cowboys
- Closer
- Collide
- Crazy Times
- Dead Man Carry Me
- Dig
- Fade To Grey
- Faith Enough
- Faith Like A Child
- Fall Asleep
- Famous Last Words
- Five Candles
- Flood
- Frail
- Ghost In The Moon
- God Will Lift Up Your Head
- Good Monsters
- He
- Headphones
- Hymn
- I Dont Want You To Forget
- I Need Thee Every Hour
- I Need You
- If I Stand
- Ill Fly Away
- Im Alright
- Inland
- Jealous Kind
- Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
- Jesus I Lift My Eyes
- Left Undone
- Lesser Things
- Let Us Love And Sing And Wonder
- Lift Me Up
- Light Gives Heat
- Like A Child
- Liquid
- Little Drummerboy
- Loneliness And Alcohol
- Lonely People
- Love Came Down
- Love Came Down At Christmas
- Love In Hard Times
- Love Me
- Love Song For A Saviour
- Mirrors And Smoke
- Much Afraid
- My Heavenly
- Needful Hands
- No One Loves Me Like You
- Nothing But The Blood
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- On Jordans Stormy Banks
- On Jordans Stormy Banks I Stand
- Only Alive
- Overjoyed
- Peace Is Here
- Portrait Of An Apology
- Reckless Forgiver
- River Constantine
- Rose Colored Stain Glass Window
- Sad Clown
- Save My Soul
- Scenic Route
- Shelter
- Sinking
- Sleepers
- Something Beautiful
- Sunny Days
- Take Me Higher
- Tea And Sympathy
- The Chair
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Stone
- There Is A River
- There Might Be A Light
- These Ordinary Days
- Theyll Know We Are Christians
- Two Hands
- Unforgetful You
- Valley Song
- Waiting For The World To Fall
- Water Under The Bridge
- We Will Follow
- Weighed Down
- Work
- Worlds Apart
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Jars of Clay-Light Gives Heat Key-C
Chords used: C-032010, G-320033, Bb-113311, D#m-000231, F-133211, Am-002210
Verse 1:
D#m Am
Catch the rain empty hands
Bb
Save the children from their lands
D#m
Wash the darkness from their skin
Am
Heroes from the west
Bb
We don't know you, we know best
But this is not a test
Chorus:
Bb F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
But light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G Bb C D#m
The light gives heat
Verse 2:
D#m Am
It's not the way to light their way
Bb
Poison holes in empty fields
D#m
Oh, how good it feels
Am
Lower-class, and understate
Bb
Empty promise, empty plate
Chorus:
Bb F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
Light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, your fears
G Bb
But light gives heat, gives heat
Instrumental:
Bb - C- D#m - Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb – C – D#m
Chorus:
D#m F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
But light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G Bb
The light gives heat
Bridge:
Bb F C
Will you teach us how to love?
G F
To see the things you see
C G
Walk the road you walked
Bb
Feel the pain that you feel
F C
At your feet I kneel,
G F
I want to see you shine
C G
See your light not mine
Bb G
'Cause light gives heat
Bb G
Your light gives heat
End:
Bb - D#m
Chords used: C-032010, G-320033, Bb-113311, D#m-000231, F-133211, Am-002210
Verse 1:
D#m Am
Catch the rain empty hands
Bb
Save the children from their lands
D#m
Wash the darkness from their skin
Am
Heroes from the west
Bb
We don't know you, we know best
But this is not a test
Chorus:
Bb F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
But light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G Bb C D#m
The light gives heat
Verse 2:
D#m Am
It's not the way to light their way
Bb
Poison holes in empty fields
D#m
Oh, how good it feels
Am
Lower-class, and understate
Bb
Empty promise, empty plate
Chorus:
Bb F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
Light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, your fears
G Bb
But light gives heat, gives heat
Instrumental:
Bb - C- D#m - Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb – C – D#m
Chorus:
D#m F
You treat me like I'm blind
C G F C
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G Bb
But light gives heat
Bb F
You segregate my mind
C G F C
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G Bb
The light gives heat
Bridge:
Bb F C
Will you teach us how to love?
G F
To see the things you see
C G
Walk the road you walked
Bb
Feel the pain that you feel
F C
At your feet I kneel,
G F
I want to see you shine
C G
See your light not mine
Bb G
'Cause light gives heat
Bb G
Your light gives heat
End:
Bb - D#m
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