More than three months after my last post, my wait for ’sufficient time to blog thoughtfully’ has no immediate end in sight — such is life with an infant in the family, I suppose. So, while I still hope to finish my “Faith and Politics” series someday soon, I’ve decided to share something else in the mean time: lyrics from songs I’ve been writing recently.
After a number of years without much significant song writing, I’ve been writing a lot more in the last year, and am also (slowly and meticulously) starting to record these songs.
This one is called “Hearts and Stones”. The music is pensive and acoustic — musical influences include Steven Delopoulos, some early Dispatch albums, and perhaps also Bebo Norman.
When will we realize
we’re waiting for a season that’s arrived
For one who is returning
peace to shattered earthly lives
When will we find you here?
When will we find you here?
When will we realize
we’re killing over broken wells
While the lilies all still shine
and the birds all eat their fill
When will we find you here?
When will we find you here?
What if you really meant to lead us further than where we’ve arrived?
What if we’ve fashioned from your story something true yet still a lie?
What if the day of your returning really turns both hearts and stones?
What if you come to live among us here, where you come to bring us home?
When will we realize
we’re all part of the story that you tell
we’re all part of the pain
you know we’re all to blame
When will we find you here?
When will we find you here?
When will we realize
you’ve called us to be healers of this age
to open up our eyes
to hear the orphan’s cries…
the widow’s cries…
to see past death and feel the life that’s coming…
Oh, I still believe the story’s bigger
Oh, I still believe the story’s bigger