Earlier this semester, I wrote a song for each week of Advent. My friends at Canowan in Austin invited me to their church to record video sessions of them as a part of a series of Christmas song videos they're making. We'll sing one of these each week during Advent, and I'll be posting the videos here. If you want to check out some of the other songs my friends recorded for this project, they'll be posting four songs each week of this month here.
This song is called "Brightest," and it was written for the Joy week. If you have any questions, email me at jamie@ubcwaco.org
Lyrics:
is this fear or joy, and what is the difference?
there's a change coming on the wind
my God, it's electric
the skin on the back of my neck is needles and stitches
like there's a New Light among the stars, just out of my vision
what Joy could come from darkness
and not destroy the place we've made?
like if the candle we called Brightest
suddenly fell in the hay
is this love or death, and what is the difference?
there's a change coming to the scales
my God, it's infectious
the veins on the back of my eyes are straining and pulsing
like there's a New Light among the stars that I can't behold yet
what Joy could come from darkness
and not destroy the place we've made?
like if the candle we called Brightest
suddenly fell in the hay
this is the moment that everything changes
and all of our fears find the peace they've been chasing
and all of our comforts shatter like mirrors
caught in a Light like has never been seen here
the mountains, they crumble
chasms, they shade them
and all of our answers grow into questions
when the feeble, like lions, are freed from their cages
and the mighty are pulled from the places they're saving
this is joy, unspeakable joy