ITLOTC
(In The Life Of The Church)
Epiphany
Songs: The World Is Yours and Mother
Greetings. I hope this finds you well. For the last couple of years, I (Jamie) have made a habit of using Josh’s sermon text for the upcoming Sunday as a prompt for a song. Its not the most creative writing exercise, but it is consistent, and I’m a sucker for consistency and routine. I don’t really know how many songs have emerged out of this exercise, but most of them never end up becoming something I would play in front of people.
Anyway, last week I assumed I would not be finishing a song because the sermon text was the Beatitudes, which is a passage that has enough familiarity to lend itself to being cheesy in song form. However, after several days of pacing around my house and my office mumbling lines to myself, and about 15 minutes before church started on Sunday, I had a version that was complete enough to play. There were several people who asked me if I had a recording of the song, so I threw together something to post here.
Several people also asked me if we had a recording of Mother, and I realized that I haven’t mentioned that we are working on a recording of that to release in the very near future. But in the meantime, I threw together a demo of that song as well because people have been asking about it since 2017 or something and I haven’t delivered.
You’ll find the songs and lyrics below. (If the Soundcloud players don’t load, try these links: The World Is Yours; Mother)
Take care!
-Jamie
The World Is Yours
Blessed are
The withered ones out starving for a peace
Whose taste they’ve never known
Blessed are
The bearers of the shame of never quite
Becoming who they’d hoped that they would be
Blessed are
The ones who wake and plead
That their whole life this far was just a dream
Blessed are you
The world is yours
Blessed are
The bloodshot midnight mourners in the hall
Their whole world standing still
Blessed are
The bloodshot midnight mourners in the park
No one speaks their names
Blessed are
The ones who know the sting
Of the phantom limb embrace of love, removed
Blessed are you
The world is yours
Blessed are
The ones who cast their mercy to the wind
It goes where it goes
Blessed are
the ones who nurse a pain that’s
not their own
The meek amongst the wolves
Blessed are you
When the knife is in your back
And they’re calling for your head
To finally shut you up
And blot out what you said
about the way the scales are rigged
That’s how its always been
So just know you’re neither crazy nor alone
So lift up your head
The world is turning upside down
And as the tables fall, you’ll find you never left the ground
Behold the Great Inversion
Like a tide that lifts wrecked boats
Has risen from the heart of one
Who’ll never let you go
Mother
is there a hair on my head
you haven't numbered yet?
you haven't numbered yet?
in the night, crying in the cold
is there a pain of mine
you haven't called you own?
O Mother Comfort
Mother Known
though our minds so well ignore Your grace
You bring it just the same
You bring it just the same
we reside in Your self-giving love
but You've somehow found enough
for all the space that we take up
O Mother Wisdom
Mother Love
Mother Comfort
Mother Enough
through life and death,
that cradled set,
beginning and the end,
Beginning and the End,
You are a shield
a beacon of defense
and our weaknesses align
as You gather us in
O Mother Warrior
Mother Age to Age
Mother Wisdom
Mother Grace
Mother Comfort
Mother Love-that-can't-be-bought
Mother Faithful
Mother God
Mother God
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