Escalators
from O Voice, O Word by John Daniel Raines
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lyrics
When we looked at first it seemed
that the world had slipped away,
that all the angles, lines and curves
had vanished with the day.
And we were orphans, we were drifting
in a darkness like the sea,
and we mourned our own existence,
hoping it would prove to be unreal.
And so we sang, "We are hanging like a mist above the sea.
Into a cloud we will gather, and when we fall we shall be free."
But when we looked again, it seemed
that the dark began to pale
and the shroud we thought had blocked the sun
was a thin and tattered veil.
And though at first it seemed
that we'd been birthed astride a grave,
though the fall had bruised our heels,
we had landed somewhere safe.
And so we sang, "We are looking through a piece of clouded glass
for we are standing at the window of a house that will not last."
And we will sing for resurrection like the gulls that cry for sea,
And in the morning when we'll be gathered, when we rise we shall be free.
that the world had slipped away,
that all the angles, lines and curves
had vanished with the day.
And we were orphans, we were drifting
in a darkness like the sea,
and we mourned our own existence,
hoping it would prove to be unreal.
And so we sang, "We are hanging like a mist above the sea.
Into a cloud we will gather, and when we fall we shall be free."
But when we looked again, it seemed
that the dark began to pale
and the shroud we thought had blocked the sun
was a thin and tattered veil.
And though at first it seemed
that we'd been birthed astride a grave,
though the fall had bruised our heels,
we had landed somewhere safe.
And so we sang, "We are looking through a piece of clouded glass
for we are standing at the window of a house that will not last."
And we will sing for resurrection like the gulls that cry for sea,
And in the morning when we'll be gathered, when we rise we shall be free.
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from O Voice, O Word,
released September 18, 2014
Music by John Daniel Raines and Andrew Ryan Shepherd
Lyrics by John Daniel Raines
Music by John Daniel Raines and Andrew Ryan Shepherd
Lyrics by John Daniel Raines
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John Daniel Raines Chicago, Illinois
John is a musician living in the suburbs of Chicago. When not making music, he spends much of his time finishing nursing school, writing poetry and contemplative essays, mulling about his church, and smiling at people, or else looking very intently at them. ... more
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Sep 2014
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