My first song to write completely on piano, so don't judge me.

Inspired by Psalms 25: The psalms in this area of the book seem to me as if they were written while David was on the battlefield - there's a lot of rhetoric about deliverance, battle, death, enemies, victory. So, I imagined a soldier at the brink choosing to either get up and live or stay still and die. As he chooses to get up, he begins to feel an unworldly warmth and pull for him to continue on. This is a feeling that I personally can identify with. In times of great struggle, at last humbling and submitting my body and my spirit to the One who holds this whole thing together, I have felt an unknown strength in and around me, helping me to stand, or giving me an unexplainable peace in the midst of darkness.

Lyrics:
this rocky soil supports my body
crashing symbols overhead
and new fires ignite beside me
the frozen air suspends my breth
my fingers numb and body bloody
and my vision painted red
months of battle, cold and lonely
soon they'll come collect the dead

feel the beating of my heart
it's like a drum, it's like the dawn
the sun it rises on the hill
to take me home
from this moment, I can start,
I can crawl or I can run
I feel the pounding in my heart
you'll take me home

there is no promise I will make it
on my own, my feet will fail
but I'll keep running from this valley
you'll be the wind blown through my sails

you are the only thing that keeps this body feeling
this is my history, my future, and my healing

7-in-7 (1): Take Me Home

50% of The Reliques. Married to a man with many nicknames. Mom to a very bad doodle.

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