When the Saints Go Marching In - Nathan Connelly

[7in7 is a community of songwriters and artists boldly taking the challenge of writing seven complete songs in seven consecutive days.]


CREATION'S SONG // Steve Mielke

We’ve set our hope
In you alone
Please draw us close
To your heart
   
Our flesh and bones
Cry out for home
So draw us close
To your heart

So we join our voices with creation’s song
To the One who was and is and is to come
So let our weakness be the way You make us strong
And the young, the old, one day will sing along

VERSES

So we join our voices with creation’s song
To the One who was and is and is to come
So let our weakness be the way You make us strong
And the poor, the rich, one day will sing along

BREAK
CHORUS

And the poor, the rich, one day will sing
And the lost, the found, one day will sing along

7in7 Day 1: "Creation's Song"

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OFF MY HANDS // Steve Mielke

A sunrise – a sunset
A day to remember
Or a day to forget/regret

A sunrise – a sunset
My eyes are open
Unless I forget
  
You’re the only one who understands         
I can’t get this blood off my hands
I can’t get this blood off my hands

But in a world where everything is dying
You came back to life again
You came back to life again

7in7 Day 2:  "Off My Hands"

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SEARCHING FOR A NAME // Steve Mielke

You can help me when I am heavy hearted
You can rescue me - you can set me free
But our great divorce - like an ocean between
You can seem farther, than when we started

We're all searching for a name
With all our differences - the same
Written on our hearts
that beat with the same blood of our Father

We're all searching for a name
With all these differences to blame
So hold us all together in your arms
and show us who we are

For you know the plans you have for me
Can you show me them, so then I'd believe
'Cause in a day like this it's hard to see
My heart is harder, than when we started

So hold us all together...

7in7 Day 3: "Searching for a Name"

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Middle // Steve Mielke

7in7 Day 4: "Middle [Instrumental]"

I was at Dell Children's Hospital this morning with my daughter Mia.  She was getting an MRI of her brain - this is just one of the many test she has had over the last few months.  Sitting in the waiting room, the idea for this song came, as these last few months have kind of felt like we haven't really left "the waiting room" as Doctors search for answers, draw blood, give scans, take tests - and we're still waiting for an answer to what is going on with our little girl.  It's still missing something, but it's done enough for now.  

[7in7 is a community of songwriters and artists boldly taking the challenge of writing seven complete songs in seven consecutive days.]



THE WAITING ROOM // Steve Mielke

Sitting in this waiting room
I'm not in control of this
I'm not in control of much

Looking for an answer now
But more likely questions
Like the time before this

We've been on hold
We've been in slow motion
Sitting in our waiting room for so long

We've been on pause
For too long
But here we sit now in our waiting room again

The glow of these fluorescent lights
All these hard plastic chairs
Disinfectant in the air

Sympathetic smiles from passerbys
I can't wait to get out of here
Anywhere but here

So I'll wait for you here
When you wake up I'll be there my child 
I'll wait for you here 
When you wake up I'll be there my child

7in7 Day 5: "The Waiting Room"

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LET US BE // Steve Mielke

Thank you for being close to
those once so far from You and
Thank you for showing how to love

Father to fatherless sons
The hope to the hopeless ones
Our God and King, to You we sing

Let us be a people marked by gratefulness
Let us be a people found in faithfulness
Let Your Church carry Your hope
To the lost, but not alone
So let us be…