Saturday Song lyric

Thought that I'd do something a little different for my blog, and post a song lyric each weekend (and mostly Saturdays). I like the Chesterton quote below (which provided some shape to the song I chose for today).

"I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, to remind men they are not dead yet"
GK Chesterton.

So for the first one, I thought that I'd use one of the newer songs on my I-pod, and chose one from Andrew Osenga's Letter to the Editor, Vol II. Andrew Osenga was the lead singer of the band the Normals, and more recently has been playing with Caedmon's Call. Letters to the Editor was a project that Osenga did where he asked people to contribute and he used these to form the basis of songs. The first collection was released early 2007 with a "pay what you want" type arrangement, and this week the second project was made available under the same arrangements. The song I've chosen is Let Us Know You, which is the final song the EP. Andrew Osenga is a storyteller, and his lyrics are personal, humble and revealing of both himself and human nature. (Needless to say I'd recommend downloading and listening to the EP)

(where does my help come from)
 

my friends have sent me letters
I've read them all and then
I've tried to make sense of the stories
but I was overwhelmed

so much anger, so much pain
we've had to go numb to survive

so I'm closing my eyes
and I'm praying for those in my life
let us feel, let us love
let us be alive, let us know you

my friends have shared their secrets
and I have given mine
the anarchy of what we think
no one will ever find

in the daylight, to our surprise
our secrets are shades of the same

so I'm closing my eyes
and I'm praying for those in my life
let us feel, let us love
let us be alive, let us know you

in the beginning was the Word,
and the word was with You
You parted the seas
held up the flame in the night to guide us through
You drew in the sand
dropped the stones from violent hands
heard the cry of the crow
and set Your eyes on a faithless friend

You are who You are, and You are and You were and will be

so I'm closing my eyes
and I'm praying for those in my life
let us feel, let us love
let us be alive, let us know you

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 And when Osenga, wrote about the song in the booklet, he spoke about the below quote.

"I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the
same secrets, which are both very telling, and very important to tell.
They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the
central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps
more than anything else is to be know in all our humanness, and yet
that is often just what we also fear more than anything else".

Frederick Beuchner - 'Telling Secrets'