00:12The car keys are cold in my hand today I keep looking at the driveway like it is a map
00:18I walked three blocks before I realized I was barefoot The asphalt feels more real than my own thoughts
00:24More real I have not spoken a word since Tuesday morning Just watching the clouds move across the state line
00:33And the wind is picking up the fallen leaves Everything is shifting in the yard I am finally starting to
00:41hear the rhythm
00:42It is that grace that still calls me home An unyielding current pulling me back to the start
00:53I do not have to earn the peace I am feeling now Do not have to earn it
01:01It is the only sound in this quiet town The only sound
01:07There is a glass of water on the kitchen table The sunlight is hitting the rim just right
01:13I spent so long trying to fix the broken hinges Forgetting that the door was already open for me
01:20I am not running from the person I used to be I am just walking toward the light by the
01:28front door
01:28And the air feels different in my lungs tonight Everything is settling into place I am finally starting to feel
01:37the rhythm
01:37It is that grace that still calls me home An unyielding current pulling me back to the start
01:49I do not have to earn the peace I do not have to earn the peace I am feeling now
01:54Do not have to earn it
01:55It is the only sound in this quiet town
01:59Quiet town
02:02I do not have to earn it
02:11What?
02:12I do not have to earn the peace
02:31I do not dare to send the peace I am fond
02:32I do not have to learn the peace I am feeling now
02:37It is the only sound in this quiet town
02:45Walking back to the porch
02:47I am finally here, finally here
03:22The ground beneath my feet is cracked and dry
03:29I have walked this path for many miles
03:34My hands are heavy from the weight I carry
03:42Waiting for a sign of the turning tide
03:47But even in the silent, a stirring in the earth
03:54I am standing on the promise of God
03:59Standing on
04:02It is the rock that will not move
04:09Through the winter and the scorching heat
04:15You are the word that stays the same
04:20Always the same
04:22I am standing on the promise of God
04:27The seasons change like the shifting wind
04:34Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is a veil
04:41But I do not need to see the destination
04:47To know that the road is held in your hand
04:54Faith is the anchor when to remain upright
05:00What was night, what was night, what was empty is filling up
05:04Filling up
05:05What was broken is made whole
05:08Made whole
05:08Hope is rising from the dust of the veil
05:11Rising up
05:12Every word you spoke is coming
05:14Yes it is
05:15Every word you spoke is my solid ground
05:20I am standing on the promise of God
05:25It is the rock that will not move
05:33Through the winter and the scorching heat
05:40You are the word that stays the same
05:45Always the same
05:46I am standing on the promise of God
05:53I will not be moved
05:56Standing right here
05:59In the promise
06:01In the promise
06:25Up the stony path he wanders
06:29Bearing wood and bearing shame
06:31Every step a heavy silence
06:35Every breath a call for grace
06:38The road is long and thick with briar
06:41The hill is high and hard to climb
06:45Yet he walks for every brother
06:48And he walks for all of time
06:52Mercy written on the timber
06:55Pardon for the weary soul
06:58Mercy written high upon the rugged mountain
07:02Love has come to make us
07:05Come to make us whole
07:07Make us whole
07:08It is finished in the valley
07:11It is finished on the height
07:14Bringing home the wandering children
07:18Turning darkness into light
07:22Hammerings against the morning echoing across the land
07:28As the sun of ancient promise lends the world his healing hand
07:34See the sky turn dark as iron
07:38Hear the hills begin to weep
07:41For the life that gave its power
07:45For the life that gave its power
07:45To the promise we must keep
07:48Mercy written on the timber
07:52Pardon for the weary soul
07:55Mercy written high upon the rugged mountain
07:58Love has come to make us whole
08:01Make us whole
08:02It is finished in the valley
08:05It is finished in the valley
08:07It is finished on the height
08:11Bringing home the wandering children
08:14Turning darkness into light
08:17Death is blood a passing winter spring is rising in his blood
08:21From the dust and from the ashes flows the healing of the flood
08:25Every dead is washed in water every heart is called to home
08:29By the mercy on the timber
08:30By the rolling of the stone
08:32Make us whole
08:38Mercy written on the timber
08:41Pardon for the weary soul
08:44Mercy written high upon the rugged mountain
08:48Love has come to make us whole
08:51Make us whole
08:52Bringing home the wandering children
08:55Turning darkness into light
08:59Mercy written on the wood
09:01Mercy
09:02Mercy written on the stone
09:04The stone
09:06Amen
09:08Intro
09:15Grand piano playing warm major ninth chords
09:20Upright bass enters with a slow rhythmic walk
09:26Brushed snare drums provide a light shuffle
09:32The sun moves across the wood floor
09:39Where the dust settles in the light
09:45You are here in the silence
09:50Just as the morning begins
09:54Without making it
09:56You are here
09:57Last night the wind was loud
10:02Shaking the glass in the frames
10:10I thought the wood might splinter
10:16But the day came back anyway
10:22Your hand was on the latch
10:28Keeping the cold out of the room
10:32Holding the door
10:33Melodic piano solo with bluesy inflections
10:40Supple ham and organ swells in the background
10:46People come and they go
10:52Taking their promises with them
10:57Leaving a space where they once stood
11:03But the ground under my shoes
11:06Is heavy and it is heavy and it is certain
11:11I do not need a loud sign
11:18Or a voice from the clouds
11:23I only need the way the air feels
11:30When I wake up and breathe
11:35You are the one who stays
11:41When the rest of the world moves on
11:46The one who stays
11:48Piano fades slowly on
11:50A B B major seventh chord
11:53Bass takes the final mo note
11:56The Lord who never fails
11:59Never fails
12:01Right here
12:03Right here
12:05Right here
12:07I felt the weight of the world
12:19Pulling at my worry bones
12:22I was lost in the deep
12:29With nowhere left to go
12:35But then the air began to change
12:39And I felt a warmth around my soul
12:43I am lifted by everlasting hands
12:48Lift higher
12:50Up above the valley and the dry land
12:55To the Lord
12:57Your power is my resting place
13:03Your love is where I stand
13:10Everlasting
13:12When held by everlasting hands
13:17No more fear in the dark
13:22You are the breath inside my lungs
13:25I can see the mountain tall
13:32The victory has already come
13:38I don't have to fight alone
13:46The battle is already won
13:51The battle is already won
13:52I am lifted by everlasting hands
13:58Lift higher
14:00Above the valley and the dry land
14:05I am into the light
14:07Your power is my resting place
14:14Your love is where I stand
14:20Your love is where I stand
14:21Everlasting
14:22And held by everlasting hands
14:28You won't let me fall
14:31You won't let me fall
14:32No you won't
14:32You won't let me break
14:34No you won't
14:36You are the rock that stays
14:38Through every single way
14:43Through every single way
14:44I am
14:48I am lifted by everlasting hands
14:55Your power is my resting place
15:01Your love is where I stand
15:03Everlasting
15:05I am lifted by everlasting hands
15:11Held so tight
15:13To have them
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