I MUST show you all this song, its been on repeat on my itunes/mp3 player/car for 24 hours now. Its called “When the Saints” and is by Sara Groves [http://www.saragroves.com/store/tellmewhatyouknow/lyrics/whenthesaints/]. There is a sam­ple on her web­site, you can buy it on itunes or you can get it from p2p/bittorrent (what­ever floats your boat). Here are the lyrics:

When The Saints

by Sara Groves

lord i have a heavy bur­den of all i’ve seen and know
it’s more than i can han­dle
but your word is burn­ing like a fire shut up in my bones
and i can’t let it go

and when i’m weary and over­wrought
with so many bat­tles left unfought

i think of paul and silas in the prison yard
i hear their song of free­dom ris­ing to the stars

and when the Saints go march­ing in
i want to be one of them

lord it’s all that i can’t carry and can­not leave behind
it all can over­whelm me
but when i think of all who’ve gone before and lived a faith­ful life
their courage com­pels me

and when i’m weary and over­wrought
with so many bat­tles left unfought

i think of paul and silas in the prison yard
i hear their song of free­dom ris­ing to the stars
i see the shep­herd moses in the pharaohs court
i hear his call for free­dom for the peo­ple of the Lord

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i see the long quiet walk along the under­ground rail­road
i see the slave awak­en­ing to the value of her soul
i see the young mis­sion­ary and the angry spear
i see his fam­ily return­ing with no trace of fear
i see the long hard shad­ows of cal­cutta nights
i see the sis­ter stand­ing by the dying man’s side
i see the young girl hud­dled on the brothel floor
i see the man with a pas­sion come kick­ing down that door

i see the man of sor­row and his long trou­bled road
i see the world on his shoul­ders and my easy load 

cho­rus

Okay my favourite lines in the song are the ones in bold. It just a per­fect pic­ture of the redemp­tion. Brooke Fraser did an AMAZING ver­sion of this at colour con­fer­ence, and I really hope it is on her new album (although I don’t think she would release a cover song).

Its been a while since my last post, and I promise updates com­ing soon (Fri­day at the lat­est) — and I promise detail!!

Tagged as Brooke Fraser, college, Jesus, Redemption + Categorized as Culture, Music