Searching through Noise Trade I tend to find great artists that I would have never encountered. Yesterday I came across Vincent James and I have been listing to his EP all morning! Powerful harmonies and strumming patterns that remind me of Judah and The Lion truly brings life from music. Typically on first pass the musical arrangement is what truly awakes a desire to return to the album again then I tend to find the lyrics to be even more powerful! This song exemplifies that process as this powerful duet captures the ear and then his powerful motifs about how life that arises in the dawn.
Hallelujah
I can just start to see the light
and this wilderness below
that we had come to know has given light, given life, given hope.
Praise the Lord for the dawn! The night seems so dark, we feel lost in ourselves, lost in our minds, lost in our sin. Then the hope of light enters into the picture but as we talk about the dawn we do not speak of the full brightness of a midday sun. We are talking about as the light penetrates the dark and allows clarity, hope, and the promise of the future to slowly grow. I feel like I live my life in cycles of night and day when I am truly tuned into the leading of the Holy Spirit and when I can not seem to find any path because of my own blinded eyes. Praise the lord for the dawn that he picks us up from our slumber, replacing our shame with grace, replacing our brokenness with hope, and replacing our stony hearts with hearts of flesh!
I awoke before the dawn
and the dark wild night is clinging to my eyes
I was scared to make a sound
I went forth into the morn
In my own two feet
they felt the ground beneath trembled for the coming joy
Hallelujah
I can just start to see the light
spent so long in the dark we have forgotten who we are
praise the lord for the dawn
Distant dreams foggy fields
With my own two eyes I swore them to come alive
dying world giving life!
I stood still as the storm and the sun lashed low on these tired and weary bones
shed the darkness for light
Hallelujah
I can just start to see the light
And this whole wide earth longs for rebirth
Praise the lord for the dawn
Every beast, every bird
Well they came out from their caves
the dark and weary days
it all but withered to the ground
we can out from the woods
and the morning light spread like the wildfire and we danced with a joy we've never know.
Hallelujah
I can just start to see the light
And this whole earth came awake like a dead man from the grace
Praise the Lord for the dawn
Hallelujah
I can just start to see the light
and this wilderness below
that we had come to know has given light, given life, given hope.
All is Great in the Kingdom of God
Paul Shackelford