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However consoling our beliefs, we cannot escape contradiction and loss...
Some psalms leap from hope to despair and back even in consecutive verses. “Healing touch” plays out this split personality, with voices of faith and doubt (the latter in italics above) arguing it out side by side in the theologian’s head.
The song juxtaposes a "faith voice" with some of the most reassuring words from the bible (based on John 16:33, Matthew 6:33-4 and Isaiah 55:9) against a "doubt voice" with a catalogue of riddles and irresolvable paradoxes of Christian theology adapted from sonnets 14 and 15 of my poem “The sailing of the ark”.
The chorus lyric was written by Illa Poppat. The passage beginning “Our days are like grass” is adapted from Psalm 103, 15-16.
lyrics
LYRICS
(Words outside brackets are first "faith" voice
Words in brackets are second "doubt" voice)
I can (can I?) feel the touch of your presence
I can (can I?) feel the touch of your presence
healing me,
you are (are you?) healing me
You say "The world is full of trouble
as the sun shall rise and fall
but in me you have peace that passes understanding
I've overcome it all—
yes I've overcome it all"
(And here's the plain good news
if only I could understand it
you died immortal
and bring peace with a sword,
you come not to judge but judge
where first is last and poor is rich
and fools are wise—
speaking plainly we are freed into complete subjection
where the only way to live is to die)
I can (can I?) feel the power of your presence
I can (can I?) feel the power of your presence
healing me - what does it mean to heal me?
you are (are you?) healing me - nobody lives forever
You say "Don't worry about tomorrow,
let it worry for itself
but do what is good and seek my kingdom
and all shall then be well—
yes all shall then be well"
(Father, Son, Spirit, riddle of the one-in-three,
how could you be wholly God and wholly man?
King of a world ruled by someone else,
uniting us to live apart,
you're the God whom we believe and we don't believe,
that's the simple gospel truth.)
You say "As high as are the heavens
beyond your human gaze
so far are my thoughts beyond your understanding,
my ways above your ways."
(Still the old, familiar puzzle—
good God and a wicked world.
Why did you choose to lose the power and control?
How should we comprehend this suffering God
who kills us with his endless love
and blesses his beloved with freedom's curse,
and the bittersweet gift of doubt?)
I can (can I?) feel the touch of your presence
I can (can I?) feel the touch of your presence
healing me,
you are (are you?) healing me
Our days are like grass,
we flourish like the flowers of the field.
The wind blows over us, we are gone,
our place remembers us
Prayers in time constantly
crossing the bridge to eternity
credits
from Prayers in Time,
released May 18, 2018
Godfrey Rust: vocals
Adam Rust: keyboards, synth bass, drum programming, electric guitar
Daniel Corbett: electric guitar
David Fitzgerald: saxophone
"Prayers in time" chorus vocals: Neena Caperna, Laura Fontanills, Joel Rust
Recorded by Adam Rust and Godfrey Rust
Produced and mixed by Adam Rust
Mastered by Denis Blackham
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