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Cornerstone

from In Tangible Company by No Stranger

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lyrics

O Jesus!
Are you near?
For the children sing
with no fear.
Weekly I have found myself
wondering if there is a hell
after all.

I'll maintain this charade
so long as they keep
their tilted heads at bay.
Inquisitive arms across their chests.
Oh my God!
Can we just change the subject?

Saint Francis softly sings
a melancholy melody,
for no one is listening
to his treatise on humility
passed on at last.
Don't be so quick to pat my back.

I swallowed my pride just for the taste.
Somehow my hunger was satiated
or at least abated
by the choir praising God above,
joyful in their boundless love.

It's not about me
but the love that I see
between their hands
in the passing of the peace.
Hands that brush together
like the ones that I remember
in the darkened sanctuary
after hours.
I was sixteen when I fell in love
for the very first time
and tore at my chest
for every subsequent lie
we told ourselves
every Sunday morn
and evenings afterward.
I nearly killed myself trying
to admit I couldn't love her.

O Memory!
Why won't you leave me be?
Is there something on my skin that makes me
taste so sweet
like this bloody wine
I just cannot bring myself to drink?

With Francis I will sing
a faint, forgotten harmony,
for I have found in me
a lyric worth remembering
from when we were
young and unreserved.

O Jesus!
Are you near?
For we sing with no fear.
Regardless if I've felt your hands,
I am clean and full again.

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from In Tangible Company, released July 13, 2018

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