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O God

from Covenant by Derek Sup

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In that place where no one dared to go, I’d been with you.
The struggle clear, we powered through those nights through those three years.
The anguish, pain, I’ve seen it all before.
I’ve been alone so long with you
And now I can’t seem to break through.

O God, help me keep my head up.
I’m just trying to keep above the water;
I’ve been short of air to breathe.
O God, help me to see no misery.

They say it takes a year to get back on your feet again.
Til then, I'll drown this empty void with God, liquor, and sex.
I'll sing these hymns, though smitten with a plague,
'Cause inscribed in every page is your name.
I love you Jesus, Grace, my flame.

O God, help me keep my head up.
I’m just trying to keep above the water;
I’ve been short of air to breathe.
O God, help me to see no misery.

See the river, see its beauty;
Blues reflect pirus glean yellow sun.
Float in peace til I am done.

See the vulture, no will to kill.
Wait, take the scraps of life that no one wants.
He’s digging through garbage death has bought.

See the salmon swim against the current
brainlessly til his flesh rots,
His last dying wish to come on rocks.

Ripe blackberry stab intruders,
Sacrifice his own who are in reach,
The blood of his children stain the thief.

Fucked up river, see its horror,
Infinite death loop from which no one’s free.
You float on unceasingly.
I want to float unceasingly.
Dead to you is dead to me.
I’ve not much to do but wait on spring,
And in that time I’ll learn to sing,
How to float unceasingly.

O God...

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from Covenant, released September 15, 2017

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