Here are the lyrics of another song by Terry Scott Taylor of the bands Daniel Amos, Lost Dogs and Swirling Eddies. With it being Easter week, I thought it would be fitting to post this particular song, which features the hope of resurrection for “all creation groaning for the day of deliverance.”
With the Tired Eyes of Faith
Terry Taylor (http://www.danielamos.com)
(c) 1995 Broken Songs, from the Swirling Eddies album “The Berry Vest of the Swirling Eddies”
There’s your hope
Nailed to the wood
There’s your dream
Buried in the ground
Here’s your body
Battered, bloodied and broken
Here’s your peace
Teetering on the edge of the world
You’re kneeling somewhere in the middle
Of the passion play
But with the tired eyes of faith
You’ll see your resurrection day
Feel the dust
Clogging up your veins
There’s your secret
Burning in the fire
Here’s your heart
Cold, lonely and desperate
Here’s all creation
Groaning for the day of deliverance
Your name is carved here in the headstone
The sky is thick with birds of prey
But with the tired eyes of faith
You’ll see your resurrection day
Resurrection day will come
As surely as the rising sun
Death will fight a holy war
But it will live no more
Love will even the score
Resurrection day
Here’s your trust
Betrayed with a kiss
There’s your courage
Thrown to the lions
Here’s your soul
Soiled, tattered and thread bare
Here’s you love
Cast out and shunned like a leper
You’re kneeling somewhere in the middle
Of the passion play
But with the tired eyes of faith
You’ll see your resurrection day
You’re kneeling somewhere in the middle
Of the passion play
But with the tired eyes of faith
You’ll see your resurrection day
Hi Douglas,
Wow, that brings back memories. I hadn’t really followed DA since Alarma back in, wow, the early 80′s. Just did some quick surfing & it looks like I missed a lot. Yah, they were (are?) really unconventional. Thanks for the pointing this out.
Hi Steve,
If it’s been that long since you followed DA, my first recommendation is to buy the double-CD called “Mr. Buechner’s Dream”. Every song cuts to the heart with some profound mystery of God or man. Some songs don’t make much sense to me until, sometimes years later, a line will hit me for no apparent reason and I catch a fleeting glimpse of something really profound.