Carrie Newcomer - Abide lyrics

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Ft. Parker J. Palmer

(Verse)

I will bring a cup of water, here's the best that I can offer

In the dusk of coming night, there is evidence of light

With the patterning of the rain, let us bow as if in grace

Consider all the ways we heal and how a heart can break

(Chorus)

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty

Please abide with me and we' ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me we' ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining, sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now

(Verse)

Let us ponder the unknown, what is hidden and is whole

And finally learn to travel at the speed of our souls

Raise a little water, a spirit cutting through

Always changing, always making all things new

(Chorus)

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty

Please abide with me and we' ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me we' ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining, sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now

(Instrumental break)

(Verse)

There are things that cannot prove and still somehow I know

It's like a message in a bottle that some unseen hand has thrown

You don't have to be afraid, you don't have to walk alone

I don't know, but I suspect that it will feel like home

(Chorus)

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty

Please abide with me and we' ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me we' ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining, sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now