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Wrote this one day after I got home from Italy.

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These memories are etched so deep inside of my mind
that it's starting to draw blood
hold it tight my sister, won't you hold it tight my friend,
till our knuckles turn to white

We started out into the dark, we walked in cold wet shoes
and the thorns would catch our jeans
though we've all grown older, we've got to peel the scabs
to show the soft tissue of our hearts

We are all but lilies, picked from the field
Separated from the earth
But we have a purpose of beauty
So we're alive, yes we're alive

I've felt too scared to hope for better, my ambitions were too grand
but greater was His grace
Even though I've been drowning in a sea of endless blessing
All I could do was cling to straw

So we swam in tear deep stories, we sang in sorrow's song
but we breathed in heaven's air
See, people give a place a purpose, like leaves the wind a meaning
God is sunlight and we are windows

oh God I'm in the air
but my heart is planted on the ground
connected by veins stretched
to invisibility…
I'm so afraid to shut my eyes
cause it brings me to the place veiled by leaves
filtering sunlight like green, broken stained glass windows…
My church is the valley
and the towers are the mountains
Oh God Help me love….
Oh God help me love beyond the river
See I'm home sick but I'm not going home.

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from The Tree Beyond the Fire, released May 16, 2012
To everyone involved in SoM spring 2012

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Daniel and the Sparrows Chicago, Illinois

Daniel and the Sparrows is a Christian songwriter who uses music and storytelling to live and breathe his faith- "Show the world that we stand together broken but whole".

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