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Songs of Silent Light by Kiradawea
Runner Up for May 2010
Quiet you with my song
Come to me, those tired with the world.
Come to me, ye weary of the heart.
Rest in my warm embrace.
Soothe your wracked mind
Calm your stormy soul.
Be quiet now. Sleep in peace.
I'll quiet you with my song,
exalt you on high with my love, with my love.
I'll quiet you with my song
Keep your soul safe, with my love, just my love.
Come to me, and share with me your fears.
Come to me, and I will take your burden.
Lay your head down,
on my shoulders.
Be still my child.
Rest a while.
I'll quiet you with my song,
exalt you on high with my love, with my love.
I'll quiet you with my song
Keep your soul safe, with my love, just my love.
And I'll quiet you with my song
exalt you on high with my love, with my love.
And I'll quiet you with my song
exalt you on high with my love, with my love.
And I'll quiet you with my song
exalt you on high with my love, with my love.
I'll quiet you with my song.
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Few words
Spoken:
Standing before the brightness of Light, I let my words be few.
Sung:
I have seen the beauty, that words cannot describe.
So I let my words be few.
As I stand in burning valor, I let my words be few.
Holding out to grant salvation, I let my words be few.
Whispers of mercy hallowed, I let my words be few.
In the court of just indignation, I let my words be few.
Spoken:
Simple is the word. Powerful the message.
The word to heal, and not to destroy.
The word both true and kind.
The word to change our world.
Sung:
As I stand in burning valor, I let my words be few.
Holding out to grant salvation, I let my words be few.
Whispers of mercy hallowed, I let my words be few.
In the court of just indignation, I let my words be few.
Spoken:
I love
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One day
How peaceful and calm my heart feels here
An echo flowing endlessly through time, heart and space
This is what my heart desires, where it wants to be
To spend just one day in this place
One day in this memory
One day in this long lost hope
Is all I ever seek and want
To spend just one day in this place
One day in this memory
One day in this long lost hope
Is all I ever seek and want
My last request, of yielding grace
To feel this dream just one last time
That is my hope, that I will one day know
What I did was not to be for naught.
To spend just one day in this place
One day in this memory
One day in this long lost hope
Is all I ever seek and want
To spend just one day in this place
One day in this memory
One day in this long lost hope
Is all I ever seek and want
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Alone
Above all leaders
Above all lords
Above idols and conceived ideas
Above struggles and the needs of them
I stand alone
Above all sorrows
Above all joys
Above imperfection and fears
Above faithlessness and relics of the world
I stand alone
A sacrifice, victim burned alone
Betrayed and left alone
Without help or support
I took the fall
Yet stood up tall
Without aid
Above all leaders
Above all lords
Above idols and conceived ideas
Above struggles and the needs of them
I stand alone
Above all sorrows
Above all joys
Above imperfection and fears
Above faithlessness and relics of the world
I stand alone
A sacrifice, victim burned alone
Betrayed and left alone
Without help or support
I took the fall
Yet stood up tall
Without aid
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The last prayer
Spoken:
The power of endless courage.
The grace of true sacrifice.
The love of divine mercy.
The justice of exalted illumination.
Sung:
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
Spoken:
May the principles
of true virtue
carry you when you are weak
and make you strong in the face of adversary
May you walk
a path of justice wrought
and wisdom sought
May hope bring you forward forever.
Sung:
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
Spoken:
Loved and faithful
be your days
and joyful be your soul unto eternity
Your spirit shine with glory
In majestic valour
And power wrought by virtue.
Through an ecumenical faith, forever.
Sung:
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
May hope always follow you
May happiness and peace exalt your heart
May faith and wisdom guide your every act.
Amina