DESCRIPTION:
words and music by Jonathan Rundman
http://www.jonathanrundman.com
cp 2000 Salt Lady Music (ASCAP)
download the studio version of this song at http://jonathanrundman.bandcamp.com/track/ashes
Original studio recording appears on the 2000 album Sound Theology
Remixed version appears on the 2012 album Jonathan Rundman

i got ashes on my forehead
and i'm trying hard to learn
this dust that i have started from
is where i shall return
and i will follow out of love
'cause there is nothing i can earn
i got ashes on my forehead
and i'm trying hard to learn

sometime in the dead of winter
this Wednesday rolls around
we got purple on the altar
we got snow upon the ground
and this world starts spinning slower
and we sing some quiet songs
facing our mortality
and all that we done wrong

forty days in the wilderness
forty days on the ark
driving home this evening
i can still trace the mark
everybody sees the big sun setting
everybody rides the hearse
yeah, but you can't build up nothin'
'til you knock down somethin' first