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Room at the Table - Words and Music by Carrie Newcomer
©2014 Carrie Newcomer Music (BMI)

From the 2014 album "A Permeable Life"
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FULL LYRICS:
Let our hearts not be hardened to those living on the margins
There is room at the table for everyone
This is where it all begins, this is how we gather in
There is room at the table for everyone

Too long we have wandered, burdened and undone
But there is room at the table for everyone
Let us sing the new world in, this is how is all begins
There is room at the table for everyone

There is room for us all, and no gift is too small
There is room at the table for everyone
There's enough if we share, come on pull up a chair
There room at the table for everyone

No matter who you are, no matter where you're from
There is room at the table for everyone
Here and now we can be, the beloved community,
There is room at the table for everyone

There is room for us all, and no gift is too small
There is room at the table for everyone
There's enough if we share, come on pull up a chair
There room at the table for everyone

Let our hearts not be hardened to those living on the margins
There is room at the table for everyone
This is how we gather in,
There is room at the table for everyone.

Carrie Newcomer's music has always explored the intersection of the spiritual and the daily, the sacred and the ordinary. Over the course of her career she has become a prominent voice for progressive spirituality, social justice and interfaith dialogue. Her ability for sharp observation of the world lead the Dallas Morning News to rave, "She's the kind of artist whose music makes you stop, think and then say, 'that is so true.'" She has been described as "a soaring songstress" by Billboard, a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and Rolling Stone has declared that Newcomer "asks all the right questions." Author Barbara Kingsolver wrote, "She's a poet, storyteller, snake-charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace."