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Abide - Music by Carrie Newcomer, Lyrics by Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
From the 2014 album "A Permeable Life"
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©2014 Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer (BMI)

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FULL LYRICS:
I will bring a cup of water, here's the best that I can offer
In the dusk of coming night, there's evidence of light
With the pattering of rain, let us bow as if in grace
Consider all the ways we heal and how a heart can break

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty
Yes, abide with me, and we'll pass the the evening gently
Stay awake with me, and we'll listen more intently
There's something wordless and remaining, sure and ever-changing
In the quietness of now

Let us ponder the unknown, what is hidden and what is whole
And finally learn to travel at the speed of our own souls
There is a living water, a spirit cutting through
Always changing, always making all things new

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty
Yes, abide with me, and we'll pass the the evening gently
Stay awake with me, and we'll listen more intently
There's something wordless and remaining, sure and ever-changing
In the quietness of now

There are things I 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 hope

Oh, abide with me where it's breathless and it's empty
Yes, abide with me, and we'll pass the the evening gently
Stay awake with me, and we'll listen more intently
There's something wordless and remaining, sure and ever-changing
In the quietness of now.

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."

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