DESCRIPTION:
This is a song I wrote in April 2011 based on the familiar passage found in James 3 about controlling the tongue. This version is part of a little impromptu late night living room concert down in Grants Pass, Oregon on August 18, 2011. My amazingly talented friend, Nick Garrett-Powell joined me with some fantastic accompaniment.

Lyrics:
Help Me Get It Right

I find myself tripping daily
Over words flung from my over active tongue
It flip, flops and then just keeps on flapping
Long after talking should be done

So please help me, O Lord
To get it right somehow
In spite of me
May your love and mercy
Be what comes from my mouth

Even when it's not easy
Even when someone's hurt me, done me wrong
Help me swallow my foolish pride, Lord
And learn to bite my tongue

For with my tongue I praise you
O God, my friend and savior
Yet with the very next breath curse my neighbor
This will never do

Help me bridle my tongue
Keep guard on my lips
May what proceeds
From my mouth always be
Filled with love and holiness

James 1:26, 3:1-12

Copyright © 2011 Dawson Cowals.