Words & Wishes

It'll be similar to Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2." I have the acoustic guitar part written and I think a howling electric guitar would sound great alongside. Like something Explosions in the Sky would play. This song is important to me because it applies to my friends, my family, even myself. Sometimes our words can be cruel and hurtful, but the words and lessons of the Bible will forever be pure.

Lord, I am a witness to hollow and crooked tongues

These wishes and words

Your nouns and your verbs

Are the oxygen for my failing lungs

Remind me, your words we believe

Remind me, your words that relieve

Remind me, your words

Abused and forgotten

Remind me how beautiful they sound

And how praises are heaven bound

Lord, love and Your Name

Now so casual, in debauched talk

The devil will leech at once holy speech

Do they know God is shelter, our rock?

Remind them, your words we believe

Remind them, your words that relieve

Remind them, your words

Abused and forgotten

Remind them how beautiful they sound

And how good news is spread around

Like a flag, under your wondrous presence I stand

Giving praises and run-on phrases that you easily comprehend

And when my prayers weaken like the blade of a blunt knife

You still hear me

Kind and unwearied

The shade of your favorite color coming to life

To confess is so seeming

Perched on pedestals with sins we commit

We chatter while we pray, deaf to what our hearts say

And weighted by wrongs that don't sit

Will we act upon what we admit?

Remind us, the unfailing love

Remind us, the innocent blood

Remind us, your son

Risen, almighty

Remind us on unstable ground

Where your words and your wishes are found