Lazarus

I can't sing that song the same way anymore

Cause I start laughing at the parts where I could only weep before

And it sounds sweeter now because the notes can't ring

Until they echo through each wasted year that you restored to me

I've been thinking of how you wept for lazarus

Tears on your cheeks, resurrection on your lips

Sometimes mercy can feel like abandonment

But you know all about it

I used to think I had to write these songs just so

For heavens sake and for my own I put myself through hell

But I quit striving for perfection; surrendered up to it instead

And now the songs keep pouring out and I cannot contain myself

I've been thinking of how you wept for lazarus

Tears on your cheeks, resurrection on your lips

(Broken will)

Sometimes mercy feels just like abandonment

(Find your rest / broken voice)

You let my heart die, but left yours beating in my chest

(You sing best)

At 30, 000 feet above, the earth was small enough

To think of everyone I love

And then imagine them a thousand mirrors

All reflected back at once

And any light would multiply and then remind me

That your love is more than the sum