(Everything Is) Holy Now - Danny Byram

If I were God, I'd blind the youth The gnawing weight of final night To all the pain that hides in truth Unwilling, I have been fed to life Bellowing for just a crumb Static in the constant hum To drink from life's flowing stream Poisoned Upon loss Upon loss, we're reminded of hell Existence of pain and free will Denial A cancer that eats at the shell Lost forever Loss Upon loss lives denial Upon loss, how can I move on now? Are you washed in, in the blood? (Are you washed in the blood?) It sinks in its teeth It comes for us all (I can't see the roots of his shadow) Are you washed in, in the blood? It comes for me in the dead of night In the dead of night I was visited by death again Upon loss Everything is quiet now!

When I was a boy, each week On Sunday, we would go to church And pay attention to the priest He would read the holy word And consecrate the holy bread And everyone would kneel and bow Today the only difference is Everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now When I was in Sunday school We would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two Jesus made the water wine And I remember feeling sad That miracles don t happen still But now I can t keep track Cause everything s a miracle Everything, Everything Everything s a miracle Wine from water is not so small But an even better magic trick Is that anything is here at all So the challenging thing becomes Not to look for miracles But finding where there isn t one When holy water was rare at best It barely wet my fingertips But now I have to hold my breath Like I m swimming in a sea of it It used to be a world half there Heaven s second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now Read a questioning child s face And say it s not a testament That d be very hard to say See another new morning come And say it s not a sacrament I tell you that it can t be done This morning, outside I stood And saw a little red-winged bird Shining like a burning bush Singing like a scripture verse It made me want to bow my head I remember when church let out How things have changed since then Everything is holy now It used to be a world half-there Heaven s second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now

I'll disappear, in you In the fire, in you Thailand, Tetra The dream of the sea You and me Is everything Is everything Everything is everything Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here I am an island More human than you Detached from the sea Uselessly Deny existence Flawed of everything And everything is everything Everything is everything Everything is everything Everything is everything Everything Is everything Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here Get me ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou Ou-ou-out of here

I sought the Lord and afterwards I knew He moved my soul to seek Him seeking me It was not I that found no Savior true No I was found of Thee Though didst reach forth Thine hand and mine enfold I walked and sinker not on the storm vexed sea It was not so much as I on Thee took hold As Though there Lord on me I find I walked I loved but oh the whole Of love is but my answer Lord unto Thee For Thou would long before and with my soul Always though lovest me. Though lovest me Though lovest me Always Though lovest me I sought the Lord and afterwards I knew He moved my soul to seek Him seeking me It was not I that found no Savior true No I was found of Thee