This is a new song I wrote over the weekend, to play at a concert at the Barking Legs Theater. Sorry about the bootleg recording, but I happen to think my wife did a fantastic job with the iPhone voice memo app (grin)…
Faces
Have you seen the face of Suffering
A common face, ordinary, plain
Yet somehow familiar to the human race
Moving through the crowd Humanity
He stops one man walking dully by
All the other faces turn away and smile
Careless of their brother, they move on awhile
But as faces come and faces go
Turn around a moment, ask him what he knows
Make him tell you why it must be so
There has to be a reason–hold onto him, don’t let go till he tells you so…
Have you seen the face of perfect Peace
Disfigured face, brutalised and maimed
Difficult to look on, lovely all the same
His beauty spoils the following:
Loneliness, despair, and heavy shame
But like a treasure hidden–hidden in a field of pain
The guilty go on looking, desperate for his face
And as faces come and faces go
Turn around a moment, ask him what he knows
Make him tell you why it must be so
There has to be a reason–hold onto him, don’t let go till he tells you so…
He’ll tell you that you have to see him to believe
That his face of suffering is the face of peace
Only eyes open wide see the loveliness inside
But you have to be near–so near–for the beauty to appear
Through the painful tears…
So as faces come and faces go
Turn around a moment, ask him what he knows
Make him tell you why it must be so
There has to be a reason–hold onto him–
And as faces come and faces go
Turn around a moment, ask him what he knows
And he’ll tell you why it must be so
He has to give a reason to hold onto him, not let go…he won’t let you go…
thegreatknock 