Title track from the new Bloodlines EP "Holiness Cries" out July 26 on Facedown Records.
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Director/Videographer:
Toby Canning @ FilmCo
Produced/Mixed/Mastered:
Richard Wicander @ BlackBookSound
LYRICS w/ annotations:
Holiness Cries
Holiness cries, “I’m contradicted!
Patience and mercy have been despised.
Goodness grieves in agony!”1
For purity weeps when holiness cries.
Holiness cries from a secret within.
Our flesh embodies the life form of sin.2
I’ve been a slave to the screams of my mind.
Our vain desires of the wandering eye.3
I need to know You’re right here with me.
It’s crawling back I need to seek Your face.
When I look away, I see what’s in my head.
I need to know You’re right here with me.
I’m running back and now I see Your face.
Will You deliver me? With You I find my rest.4
I feel it creeping back again!
My error left me, and I feel the terror grow.5
I’ve turned to weeping what was meant for joy.
Deliverance (We need deliverance, I need deliverance!)
From our wandering eyes.
Why do I do the things that I hate?6
The sharp bite gives agony.7
Why do I do the things that I hate?
Please, Lord, deliver me!
Purify my way according to your Word.8
For I can do all things through Christ!9
Will You deliver me?
With you I find my rest.
1. Holiness, among the other attributes of God, cries out to the Father for justice in an anthropomorphic dialogue. Jesus willingly answers their cry by going to the cross, bearing all, and satisfying all - Isaac Ambrose. (1658). Looking Unto Jesus. p. 399.
2. Galatians 5:19-21
3. Psalm 119:37; Matt 18:9.
4. Matthew 11:28
5. Dante Alighieri. (1308~1321). The Divine Comedy 1: Hell [Canto xxxi - 39]
6. Romans 7:15
7. Dante Alighieri. (1308~1321). The Divine Comedy 1: Hell [Canto xiii - 101-102].
8. Psalm 119:9
9. Philippians 4:13