by the way, is the list defunct?
Russell F
Old Testament
Jesus was a man with red blood
and brown hands
but that's not the end of the story
They got his father wrong
so he sang a new song
to rearrange the old glory
And Jesus found the lies
and he made from them the ties
that bind loving to forgiveness
And if you cannot see
then watch them make of him
an example, well that's their business
To suspend him as a man with red blood
and brown hands
But that ain't the end of the story.
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Fathers and their sons
often struggle the other one
and soon it leads to tragedy
The Father in his pride
takes the son aside and says
be careful do not defeat me
The son he may protest
it's what he does best
If he has no children to follow
All his arguments fall down
and his pleas are just a sound
That to the father ring hollow
The Father starts to hate
the son who will not wait
The son who wants his blessing
And he's beaten with a whip
and bound upon a ship
The wind and the storm are unceasing
>From a distance it may seem
that he's embracing all he dreams
But it's the mast, not his arms, that impress you
He travels through the world
as around the sun it curls
The very same son that warms you
The sun that with its eye
sees a time to die
and in the morning watch it rise for you
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Suspended as a man with red blood
and brown hands
How we hunger for this story
And like parrots on a perch
All the lords of the church
pronounce upon his glory
And if Jesus hears their lies
then he'll know that those ties
were too loose for their purpose
For a picture of the world
as around the sun it curls
only shows its surface
Nothing of a man with red blood
and brown hands
Who is only just part of a story
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