The Ground Gives You Away
Cinematic Dramatic Intro
Verse
I came in carrying a weather system
Guilt at flood stage, rising past my chest
Every vow I meant had lost its footing
Every prayer came waterlogged with regret
Still You drew me past the outer doorway
Gave my hunger somewhere it could sit
Mercy didn’t ask me for a clean version
You made room and covered all of it
Pre-Chorus
You buckle mountains into place
Lay one palm across the waves
When the crowd becomes an ocean
You conduct what no one tames
Chorus
The ground gives You away
Rain-dark roads, the fields awake
Hills pull green across their shoulders
Valleys wear the grain You gave
Your wheels spill plenty down the roadbed
Every root comes up with news
The ground gives You away
All the earth is loud with You
Verse
You pencil rain across the forecast
Thread the furrows, wake the seed
Clouds drag silver through the daylight
Till the hardpan starts to breathe
You soften every ridge with showers
Sweeten tracks the wagons leave
Pastures button up in white wool
Valleys wear their gold and sing
Pre-Chorus
You buckle mountains into place
Lay one palm across the waves
When the crowd becomes an ocean
You conduct what no one tames
Chorus
The ground gives You away
Rain-dark roads, the fields awake
Hills pull green across their shoulders
Valleys wear the grain You gave
Your wheels spill plenty down the roadbed
Every root comes up with news
The ground gives You away
All the earth is loud with You
Bridge
Dawn comes in on copper cymbals
Dusk bows out on violet strings
Every border of the daylight
Turns its color into singing
Final Chorus
The ground gives You away
Rain-dark roads, the fields awake
Hills pull green across their shoulders
Valleys wear the grain You gave
Your wheels spill plenty down the roadbed
Every root comes up with news
The ground gives You away
All the earth is loud with You
Extended Instrumental
Outro