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PRAYERS
IN TIME track 9
Open doors
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If something good is to be done, it will usually be because we take responsibility to meet needs of others.
The only track on Prayers in Time which is entirely a family affair: son and daughter Joel and Emma sing harmony vocals, and Adam played keys and produced and mixed. Also in part a homage to Simon and Garfunkel. Adam describes the lightweight production as if we're just sitting round in the living room with a couple of guitars, like the times Joel and I have sat singing The Boxer or April Come She Will.
Lyrics
The
Web we wove for wonder caught
the faces of our
fears—
images flashed on our screens,
sound streamed in our ears
like doors that open out upon a
world without relief
from the empty eyes of hunger,
the bitter voice of grief.
It
is the landscape of the
victims of the lies we can't defend
we turn to our amusements and our
families and our
friends—
the doors cannot be closed now
that we've seen what we
have seen
and we've heard the words of
Jesus and we know what
now mean—
Open
doors to those in suffering and loss,
waking to our world in the shadow of the cross:
never shirk from our commitment as you never shirked
from yours
to meet the crying need we see through open doors.
Onto
the refugee whose crime was
to be born in the
wrong place,
to the moment's inattention that a lifetime won't erase,
to the prisoner of conscience being tortured just for fun,
to the children drinking water that will kill them one
by one;
onto
the rude and awkward neighbour who needs a loving friend,
to the smiling wife and mother's secret cancer of the brain,
to the bullied anorexic who has gone from losing hope
to the end of her tether to the end of a rope.
Open doors…
The
doorway opens out on the agendas of the hour—
shameless priests and politicians trade their principles for power
each beaten-down minority walks on through hate or pain
till the tables in the temple are turned over once again.
If
we turn from the doorway we are turning to despair—
it takes time, it takes talent, it takes money, it takes prayer:
what was good for the Samaritan is good for everyone
who can't do everything for all but who will do something for some—
Open doors...
Credits
Words and music by Godfrey Rust
Godfrey Rust lead vocal, acoustic guitars
Emma Nixon, Joel Rust backing vocals
Adam Rust keyboards, synth bass, drum programming
Recorded by Adam Rust and Godfrey Rust
Produced, engineered and mixed by Adam Rust
Co-produced by Godfrey Rust
Mastered by Denis Blackham