Pilgrim’s Image — by The War Scroll — ★ 4.25 — #Banjo #DesertBlues #Sitar #AppalachianFolk #ExperimentalSoul #SacredIndie #HandDrums
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Lyrics
Intro
Tzelem Elohim
Tzelem Elohim
Open my eyes
Teach me to see
Verse 1
Before the labels and the arguments
Before the lines that people draw
Before we sort the world in categories
You knew the breath inside us all
Dust of earth and breath of heaven
Life awakened in Your hand
Every stranger every neighbour
Carries something You have stamped
Pre-Chorus
Slow my judgment
Guard my tongue
Teach me how Your love is done
Chorus
Tzelem Elohim
Your image in the stranger
Your image in the neighbour
I don't understand
Tzelem Elohim
Teach my eyes to see them
Every human standing here
Still bears the Maker's hand
I don't have to understand
Everything to understand
That every life before me
Still bears the Maker's hand
Post-Chorus
Tzelem
Tzelem
Image of God
Image of God
Verse 2
Signs get broken
Names get whispered
Rumours travel through the town
Fear can build a thousand fences
Where compassion should be found
But Yeshua walked toward people
Others hurried to avoid
He could speak the truth with mercy
Without stripping human worth
Pre-Chorus
Quick to listen
Slow to speak
Give me courage to be meek
Chorus
Tzelem Elohim
Your image in the stranger
Your image in the neighbour
I don't understand
Tzelem Elohim
Teach my eyes to see them
Every human standing here
Still bears the Maker's hand
Bridge
If I disagree
Let me still love
If I am wounded
Keep me from hate
If I am misunderstood
Keep my heart soft
If someone stands alone
Teach me to make space
Breakdown
Before the argument
Image remains
Before the politics
Image remains
Before the rumours
Image remains
Before the labels
Image remains
Final Chorus
Tzelem Elohim
Your image in the stranger
Your image in the neighbour
Your image even there
Teach us how to recognize
The sacred weight of human life
Tzelem Elohim
The image still remains
Outro
Tzelem
Savlanut
Shalom
Open my eyes
Teach me to see
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