a phrase you've probably heard all your life

To Be Born. Track nine from the latest album: https://youtu.be/t5x2OGYBQ60

This is one of my favorites from the latest album that didn't get a lot of focus during release.  I studied the story of Jesus and Nicodemus (John 3) for days trying to find a way to sing about the incredibly well known and often co-opted phrase 'born again’.  But I felt like there is no way to distill it any further or to add to it.  The idea of being born again.. the very foundation of faith.. just has to exist in its plainness and its mystery.  Images of water and sky help but I find that mostly I just need to sing it or pray it. Everyday. 

-Eric

TO BE BORN:

when the earth was a void 

when the waters were bleak                  

i believe you were there 

you were over the deep

and i need you here now

in the dead of the night 

hover over my soul

desperate and dry      

oh to be washed in your love  

oh to be born from above               

real life breathed within

to be born

oh to be born again  

i believe in you jesus 

all your works can be seen

how you bend to the lowly 

and the bound can be free

so i lay my soul bare

nothing veiled from your eyes  

i confess i am helpless 

give me breath or i die

i can feel your cleansing touch    

here as i bow before thee

i can feel a brand new heart

here as your love restores me