Andrew Steven

Help Me Name This Song

I need your help. I’m stuck. I’m not sure what the name of this new song should be. I have a few ideas, but I’d love to hear yours as well.

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Here are the lyrics:

I’m a dead man walking on holy ground
looking for anchors to hold me down
trying to find some life among the dust
glimpses of gold beneath the rust

my dry bones are thirsty
these lungs need new air
I’m craving an ocean
that flood walls won’t bear

Chorus:
this life is not my own
my blood is not the only
blood that’s pumping through my veins
replace my heart and soul
take everything I know
so only You remain

not who I am or what I do
will thin the distance between me and you
and mountain tops where earth and sky collide
won’t bridge the gap or thin divides

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Where Earth & Sky Collide

Over the past few months I have been working on writing and recording a new collection of songs. In the midst of a move from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, and after a particularly difficult year, I found myself processing a lot of things, learning to forget others, and finally figuring out some (hopefully)…

There’s an old Celtic saying that says that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but there are a few thin places where that distance is even smaller. I’ve also heard stories of sherpa’s climbing Mount Everest, offering prayers of protection and favor as they believed they were literally scraping the border between heaven and earth. The poetic side of me loved this imagery, and I soon became convinced that our job, our goal, was to find and create these thin places… But thinking like this gets you trouble. 

We don’t will ourselves closer to God. 
He’s already with us. 
The gap has already been bridged. 
The distance has already been thinned. 

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