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I recorded this track as an impromptu at the end of a recording/rehearsal session on my mom's Steinway grand piano. Like with Science of Sonorous Mass, Pt. 6, I had the Book of Common Prayer open to a Psalm, and improvised both the playing and singing simultaneously.
Because of its length, I decided it best to release this as a single.
lyrics
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for You, O God.
My soul is athirst for God, yes, for the living God;
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long they say to me, "Where now is your God?"
I pour out my soul when I think on these things:
how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God,
with the voice of praise and thanksgiving,
among those who keep holy day.
Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?
And why are you so disquieted within me?
Put your trust in God; for I will yet give thanks to Him,
who is the help of my countenance and my God.
My soul is heavy within me;
therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan,
and from the peak of Mizar among the heights of Hermon.
One deep calls to another in the noise of Your cateracts;
all Your rapids and floods have gone over me.
The Lord grants His lovingkindness in the daytime;
in the night season His song is within me
a prayer to the God of my life.
I will say to the God of my strength,
"why have You forgotten me?
And why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?"
While my bones are being broken, my enemies mock me to my face;
All day long they mock me and say to me;
"Where now is Your God?"
Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?
And why are you so disquieted within me?
Put your trust in God; for I will yet give thanks to Him,
who is the help of my countenance and my God.
Give judgment for me,
and defend my cause against an ungodly people;
deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked.
For You are the God of my strength;
why have You put me from You?
And why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?
Send out Your light and Your truth that they may lead me,
and bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling;
that I may go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy and gladness;
and on the harp I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God.
Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?
And why are you so disquieted within me?
Put your trust in God; for I will yet give thanks to Him,
who is the help of my countenance and my God.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for You, O God.
Psalms 42 and 43, translation from the Book of Common Prayer as used by the Episcopal Church.
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