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Here we come, out to meet you
at the edge of the forest
as a child we see you

A hesitation, your trembling hand,
and though you're scared to come along
you find you just can't turn away and run
and so we take you in our arms
to make you as his son

We don't know where the roads of life begin or end
or if the signs we see will lead us to the places that we planned
maybe somewhere down the road we'll find
some of the houses here were built on sand
but it doesn't matter
for still we gather
to follow the command
and ask that he lead you by his hand

Your mother's mother will make a sign
and I will sing this song for you just as if you were mine
and we will walk and talk together
until we reach the river shore
that can make your body shiver from the cold
but with a fire that can reach down to your soul

Maybe one day they will ask us why we ask so much of one so young
and all we'll think to say is “that's the way it always has been done”
but there's something deeper
'cause in the eyes of the believer
before you were only a creature
and now we make you as a son
that one day we all may be as one

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from The Growing Season EP, released October 5, 2013

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Jon Michael Swift State College, Pennsylvania

I interview people and write songs about them....among other things

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