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From This Place

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lyrics

A meditation on Mary Magdalene’s emotional landscape on the day she goes to anoint Christ's body, from the moment she wakes in the morning to her epiphany at the empty tomb.
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Early
I wake in the dark
Shell-shocked dreaming awake
I see you on a cross

My feet touch stone-cold earth
As I fall out of sleep
And wander towards your tomb
––
Early
sunlight cannot pierce this darkness
It only shines on your tomb
It only shines on where the stone is gone

My feet touch stone-cold earth
As I run from this place
To tell the others you loved
That now no one knows where you are
It wasn’t bad enough we had to watch you die
But now even your body is gone
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Weeping I stare into your tomb
And find two angels there
Who ask me why I weep

And I wonder if they want to hear the story of my life
The deadness that I’d carried before I met this Christ
My aloneness in hiding from the hurts that I’d received
My fearfulness in not knowing now in whom I could believe
But even as my mind is racing now I sense behind
I turn around to find a man is standing by my side
He asks me why I weep and who I’m looking for inside
I ask him if he’s taken the body of my Christ…

He answers me by speaking my name

And I know who he is
And he asks me to go
He asks me to tell you
That he is alive
And I stand on this earth
And I run from this place…

My feet touch stone-cold earth as I run from this place

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from From This Place, released April 15, 2009

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Force of Nature, Deanna's bold, new recording featuring the adventurous music of Mary Lou Williams, is available at mcgjazz.bandcamp.com/album/force-of-nature

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