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Take the Knee

from Hymns for Nomads by David Benjamin Blower

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lyrics

Take the knee ye weary souls
Though the song of empire rolls
Subject to no woman or man
Only to the Maker’s hand

Take the knee ye cast aside
‘Gainst the powers that pass ye by
Take the knee before the one
Who watches over ye and them

Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
When God shall judge between us all

Take the knee ye suited powers
Scoffing from thy glassy towers
Ye, who think ye masters, see…
Y’are but servants before He

Take the knee ye conquerors all
Who live and die by strength and sword
All ye take shall be returned
And ye shall see another Lord

Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
When God shall judge between us all

Take the knee ye silver tongues
Who print the pages and spin the yarns
For ye shall not forever stack
Your lies upon the people’s backs

Take the knee ye merchant lords
Who sit upon the wealth of all
Which comes and goes at thy behest
Take the knee, open thy chest

Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all

Take the knee, and keep the ground
From the schemes of the unsound
Who, for nought but easy gain
Would tear creation up again

Take the knee by river and lake
Against the coiling black snake
Who, for nought but want of more
Would poison sea and sky and soil

Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all

Take the knee, for to contend
For the image of God in them
Whom the powers hath kept outside
For, your peace and theirs are tied

Take the knee ye faithful ones
For the grace to be daughters and sons
of the Maker of thy enemies
take the knee and pray for these

Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all

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from Hymns for Nomads, released May 21, 2018

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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