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Seeking God at the intersections of

    Truth    

         Beauty

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Alex Kneen

Oakland Street


Painting by Ruthie Kellar


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Oakland Street

Lyrics and music by Alex Kneen


I lay in bed as if the world’s benign

In this hundred year old house, on a street that never sleeps

Except for Sunday mornings when the church bells ring out

Loud and clear to mark the time

And their sound calls out

To the righteous and the sinner just the same


I listen to the rain fall from the eaves

And the sirens and the thumping of the music down the street

And I’m surprised that through the noise my little boys

Who’ve seen and heard too much can sleep

While the rain drops down

On the righteous and the sinner just the same


I’ve heard the guns explode just down the way

And the stories of the blood that’s always crying from the ground

But the silence of the loneliness says more than all the fights

Beneath these blinding city lights

Still the light shines down

On the righteous and the sinner just the same

And I am just the same


Oh Oakland street you’ve seen your share of the wealthy and the poor

And addicts who have died caught in their endless search for more

You’ve sheltered thieves and murderers and dealers and their whores

But you are just like every heart that’s entered in the door

Of this hundred year old house that’s seen it all

Here between the loss and all the hope we dare to hold

And I wonder if we’ll ever see the light, or feel the rain

Or hear the bells, on Oakland street


And my soul cries out

For the righteous and the sinner just the same

For I am just the same

Oh God, look down

Save the righteous and the sinner just the same

Cause I am just the same

Oh I am just the same


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