Job's Lament-Don Francisco

[ti:Job's Lament] [ar:Don Francisco] [al:Genesis And Job] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Job's Lament - Don Francisco [00:09.14]Man who is born of a woman [00:11.54] [00:13.30]Flowers and then fades away [00:15.37] [00:17.57]He flees like a shadow at sunset [00:20.27] [00:21.53]In a lifetime as short as the day [00:24.25] [00:25.60]And there is hope for a stump that is severed [00:28.87] [00:29.87]Though it's root grows old in the earth [00:33.13] [00:34.21]At the first scent of water it wakens [00:37.20] [00:38.71]And branches come out in new birth [00:41.28] [00:42.90]But man he lies down and where is he [00:45.63] [00:46.86]The mourners they grieve and they weep [00:49.53] [00:51.02]But from then till the end of the ages [00:54.05] [00:55.35]He will not awake from his sleep [00:58.06] [01:02.05]But oh that my pain would be written [01:04.60] [01:05.96]With lead and a steel pointed pen [01:08.61] [01:10.26]Forever engraved into granite [01:12.95] [01:14.12]That my words would endure to the end [01:17.16] [01:18.31]And though the cry of my heart goes unanswered [01:21.24] [01:22.74]When the breath flees away from these bones [01:25.94] [01:26.79]In my grave I will wait in this knowledge [01:30.02] [01:30.84]In my flesh I will see you alone [01:34.08] [01:35.58]Yes I know I shall see god my savior [01:38.33] [01:39.94]I will look on him just as he is [01:42.40] [01:44.28]And at last we will stand here together [01:46.85] [01:48.23]For I know my redeemer lives [01:54.69] [02:07.37]Now my days they go by like a runner [02:10.26] [02:11.60]Like ships driven hard by the wind [02:14.58] [02:15.78]Like an eagle that swoops on it's quarry [02:18.64] [02:19.97]They rush to my death at the end [02:22.99] [02:24.23]Though I wash me in crystal clear water [02:27.05] [02:28.07]Though I cleanse all my fingers with lye [02:31.41] [02:32.63]In the fierce holy light of your presence [02:35.53] [02:36.86]My uncleanness will stink to the sky [02:39.76] [02:40.94]Turn away then your gaze and your terror [02:44.02] [02:44.90]Till I go to the darkness unseen [02:48.05] [02:49.67]For you're not like a man I can answer [02:52.74] [02:53.81]And there's no one to stand in between [02:56.76] [02:58.22]There's no one no one to stand in between [03:02.79] [03:07.08]But oh that my pain would be written [03:09.45] [03:10.95]With lead and a steel pointed pen [03:13.47] [03:15.11]Forever engraved into granite [03:18.04] [03:19.16]That my words would endure to the end [03:22.15] [03:23.43]And though the cry of my heart goes unanswered [03:26.82] [03:27.96]When the breath flees away from these bones [03:30.34] [03:32.06]In my grave I will wait in this knowledge [03:34.88] [03:35.98]In my flesh I will see you alone [03:39.18] [03:40.32]Yes I know I shall see god my savior [03:43.32] [03:44.76]I will look on him just as he is [03:47.52] [03:48.95]And at last we will stand here together [03:52.05] [03:53.10]For I know my redeemer lives [03:56.51] [03:57.38]Yes I know my redeemer lives [04:06.48] [04:19.21]Man who is born of a woman [04:22.03] [04:23.22]Flowers and then fades away [04:25.73] [04:27.30]He flees like a shadow at sunset [04:30.40] [04:32.61]In a lifetime as short as the day