Gates Sway_lyrics.txt

[!intro]
(there was a time i believed)
(the gates would never budge)

[chorus]
take and eat
take whatever’s left over
the cross is a table
_ROUND WITH EQUALITY_
nobody’s thrown under it yet

i’d hurled darkness at them
now they sway open like my palms

i said to jesus "it’s too late"
my bones are ache made flesh
scars are just earth
remember how SEEDS split stone

the bread is still breathing
even after i let it drop
i told jesus face-to-face the stains were permanent like ink
it's like he said my wounds are maps not chains
Jesus' bread’s still warm
EVEN IF HE BORE HIS HANDS HOLDING IT

take and eat take and crumble
take the edge and dull it into the water of life
his voice says "take and eat"
 >you can’t swallow your own throat~!

scars won’t close
let them breath like a cut
that learns the shape of healing

don’t need fists to meet the world
only raised in prayer to heaven
catch the spills of others
who think they’re spilling too much

the cross nails holds all the sin that refuses to rust
you think the nails are punishment but they’re hooks
_TO HANG YOUR HEAVY HEART ON_
hang my failures there

[pre-chorus]
the cross hangs heavy
it learned to hold the weight that refuses gravity
the light’s a fire too
consuming with wrath and justice

[chorus]
take and eat
take whatever’s left over
the cross is a table
_ROUND WITH EQUALITY_
nobody’s thrown under it yet

when you think you’ve lived too long
and the bread’s grown too cold
bite it anyway and find
the yeast of forever promises

never die
never bend
never break
we’re all too full but starving for what we can’t yet chew on

take and eat whatever stays after the last bite
the holy is in the grip of the hand that passes bread

[ending]
this is the faith that feeds on missed chances
where even delay becomes a verb with infinite tenses
never die
never die
never die