"The Story"; words and music by Leah Galyean Martens © 2017
Featuring Leah Martens on lead vocal and guitar
Kelsie Adesoye and Katherine Guido-Respicio on additional vocals
Michael Respicio on drums
Lyrics:
The questions are swirling
My mind keeps unfurling them all before me
Cloaked in the mystery
Of faith and of history, I call You toward me
You feel real, but just beyond
My reach. I’m lost in the longing.
You teach me to ask and to seek,
So I stand here pleading
Tell me the Story again
I need to hear the beginning, the end.
Won’t You tell me the Story again
Of love and divinity, clothed in a friend.
Oh, Tell me the Story anew,
Remind me the ways that
You’re weaving our sorrows
In something more lovely and true.
Tell me the Story.
Help me to see once more You.
The eyes you have opened,
The hearts you’ve emboldened I do remember
The moments of stirring, when
Spirit is whirring, rekindle tender
Hope: it’s fragile, but somehow
I know there’s more than I see here and
So, to whom else could I go
For I’ve heard your words
Sop: Help me to see you... (repeat)
Ten: Open up, open up my eyes to you...(repeat)
Alto: Help me, Help me, Help me See You... (repeat)