A spoken word and hook based on the single word "Joy" and wrapped in a retelling of the beloved Christmas carol, "Joy to the World."
Arranged, recorded, mixed, mastered, and additional lyrics written by Simeon Nathanael Davis.
lyrics
VERSE ONE:
Joy to the world
The Lord has come
Let earth receive her king
Let every heart
Prepare Him room
And Heaven and Nature sing
HOOK:
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
VERSE TWO:
Joy to the world
The Saviour reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
HOOK:
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
BRIDGE:
Joy.
A word seemingly chosen at random amidst the sordid squalor we squander our thoughts in.
From the abysmal dismal outlook we cast upon our day-to-day grind to the appalling blind eye we turn to a kind smile.
We are more than the shifting whims of a whimsically wind-swept shift in popular culture whose vultures lurch at every turn and keep you looking over your shoulder with doors half-open, half-closed looking for the newest definition of beauty from the eyes that behold you.
Since when has radical escapism even scathed the knee of radical change?
Since when has radical freedom come without radical cost or pain?
We take aim and pray we hit the right vein -
Not with bullets or knives but with that esoteric liberation game.
So raise a glass to the blood shed and praise the name of the one whose exile among us makes angels dance and demons' main occupational calling cause them fear and shame.
His hands and feet transparent from the damage we made apparent from Day One in the manger -
Away with this stranger with whom I dance!
A tango macabre with my cadaver,
Entranced as my rebellious actions sever and fracture into factions the loose reactions I claim as Invictus:
Self-determined satisfaction, and with this, the death of my innocence.
Oh that this grave truth was not the firstfruits of the grave our common ancestors dug and gave to us,
A strange inheritance, incoherently choking on the sweet nectar that marked the Eve of the downfall of the original parents
Crying out from bodies crippled, walking with Cains, for a heel that is Able to crush the head of the serpent we allowed to raise us.
And so he came:
Robed first in humility, but upon second with a mighty name etched into his side
As he rides on powerful strides with echoes of lightning and thunder beside.
So ask you of joy and I answer with majesty
Of status and I'll point you to selfless royalty without whom the course of history is a pessimistic menagerie of purposeless misdemeanors
Swaddled in self-proclaimed identity issues typed out haphazardly in comic sans.
And so Heaven and Nature can sing joy at the works of his hands:
A master plan not of devious indulgent whims
But of the benevolent brilliance of Elohim.
And so with the hosts above and the spirit within
Let us sing joy to the one whose death erased the power of sin.
HOOK:
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing
Heaven and Nature sing
Oh let Heaven and Nature sing.
credits
released December 23, 2020
Saxophone, violin, vocals, mixing, mastering, arranging, producing, and additional lyrics by Simeon Nathanael Davis.
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