An excellent song I heard while visiting a friend’s church. Looking forward to introducing it at my own church.
Verse 1
Falling down upon our knees
Sharing now in common shame
We have sought security
Not the cross that bares Your name
Fences guard our hearts and homes
Comfort sings a siren tune
We’re a valley of dry bones
Lead us back to life in You
Verse 2
Lord we fall upon our knees
We have shunned the weak and poor
Worshipped beauty courted kings
And the things their gold affords
Prayed for those we’d like to know
Favor sings a siren tune
We’ve become a talent show
Lead us back to life in You
Verse 3
You have caused the blind to see
We have blinded him again
With our man-made laws and creeds
Eager ready to condemn
Now we plead before Your throne
Power sings a siren tune
We’ve been throwing heavy stones
Lead us back to life in You
(ENDING)
We’re a valley of dry bones
Lead us back to life in You
We’ve become a talent show
Lead us back to life in You
We’ve been throwing heavy stones
Lead us back to life in You
CCLI Song No. 4878333
© 2006 Bobby Gilles | Sojourn Community Church (Admin. by Robert E. Gilles, Jr.) |
Bobby Gilles | Brooks Ritter
Gay and Evangelical 
Dave,
I have a litmus test for worship songs, are there more first person personal pronouns than third person? This is not a hard and fast rule just helps to make one aware of the focus of the song. Ask yourself, who is this song about, me or Christ?
This is a good question…but realize that most of the Psalms would fail your test. I agree the focus should be on Christ…but songs of repentance which speak to God about our sins of self-sufficiency and extols Him for His works (causing the blind to see in v3, dying on a cross in v1) and using those works to compare our sin to His righteousness would seem to be in step with both the psalms and with the Pauline epistles. In view of such a strategy, the song would still seem to be about Christ and our repenting corporately to Him.