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i still remember clearly as if they were here today
the strangers with the tidings of messiah on the way
the long awaited savior born in humble dire straits
an infant still unknowing of the trial that awaits

i laid aside my pattern and grabbed my shepherds staff
and hastened then to follow in that word-marked angels path
i found him where they said he was amidst the sheep and cows
and before him and his father and his mother i did bow

he was
born to

hold back the night hold back the night
set everything aright
the son of god is coming to the world

hold back the night set heart and soul alight
the son of god is coming to the world

i longed for him to break the roman yoke from off our back
for vengeance to our enemies and wealth to fill our lack
the chosen unmolested while the others live in fear
the promises would happen now that our messiah's here

we looked to find a general but a healer found instead
and the yoke that he was lifting was the one inside our head
acceptance for the outcast healing for the blind
forgiveness for the fallen with no one left behind

he was
born to

hold back the night hold back the night
set everything aright
the son of god is coming to the world

hold back the night set heart and soul alight
the son of god is coming to the world

and eventually they killed him for speaking truth to power
religion and the government both slew him in that hour
but the words with which they scourged him came back at them instead
their weapons shown as useless when god raised him from the dead

but all that it was later than the story i now tell
of a child born to lift us from the pit in which we fell
and through the dark we struggle bound by forces that we fear
the nightfall can be canceled by the savior who is here

he was
born to

hold back the night hold back the night
set everything aright
the son of god is coming to the world

hold back the night set heart and soul alight
the son of god is coming to the world

the son of god is coming to the world

the son of god is coming to the world

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from Songs From Nowhere (Volume 2: The Only Way to Build is to Tear Down), released December 17, 2012

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