Holy & True Blues

An assignment for seminary students in Psalm class this summer was to create a contemporary psalm using any of the categories we studied. They could write it alone or team up and use any medium to communicate their psalm. These three men became PSALT, PSALT, and PEPPER and wrote the music and the lyrics to HOLY & TRUE BLUES. 

HOLY & TRUE BLUES

(A Psalm of Lament)

Written and arranged By Matt Fisk, Harold Benns and Richard Harrison

 

I FELL INTO A PIT
DUG BY MY OWN HAND
I SPENT MY DAYS A BUILDING
CASTLES MADE OF SAND.

BUT THE LORD IS MY REDEEMER
ALL PRAISE TO HIM IS DUE
UNTO HIM ALONE I LIFT MY CRY
EVERY TIME I GET THE BLUES

CHORUS

HEAR ME O LORD
I’VE PLAYED THE FOOL
THOUGH I’VE GOT THE BLUES
YOU’RE HOLY AND TRUE.

UNWORTHY OF YOUR LOVE
UNRIGHTEOUS IN MY WAYS
I SPEND MY NIGHTS COMPLAINING
ON HOW YOU’VE TURNED AWAY.

BUT YOU COME AND STAND BESIDE ME
UPHOLD ME WITH YOUR HAND
THROUGH MY WEAKNESS YOU’RE MADE PERFECT
AND I’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND.

CHORUS

MY DAYS WERE DARK
I COULDN’T SEE THE WAY
THOUGHT MY LIFE HAD ENDED
LIKE SHEEP I’D GONE ASTRAY

SPENT MY NIGHTS A CRYIN’
MY HEART WAS BROKE IN TWO
THEN I CRIED OUT YOUR NAME
NOW I’LL NEVER BE THE SAME

CHORUS

Pat Pickett, OblSB

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