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The House Where No One Spoke

from Heart EP by Andrew Osenga

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The House Where No One Spoke

Like most of my favorite songs of my own, and this is one of my all-time favorites, I still don't really know where this all came from. I just know I love it and believe in every word of it.

We want so desperately to feel some control that we kill the things we say we love. But we have no control over anything but our own response to the madness of the world.

It is kindness, after all, that accomplishes what anger and armies and manipulation and money never can. Kindness changes us. The fruit of the Spirit growing within us and changing is love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against these things there is no law, there is only mercy, forgiveness, trust and redemption.

Lord, let me be someone whose heart reaches out with kindness rather than grasps tightly to not lose control. I don't have it anyway.

This was recorded in the middle of the night at my daughter's art table in our basement, which used to actually be a studio, but, courtesy of one of those floods, is now a play room.

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The House Where No One Spoke

I had a dream that I woke from my sleep
in a house where no one spoke
it lay on the border between two great nations at war
there were land mines and barbwire, flags shot to pieces
a staircase of ancient white oak
one word could unravel the cease-fire so words were no more

the fight had raged so long
that no one remembered
the way it had begun
and all those Decembered sad years
ache for the words
that would let the war be done

what a dream, what a scene, now a crowd filled the streets
so desperate to have some control
they burned their own buildings, drank their own poisons, and still
still they clung to their vices; their beds, wine and dice, yes,
the lovers who'd never say no
while the demons just lapped up the sadness till they had their fill

a heart can grow so old
from taking its beatings
that hope is hard to hold
and if love's just a feeling, the fear
is that there are no words
that would let the war be done

the people craved peace, the people craved rest
but all of the things that they'd done had left them
buried by shame in the rubble of fear
angry at what they'd become

but in the smoke of the ashes
at the cross of the great divide
there appeared brave men and women
who dared to break the silence

with

kindness
words of kindness
real, true kindness
with its healing touch
risking forgiveness and trust
kindness

it was kindness, after all
sweet fruit of the spirit
where love threw seeds to fall
and gave ears to hear it's sweet song
that spoke the words
and let the war be done

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from Heart EP, released March 18, 2014

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