Take It Like A Lamb

from Songs From Exchange by Phil Wright

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Never before have there been such massive displacements of peoples throughout the world. Staggering numbers of men, women and children wearily migrating from disaster to another, often driven from their homes through the effects of corruption and greed as manifested in political and military unrest, social devolution or ecological disasters.
This song came out of a season of postcolonial studies--learning to hear the voice of those whose identities have been buried--and often literally--in the remnants of colonial structures. In the Exchange, we were learning how to love our neighbours as we came alongside new Canadian women and war effected children. I am equating Jesus with “the least of these” in our world; those whose lands, homes, and very identities have been washed away with the acidic scourge of ethnic hatred and corporate greed. Come Jesus--heaven and earth cry out against the injustice. And we too raise our song.

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I’ll trade you tinsel for your land
I’ll teach you words to understand
And for your crops and for your herds
I’ll teach you meaning for those words
I’ll take your grain and sell you bread
I’ll sell you fears to fill your head
And when the sun sets on your youth
I’ll take your children’s lives too
Come Jesus, come Lord Jesus
Come Jesus, take it like a lamb
Come Jesus, come Lord Jesus
Come Jesus, take it like a lamb

You struck me something must be done
I’ll get myself a bigger gun
I’ll shoot you right between the eyes
You’ll see me coming, then you’ll die
I’ll chase you to the very end
Nobody’s coming home again
It’s not about who’s right or wrong
History’s written by the strong
Run Jesus, run Lord Jesus
Run Jesus, run young lion, run!
Run Jesus, run Lord Jesus
Run Jesus, run young lion, run!

Up from the earth we raise our song
The earth herself sings along
Her branches raised in one plea
“Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy...”
Come Jesus, come O hunted ones,
Come Jesus, rest among us
Come Jesus, come O wounded ones,
Come Jesus, heal among us
Come Jesus, come O homeless ones,
Come Jesus, live among us
Come Jesus, come Lord Jesus
Come Jesus, rise among us

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from Songs From Exchange, released January 10, 2009

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