You Are My Deepest Place

from Songs Of Resistance & Comfort Vol. I by fugitive music

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I came across a section in Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God that begins with 'You, the gentlest of ways'. His language opened up a possibility for me; an example of fresh and descriptive imagery. Some of the lines in this song directly reference the concepts he writes about, e.g. the silent song we sing, the yearning we never lose.

The first line (and original idea) of the song came from a prayer, accompanied by an image in my mind's eye of the geological foundations of the earth: the bedrock, the firmament, the core of the planet.

I've heard people associate the concept of falling (‘away’, ‘from grace’) with distance from God. But the very space and fabric of existence itself is God. The very bottom of the chasm in which we fall is God. There's no depth that hasn’t already been plumbed, that hasn’t already been experienced and somehow processed into transformation.

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You are my deepest place
You are my underground, you are my foundation
You are my deepest place
No matter how far I fall, you are there deeper still

You are my wide embrace
When I was broken down, you held me and healed me
You are my wide embrace
When my world is crashing down, you are my refuge

Awaken the dawn, and take back the night
Awaken my soul, and set me on fire


You are my yearning pain
In the deepest part of me, I’m longing for you
You are my yearning pain
You’re the silent song I sing, the longing I’ll never lose

Awaken the dawn, and take back the night
Awaken my soul, and set me on fire


Awake, awake my soul
Love is here to hold

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from Songs Of Resistance & Comfort Vol. I, released March 7, 2015

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