Yellow Eyes

from worn souls by Brittni Carey

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5. Yellow Eyes

Brightly suited daffodils standing in a row
watching as the sorrow grows.
Outside smiling, inside dying, they look down their nose
at the worms in the dirt down below

Down below, oh how can they know
what it feels like to live like this?
So it's not theirs, no it's not theirs to condemn
When there's a love that is stronger than them

But I look and see my jaundiced reflection in a shimmering desert sky:
Yellow eyes which love to despise
Oh hypocrite! I'm no better than the rest
I'm corrupted more than anyone would guess...

O Jesus, won't you come and turn this order on its head?
Make me a vessel of compassion instead
of this proud and this vain consumer of the poor
In your grace you have promised us more

Oh like a cross, and forgiveness, and life evermore
Oh like a cross, and forgiveness, and life evermore

So it's not mine, no it's not mine to condemn
when there's a love that is stronger than
So it's not mine, no it's not mine to condemn
when there's a love that is stronger

(written and performed by Brittni Carey: worn souls © 2014)

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from worn souls, released July 3, 2014

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