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Wide Open Door

from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012 by James Hersch

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This Saturday I'll attend a funeral for Sadie Ann, a woman I didn't know well. I'll play some hymns on the guitar and meditate on our end time with others. When I don't have first hand grief blocking my funeral meditations, when a life has been lived fully and it's a send off, I'm refreshed by the clarity of it all. I see it as a gift, how easily I come to belief. That's where my song went this week.

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Number Fifteen, April 12th, 2012

Wide Open Door

Things we know, things we call fact
Things every eye can see
We take for truth, take for granted
Take ourselves so seriously
There's a big old world of other things
Deep inside the mystery
If I'm honest I don't really know
Best I can say is I believe

Sadie Ann, you're gone through a wide open door
I believe... that's what we're all heading for
We're moving along

When breath begins, when the first one is drawn
Born to this cold bright world
We're going to cry, we're going to complain
We want to go back to where we were
And at the other end when it's time to fly
We let that last breath go
I don't want to hear facts, I don't want to hear the truth
I want to let what I believe take me home

Sadie Ann, you're gone through a wide open door
I believe... that's what we're all heading for
We're moving along

We don't have to agree
On each thing we believe
It's enough for me
Give me faith in the last breath I breathe

Sadie Ann, you're gone through a wide open door
I believe... that's what we're all heading for
We're moving along

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from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012, released July 15, 2013

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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