Shaun Groves Album: Invitation to Eavesdrop Track: Last Notes
Last Notes Lyrics
Words and music by Shaun Groves
There is a part of me That's only visiting Torn from eternity A stranger here
The awkward mingling of The loveless and beloved So far from things above While I am here Chorus: So when the last notes of my Soul's summer symphony Go stealing through this old world's Cold garden gates I will hold no fear As You close my book of hours And the hands of heaven carry me Carry me home to stay O Death where is your sting Your tears and tremblings His peace is lingering Even now O Grave the battle's fought Your vict'ry has been lost To Christ who gave it all To take me now (Chorus) O Grave the battle's fought Your vict'ry has been lost To Christ who gave it all To take me home
Story Behind The Song: My grandmother died in 1992 when I was 19. At the very end of her life her family gathered around her bed and sang Love Lifted Me, a song she sang every child and grandchild to sleep with when we were children. Even as the cancer ate at her fragile body, stinging her every breath, she stared upwards past the ceiling with a confident grin. She died smiling defiantly as if to proclaim, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Praise be to God who has given me the victory!" As she was dying we found a poem in her handwriting, written when she was in school. It was called Farewell Song Of The Soul and won her a poetry contest as a teenager. I wrote this song as a modern rendition of that poem, a tribute to her life, and as a reminder to all who hear it that Christ has conquered Death and our fear of it. (1Corinthians 15:51 -58)
