Sara Groves Album: Tell Me What You Know Track: When the Saints
When the Saints Lyrics
Lord I have a heavy burden of all I've seen and know It's more than I can handle But your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones And I cannot let it go
And when I'm weary and overwrought With so many battles left unfought
I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars And when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them
Lord it's all that I can't carry and cannot leave behind But your word has compelled me When I think of all who've gone before me and lived the faithful life
And when I'm weary and overwrought With so many battles left unfought
I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars
I see the shepherd Moses in the Pharohs court I hear his call of freedom for the people of the Lord
And when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them And when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them
I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad I see the slave awakening to the value of her soul
I see the young missionary and the end of the spear I see his family returning with no trace of fear
I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights I see the sisters standing by the lepers side
I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor I see the man with a passion come and kicking down the door
I see the man of sorrows and his long troubled road I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load
Song Description: "This is the first song I wrote for this album after I heard about the work of IJM. I used to read about amazing heroes like Harriet Tubman who secured her own freedom from slavery and then helped rescue many others through the Underground Railroad. I have always wondered how I would have responded in different times in history. Would I have opened my home to the Underground Railroad or given Anne Frank refuge? We think those stories are removed from us, but right now there are millions of slaves, millions of people hiding from their oppressors. I realized not too long ago, that I have not been the Good Samaritian. I have been the other guys, who walk on the far side of the road. It is my heart's desire to change that." - Sara Groves
