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Light of the Risen Year

by Geology

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1.
Risen Year 02:34
here upon our bed I lie eyes upon the darkened sky head below the water line drifting slowly, losing sight erased the parts we didn't like take it apart piece by piece raising up a wounded hand 'my dear, can't you understand this is who I've always been?' clouds ascending, vision clear in the light of the risen year
2.
this is not the way that I imagined it to be and so I flee into a circle of trees and scatter seeds to see what grows so I can feed the ways in which I want to run away and be alone among the tall grass draping myself in the greenery this is not a house on fire this is not a house on fire anymore so please come home scatter the ashes of a memory that I once had scatter the memories of a time I felt alive you were never where it started, nor where it ended the river takes me where the Spirit flows and I don't mind
3.
I forged a path inside this canyon within these bones I can't be found I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down floating ever inward this isn't what I would do were I you this isn't what I would say where are you? I am a boat out on the blue I'll go on living without you
4.
waking, sleeping, walking, praying rhythms repeating Jesus Christ - the body and the bread sustain me through the night write in the pages, tear them out they will fall where they will in the quiet of this room and you read it more than you're supposed to and you found a way to put it down and you'll hand it over when you're not through (but I can't turn the page) and I'm ready for it now and I've read much more than I was meant to and I still have yet to put it down and I won't hand it to you when I'm through (but it's already yours) and I'm ready for it now and you say, 'it rains in these parts' but all I've found as I've journeyed on and on is a dry and arid garden in this heart but I will not walk away from here
5.
One Cold Day 03:45
one cold day when I am dead and gone this frozen river will roll on and the birds will sing their morning song as if I had never been born [a song that they would not have sung, if I had not been born!] and the river will recede and the valley has gone dry but the water finds its way from the mountaintops and empties to the sea
6.
A Cure 06:34
and so you think you are alone here no one to listen to you and though the water doesn't flow here late last night we found a strangeness in the room we saw a strangeness in the room and when you think you are alone, dear and that your smallness cannot hold your longing for some far-off, half-forgotten country that you know deep down is really home (you know deep down that this is not your home) you're looking for a cure and I'm looking for a cure, dear [they look out through their clear eyes asking questions that nobody can answer] one day this will disappear and I'll go on into a song of fire and fear whirling around beyond the stars I will sing until my fire goes out one day we will disappear
7.
Lonely One 03:04
I'll practice speaking from an honest place but I have yet to find it here I'll go on cleaning up the common space with you lonely one, I always knew I had a question to your answer that I can't remember but it'll come back soon I'll sing a song upstairs while you're asleep and let the words tell me what's wrong but when I play it back it's not the same it's not the same at all there was a question to your answer that I can't remember but it'll come back soon I had an answer to your question that I insist you listen to
8.
when was the last time there were ordinary days? when was the first time you said my name? there is a difference between the flooding and the rain the two are not the same no, the two are not the same!
9.
the words that we breathe out are delicate and small but they have to contain the endless landscapes living in us all from the garden, comes the wood-dove's call and late last night we saw a strangeness in the sky a tiny flake of ash we become when we die and if not for the reasons spoken on that warm November day I'd have found a reason to walk away
10.
End 01:44
hearts that ought to burn listening for the quiet Word tell me, what do you hear? the early morning birdsongs what's it sound like to your ears? promised with divine assistance to remain a faithful, loving one with a heart that's clear intertwining words and hearts in the light of the risen year

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Light of the risen year, a line from one of Wendell Berry’s sabbath poems, stood out to me as a proclamation of hope and healing in the midst of deep process. These songs were written over the period of two years - years in which I sometimes found myself lost and disillusioned, but ultimately invited into healing through the ordinariness and simplicity of my life and those I choose to live it with.

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released July 3, 2020

All songs written, recorded, and produced at home by Greg Jehanian

email - gregjehanian@gmail.com

"Lonely one, I always knew" lyric by Brianna Collins, used with permission
Additional lyrics and inspiration by the beautiful words and images of Anne Porter

Cover photo by Nathan Wissler
(www.instagram.com/nathanawissler/)

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Geology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Geology is the home recording project of Greg Jehanian, the long time bassist of Philadelphia post-hardcore band, mewithoutYou. Through straightforward songwriting and melodies, Jehanian seeks to highlight the small, ordinary moments that draw us close to the enormity of Mystery. In summation, he states Geology's essence in these few words - lo-fi, high hopes. ... more

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