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Alembic

by kevin schlereth

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1.
Oil & Wine 03:03
Pour on oil and wine Treat the wounds of every hurting person you find Please do not hide Might sound like comfort, but there’s no kind of life on that side It’s not enough if it isn’t love for even people you’d never think of Pour salt into your blind eye Feel the pain of every one that you’d seek to deny Personhood to, it isn’t gospel if it’s only for people like you It’s not enough if it isn’t love for even people you’d never think of All your heart and soul All your mind and strength Every single one You meet along your way This is life
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Talitha Cumi 01:34
This winter feels bleak So much snow that my branches might break underneath It’s relief that I need Only found in the sacred words you speak Talitha Cumi Don’t fear just believe I alone am the son over everything It’s not what it seems This child is not dead she’s asleep Talitha Cumi And it’s not your fate to sleep For you too must rise with me when everything’s complete Talitha Cumi
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If faith is a thing you must accomplish Who stands any chance to get it right If faith is a thing in need of action I hope that my friends are by my side Please carry me through because I lack the strength to leave this bed If grace is a bridge you build by working Who’s deeds could be laid across the gap If grace is a thing of your just choosing I hope that my friends will plead and ask Please carry me through because I lack the strength to leave this bed Please lower me down through the roof, it’s the only chance I have Look on their faith, forgive my sin, though I’ve done nothing
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Sabbath Work 03:40
This man before you What did he do To earn his blindness In the womb Had his parents’ Sin just grew To the point of Seeping through It’s nobody’s fault, it just had to happen It wasn’t his sin or his parents’ The darkness is coming and it’s time for working The light on display his only purpose You’re spitting in dirt, you’re breaking your sabbath Like a mom with her kid, in the early morning Before the sun has risen and he should be in bed But instead they’ll just play because she’s working today And she wants to make the most of it as long as she can stay So as long as you’re here with your light on display Since you’re going away, this is time to celebrate
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You said we’d move mountains Well there’s one right there And I’m dying to see something Couldn’t be that my visions impaired If you knew me, you would love me, not just the things that I do In your zeal to move this mountain, you forgot I planted it What if the pain you feel Is something I intend What if this obstacle Would guide you to my ends If you knew me, you would love me, not just the things that I do In your zeal to move this mountain, you forgot I planted it And I called it good And that means it’s good And I called it good And that made it good And I called it good And I made you
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How much must I forgive brothers bludgeoning me with sin time and time again Seven times seventy -times How long must we wait to see all things put under your feet, offering our cheeks Seven time seventy-times If we knew how much you forgave We wouldn’t ask them to repay Your patience each time we betray Please grant us patience while we wait I will practice mercy for you have mercy on me

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released August 26, 2020

Evan Kunze - recording, mixing, misc instruments
Jay Costlow - voices
Kevin Schlereth - voices and misc instruments

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kevin schlereth New Richmond, Wisconsin

post-folk nomad. doing life with everyone mostly in their homes.

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